Not a single medal
Four athletes from East Kazakhstan Region competed at the Asian competitions, which were held in Bhubaneswar from the sixth to the ninth of July. Javelin thrower Varvara Nazarova and 400m runner Elina Mikhina were the first to perform in the Indian arena. The girls’ competitions ended more than unsuccessfully. Nazarova, among the thirteen participants, was placed on the twelfth line in the final puncture with a score of 49.56 m, although Varvara’s personal best is 50.23 m, by the way, the same thing happened to the record holder of Kazakhstan among guys Arthur Gafner, who performed on the final day of the competition. Not only did the athlete end up in fifteenth place, Gafner finished the competition with an indicator of 63.59 m, but this is 9.18 m less than his best result! As for Elina Mikhina, things are no better here. Recall that most recently, the athlete became the winner of the second stage of the Asian Grand Prix, where she managed to show her best result in the season of 52.79 s and become the first. This time, Elina failed to enter the finalists, because her result was 57.33 seconds. The athlete seemed to have good reasons to finish her start with just such a time. After all, watching such a sharp deterioration in the result of Mikhina, it just becomes uncomfortable. And the last one we haven’t had time to mention yet was Nadezhda Dubovitskaya, who competed in the high jump. I would like to note that this jumper was obviously unlucky, because the girl’s personal record is 1.80 m, but this time she failed to “take” such a height. As a result, Nadia took sixth place among 13 competitors with a score of 1.75 m. Looking at the results of the performance of Nadia’s rivals, it is unlikely that our compatriot would have become the owner of the “gold”, because the high-altitude athlete from Uzbekistan completed the competition with a result of 1.84 m, but Dubovitskaya would still have managed to enter the leaders with her “personal”. I would probably like to write off everything on the condition of the athlete, because she performed at such a large-scale championship for the first time. This Asian Championship ended with such disappointing forecasts, but we hope that after a little while our athletes will still return to their former course, because there are never ups without downs! Inna Semenyak Photo from the official website of the Athletics Federation of the Republic of Kazakhstan