On February 19-20, Ust-Kamenogorsk hosted the Athletics Championship of the Republic of Kazakhstan among senior boys and girls born in 2001-2002.
On two competitive days, the younger Kazakhstani athletes fought for the title of national champion. In parallel with this start, older athletes competed there at the Olga Rypakova Athletics Center (For more information about the youth championship on the official website of the Athletics Federation of East Kazakhstan Region https://flavko.kz/news/850650-borba-prodoljaetsya ).
Young East Kazakhstanis won a total of sixteen medals at the republican start. About everything in order.
Among the guys, the clear leader was Ust-Talovsk runner Efim Tarasov, who managed to climb the first step of the podium twice. The young man took part in the 400 m race, where he became the winner with a score of 49.40 s and set a new record for Kazakhstan among his peers.
In the preliminary result, Tarasov showed a result of 50.11 s, it was then, with a decent margin of almost 4 seconds from the silver medalist from the Karaganda region Kirill Grigoryan (53.44 s – preliminary result), our athlete crossed the finish line. But in the final 400 m race, the Karaganda resident gave his best, and lost to Efim 0.24 s.
This talented guy brought the second gold award to the East Kazakhstan Region’s piggy bank together with Vladimir Feshchenko, Valery Pasha and Vladimir Lavrushenko in the hottest form of athletics – the 4 200 m relay.
“Will the East Kazakhstan Region team become a leader?” – this question worried all the fans from East Kazakhstan, because our guys could not take the leading positions, but they did stay close to it. Tarasov was the last of these four to start, who, it would seem, if he helps his relay team to get among the winners, then not with a winning result. Kirill Grigoryan from Karaganda, the one who competed with our Tarasov at the 400 m distance, was already on his way to victory. Yefim, without giving up his position, moved around the circle confidently and so quickly that by the finish line he collided with Grigoryan shoulder to shoulder, and his last jerk became decisive. Our East Kazakhstan citizen beat his opponent by 0.2 seconds.
In addition to this relay, Vladimir Feshchenko was able to get among the fastest in the 200 m race. The struggle of the strongest runner of East Kazakhstan Region was, oddly enough, with the same Grigoryan. Apparently Kirill is the brightest athlete who regularly challenges athletes from East Kazakhstan region. Feshchenko still lost the first place to him – 22.92 s, but it cannot be said that he did it easily. It was a real fight!
Akylzhan Toktagalin became the best in the high jump, having fought with twelve competitors from different parts of Kazakhstan. The result of our jumper is 190 cm. Sergey Dementyev from Karaganda finished his speech in a similar way, but, as always, all attempts were solved. Toktagalin had enough of one to get closer to the 2 meter mark, unlike the Karaganda athlete, who took the height only from the second.
Pole vaulting has also borne fruit for the East Kazakhstan region. Two brothers from East Kazakhstan region, Zhumabekov Nursultan and Zhumabekov Yernur, were among the five participants. But, unfortunately, only one of them managed to get into the number of winners – Yernur – 3.70 m – third place. Dmitry Lukichev put another “bronze” in the piggy bank of our region in the shot put (13.94 m). As the athlete himself said: “I think that he didn’t push very badly,” which we congratulate him on.
Thanks to their successful performance, the girls brought positive emotions in addition to awards. The fastest East Kazakhstan runner in the 60 m distance among senior girls, Valeria Bromat, became the third at the republican start with a score of 8.03 s. Despite the fact that this is not the best result of our promising athlete, it was quite enough to distinguish herself at these competitions. After all, in the preliminary races, her result of 8.02 s was one of the best among all 34 shown. So, Bromate does not give up his position and continues to fight for his prize place.
In the 200 and 400 m races, East Kazakhstan Region has two third places from Alexandra Egorina (200 m run – 26.63 s) and Ayim Kaysanova (400 m run – 59.37 s). Kaysanova, who showed a result of 1:01.77 in the preliminary performance, accelerated noticeably in the final race and improved the time by more than 2 seconds. Daria Demchenko won another third place in the 60 m hurdles. At first, her result of 9.23 s. helped her make it to the finals, and already in the decisive race made her the bronze medalist of this competition.
In the 800m and 1500m races, Regina Mitrofanova killed two birds with one stone. The girl became the second in the 800 m distance – 2:18.89, losing only 0.26 s to Nadezhda Yurchenko from the North Kazakhstan region, and at a distance longer than the East Kazakhstan became the winner at all 4:50.45, overtaking 15 more rivals.
Elizaveta Matveeva, like Efim Tarasov, brought two gold medals to East Kazakhstan Region at once, but in completely different disciplines. Her crowning achievements are the high jump (170 cm) and the pentathlon. In the most enduring form of the girls’ all-around, Matveeva scored the most points (777), performing in the 60 m running, long and high jumps, shot put and 800 m running.
And finally, our girls won two prizes in two relay races 4 for 200 and 4 for 400 m. A well–formed trio fought for leadership on both the first and second days of the competition – Anna Maidankina, Alexandra Egorina and Ayim Kaysanova, as well as Olga Pulyaeva (4 for 200 m) and Regina Mitrofanova (4 for 400 m), who received her third medal in the final competition of the championship!
Among all the regions, the East Kazakhstan region, thanks to the great work of our children and their coaches, became the leaders with a score of 24299 points, the Karaganda region is in second place (23,849 points), and Almaty is in third (22,795 points).
Inna Semenyak
