The athletes of Ust-Kamenogorsk with a clear advantage won the tournament in this sport within the framework of the XXI Games of National Sports for the prizes of the Akim of East Kazakhstan region.
Initially, the athletics tournament of the Games was supposed to be held at the Olga Rypakova athletics Center, but for the sake of rehearsals for the opening ceremony of the Games and in connection with the equipment installed there, which simply would not allow the competition to be held unhindered, it was decided to move it to the Vostok stadium.
As a sin, on this day Ust-Kamenogorsk plunged into another wave of the cold climatic front, and the competitions acquired a special flavor – people wrapped in a blanket, winter down jackets and lips turned blue from the cold were not uncommon here. But, most importantly, these inconveniences were not discouraged from winning.
The first set of awards for the girls’ long jump was played. Here, our 18-year-old beautiful compatriot Anastasia Zavodina, who will compete at the Asian Junior Championships in the near future, had only one attempt to win! 5.32 m is quite a result for Anastasia. But if this is enough to win, then why put the body at risk of injury before important competitions? And even in such weather conditions.
Then the strongest stayers played awards in the 2000 m race. This became the only discipline in which Ust-Kamenogorsk failed to get into the winners. But in a similar men’s race, Amir Baitukanov tried his best to compete with the superfavorite from Ridder Andrey Leimenov. Unfortunately, our countryman failed to win, but managed to finish second by a wide margin – 5:51.38.
Then it was the turn of the final races in the 60 m sprint. Vladislav Leshin was the main favorite among men, despite the short distance, and our countryman confirmed his favorite status – 7.22 seconds, and another victory is ours! Women have equally successful applicants. Predictably, there were no people capable of competing on equal terms with Arina Kharlamova from Ridder. Svetlana Malezhina won the third place with a score of 8.6 s.
Ustkamenogorets won the men’s long jump, and quite unexpectedly. Vitaly Licenberger, of course, is a famous athlete, a multiple winner of the Championship of Kazakhstan, but in a completely different discipline – the barrier sprint! So his result – 6.7 m – was somewhat shocking, as was his victory. Alexey Ponomarev from Borodulikhinsky district, who is a specialized long jumper, initially looked like the favorite here.
The competition program was crowned by a mixed relay of 4 to 200 m. Two men and two women spoke for each city and district. The Ust-Kamenogorsk team was slightly inferior to Semey before the last stage, but as soon as Vladislav Leshin received the wand, everything fell into place. The long-legged Vladislav, using the advantage of stride length, easily bypassed Rinat Ultarakov and led our team to another victory.
Ustkamenogorets became the best in the team competition, Semey’s team took the second place, and Ridder took the third place.
Source: yk.kz
