Most recently, on January 15-16 at the Athletics center named after Olga Rypakova hosted the Kazakhstan Athletics Championship among adults. Juniors also managed to get on the list of participants. Read more in our review.
Alexander Aksyutin – once upon a time, this young man was nicknamed the second Usain Bolt in the walls of the arena, for his long legs, height and desire to be the first. The main distances at which the Ust-Kamenogorsk athlete performs are 200 and 400 m, as well as the surname of Alexander often appears in the relay teams.
This time, as expected, Aksyutin competed in the 4-400m relay together with Imanmadi Kusmanov, Vladislav Sutyagin and Evgeny Arkhipov. By the way, the guys performed very well. Athletes from East Kazakhstan Region finished with a result of 3:20.46, winning silver medals.
The second sport in the championship of Kazakhstan, in which Alexander competed, was the 60 m run. In the final protocol, the athlete was the 16th among 40 participants of different age categories.
– I am not completely satisfied with my performance. – Alexander Aksyutin shared. – I did not show my best result – 7.40 s. Maybe because it’s not my distance.
But in the 200 m run, our athlete did not manage to perform at all. Recall that Alexander participated in the sixth race (4 tracks), but, unfortunately, a false start deprived him of the opportunity to compete for the title of the best in this type of competition.
Ekaterina Efremova is another young athlete who, thanks to her performance, was included in the list of participants at the recently held national championship.
Ekaterina competed in three sports at once: 200 m, 400 m and 4 200 m relay. Seven participants competed in the 200 m, and in the preliminary race Efremova managed to break into the six finalists, leaving behind a twenty-year-old athlete from Pavlodar Irina Parshkova. Together with our runner, Svetlana Golendova, Lyubov Ushakova, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Aidana Tursyn and Alexandra Zalyubovskaya competed in the final race. By the way, it was in this order that the participants took their places.
The competition was no less strong in the 200 m race. In addition to Golendova and Ushakova, Elina Mikhina also appeared on the track with Efremova. So, it was immediately clear which of the athletes was competing for prizes. Despite this, Ekaterina made an effort and became the 8th among the 12 participants, but she still failed to make it to the finals this time.
The 4-200m relay became the last “touch” for our athletes. Only two teams from East Kazakhstan and Pavlodar region competed. With a score of 1:47.44, the runners from East Kazakhstan Region climbed to the second step of the podium.
Anastasia Zavodina – this promising track and field athlete from Ust-Kamenogorsk competed in the long jump. Despite the fact that among the athletes from Kazakhstan, Zavodina’s result was the third – 5.59 m. Nevertheless, it was not possible to “carry away” the award. The fact is that guests from Kyrgyzstan came to the Championship of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Anna Bulanova took part in this discipline, who “jumped over” all the participants and won gold with a result of 5.87 m. But, nevertheless, the fact that our young jumper does not lag behind the more experienced Kazakhstani participants gives hope that a little more and it is speaking together with Zavodina that we will have to fight very seriously for the first place.
Fortunately, Anastasia did not remain without a medal for her efforts at the Championship of the Republic of Kazakhstan, because together with Efremova, Zakrienova and Kharlamova they took second place in the 4×200 m relay.
Inna Semenyak