Karaganda MMA fighter Sanzhar Adilov wins historic Asian Games medal.
The 30-year-old athlete competed in the under 65 kg weight category in the "Traditional" division, where participants fight in sports kimonos. In the quarterfinals, Adilov secured a victory, but in the semifinals, he suffered a defeat to Tajikistan's Otabek Rajabov by unanimous decision. According to the regulations, a separate bout for third place is not provided. Thus, Adilov, along with the loser in the other semifinal, will receive a bronze medal.
This is the seventh medal for the Kazakhstan national team at the 2026 Asian Games and the first in history in MMA. Mixed martial arts were included in the Summer Games program for the first time. Thus, Sanzhar Adilov has become one of the first Kazakhstani athletes to win a medal in MMA at the Asian Games. Congratulations!
The Republican Championship has started in Karaganda.
The opening ceremony of the tournament was attended by Deputy Akim of the region Oraz Taurbekov, Chairman of the regional maslikhat Nurken Kobzhanov, Vice-President of the Table Tennis Federation of the Republic of Kazakhstan Zhannur Kaligozhin, and Head of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports Nurken Nuratov.
Table tennis is very popular in Kazakhstan. It is enjoyed by both children and adults, as well as people with disabilities. In our region alone, more than 13,000 people are passionate about this sport, of which almost 4,000 are in rural areas.
The Karaganda table tennis school is one of the best in the republic; its students create serious competition for representatives from other regions. Not only our native region, but the whole of Kazakhstan is proud of our champions. The Asian Games are currently taking place in Japan. Our tennis players – Kurmangaliyev Alan, Akasheva Zhauresh, Koshkumbayeva Zhanerke, and Zhaksylykova Albina – are also fighting for victory. We are rooting for the guys! And we wish the young talents good luck and victories at the Kazakhstan Championship in hospitable Karaganda!
The Junior Artistic Swimming World Championship has ended in Budapest (Hungary). From August 12 to August 16, 300 athletes from 35 countries competed for medals. The national team of Kazakhstan won two silver and two bronze medals at the world Championships. This result allowed our team to take the fourth place in the medal standings. Russia became the leader, Spain took the second place, and China was the third.
The athletes of the Karaganda region are greatly responsible for this success of our national team. Kazakhstan took the silver medal in the acrobatic program. Among the winners are Dayana Dzhamanchalova, a pupil of the A. N. Moldagulova boarding college (a branch in Temirtau), as well as representatives of the Olympic Reserve swimming school of the Karaganda region – Polina Merzlyakova, Anastasia Voronkova and Sofia Ishchenko. All the girls are also part of the variable composition of the Olympic Reserve training center.
Viktor Druzin (technical and free programs), a representative of the school of higher sports excellence of the Karaganda region, rose to the third step of the podium twice at this World Championship.
Congratulations to the athletes and, of course, their coaches - Jerzy Anatolyevna Kotova, Oksana Aleksandrovna Moskvicheva, Ilya Vladimirovich Kotov and Svetlana Viktorovna Yakusheva.
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He started his career in 2007. Over the years, he worked as a judo coach, a teaching coach at the branch of the Sports Committee of the Central Sports Club, a bench shooting coach at Youth Sports School No. 9 and the handball club of the Astana Department of Tourism, Physical Culture and Sports.
Later, he was the deputy director of the Zhetysu-Sunkar professional football club of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports of the Almaty region. He also held the positions of director of the Kapshagai Regional Children's and Youth sports school and head of the regional School of Higher Sports Excellence of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports of the Almaty region.
Prior to his appointment, he headed the Training Center for the Olympic Reserves of the Almaty region.
He has a higher specialized education – he graduated from the Kazakh Academy of Sports and Tourism with a degree in physical culture and Sports, and also received a master's degree in pedagogical Sciences with a degree in physical culture and Sports.
The first stage of the World Boxing international tournament was held in Foz do Iguazu (Brazil). The two-time world champion from Karaganda in the 65 kg weight class confidently made it to the finals and faced Navbakhor Khamidova from Uzbekistan in the decisive match. Our compatriot had a beautiful fight, she tried very hard to take the advantage into her own hands, but the judges recognized her opponent as the winner. But the silver medal of the World Cup is also a huge victory with such strong competition! Congratulations to Aida Abikeeva and her coaches Yeldos Zhanibekovich Saidalin and Abdraimov Islam Berikovich! It should be noted that Kazakhstani boxers won seven medals at the first stage of the World Cup - three gold, one silver and three bronze. Our national team took the third overall place, losing to Brazil and China.
In Antalya, Turkey, the Kazakh national team was the leader among cadets at the European Judo Cup, winning a total of 16 medals: six gold, three silver and seven bronze. Athletes from the Karaganda region brought two awards of the highest standard to the team's piggy bank.
A total of 550 athletes from 21 countries took part in the competition - 328 boys and 222 girls.
In the weight category up to 73 kilograms, Yerken Bekkali, a student of the E. A. Buketov KarNIU, became the winner.
The athlete is from the Shet district, and he took his first steps in judo at the children's and youth sports school in the village of Agadir.
Another gold medal was won by Adilzhan Zhaudinov, who competed in the weight category over 90 kilograms. The judoka studies at the regional specialized children's and youth school "Zhas Sunkar". In the final bout, a resident of Karaganda confidently defeated an athlete from Uzbekistan Alibek Dirdiev. Earlier, Adilzhan Zhaudinov lost to this opponent twice - in the finals of the Asian Cup and the Asian Games in Bahrain.
- Winning the European Cup was very important for us. Adiljan knows how to keep emotions under control. Every international start is a serious preparation and an important stage on the way to the Olympic Games," said Almas Nesipberli, the athlete's personal trainer and coach of the Olympic judo team of Kazakhstan.
The preparation for the European tournament lasted about six months. The athlete has new international starts ahead, including a tournament in Azerbaijan and preparations for the main competitions of the season - the Youth Olympic Games, which will be held this year in Dakar.
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The Open zhekpe-zhek Regional Championship will be held in Karaganda from February 13 to 15. Athletes from Almaty, Astana, Kostanay and Pavlodar will come to fight for the winners' belts. The venue of the tournament is the sports club "Basket Hall" (Mekhanichesky str., 4). Come cheer for our guys!
– Dear Kassym-Jomart Kemelevich, with your annual interviews for print media, you have established, in fact, a new political tradition. Therefore, we are grateful to you for responding to our offer to give an interview to the newspaper Turkistan.
– The newspaper "Turkistan" has been in existence for more than 30 years. It is one of the most influential print media in Kazakhstan. The name of the newspaper speaks for itself. The journalists of the publication, along with covering current events in the country, do not forget about the Turkic theme, which is encouraging.
I read with interest articles about foreign Kazakhs who successfully work in various fields. He awarded three of them for their contribution to the development of cooperation between Kazakhstan and their countries of permanent residence.
Newspapers and magazines have entered a period of "renaissance" because social networks cause great harm to people's thinking (cognitive) abilities. We are already meeting forty-year-olds with the educational level and mentality of fifteen-year-olds.
I will not hide that I had a passion for reading periodicals from a young age, and I have not changed this habit to the present. In modern realities, print media are looking for and finding their niche, focusing on review and analysis, and performing educational functions. Newspaper materials performed by professional, conscientious journalists fulfill the important task of preserving traditional values. I often receive information from newspapers about worthy people who work productively in all spheres of public life for the benefit of our Fatherland. TikTok, Instagram, and Telegram channels, which are now popular, are far from the core interests of working people. I would like our society to live not only on news sensations and watching video images, but also to appreciate semantic information. It is encouraging that my opinion is shared by a large number of young people who prefer to live in a world of knowledge rather than illusions, which often lead to a dead end in life. I am convinced that countries with a high reading culture will remain at the forefront of global progress.
– At the beginning of the interview, the traditional question is about the results of last year. I understand that there have been many events. But what, in your opinion, is the main outcome of 2025?
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International competitions were held in Dubai.
Kazakhstan has 25 gold, 23 silver and 20 bronze medals. In the team competition, the national team took fifth place among 45 participating countries.
There is great merit in this success of Karaganda athletes. Four of our guys won 11 medals. This is a record!
At first, we were pleased with the pair of swimmers Beisekeyeva Dilnaz and Dyusenbayev Nurdaulet. They won prizes at nine distances. Dilnaz was the best in 200 m compound swimming and won silver in the following sports: 100 m breaststroke, 50 m B/st, 100 m butterfly. Nurdaulet won gold in the following distances: 100 m butterfly, 100 m backstroke, 100 m breaststroke, 200 m c/pl and 50 m c/art. The Asian Games champions have been swimming for nine years and are students of the Karaganda Higher College of Humanities.
Karina Zhumabayeva, a student of Temirtau Higher Medical College, won another gold medal in para athletics for Kazakhstan, becoming the first in the 800-meter run. Sailau Erzat, a student of the Karaganda University of Economics of Kazpotrebsoyuz, played well with the Kazakhstan national volleyball team, which won first place at the V Asian Youth Para Games. Congratulations to the athletes and their coaches Sergey Borisovich Bezgachev and Elena Vitalievna Aslanova with a record result!
Karaganda athletes Abdrash Ayan, Abdikatova Aizhamol and Makatova Aida became the winners of the main competitions for athletes with hearing impairment. Congratulations to the fighters and their coaches!
It should be noted that Ayan Abdrash is a unique athlete with a glorious biography. Honored Master of Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan in Surdo Taekwondo, multiple champion of the Republic of Kazakhstan and silver medalist of two world championships participated in the Deaflympic Games for the third time. He won a gold medal in the first, and a bronze medal in the subsequent ones.
World champion Abdikatova Aizhamol won the bronze medal at the Deaflympic Games for the second time.
Aida Makatova took fifth place at the previous Games. This time she managed to become the winner of the main competitions for special athletes.