Karaganda athletes set a medal record at the Asian Youth Games

Karaganda athletes performed brilliantly at the III Asian Youth Games in Manama (Bahrain), winning a record number of medals. The national team of Kazakhstan was represented at these competitions by 220 athletes competing in 20 sports. In total, more than 8,000 athletes from 45 countries took part in the Games.

Karaganda residents won eight medals, four of them gold.

The athletes were the first to achieve success: Veronika Eliseeva won a bronze medal in the hammer throw;

Aida Akylbekova won a bronze medal in the 3000-meter run.

In judo, Yerken Bekali became the Asian champion in the weight category up to 66 kg, and Aisha Altai was not equal in the category up to 70 kg.

The sisters from Shakhtinsk, Ayaulym

and Kamila Ospanov, performed well in the boxing ring, both athletes won gold medals.

There were also successes in other sports: Baltagazy Iliyas became the bronze medalist in jiu-jitsu;

Adilzhan Zhaudinov took silver in judo.

According to the Department of Physical Culture and Sports of the Karaganda region