Karaganda athletes won eight medals at the Islamic Games

The sixth Islamic Solidarity Games were held in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). Athletes from 57 countries participated in the competition. The Kazakh national team won 56 medals of various denominations and entered the top ten. Eight of these awards are on the account of Karaganda athletes.

The first places at the Islamic Games were taken by Almatai Ziger in jiu-jitsu, Nikita Tarnakin in karate and Alan Kurmangaliev in team table tennis. Lyubov Kovalchuk won the silver medal in weightlifting, and Artem Antropov won the bronze medal.

Azhar Salykova took silver in jiu-jitsu.

We reached the podium with the third place: Elmira Syzdykova (women's wrestling) and Kira Nemtyreva as a member of the national handball team.

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