Karaganda synchronized swimmers won bronze medals at the Asian Games

Pupils of the Karaganda regional sports school of the Olympic Reserve in swimming twice climbed to the third step of the podium of the Asian Games. The athletes won awards in the programs "Duet" and "Artistic Swimming".

At first, Yasmin Tuyakova and Arina Pushkin were pleased. And on the final day of the Asian Games, Nargiz Bolatova, Ksenia Makarova, Eteri Kakutia and Arina Myasnikova won bronze medals in the team performance.

- This is a wonderful result, considering that we lost only to China and Japan, - said Elena Kotova, senior coach of the Karaganda region in artistic swimming. – Moreover, it was even more difficult to win awards, since the performance evaluation system has changed. It has become cumulative, based on the results in all types of the program. And our girls did well, they coped.

In total, Karaganda athletes at the Asian Games in Hangzhou brought six medals to the treasury of the national team of Kazakhstan - one silver and 5 bronze. The national team won 80 medals of various denominations: 10 gold, 22 silver and 48 bronze. In the final standings, she took 11th place.

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