Karaganda rowers won two medals at the Asian Championships

The national team of Kazakhstan took the second place at the Asian Rowing and Canoeing Championships. The continental championship was held in the Chinese city of Nanchang. Kazakhstanis have 12 medals in the team competition: four of different values each. Two of them are on the account of Karaganda athletes.

Among the winners are representatives of the School of Higher Sports Excellence of the Karaganda region, pupils of the Olympic Reserve Rowing sports school in Temirtau. Viktor Stepanov won the silver medal (canoe, 200 m), Kirill Tubaev took the bronze (kayak, mix 4×500 m).

– For us, 12 medals is a good result. The main rivals, as expected, were the Chinese. We won two of the four gold medals at the Olympic distances," said the head coach of the national team, Kaysar Nurmagambetov.

The hosts of the venue took the first place: the Chinese team confidently led from the beginning to the end of the tournament. The Iranian national team is in third place.

It is worth noting that at the XX anniversary Asian Championship in Nanchang, all 26 athletes of the Kazakhstan national team reached the finals. 340 rowers from 20 countries took part in the competition this year.

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