Kazakhstan first participated at the Olympic Games as an independent nation in 1994, and has sent athletes to compete in every Games since then. Kazakhstan participated in a total of 21 sports categories at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The total number of athletes from Kazakhstan who competed in various sports was 222. Kazakh national team has 13 Olympics Medals,such as 2 gold , 4 silver and 7 bronze. Kazakhstan showed the best sports in wrestling, judo and weightlifting and the rank level 29th in the table of Olympic medals. A few details of Kasakhstan Medalists.
1. SARSEKBAYEV BAKHYT
Sarsekbayev has won the gold Medal in welterweight boxing competition. In the final match, he defeated Cuban Carlos Banteaux Suarez 18:9 . The gold medal to be greatest news in Kazakhstan at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Sarsekbayev scored at will with his crunching right hooks to the body and straight lefts right on the muzzle. He had won the gold medal in the welterweight at the 2006 Asian Games and won the 2006 World University Boxing Championships and also won the bronze Medal at the 2002 Asian Games.
2. ILIN ILYA
Ilya Ilin won the gold medal in the men’s 94kg weightlifting class at the Beijing Olympics. Ilya Ilin won Kazaksthan’s first weightlifting gold medal in the Beijing Olympics. He has first youngest weightlifter gold medalist from Kazakhstan. Ilin started weightlifting at just six years of age and his sporting hero is Turkish weightlifting champion Halil Mutlu. Poland Kolecki and Ilin were in a tight race, Ilin finally went for it at 226 kg and very well success for his victory. He also won the two gold Medals in men’s -94 kg class at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and men’s -85 kg class at the 2005 World Weightlifting Championships. He has very involved in this field and Beijing make a good future.
3. NEKRASSOVA IRINA
Irina Nekrassova of Kazakhstan earn the silver Medal in the women’s 63 kg-division. Irina Nekrassova of Kazakhstan set the tone of the final by lifting 105kg in the Snatch with her first attempt and then went on lifting 110kg with her rest attempts. At last taking the gold medal with a total weight of 241kg. Nekrassova became runner-up with a total weight 240kg. She also participate 2007 World Weightlifting Championships. She ranked in 9th was this championships and lift with a total weight 228 kg.
4. VAZHENINA ALLA
She won the Silver Medal in women’s 75kg weightlifting competition. She lifted with total weight 266kg. She has very strong weightlifter and she also won silver medal in the 75 kg category at the 2008 Asian Weightlifting Championships. Vazhenina and Evstyukhina were neck and neck throughout the competition, outdoing each other lift by lift. Competitors must choose their own weights for each of their six lifts, three in snatch and three in clean and jerk. In the snatch the bar is pulled over the head from the floor in one continuous motion, while the clean and jerk is a two-step lift in which the bar is first raised to shoulder level, then pushed overhead.
5.TIGIYEV TAIMURAZ
He won the Silver Medal in freestyle wrestling 96 kilograms, competition. Muradov defeated Taimuraz Tigiyev of Kazakhstan 1-0, 1-0 for the medal. Both periods were tight, but Muradov’s blanketing defense created just enough room for him to score the only two points he needed to win. He had very happy for his victory and it’s a great achievement for his future. The medal to be great news to Kazakhstan.
6. ZHITKEYEV ASKHAT
Askhat Zhitkeyev of Kazakhstan take silver Medal in the final of the men’s 100-kg judo competition. Mongolia has won it’s first Olympic gold medal in this competition. Naidan posted three scoring throws to outclass Zhitkeyev, each time using brute strength to pick his opponent off the floor and roll him on to his back. Two minutes in and diving low, he slung Zhitkeyev across his shoulders and tossed him on his side to post a high waza ari score. Although the Kazakhstan judoka still won his nation’s first Olympic medal in the sport. Zhitkeyev is a top performer in Kazakhstan and he also won the gold medalist at 2004 Asian Championships and won two bronze Medal in the various Championships in 2001, 2002.
7. SHYNALIYEV YERKEBULAN
He is an amazing boxer from Kazakhstan. He won the Bronze medal in the Men’s Light heavyweight boxing competition at Beijing. He also won the Bronze Medal in light heavyweight at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships and silver at the World Junior Championships in 2006. In semifinal boxing competition, shynaliyev defeated with chinese zhang xiaoping with a score of 4:4. However, the referees decision china won this fight, who has a chance to battle for gold in the final.
8. TENGIZBAYEV NURBAKYT
The Men’s Greco-Roman 60 kilogram Wrestling category the bronze medals were won by Ruslan Tiumenbaev of Kyrgyzstan and Nurbakyt Tengizbayev of Kazakhstan. Greco-Roman wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, Kazakhstan won a bronze match against China’s Jiang Sheng and Nurbakyt won the first period 4-1, but Jiang took the second period 2-1. In the deciding period, Nurbakyt scored three points in the last par terre and sealed the match.
9. SHALYGINA YELENA
Shalygina from kazakhstan competed in the 63kg weight class at Beijing .She won the bronze Medal in this competition. Kaori Icho of Japan has take the gold. Japan’s five-time world champion Kaori Icho retained her Olympic women’s wrestling 63kg title. Yelena Shalygina made a total of seven bronze medals for Kazakhstan. That is the greatest news for kazakhstan. She also second in the World Championships 2007. she put on a tremendous performance in Beijing.
10. CHILMANOV ARMAN
He won the Bronze Medal for the Men’s +80kg Taekwondo event. Cuba’s Angel Matos and his coach be banned for life after the athlete kicked a referee in the face following his bronze-medal match disqualification. Matos, beating Arman Chilmanov of Kazakhstan 3-2 near the end of the match, was disqualified for taking more than the allotted one minute of injury time Fighters get one minute, and Matos exceeded the allowed time. It is a most unfortunate situation. It is an insult to Olympism, At last shared the bronze medal with the winner of the other third-place bout, Nigeria’s Chika Yagazie Chukwumerije. The bronze Medalists Chilmanov also won the silver medals in various chapionships. He had top performer in kazakhstan.