Azamat Mukanov won the silver at the World championship
Last Tuesday, on August, 27, Kazakhstani sportsman Azamat Mukanov won the silver medal in the weight class up to 66 kg at the World championship (senior group) in Rio de Janeiro.
The judoka, up to final, was decisively defeating rivals from Russia, Singapore, The Great Britain, and Japan. Azamat deprived the European and world champion Georgiy Zantaraya from Ukraine of a victory chance. Unfortunately, in final, Mukanov conceded to the Japanese sportsman, the world champion of 2011, Masashi Ebinuma. As a result, the first medal, which is silver, is in the national team collection.
Azamat Mukanov is the fifth Kazakhstani judoka, who won the medal at the World championship. The first judokas, who reached the pedestal, were Askhat Zhitkeev and Askhat Shakharov, who took the third places in Munich in 2001. Maksim Rakov became the first and for the present times the single Kazakhstani world champion at the championship of 2009 in Rotterdam, also he won the silver in 2011 in Paris.
Sergey Lim, who also appeared in the weight class up to 66 kg, didn’t manage to finish the first round, he conceded to a rival from Uzbekistan. Lenariya Mingazova in the weight up to 52 kg, who defeated rivals from Argentina and Australia in the first rounds, couldn’t overcome Jaana Sandberg from Finland, and she also finished the contest.
Today, on August, 28, our judoka Dastan Ukubaev appears in the weight class up to 73 kg. In the first grapple Dastan meets with a rival from China.
Let us remind that you can watch the championship in online on ippon.tv web-site at 7 p.m. on Astana time.
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