Regional Results - June

The triathlon season 2019 is in full swing, let's remember what the last month for the Kazakhstan triathlon was remembered for.

June was remembered not only by the most productive performances of the national team at the championships of Asia and Central Asia, but also by other events that took place in various regions, where the triathlon is taking more and more turns in development.

Perhaps the most important event is the holding of the III Almaty Triathlon Championship “My Win” for children from orphanages and boarding schools. 120 children took part in the championship, 30 of them were hearing impaired. For three months, the best coaches of the southern capital were engaged with all the kids. After the finish, the organizers of the Almaty Triathlon Federation and the Champion Foundation presented each child with sports bikes, and the winners received additional gifts - tickets to summer health camps.

In Aktobe region, the regional triathlon federation was officially opened. Since the opening, the newly-formed federation has begun active work, having hosted the first republican competitions in Aktobe - the Championship of the Republic of Kazakhstan among Elite athletes and the VI stage of the TEMIRADAM Cup. The federation also opened a children's triathlon section on the basis of the World Class Aqtobe fitness club, giving rise to the formation of a team of professional triathletes in the region. At the same time, western colleagues formed an Age Groupers' team, Iron Tulip, in which 17 amateur athletes are already involved. The regional federation began to form its material base by purchasing bicycle racks, tents, signal buoys, etc., thereby preparing in advance for local and republican triathlon events.

The good news came to us from Kostanay region. At the next meeting of the Kostanay regional Triathlon Federation, a long-term partnership with GC Allure JSC was announced. The head of the federation was elected Chairman of the Board of JSC GC Allure Andrey Lavrentiev. The new leadership of the federation plans to increase the coaching staff and the number of Elite athletes, improve the infrastructure for the training process and the material and technical base, and conduct regular training camps.

The first East Kazakhstan Region Championship among athletes aged 14 years and older was held in Oskemen. 37 athletes from Oskemen, Semey and Ridder took part in the regional championship. Competitions were held in the Ethnographic Park. The athletes who showed the best results were included in the regional team and were sent to training camps in the village of New Bukhtarma. These same athletes won the recent RK Cross-Country Triathlon Championships in Burabay.

The AstanaTriathlon Federation, together with the center for communicative development "Nika", has launched a new column for meeting coaches on social networks. The first was an acquaintance with a federation coach, an international-class master of sports, a participant in the Olympics in Beijing, London and Rio de Janeiro, Ekaterina Rudenko, who conducted an open, free training session for everyone. Pupils of the capital children's section took part in bike race Jastar Bike, and amateurs in the celebration of World Race Day, held in 24 countries. Together with the akimat of Nur-Sultan, the metropolitan colleagues held the annual “Nur-Sultan Duatlon 2019”, in which more than 300 amateurs aged 16 to 50+ took part.

The Shymkent Triathlon Federation, after holding the first triathlon in the history of the city, the Asian triathlon Cup, held the open championship on June 5-7. Competitions were held on the Badam reservoir. 54 athletes of Elite category from Shymkent and Turkestan region took part in it.

It was such a busy and interesting month for the Kazakhstan triathlon and the entire sports community of the country is looking forward to one of the most important races of the season - BI Group Ironman Astana 70.3, which starts on June 14 in the AstanaTriathlon Park.