The Kazakhstan Women’s and Men’s Elite National Championships will be held in Shymkent on November 23-29

The Kazakhstan National Championships for their elite female and male boxers is scheduled and will be held in the city of Shymkent on November 23-29. All of their top boxers are planning to attend in the National Championships which will be a great comeback for them after eight months of trainings without any events.

Shymkent is located in the Southern part of the country in the valley of the Sayram River near to the border of Uzbekistan and famous of its boxing schools. Many of the top Kazakh boxers came from the city of Shymkent in the recent decades and hosted junior, women and elite national competitions besides to the 2013 edition of the ASBC Asian Confederation Junior Boxing Championships.

Shymkent hosted the Kazakhstan National Championships in 2017 and among those winners almost all of them are planning to attend in the new edition. Olzhas Bayniyazov, Bekdaulet Ibragimov, Aslanbek Shymbergenov and others are planning to regain their throne in the upcoming National Championships.

The health situation in the city of Shymkent is quite stable but all of the participants must have negative PCR tests before the start of the Kazakhstan National Championships. The competition will be the first ever unified National Championships for both genders in Shymkent while some of the spectators are approved also to follow the bouts.

Kazakhstan’s men national team spent one-month training in the Ak Bulak National Sports Centre in Almaty from September 7 until October 5. Altogether 30 people were allowed to attend in the national training camp due to the strict Kazakh medical and governmental rules. Among them 22 were male boxers who trained with the support of six national coaches and two doctors in Ak Bulak.

All of their eight male boxers have qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games through the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event in Amman on March 2021. Six of their boxers in the training camp earned medals in the recent two editions of the AIBA World Boxing Championships and two of them have already Olympic experiences. Their male team returned to the National Training Centre after three months of break in June and prepared to the next targets and to raise the physical skills of their boxers in a first camp which hold for three weeks long in Almaty. Following a few difficulties in the country during the summer period, the team returned to the training camp in September.

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