The Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov Prizes Youth Tournament starts with 19 contests today

The Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov Prizes Youth Tournament starts in the city of Turkestan, Kazakhstan with the first preliminaries today. The city with the UNESCO heritage, Turkestan welcomed all of the participants from various countries and the first competition day contains 19 youth bouts.

Turkestan is one of the boxing cities in Kazakhstan which hosted several competitions in the previous year including the Bekzat Sattarkhanov Youth Memorial Tournament. Altogether 118 boxers arrived to the competition venue from all regions of Kazakhstan, but Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and China are also there in Turkestan.

The Dildabekov Prizes Youth Tournament is one of the last preparation events for the upcoming ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships and some of the teams will be using this opportunity to select their final squad.

Boxers who were born in 2005 and in 2006 are eligible to participate in the Dildabekov Prizes Youth Tournament in Turkestan. The male talents will be able to compete in all of the 13 weight categories from the minimumweight (48kg) up to the super heavyweight (+92kg). The thirteen finals of the Dildabekov Prizes Youth Tournament will be held on June 26.

Mr. Mukhtarkhan Dildabekov was a famous Kazakh super heavyweight boxer in the end of the 1990s and beginning of the 2000s. He earned a silver at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, a gold at the Bangkok 1998 Asian Games, a silver at the Houston 1999 World Boxing Championships.

Kyrgyzstan’s Emir Kylychbekov will meet Kazakhstan’s Numanzhan Nurbakyt in the first preliminary round of the bantamweight (54kg). Uzbekistan’s Ibrokhim Islomov also will start his campaign on Day1 in this weight class, his first opponent is Kazakhstan’s Dzhambul region-based Baglan Kenzhebek. The featherweight (57kg) bout between Tajikistan’s Damir Muybalikhonov and Kazakhstan’s Zhasnibek Abilasan could be another exciting challenge in the opening session.

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