Milad Karimi has extra motivation to perform well at Worlds – the team will get to go to a Liverpool game if they compete well on Sunday: “We really want to go to a game, there will be a game now. If we compete well in...
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Kazakhstan’s men were able to qualify as a team to the 2019 World Championships but finished only 16th and ended up with just one Olympic spot – it went to their star Milad Karimi. Aleksandr Kim, the head coach of the...
Kazakhstan’s Nariman Kurbanov started his post-lockdown season with a gold on pommel horse in Szombathely, his best event. He talked to the National Olympic Committee about coping with the lockdown and his plans for the...
Yesterday, Milad Karimi competed for the first time since the beginning of the lockdown in Kazakhstan. At the Szombathely World Challenge Cup, he qualified to the floor final in first place and also made finals on vault, parallel...
Nariman Kurbanov won silver on pommel horse at the Universiade, placing behind the World bronze medalist Lee Chih Kai. He hasn’t had much success international this year, placing outside of the medals at every final he...
Kazakhstan’s Andrey Lungul has been banned for two years by Kazakhstan’s anti-doping authority after he tested positive for furosemide. Lungul has been a member of up-and-coming Kazakhstan’s men team and won...
19-year-old Akim Mussayev is one of Kazakhstan’s rising stars who has been challenging Milad Karimi for the title of the best all-arounder on the team. In the past couple of months, Mussayev finished first at the...
Milad Karimi suffered a horrific arm injury last year at the Melbourne World Cup but managed to come back in just a few months. This year, he made finals on high bar and vault at the 2019 Melbourne World Cup and stopped short of...
Kazakhstan’s Aida Bauyrzhanova had to take a long break from international competitions in 2016 and 2017 due to an elbow injury. She returned at the 2018 Asian Games and this weekend, she will compete at her first ever...
Kazakhstan’s Nariman Kurbanov won his first big medal at the 2018 Melbourne World Cup – gold on pommel horse. He was one of the top qualifiers on pommel horse at this year’s Worlds. In his first ever final at...