Kazakhstan earns 1st medal at Asian Youth&Junior Weightlifting Championships

NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM Kazakhstani weightlifter Yerassyl Umarov grabbed bronze at the Asian Youth & Junior Weightlifting Championships being held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Kazinform reports.

In the first exercise, Yerassyl, who competed in men's 55kg, completed all three approaches and stopped at a weight of 104 kg. In the clean and jerk, the athlete coped with the weight during the third attempt only having lifted 228 kg (104 + 124).

The bronze medal became the first one for the Kazakh team at the event.

«Yerassyl Umarov is the first medal winner from the Kazakh national team at the Asian Youth & Junior Weightlifting Championships,» the press service of the Kazakhstan Weightlifting Federation informed via Instagram.