Kazakh boxers learned their first opponents at the Asian Games

The boxing competitions will begin on Monday, September 21st, and last until October 2nd. In some weight classes, representatives of Kazakhstan will start with the next round and will meet the winners of the respective pairs. Women: Up to 51 kilograms: Alua Balkikbekova will start with the quarterfinals, where she will meet the winner of the fight between Sakshi Chaudhary (India) and Aira Villegas (Philippines). Up to 54 kilograms: Nazym Kyzaybay will start in the quarterfinals against the Chinese woman Xu Zhao. Up to 60 kilograms: Victoria Grafeeva will meet Lin Yu-ting (China) in the first fight. Up to 65 kilograms: Aida Abikeeva will start boxing from the quarter-finals, her opponent will be the winner of the pair between Kusum Tamang (Nepal) — Li Shu (China). Up to 75 kilograms: Natalya Bogdanova will meet Aziza Zokirova (Uzbekistan) in the quarterfinals. Men: Up to 55 kilograms: Makhmud Sabyrkhan will meet the strongest in the pair Mekhdi Kazemi (Iran) — Chong Riong So (North Korea) in the quarterfinals. Up to 60 kilograms: Orazbek Asylkulov will reach the quarterfinals against Jun Lin (China) — Don Jang (South Korea). Up to 70 kilograms: Torekhan Sabyrkhan will await the winner of the fight between Duk Ngok Nguyen (Vietnam) — Mohammed Dbichi (Qatar) in the quarterfinals. Up to 80 kilograms: Sabyrzhan Akkalikov will meet the South Korean Minseong Kim in the quarterfinals. Up to 90 kilograms: Nurbek Oralbay will fight against Mohammed Nouri (Afghanistan) in the quarterfinals. Over 90 kilograms: Aibek Oralbay will start the tournament with the quarterfinals fight against the winner of the pair Myrzakir Koshaliyev (Kyrgyzstan) — Dovlet Islamov (Turkmenistan). See this post on Instagram Note that two-time world boxing champion Sanjar Tashkenbay will not be in the Kazakhstan team for the Asian Games in Japan. His category is not represented at the tournament. The world boxing champion from Kazakhstan is not going to the Asia Games: what happened Recall that the first medal for the country at the Games in Japan was won by Arlan Zhanabay, who won bronze in individual triathlon competitions. Then the first two gold medals for Kazakhstan at the Asia-2026 brought the cyclists Rinat Sultanov and Aleksey Lutsenko. Another bronze for the country in the modern pentathlon was brought by Temirlan Abdraimov, Tikhon Varehin, Lev Chuvashov, and Kirill Stadnik. The karatekas brought Kazakhstan the third and fourth gold medals of the Asia-2026 Currently, Kazakhstan has 6 medals in its collection – 4 golds and 2 bronzes.