Today, February 9, the fifth medal day was held at the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, bbabo.net reports. The German team took first place in the medal standings.
Of the Kazakhs, short track skater Adil Galiakhmetov was closest to the medals of the winter games, performing in the 1500-meter final. Galiakhmetov took eighth place in the decisive race. The gold medal in these competitions was won by Tae Hong Hwan from South Korea, the silver was won by the Canadian Steven Duboa, and the Russian athlete Semyon Elistratov brought the bronze to his country.
It should be noted that Galiakhmetov made it to the final in a dramatic way, taking only sixth place in the semi-final race. However, the Chinese Zhi Wei Ren, who violated the rules in Kazakhstan, was disqualified after watching the video replay.
It is noteworthy that another representative of our country, Denis Nikisha, performed in the quarterfinals. But he, having allowed a collision with Yitzhak de Laat from the Netherlands, was disqualified and dropped out of the fight. In addition, an Olympic record was set in the 1/4 finals. Its author was the Hungarian Shaolin Shandor Liu - 2:09.213.
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Another representative of Kazakhstan in the short track Olga Tikhonova performed in the qualification at a distance of 1000 meters. After a collision with a Russian Sofya Prosvirnova, the Kazakh woman was in third place in the group, which did not allow her to go further. Prosvirnova was then disqualified.
A historic event took place at the Nordic combined competitions. Kazakhstan was represented in this sport for the first time at the Winter Games. The debut of Chingiz Rakparov resulted in the following indicators. In ski jumping, he took 38th place (69.9 points). And in the ten kilometers race, the Kazakhstani finished in 41st position with a time of 32:03.1.
German Vinzenz Geiger became the champion of the Olympics in biathlon. This second gold. The silver medal went to Jörgen Graabak from Norway, and the Austrian Lukas Greiderer won the bronze medal.
In alpine skiing, in women's slalom, 18-year-old Alexandra Troitskaya performed. Her debut was unsuccessful - the athlete fled the race in the first attempt and could not reach the finish line.
It is noteworthy that a sensation occurred in this discipline: one of the main favorites of the competition, multiple world champion in slalom, American Michaela Shiffrin retired shortly after the start of the first attempt and was left without an Olympic medal.
As a result, the Slovak alpine skier Petra Vlhova won the gold medal, the Austrian Katarina Linsberger (+0.08) took the silver medal, and the Swiss Wendy Holdener (+0.12) became the bronze medalist.
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Photo: NOC RK, Vladislav Semenov (1, 2, 3), Turar Kazangapov (4), Sali Sabirov (5)
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