Kazakhstan at the 2017 Asian Winter Games

Kazakhstan at the
2017 Asian Winter Games
Kazakhstan at the; 2017 Asian Winter Games
IOC code	KAZ
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
in Sapporo and Obihiro; February 19–26
Competitors	116 in 5 sports
Flag bearer	Yerdos Akhmadiyev
Medals; Ranked 4th	Gold 9 Silver 11 Bronze 12 Total 32
Asian Winter Games appearances
	; ; ; 2007; 2011; 2017;

Kazakhstan competed in the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo and Obihiro, Japan from February 19 to 26.^[1]^[2] Kazakhstan competed in all five sports (eleven disciplines).^[3] The team consists of 116 athletes and was announced on January 17.^[4]^[5]

Also on January 17 in conjunction with the team announcement, cross-country skier Yerdos Akhmadiyev was announced as the country's flagbearer during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony. Akhmadiyev also served as the country's flagbearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.^[6]

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]


Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Biathlon	6	4	2	12
Cross-country skiing	1	4	2	7
Freestyle skiing	1	1	2	4
Ice hockey	1	0	1	2
Ski jumping	0	1	2	3
Speed skating	0	1	1	2
Figure skating	0	0	1	1
Short track speed skating	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 sports)	9	11	12	32

Medalists[]

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Rinat Mukhin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 kilometre freestyle	21 February
Gold	Yan Savitskiy	Biathlon		23 February
Gold	Galina Vishnevskaya	Biathlon		23 February
Gold	Galina Vishnevskaya	Biathlon		24 February
Gold	Yuliya Galysheva	Freestyle skiing		24 February
Gold	Galina Vishnevskaya Maxim Braun Yan Savitskiy	Biathlon		25 February
Gold	Yan Savitskiy	Biathlon		26 February
Gold	Galina Vishnevskaya	Biathlon		26 February
Gold	Pavel Poluektov Madiyar Ibraibekov Alexander Pisarev Nursultan Belgibayev Dmitri Grents Artyom Likhotnikov Nikita Mikhailis Mikhail Rakhmanov Konstantin Savenkov Yaroslav Yevdokimov	Ice hockey	Men's tournament	26 February
Silver	Yelena Kolomina	Cross-country skiing	Women's sprint	20 February
Silver	Denis Kuzin	Speed skating	Men's 1000 metres	21 February
Silver	Vassiliy Podkorytov	Biathlon		23 February
Silver	Yelena Kolomina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km classical	23 February
Silver	Yan Savitskiy	Biathlon		24 February
Silver	Sergey Cherepanov Yerdos Akhmadiyev Nikolay Chebotko Rinat Mukhin	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay	24 February
Silver	Alina Raikova Anna Kistanova Vassiliy Podkorytov Anton Pantov	Biathlon		25 February
Silver	Konstantin Sokolenko Marat Zhaparov Sergey Tkachenko	Ski jumping	Men's large hill team	25 February
Silver	Alina Raikova	Biathlon		26 February
Silver	Yuliya Galysheva	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km freestyle mass start	26 February
Silver	Sergey Cherepanov	Freestyle skiing		26 February
Bronze	Yelena Kolomina	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 kilometre freestyle	21 February
Bronze	Sergey Tkachenko	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill	21 February
Bronze	Iong A Kim Anastassiya Krestova	Short track speed skating	Women's 3000 m relay	22 February
Bronze	Dmitry Babenko Denis Kuzin Fyodor Mezentsev	Speed skating	Men's Team pursuit	22 February
Bronze	Alina Raikova	Biathlon		23 February
Bronze		Biathlon		24 February
Bronze	Dmitriy Reikherd	Freestyle skiing		24 February
Bronze	Marat Zhaparov	Ski jumping	Men's large hill	24 February
Bronze	Elizabet Tursynbayeva	Figure skating	Ladies singles	25 February
Bronze	Olga Konysheva	Ice hockey	Women's tournament	25 February
Bronze	Nikolay Chebotko	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km freestyle mass start	26 February
Bronze	Dmitriy Reikherd	Freestyle skiing		26 February

Competitors[]

The following table lists the Kazakh delegation per sport and gender.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	2	2	4
Biathlon	5	5	10
Cross-country skiing	6	6	12
Curling	5	5	10
Figure skating	2	2	4
Freestyle skiing	3	1	4
Ice hockey	23	21	44
Short track speed skating	5	5	10
Ski jumping	4	N/A	4
Snowboarding	2	2	4
Speed skating	6	4	10
Total	63	53	116

Alpine skiing[]

Kazakhstan's alpine skiing team consists of four athletes (two men and two women).^[4]

Men

Women

Mariya Grigorova

Biathlon[]

Kazakhstan's biathlon team consists of ten athletes (five men and five women).^[4]

Men

Women

Cross-country skiing[]

Kazakhstan's cross-country skiing team consists of twelve athletes (six men and six women).^[4]

Men

Women

Yelena Kolomina
Marina Matrossova

Curling[]

Kazakhstan has entered both a men's and women's teams, each consists of five athletes, for a total of ten.^[7]^[8]

Men's tournament[]

Viktor Kim – skip
Abylaikhan Zhuzbay – third
– second
– lead
– alternate

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Country v t	Skip	W	L
China	Liu Rui	5	0
South Korea	Kim Soo-hyuk	4	1
Japan	Yusuke Morozumi	3	2
Chinese Taipei		2	3
Kazakhstan	Viktor Kim	1	4
Qatar		0	5

Round-robin

Kazakhstan has a bye in draw 3

Draw 1

Saturday, February 18, 9:00

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Rui)	1	2	1	3	2	0	1	1	1	X	12
Kazakhstan (Kim)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	1

Draw 2

Saturday, February 18, 18:00

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Soo-hyuk)	2	0	1	1	0	3	3	2	X	X	12
Kazakhstan (Kim)	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	X	X	1

Draw 4

Monday, February 20, 13:30

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Qatar ()	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	4
Kazakhstan (Kim)	0	1	0	0	4	0	2	0	4	1	12

Draw 5

Tuesday, February 21, 9:00

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kazakhstan (Kim)	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	X	X	4
Japan (Morozumi)	3	3	0	2	1	1	0	3	X	X	13

Draw 6

Tuesday, February 21, 18:00

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kazakhstan (Kim)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	X	2
Chinese Taipei ()	0	3	2	1	0	2	3	0	2	X	13

Women's tournament[]

The women's team consists of five athletes.^[4]

– skip
– third
– second
– lead
Sitora Alliyarova – alternate

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Country v t	Skip	W	L
South Korea	Kim Eun-jung	3	0
Japan	Satsuki Fujisawa	2	1
China	Wang Bingyu	2	1
Kazakhstan		1	2
Qatar		0	4

Round-robin

Kazakhstan has a bye in draw 4

Draw 1

Saturday, February 18, 13:30

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kazakhstan ()	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	X	X	X	2
China (Wang)	6	1	0	7	1	5	0	X	X	X	20

Draw 2

Saturday, February 19, 9:00

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Kazakhstan ()	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	X	3
Japan (Fujisawa)	0	4	1	3	2	0	2	0	5	X	17

Draw 3

Sunday, February 20, 9:00

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Qatar ()	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	2
Kazakhstan ()	2	0	1	0	4	2	2	3	X	X	14

Draw 5

Tuesday, February 21, 13:30

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Eun-jung)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kazakhstan ()	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Figure skating[]

Kazakhstan's figure skating team consists of four athletes (two men and two women).^[4]

Singles

Athlete(s)	Event	SP		FP		Total
Athlete(s)	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Abzal Rakimgaliev	Men's
Denis Ten	Men's
Aiza Mambekova	Women's
Elizabet Tursynbayeva	Women's

Freestyle skiing[]

Kazakhstan's freestyle skiing team consists of four athletes (three men and one woman).^[4]

Men

Dmitriy Barmashov
Dmitry Reiherd

Woman

Ayaulum Amrenova

Ice hockey[]

Kazakhstan has entered teams in both hockey tournaments. The men's team will compete in the top division.^[9]^[10]

Men's tournament[]

Kazakhstan was represented by the following 23 athletes:^[4]

(G)
Pavel Poluektov (G)
(G)
(D)
Madiyar Ibraibekov (D)
(D)
(D)
Alexander Pisarev (D)
(D)
(D)
Nursultan Belgibayev (F)
(F)
Dmitri Grents (F)
Artyom Likhotnikov (F)
Nikita Mikhailis (F)
(F)
(F)
Mikhail Rakhmanov (F)
Konstantin Savenkov (F)
(F)
(F)
(F)
Yaroslav Yevdokimov (F)

Legend

G– Goalie D = Defense-man F = Forward

Rank	Team v t	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Kazakhstan	3	3	0	19	0	+19	9
	South Korea	3	2	1	14	6	+8	6
	Japan	3	1	2	15	11	+4	3
4	China	3	0	3	0	32	–32	0

22 February 2017
15:30

South Korea

0–4
(0–0, 0–2, 0–2)

Kazakhstan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 513




14 min	Penalties	8 min
29	Shots	27

24 February 2017
15:30

Kazakhstan

8–0
(3–0, 3–0, 2–0)

China

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 483




6 min	Penalties	24 min
76	Shots	19

26 February 2017
12:30

Kazakhstan

7–0
(4–0, 2–0, 1–0)

Japan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 1,631




6 min	Penalties	20 min
41	Shots	12

Women's tournament[]

Kazakhstan was represented by the following 21 athletes:^[11]

(G)
(G)
(G)
(D)
(D)
Olga Konysheva (D)
Viktoriya Sazonova (D)
(D)
(F)
(F)
(F)
(F)
(F)
(F)
(F)
(F)
(F)
(F)
(F)
(F)
(F)

Legend

G– Goalie D = Defense-man F = Forward

Rank	Team v t	Pld	W	OW	OL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	Japan	5	5	0	0	0	98	1	+97	15
	China	5	3	0	1	1	46	12	+34	10
	Kazakhstan	5	3	0	0	2	31	14	+17	9
4	South Korea	5	2	1	0	2	37	6	+31	8
5	Thailand	5	1	0	0	4	5	84	–79	3
6	Hong Kong	5	0	0	0	5	4	104	–100	0

18 February 2017
12:00

Kazakhstan

0–6
(0–2, 0–3, 0–1)

Japan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 2,200


			Referee: Tijana Haack Linesmen: Julia Kainberger Lee Tae-ri

12 min	Penalties	4 min
3	Shots	58

20 February 2017
15:30

China

8–3
(2–1, 3–1, 3–1)

Kazakhstan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 323




6 min	Penalties	10 min
39	Shots	21

21 February 2017
15:30

Kazakhstan

1–0
(0–0, 0–0, 1–0)

South Korea

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 292




10 min	Penalties	2 min
21	Shots	30

23 February 2017
15:30

Hong Kong

0–19
(0–7, 0–5, 0–7)

Kazakhstan

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 182




0 min	Penalties	8 min
2	Shots	72

25 February 2017
12:00

Kazakhstan

8–0
(5–0, 2–0, 1–0)

Thailand

Tsukisamu Gymnasium
Attendance: 337




0 min	Penalties	6 min
75	Shots	0

Short track speed skating[]

Kazakhstan's short track speed skating team consists of ten athletes (five men and five women).^[4]

Men

Women

Iong A Kim
Anastassiya Krestova

Ski jumping[]

Kazakhstan's ski jumping team consists of four male athletes.^[4]

Men

Snowboarding[]

Kazakhstan's snowboarding skiing team consists of four athletes (two men and two women). All four will compete in the alpine events.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
	Men's giant slalom	56.77	15	47.91	15	1:44.68	14
	Men's slalom	49.12	18	41.58	14	1:30.70	14
	Men's giant slalom	59.95	18	49.37	16	1:49.32	16
	Men's slalom	49.12	18	41.58	14	1:30.70	14
	Women's giant slalom	1:05.86	9	57.66	10	2:03.52	10
	Women's slalom	48.93	17	40.32	13	1:29.25	12
	Women's giant slalom	1:07.06	11	55.56	9	2:02.62	9
	Women's slalom	52.71	11	47.06	11	1:39.77	11

Speed skating[]

Kazakhstan's speed skating team consists of ten athletes (six men and four women).^[4]

Men

Women

Yekaterina Aydova

References[]

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[1] "Sapporo 2017". www.ocasia.org/. Olympic Council of Asia. Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.

[2] "OCA welcomes record number of teams, athletes to Sapporo 2017". www.ocasia.org/. Olympic Council of Asia. 17 February 2017. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.

[3] "2017 Sapporo AWG sport entries by NOC". www.sapporo2017.org. 8th Sapporo Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee. 16 December 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.

[team-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l "Пресс релиз" [Press release]. www.kazsports.kz/ (in Kazakh). Astana. 17 January 2017. Archived from the original on 13 February 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.

[5] "Kazakhstan reveals national team roaster at Asian Winter Games 2017 in Sapporo". www.inform.kz/. Kazinform. 10 February 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2017.

[6] "«Саппоро-2017» Азия ойындарына қатысатын Қазақстан құрамасы анықталды" ["Sapporo-2017" were participating in the Asian Games team]. www.inform.kz/ (in Kazakh). 24 January 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2017.

[7] "Curling Playing Schedule for the 8th Asian Winter Games Sapporo 2017" (PDF). www.sapporo2017.org/. 2017 Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee. 27 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.

[8] "Asian Winter Games return to Sapporo for the third time". www.worldcurling.org/. World Curling Federation. 15 February 2017. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.

[9] "Entry list for hockey at the 2017 Asian Winter Games". www.nationalteamsoficehockey.com/. National Teams of Ice hockey. 3 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.

[10] Morgan, Liam (4 January 2017). "Sapporo 2017 confirm entrants in men's and women's ice hockey tournaments". www.insidethegames.biz/. Dunsar Media Ltd. Retrieved 4 January 2017.

[11] "Пресс релиз" [Press release]. www.kazsports.kz/ (in Kazakh). Astana. 17 January 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.

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Asia	China Chinese Taipei East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Macau Malaysia Mongolia Nepal North Korea Pakistan Philippines Qatar Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Independent Olympic Athletes
Oceania	Australia New Zealand

Kazakhstan at the 2017 Asian Winter Games

IOC code	KAZ
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
in Sapporo and Obihiro February 19–26
Competitors	116 in 5 sports
Flag bearer	Yerdos Akhmadiyev
Medals Ranked 4th	Gold 9 Silver 11 Bronze 12 Total 32
Asian Winter Games appearances
2007 2011 2017