The year 2016 is the most successful year for TakhirzhanAbdurakhmanov, a student of SKSPhA,concerning his gold and silver medals

T. Abdurakhmanov, the 1styear student of Medical College of South - Kazakhstan State Pharmaceutical Academy,has authoritative prize winnings in junior powerlifting but he is only 18 years old!Takhirzhanbecame a champion of Kazakhstanfive times. He won the gold medal at the European Championships in Denmark, where the tournament was held in April of this year in Copenhagen. A little later, he participated in the World Cup in South Africa, where he won the silver medal and pressed Americans on world powerlifting Olympus.In October, he won the gold medal for Kazakhstan teamat the Asian games in Tashkent.

I read in Internet the following description - “powerlifting is a hard sport, requiring enervating workouts, proper diet, readiness for personal injury and total intensity. To lift so heavy weight, you need to have well-developed muscles oflegs, arms, back and chest. This sport comprises three basic exercises. They are: a continental press, deadlift and squats. In each of these exercises, the athlete must raise the heaviest weight, taking into account technical requirements”. 

Candidate Master of Sports T.Abdurakhmanov excelled in three exercises as a result of his hard daily workouts, he joined the powerlifting section five years ago when he discovered a hernia. “I could not even lift a bucket of water”, - he says and adds that the hospital doctor in Tashkent advised his mother to send him to the sports section.

Without pausing to think, the future young athlete visited a sports facility “Karatobe” that was in micro district Voroshilovkaof Shymkent, where he lived. And since then, a barbell, bike, treadmill ... He started to lift a small weight, and then began to lift 20 kg, 100 kg, 150 kg, 180 kg, 200 kg.It means in sports professional language “with T-shirt” and “without T- shirt”, so gradually he strengthened the muscles of spine, chest, arms and legs.

And he has already made his debut in various weight categories, the last of them is up to 93 kg. Takhirzhaneasily makes a benchpress, squats, a deadlift; it allowed him to break the first record in May 2015 at Open Championship of Specialized Youth Sports School №12 in powerlifting, devoted to the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory. This allowed him to join the national picked team of South Kazakhstan. 

It should be noted that 12 athletes and 2 coaches(KakharmanSadykov and RustamSadykov) took part in the Asian Championship in 2016 standing for the sports facility “Karatobe”; in general they won 6 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals. Kazakhstan was represented by 40 best powerlifting sportsmen. 

He wants to make a worthy contribution to the development of Kazakhstan sportslike all talented young people. And it is so symbolically in the year of the 25th anniversary of Independence. He participated in all major tournaments of the current year, and every time when Kazakhstan flag was hoisted, T.Abdurakhmanov did not disguise his feelings, standing on the victory podium. “At these moments I remember all my workouts. I do not regret anything: neither sleepless nights, flying over so many states,normy enervating workouts”. 

He is training for new competitions in 2017 - the World Cup in South Korea.

Raikhan SHAYMERDENOVA, a journalist.