Athletes from Almaty won 11 medals at the 5th Asian Para Games: four gold, six silver and one bronze. The Games were held in Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, from October 18 to 24.
The city’s representatives contributed one-third of Kazakhstan’s gold medals and more than one-fifth of its total medal tally. Kazakhstan finished ninth in the overall standings with 50 medals: 12 gold, 16 silver and 22 bronze.
Para-cyclists made the biggest contribution to Almaty’s result, winning nine medals in track and road events: four gold, four silver and one bronze.
Anastasia Kalaus and her pilot, Polina Bratchikova, became double champions. They won the individual time trial and the 55-kilometre road race, and also took silver in the 4,000-metre track event.
Nail Yermukhanbet and his pilot, Ruslan Aliyev, won gold in the 20-kilometre individual time trial and the 65-kilometre road race. Kirill Ilyukevich and his pilot, Gleb Brusensky, earned two silver medals in road events and bronze in the 4,000-metre track race.
Zhuldyz Kainarova and her pilot, Anzhela Solovyova, won silver in the women’s 55-kilometre road race. Almaty tandems took first and second place in that event, and city representatives also claimed the top two places in both men’s road races.
Almaty’s other two silver medals came from para judo athlete Zhanbota Amanzhol and para powerlifter Alina Solodukhina. Amanzhol placed second in the J2 class in the up to 95-kilogram category, repeating his result from the 2023 Asian Para Games.
Solodukhina won silver in the up to 45-kilogram category with a result of 103 kilograms. She had previously won bronze at the 2018 Asian Para Games. Almaty was represented by 20 athletes across six sports.
