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The annual international athletics tournament dedicated to the memory of the famous Kazakh Olympian Gusman Kosanov has ended in Almaty.
This tournament is included in the calendar of the World Athletics Continental Tour competition series and has a bronze status, and the competition itself is one of the qualifying stages for the upcoming World Championship in 2023 and the Olympic Games in 2024.
The national team of Turkmenistan won one gold medal at this start - the hammer thrower Mergen Mammedov distinguished himself. The result of the athlete was 70 meters. The second was Vadim Puntus from Kazakhstan (50.86), the bronze medal was won by his compatriot Yevgeny Labutov (39.93).
We remind that Mammedov holds the current national record of Turkmenistan in hammer throw (74.01), set by him in June 2013 at competitions in Almaty.