Ksenia Ignatov Biography

Ksenia Ignatova spoke about her participation in the Kazakhstan championship of EKARAGANDA’s photo of the author of the author of EKARAGANDA, we recently put a new record for the athlete of Ksenia, and won five gold medals at the Kazakhstan Championship in swimming. The pupil of the boarding school of the Olympic reserve named after A. Moldagulova swam meters on the back with a result, 17, and returning to her native region, met with the media.

At the same meeting, it was announced: swimming as a sport never lost popularity, but there has long been a big problem - there is no meter pool in Karaganda that would allow swimmers to train properly.

The championship of Kazakhstan on swimming took place in Taldykorgan, more athletes from 16 regions of the country participated in it. At the championship, 5 records of the Republic of Kazakhstan were set, among them the achievement of Ksenia Ignatova. The tournament was the qualifying for the upcoming World Water Sports Championship, which should take place in the Japanese city of Fukuok.

6 Kazakhstani athletes, including Ksenia, who among the athletes of their age in the national rating, is in the first place will go to the country of the rising sun. In the year, after all the successful performances of a native of Sarani, she took the upper line in the national ranking among her peers and became the first applicant to participate in Asian games in the year. The competitions themselves also passed well, and I set a record that could not beat for about 6 or 7 years.

Now Ksenia Ignatova will have competitions in Greece - they will be held in May, then the sports day of the peoples of Kazakhstan - in June, after - the World Cup, then - Asian games. The girl has already begun preparations for the intense continuation of the year: he will soon go to the collections in Spain. The senior coach of the Karaganda region for swimming Anvar Erkenov specified that Ksenia is trained on the basis of the Temirtau basin "Zhastar" and is the main stage of training as part of the national team.

However, now in the region there is only one large meter pool - in Temirtau, but there are no training bases in Karaganda itself - that is, there is no same pool, ”added Anvar Khasanatovich. In the meantime, the Karaganda region is the only one in Kazakhstan whose regional center does not have a similar base. Such a pool, by the way, is necessary for training and Paralympic.

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