Kazakh athletes won 3 gold, 1 silver at WPF Championships in Vegas
18:12, 7 November 2012
ASTANA. November 7. KAZINFORM Kazakh athletes won three gold and one silver medals on the 1st day of the World Powerlifting Championships 2012 in Las Vegas, the press service of World Powerlifting Congress reported.
The first two gold medals were won by Yerlan Alkeyev. With the result of 190 kilo he became the best athlete in benchpress in junior middleweight (to 24 years).
Aleksey Pisarevsky won silver medal with the result of 240 kilograms.
Sergey Rubtsov added one more gold medal to Kazakhstan's collection. He was second to none in the most prestigious heavyweight category among the masters (over 40 years).