Kazakhstan at the 2024 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	KAZ
Nocname:	National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2024
Location:	Paris, France
Competitors:	79
Sports:	20
Flagbearer Open:	Aslanbek Shymbergenov & Olga Safronova
Flagbearer Close:	Batyrkhan Toleugali & Elzhana Taniyeva
Rank:	43
Gold:	1
Silver:	3
Bronze:	3
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1996
See also:	(1900–1912) (1952–1988) (1992)

Kazakhstan competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024.^[1] It was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.^[2]

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Yeldos Smetov


	Nurbek Oralbay

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9	Total
Gymnastics	0	1	0	1
Judo	1	0	1	2
Boxing	0	1	1	2
Shooting	0	0	1	1
Wrestling	0	1	0	1
Total	1	3	3	7

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Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Female	0	0	1	1
Male	1	3	1	5
Mixed	0	0	1	1
Total	style=background:gold	1	style=background:silver	3	style=background:#c96	3	7

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Medals by date
Date	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9	Total
27 July	1	0	1	2
28 July	0	0	1	1
3 August	0	1	0	1
6 August	0	0	1	1
7 August	0	2	0	2
Total	1	3	3	7

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Archery	3	0	3
	1	6	7
	1	0	1
Boxing	7	3	10
Breaking	1	0	1
Canoeing	4	2	6
Cycling	3	0	3
	3	1	4
Gymnastics	3	1	4
Judo	5	3	8
Modern pentathlon	1	1	2
Rowing	1	0	1
Shooting	4	5	9
Sport climbing	1	0	1
Swimming	1	1	2
Table tennis	1	0	1
Taekwondo	2	0	2
Tennis	3	2	5
Triathlon	0	1	1
Wrestling	8	0	8
Total	53	26	79

Archery

See main article: article, Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan entered three archers to compete at the Games. The nation's fielded full squad of men's team recurve by scoring a successful gold-medal victory at the 2023 Asian Archery Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ilfat Abdullin	align=left rowspan=3	Men's individual	663	29	L 4–6	Did not advance
Alexandr Yeremenko	640	59	L 2–6	Did not advance
Dauletkeldi Zhangbyrbay	668	22	L 3–7	Did not advance
Ilfat Abdullin Alexandr Yeremenko Dauletkeldi Zhangbyrbay	Men's team	1971	10	L 4–5	Did not advance

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakh track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):^[3]

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
David Yefremov	Men's 110 m hurdles	13.88	7 R			Did not advance
Olga Safronova	Women's 200 m	23.58	43	23.70	23	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Daisy Jepkemei	Women's 10000 m	31:26.55	17
Women's 3000 m steeplechase	9:24.69	23	Did not advance
Norah Jeruto	Women's 3000 m steeplechase	9:16.46	14 Q SB	9:08.97	9 SB
Zhanna Mamazhanova	Women's marathon	2:30:51	33

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Nadezhda Dubovitskaya	align=left rowspan=2	Women's high jump	1.83	28	Did not advance
Yelizaveta Matveyeva	1.88	19	Did not advance

Badminton

See main article: Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan entered one badminton players into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Paris Rankings.

Boxing

See main article: article, Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan entered ten boxer into the Olympic tournament. Kamshybek Kunkabayev (men's super heavyweight) and Karina Ibragimova (women's featherweight) secured their spots in their respective division by advancing to the final and semifinal round at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.^[4] The other six boxers, qualified themself to Paris by winning the quota bouts round, in their respective division, at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 1 in Busto Arsizio, Italy.^[5] Lastly, Bazarbay Mukhammedsabyr, Nazym Kyzaibay and Valentina Khalzova qualified for the games by winning the quota bouts round at the 2024 World Olympic Qualification Tournament 2 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Saken Bibossinov	Flyweight		W 5–0	L 2-3	colspan=3
Makhmud Sabyrkhan	Featherweight	L 1–4	colspan=4
Mukhammedsabyr Bazarbayuly	Lightweight	W 5–0	W 3–2	L 2-3	colspan=4
Aslanbek Shymbergenov	Welterweight	L 2-3	colspan=5
Nurbek Oralbay	Middleweight	W 3–2	W 5–0	W 3-2	L 2–3
Aibek Oralbay	Heavyweight		W 5-0	L 2-3	colspan=3
Kamshybek Kunkabayev	Super heavyweight		L 2-3

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Nazym Kyzaibay	Flyweight	W 4-1	W 5–0	W 4-1	L 1–4
Karina Ibragimova	Featherweight	bye	L 0-5	colspan=4
Valentina Khalzova	Middleweight	bye	L 1-4

Breaking

See main article: article, Breaking at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Breaking at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan entered one breakdancer to compete in the B-Boy dual battles for Paris 2024. Amir Zakirov (Amir) outlasted the male breakdancers from 2024 Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai, China and Budapest, Hungary.

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Canoeing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Sprint

Kazakh canoeists qualified four boats for the Games through the result of highest rank eligible nation's in the following events, through the 2024 Asian Olympic in Tokyo, Japan.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sergey Yemelyanov Timur Khaidarov	Men's C-2 500 m	1:45.94	5 QF	1:44.03	4 FB	1:46.75	10
Bekarys Ramatulla Sergii Tokarnytskyi	Men's K-2 500 m	1:38.62	5 QF	1:37.58	6	Did not advance
Mariya Brovkova Rufina Iskakova	Women's C-2 500 m	2:00.05	5 QF	2:01.76	4 FB	1:57.58	11

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Road

Kazakhstan entered two male road cyclists into the games. Kazakhstan secured those quota through the UCI Nation Ranking.^[6]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Alexey Lutsenko	align=left rowspan=2	Men's road race	6:26.57	52
Yevgeniy Fedorov	–	DNF
Yevgeniy Fedorov	Men's time trial	38:33.16	21

Track

Kazakhstan entered one rider, to compete in the men's sprint and keirin events, following the release of the final UCI Olympic rankings.^[7]

Sprint

Keirin

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan entered five fencers into the Olympic competition. Men's épée team secured quota places after nominated as the highest ranked nations team, eligible for Asia & Oceania zone through the release of the FIE Official ranking for Paris 2024; meanwhile Aigerim Sarybay qualified for the games by winning the gold medal in the women's individual sabre event, at the 2024 Asia and Oceania Zonal Qualifying Tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.^[8]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Elmir Alimzhanov	align=left rowspan=3	Men's épée	W 15-14	L 13-14	colspan=4
Ruslan Kurbanov	W 15-13	W 15-10	L 6-15	colspan=3
Vadim Sharlaimov	W 15-9	L 13-15	colspan=5
Elmir Alimzhanov Ruslan Kurbanov Vadim Sharlaimov	Men's team épée	L 30-45	Classification Semifinal W 36–21	Classification Final L 36–45	6
Aigerim Sarybay	Women's sabre	W 15-9	L 12-15	Did not advance

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification.

Artistic

Kazakhstan qualified two gymnasts. Milad Karimi qualified for the games, by being among the highest-ranked eligible athlete in the All-around at the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships;^[9] meanwhile Nariman Kurbanov qualified for the games through the final accumulations of 2024 Apparatus World Cup Series ranking.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
								Total	Rank							Total	Rank
Milad Karimi	align=left rowspan=1	All-around	14.433	13.266 Q	13.000	14.300	14.366	12.700	82.065	18 Q	13.433	8.533	12.933	14.400	14.066	12.700	76.065	24
Nariman Kurbanov	align=left rowspan=1	pommel horse		15 Q							15.433

Rhythmic

Kazakhstan entered one rhythmic gymnast into the games by virtue of winning the gold medal in the individual all-around events, at the 2024 Asian Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Trampoline

Kazakhstan qualified one gymnast for Paris 2024. One athletes qualified to compete in the men's trampoline competition at Paris 2024, through the 2023–2024 Trampoline World Cup series.

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan has qualified eight judokas via the IJF World Ranking List, continental quotas in Asia and team invitation.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Yeldos Smetov	Men's −60 kg	W 10–00	W 01–00	W 01–00	W 10–00	W 01-00
Gusman Kyrgyzbayev	Men's −66 kg	W 01–00	W 01-00	W 10-00	L 00–10	W 01–00
Daniyar Shamshayev	Men's −73 kg	L 00–10	Did not advance
Abylaikhan Zhubanazar	Men's −81 kg	L 00–01	colspan=6
Nurlykhan Sharkhan	Men's −100 kg	W 10–00	L 01–11	Did not advance
Abiba Abuzhakynova	Women's −48 kg	W 01–00	W 10–00	L 00–10	W 10–00	L 00–10	5
Esmigul Kuyulova	Women's −63 kg	L 00–01	Did not advance
Kamila Berlikash	Women's +78 kg	L 00–10	Did not advance

Mixed

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Modern pentathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstani modern pentathletes confirmed two quota places for the Olympic games. Georgiy Boroda-Dudochkin and Yelena Potapenko secured their spots in the men's and women's event by virtue of top five eligible nation's through the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.^[10]

Athlete	Event	Fencing (épée one touch)				Swimming (200 m freestyle)			Riding (show jumping)			Combined: shooting/running (10 m air pistol)/(3200 m)			Total points	Final rank
Athlete	Event			Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Penalties	Rank	MP points	Time	Rank	MP points	Total points	Final rank
Georgiy Boroda-Dudochkin	Men's	10	1	17	177	2:08.28	17	294	59.49	5	300	10:19.91	11	681	1452	16
Yelena Potapenko	Women's			16	200	2:16.67	9	277	53.88	14	279	12:35.18	16	545	1301	15

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstani rowers qualified one boats in the men's single sculls for the Games, through the 2024 Asia & Oceania Qualification Regatta in Chungju, South Korea.

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstani shooters achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2022 and 2023 ISSF World Championships, 2023 and 2024 Asian Championships, and 2024 ISSF World Olympic Qualification Tournament.^[11]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Islam Satpayev	10 m air rifle	628	21	colspan=2
Konstantin Malinovskiy	50 m rifle 3 positions	586	25	colspan=2
align=left rowspan=2	Nikita Chiryukin	10 m air pistol	575	15	colspan=2
25 m rapid fire pistol	583	10	colspan=2
Eduard Yechshenko	Skeet	115	26

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Arina Altukhova	align=left rowspan=2	50 m rifle 3 positions	627	17	colspan=2
Alexandra Le	631	6 Q	165.4	6
Irina Yunusmetova	10 m air pistol	574	11	colspan=2
Mariya Dmitriyenko	Trap	120	10	colspan=2
Assem Orynbay	Skeet	116	18

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Alexandra Le Islam Satpayev	align=left rowspan=2	10 m air rifle team	630.8	3 QB	W 17–5
Arina Altukhova Konstantin Malinovskiy	621.3	27

Shooting at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Mixed skeet team - 12th

Sport climbing

See main article: article, Sport climbing at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Sport climbing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan qualified one climber for Paris 2024. Amir Maimuratov qualified directly for the men's speed events, through the 2024 Olympic Qualifier series ranking.

Speed

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan sent two swimmers to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Adilbek Mussin	Men's 100 m freestyle	49,92	41	Did not advance
Men's 100 m butterfly	52,74	29	Did not advance
Kseniya Ignatova	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:02,51	26	Did not advance

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan entered one table tennis players into Paris 2024. Kirill Gerassimenko qualified for the games through topping the Asian continental ranking.

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan qualified two athletes to compete at the games. Batyrkhan Toleugali and Samirkhon Ababakirov qualified for their games, following the triumph of their victory in the semifinal rounds, in their respective classes, at the 2024 Asian Qualification Tournament in Tai'an, China.^[12]

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Samirkhon Ababakirov	Men's −58 kg	L 1–2	colspan=5
Batyrkhan Toleugali	Men's −80 kg	W 2–1	L 0–2

Tennis

See main article: article, Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan entered five tennis players into the games. All of those athletes qualified directly for the games after being included in the top 64 eligible tennis players, through the ATP and WTA ranking lists. Both female players eventually withdrew from the women's singles competition.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Alexander Bublik	align=left rowspan=2	Men's singles	L 4–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Alexander Shevchenko	L 3–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Alexander Bublik Aleksandr Nedovyesov	Men's doubles		L 4–6, 4–6	Did not advance
Elena Rybakina	align=left rowspan=2	Women's singles		colspan=6
Yulia Putintseva

Triathlon

See main article: Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan entered one female triathlete in the triathlon events for Paris, following the release of final individual olympics qualification ranking.

Individual

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Kazakhstan qualified eight wrestlers for the following classes into the Olympic competition. Azamat Dauletbekov and Nursultan Tursynov qualified for the games by virtue of top five results through the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia;^[13] ^[14] meanwhile the other wrestlers secured their spots, in their own respective divisions, after winning the semifinal round at the 2024 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Later, Meirambek Kartbay secured a spot due to the reallocations of Individual Neutral Athletes quotas.

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Meirambek Kartbay	Men's −57 kg	L 1–4	colspan=5
Azamat Dauletbekov	Men's −86 kg	L 3–4	colspan=5
Alisher Yergali	Men's −97 kg	W 6–2	L 2–14		L 1–6	Did not advance	6
Yusup Batirmurzaev	Men's −125 kg	L 1–4

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Aidos Sultangali	Men's −60 kg	L 3–6	Did not advance
Demeu Zhadrayev	Men's −77 kg	W 9–0 ^ST	W 3–1	W 6–1	L 2–5
Nursultan Tursynov	Men's −87 kg	W 10–1	L 3–7	Did not advance
Alimkhan Syzdykov	Men's −130 kg	W 3–1	L 0–4	Did not advance

Notes and References

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News: Kazakhstan NOC representatives meet Estanguet at Paris 2024 headquarters. Inside the Games. 7 February 2023. 13 June 2023.
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News: Final eight Paris 2024 Olympic quota places at Asia Qualifying Tournament have now been won. 5 October 2023. World Boxing. 10 October 2023.
Web site: Boxing 1st World Qualification Tournament - Busto Arsizio: Which boxers have obtained quotas for Paris 2024?. Olympics. 11 March 2024. 12 March 2024.
News: Road cycling at París 2024: Quota distribution for next Olympic Games decided following publication of UCI World Ranking by Nations. 18 October 2023. International Olympic Committee. 20 October 2023.
Web site: Athletes quota places for Track Cycling at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. 17 May 2024. www.uci.org/. Union Cycliste Internationale. 30 May 2024.
News: Asia-Oceania Olympic Qualifier Finishes in Fujairah. International Fencing Federation. 1 May 2024. 7 May 2024.
Web site: Final nine Men's Artistic Gymnastics teams solidify Olympic team qualification in Paris . . 1 October 2023.
News: 19TH ASIAN GAMES: ZHANG (CHN) AND JUN (KOR) CELEBRATE GOLD AND PARIS 2024 OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION. Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne. 25 September 2023.
Web site: Quota Places by Nation and Number. 1 January 2018. issf-sports.org/. ISSF. 18 September 2022.
Web site: China wins sixth Olympic licence for taekwondo. Inside The Games. 16 March 2024. 11 April 2024.
News: Freestyle Wrestling: 2024 Paris Olympic Games Qualified Nations. 19 September 2023. United World Wrestling. 25 September 2023. 25 September 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230925171039/https://uww.org/article/freestyle-wrestling-2024-paris-olympic-games-qualified-nations. dead.
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