kazhymukhan Munaitpasov was born in 1871 in a small village in Akmola Province.
When he was a child, his grandfather. Ernak, taught him kazaksha kures - the Kazakh
national sport of wrestling. At the age of eighteen. Kazhymukhan got a job at the local circus
where he looked after the horses and took part in performances. A few years later, he started
his career as a wrestler. Kazhymukhan could fight really well, but he didn't manage to win
his first professional match. This failure didn't discourage him, and he continued to train
hard. In 1910, he became world champion. He competed in more than fifty countries and won
forty-eight gold medals!
Denis Ten was born in 1993 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He started skating when he was
only five years old. In winter, he could skate at open-air rinks, but in summer he had to
use an indoor rink in a shopping mall. Denis was very talented, so it wasn't long before a
coach spotted his potential and offered to train him. By 2007, he had already won several
international competitions. At the age of twenty-one, he was able to take part in the Winter
Olympics in Sochi, Russia, and he came third. This was the first ever Olympic medal for
Kazakhstan in figure skating. Denis believed he would win a gold Olympic medal one day,
Unfortunately, he wasn't able to achieve his dream because he tragically lost his life in 2018.
Zarina Diyas was born in Almaty, Kazakhstan, but in 1999, when she was five years old,
her family moved to live in the Czech Republic. She started playing tennis at the age of six.
Today, she's one of the best Kazakh tennis players. She won her first title in 2008 in Nur-Sultan
and has won many other competitions since then. In 2016. Zarina had a wrist injury and
people thought this would be the end of her career in tennis. However, she managed to
recover quickly, and only a year later she won the Japan Women's Open tournament in Tokyo.
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