Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, May 17, 2020: Kazakhstan’s Olympic team bound for Tokyo 2020 will resume training camps next week after the state of emergency and lockdown declared in the country due to the coronavirus came to an end on May 11.
A total of 48 athletes in 12 sports have qualified so far. They are in archery, artistic swimming, boxing, cycling, gymnastics, karate, modern pentathlon, shooting, sport climbing, swimming, water polo and wrestling.
Boxing, which has one of the biggest number of athletes qualified in an individual sport – eight men and one woman – will resume training on May 25.
“The head coach, Galymbek Kenzhebaev, said that our training camp starts on May 25,” said men’s welterweight fighter Ablaikhan Zhussupov. “We were happy to hear this news because at the training camp we will finally be able to train and improve our experience.
“Despite the postponement of the Olympics by a year, we are not going to stop our preparations. Our main goal is to prepare thoroughly for the Olympics,” added Zhussupov, a southpaw who also boxed at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been re-scheduled for July 23-August 8, 2021.