Nurmakhanov, Abdysalan

Abdysalan Nurmakhanov (Kazakh: Әбдісалан Нұрмаханов) is a Soviet boxer, medalist of the USSR championships, champion of Asia, Africa and Latin America (GANEFO), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1968), Honored Coach of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Author of many boxing manuals, professor.

Biography

Born April 19, 1936 in the village Kultafa of the Shurchinsky district of the Surkhan-Darya region (Uzbekistan). Comes from Kazakh tribe kypshak (karakypshak).

After graduating from the school named after M. Mametova in Turkestan in 1953, he entered the republican technical school of physical culture, which he graduated in 1957. In the same year he entered the Kazakh State Institute of Physical Culture and graduated in 1961.

In 1973 he received the title of Honored Coach of the Republic of Kazakhstan. From 1961 to 1978 he was teaching as a Head of the Department of the Kazakh State Institute of Physical Culture.

After that, he worked as a coach at the Higher School of Sportsmanship for two years. From 1980 to 1992 he was an Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Education of KazNU named after Al-Farabi. He was awarded with Candidate of Biological Sciences on June 2 1992. In 1993-1997 he was a Head Coach of the Republic of Kazakhstan in boxing. He retired on April 19, 1997.

Athletic achievements

In 1957 he received the title of Master of Sports of the USSR, in 1968 he was the first of the athletes of Kazakhstan to be awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports. In the same year he became the champion of Asia, Africa, Latin America (GANEFO games). There he won all 3 fights by knockouts. 7-time champion of the Burevestnik CA, 5-time champion of the Labor Reserves CA, 11-time champion of the Kazakh SSR, 2-time champion of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, 2-time bronze medalist of the USSR championships, 2-time silver medalist of the USSR championships. In 1968, he, the first of the boxers of Kazakhstan, was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. In total, Abdysalan Nurmakhanov had 239 fights, of which 222 were victories.

Being the head coach of the boxing team of the Republic of Kazakhstan, he achieved high results. Making its debut at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the Kazakhstan team achieved excellent performance, winning 4 medals (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze) and taking 3rd place in the unofficial team standings after Cuba and the United States. In Atlanta, at the Olympic Games, Vasily Zhirov achieved an outstanding result, becoming not only an Olympic champion, but also the awardee of the most honorable prize of the Olympic Games - the Val Barker Cup. At the Atlanta Olympics, Bolat Zhumadilov was awarded a silver medal, and Yermakhan Ibraimov and Bolat Niyazymbetov were awarded a bronze medal.

He was the author of the book “Zhekpe-zhek” (“Duel”), Almaty, publishing house “Zhalyn”, 1985, a textbook on boxing in the Kazakh language “Boxing”, Almaty “Mektep”, 1986, a methodological manual on boxing “How to become a boxer? » (in Kazakh, Almaty "Sanat", 1994) and other publications.

Legacy

Every year in April, the international boxing tournament for adults named after Abdysalan Nurmakhanov is held in Turkestan. In the city of Almaty and the city of Turkestan, streets were named in his honor, and a memorial plaque was installed on the Tulebaev str. in the building where Nurmakhanov lived. In the city of Turkestan, a monument was erected to him, there is a children's and youth sports school named after him.

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