Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

first participated at the

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

as an independent nation in 1994, and has sent athletes to compete in every Games since then. Prior to the

dissolution of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

, Kazakh athletes competed as part of the

Soviet Union at the Olympics The Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952, and competed at the Summer and Winter Games on 18 occasions subsequently. At six of its nine appearances at the Summer Olympic Games, th ...

, and were also part of the Unified Team in 1992. The National Olympic Committee of Kazakhstan was created in 1990 and recognized in 1993.

Medals

Medals by Summer Games

Medals by Winter Games

Medals by Summer Sport

Medals by Winter Sport

List of medalists

Summer Olympics

Winter Olympics

Upgraded Medalists

Nurbakyt Tengizbayev Nurbakyt Tengizbayev (born 10 April 1983 in Usharal, Kazakhstan) is a Kazakh wrestler who won the Bronze medal in the Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Pe ...

from bronze to silver (

Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg Men's Greco-Roman 60 kilograms competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, was held on August 12 at the China Agricultural University Gymnasium. This Greco-Roman wrestling competition consists of a single-elimination tournament, w ...

) # Alla Vazhenina from silver to gold ( Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 75 kg) #

Olga Rypakova Olga Rypakova (russian: Ольга Сергеевна Рыпакова; née Alekseyeva; 30 November 1984) is a Kazakhstani track and field athlete. Originally a heptathlete, she switched to focus on the long jump and began to compete in the trip ...

from 4th place to silver (

Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's triple jump The women's triple jump at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on August 15 and 17 at the Beijing Olympic Stadium. Summary The qualifying standards for the 2008 event were (A standard) and (B standard). The automatic qualifier was still 14.45m ...

) # Anna Nurmukhambetova from 4th place to silver (

Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 69 kg The Women's 69 kilograms weightlifting event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, took place at ExCeL London. Summary Total score was the sum of the lifter's best result in each of the snatch and the clean and jerk, with three ...

) #

Daulet Shabanbay Daulet Shabanbay (born 9 August 1983 in Pavlodar) is a Kazakhstani freestyle wrestler. He competed in the freestyle 120 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics and lost the bronze medal match to Bilyal Makhov Bilyal Valerievich Makhov (russian ...

from 5th place to bronze (

Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle 120 kg Men's freestyle 120 kilograms competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, took place on 11 August at ExCeL London. This freestyle wrestling competition consisted of a single-elimination tournament, with a repechage used t ...

) #

Denis Ulanov Denis Aleksandrovich Ulanov (born 28 October 1993) is a Kazakh Olympic weightlifter. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where he won the bronze medal. Career In the Men's 85 kg Weightlifting competition at the 2016 Summe ...

from 4th place to bronze (

Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 85 kg The Men's 85 kg weightlifting competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place on 12 August at the Pavilion 2 of Riocentro. On October 13, 2016, the IWF reported that bronze medalist Gabriel Sincraian of Romania had t ...

)

Disqualified Medalists

The athletes from Kazakhstan listed below tested positive for doping and were stripped of their medals.

References

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