Kazakh teacher's name Saiko enters the Guinness Book of Records

PETROPAVLOVSK. November 15. KAZINFORM The name of a senior teacher of the Kozybaev North Kazakhstan State University, Honored Master of Sports Victor Saiko is listed in the Guinness Book of Records. Early November the Russian city of Arkhangelsk simultaneously held world championships of Europe, Asia and Eurasia in weight lifting, which was attended by athletes from all over the world.

In addition, representatives of the International Confederation of kettlebell lifting decided to conduct collective competition, when 300 athletes at the same time and simultaneously push the weights for 30 minutes. Pre- International Confederation has applied to the London headquarters of Guinness World Records .

Organizers of the event participants were selected based on their performances in the Competition of the International Confederation of masters of kettlebell lifting in the last few years. The age of participants ranged from 10 to 70 years old. The complexity of this event lies in synchronous lifting of weights by all the participants. And if any of the athletes beat out, the result will not be counted.

In the Book of Records has already been listed the collective record: then within half an hour weights were pushed by 247 people.

The participants of the current record were awarded the Medal of Guinness World Records, a commemorative medal of the International Confederation of kettlebell lifting and masters certificate of Guinness Book.

In addition, in the World Championships, European, Asian and the Eurasian Victor Saiko won 20 gold medals in different disciplines, setting two new world, European , Asian and Eurasian records.

North Kazakhstan weightlifting sport athlete started to go in for sports aged 45. Now in his kitty there are 55 gold medals, 21 of them for the world champion, 18 - Europe, 6 - Asia and 5 were earned at the Olympics.

In 2014 the Kazakh citizen plans to take part in the Second World Olympiad of kettlebell lifting, which will take place in Ecuador on top of the volcano Chimborazo, at a height of 5.5 thousand meters above sea level.