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The fourth Kazakh boxer in a row to win Olympic welterweight gold says a deep cut that will scar him for life will be a satisfying reminder of his Rio exploits.

• 18 августа 2016, 16:42

Kazakhstan's Daniyar Yeleussinov defeated Uzbekistan's Shakhram Giyasov to win welterweight Olympic boxing gold in Rio.

• 18 августа 2016, 16:38

Eight weightlifters who previously served doping bans have won medals at Rio, while others have been sent home for failed tests.

• 15 августа 2016, 15:25

Australia's new teenage swimming sensation Kyle Chalmers won the blue riband Olympic 100m freestyle gold.

• 11 августа 2016, 15:06

Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus are to be suspended for one year by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).

• 23 июня 2016, 14:44

With crazy costumes, pulsating music the Rio Carnival's top performers swatted aside Zika worries to get down for the world's biggest party

• 08 февраля 2016, 15:22

World Boxing Championship 2015 has taken place in Doha, Qatar.

• 18 октября 2015, 18:18

Kazakhstani wrestler Doszhan Kartikov has earned the first Olympic license at the World Championship in Las Vegas.

• 10 сентября 2015, 17:53

The International Judo Federation World Ranking has been updated after the World Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan.

• 03 сентября 2015, 01:23

Kazakhstani athlete Olga Rypakova has won the bronze medal in Women’s Triple Jump at the World Championship in Beijing.

• 25 августа 2015, 21:31

Ilya Iliyn, Kazakhstan's most celebrated weightlifter, has authored another World Record.

• 25 августа 2015, 17:48

Rio will stage a great Olympics, as long as it sorts out "millions" of details first, the head of an IOC fact-finding mission said.

• 13 августа 2015, 12:45

The Wolves tore apart Argentina Condors with 4:1 in San Luis.

• 13 мая 2015, 19:33

In Tuesday marking 500 days to go before it stages South America's first ever Olympic Games, Rio is straining at the leash to be ready.

• 25 марта 2015, 13:26

The coach of the two times Olympic Champion Ilya Iliyn and Yerzhan Boltayev has been appointed the head coach of the Kazakhstan’s weightlifting team.

• 19 февраля 2015, 01:16

Kazakhstani boxer Birzhan Zhakypov has won a Brazilian fighter Patrick Lourenco at the AIBA Pro Boxing (APG)

• 19 февраля 2015, 01:05

Kazakhstani boxer Berik Abdrakhmanov won the AIBA Pro Boxing (APB) Inaugural Title, an ultimate ticket to the Rio Olympics, in a fight against Uzbek boxer Hurshid Tojibaev in Astana, Kazakhstan.

• 05 февраля 2015, 01:32

Foreign athletes will be competing for Kazakhstan at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

• 16 января 2015, 16:54

AIBA’s new project Pro Boxing (APB) starts on October 24.

• 04 сентября 2014, 01:21

Rio on Wednesday elected the Unidos da Tijuca samba school as its Carnival champions, a 40-strong jury crowning a program which paid homage to late Brazilian Formula One racer Ayrton Senna.

• 06 марта 2014, 13:18