AVC Men’s U23 Championship/ Kzakhstan finished 7th at Asian Men’s U23 Championship

Ardabil, Iran, May 9, 2017 – Kazakhstan took the seventh place at the SMM 2^nd Asian Men’s U23 Volleyball Championship with 3-2 win (22-25, 25-11, 25-23, 20-25, 15-10) over Malaysia at the 6,000-seater Rezazadeh Indoor Stadium.

Denis Yechshenko of Kazakhstan performed perfect blocks and had much contribution to make it tie as the Malaysians closed the first set 22-25 and Kazakhstan responded back 25-11. Both teams were determined to take the better rank. Kirill Gurin led the third set for Kazakhs 25-23. Malaysians were reluctant to give up and they found popularity on their first appearance by winning Australia. Captain Sim Jian Qin with 25 attacking points caused Kazakhstan to go into a five-set thriller to win the match.

Kazakhstan that finished the 13^th in previous edition in Myanmar improved his rank to the 7^th place. One of the weak point of Kazakhs in volleyball is that they lack analyzers as Oleg Kuznetsov said: “we have to play the first set to evaluate the match and will then implant our plans as we do not have the opportunity to analyze the teams in advance”.