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President of Kazakhstan congratulated prize-winners of Asian Winter Games

The head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, met prize-winners of VII Asian Winter Games today in the House of Receptions in Almaty, Kazakhstan Today reports.

Almaty. February 7. Kazakhstan Today - The head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, met prize-winners of VII Asian Winter Games today in the House of Receptions in Almaty, Kazakhstan Today reports.

During the meeting, the head of state highly assessed merits of the Kazakhstan sportsmen in the Asian Winter Games 2011 and congratulated them on team victory. Prize-winners of the Asian Games said that their victory is a victory of Kazakhstan and the President of the country, Kazinform reported.

As informed earlier, Kazakhstan won a record number of gold medals in the Asian Winter Games.

Kazakhstan has won 32 gold, 21 silver and 17 bronze medals.

The former record, 29 gold medals, belonged to the Japanese team at I Asian Winter Games in Sapporo in 1986.

The solemn closing ceremony of VII Asian Winter Games took place the day before in Almaty in the Baluan Sholak Sport Palace.

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