Sabre fencer Aibar Kaiym has won a silver medal for Kazakhstan at the Summer Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, Senegal, the website infohub.kz reports.
The Kazakh athlete reached the final of the sabre fencing competition, where he faced Turkey's Berrak Candemir. The Turkish fencer won the deciding bout 15:6, leaving Kaiym with the silver medal.
The medal is Kazakhstan's eighth at the Youth Olympic Games. Earlier, judoka Fatima Supygalieva (under 52 kg) and cyclist Anel Tashbay won gold.
Boxers Bibarys Ashirbay (under 70 kg) and Aknur Tursyngali (under 57 kg) also took silver. Three more bronze medals came from boxer Maral Tolepbergen (under 54 kg), taekwondo athlete Lyubov Yun (over 63 kg) and triathlete Ramazan Ainegov.
Kazakhstan's team therefore finishes with two gold, three silver and three bronze medals.