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- Athlete won Kazakhstan’s first-ever Olympic skating medal
- 25-year-old was killed during an attempted robbery
Denis Ten, the first Kazakh figure-skater to win an Olympic medal, has been killed at the age of 25.
Kazakh news agency Kazinform reported that Ten died after being stabbed as two men attempted to steal his car mirrors in the country’s largest city, Almaty. He was taken to hospital but died around 3pm local time on Thursday. Kazakh authorities say they are treating his death as murder.
Written by Guardian sport
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jul/19/denis-ten-killed-figure-skater-kazakhstan-olympics under the title “Denis Ten: Olympic figure skater who won bronze stabbed to death”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
