Yerlan Sagymbayev is a graduate of the
Ust-Kamenogorsk ice hockey school. He is a two-time champion of the
USSR Junior Championships in the squad of the
Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk. In 1987, he awarded as a best young
forward and invited to the
USSR national youth team. In 1988, he was a bronze medalist of the
Viking Cup in
Calgary. After
Soviet Union collapse, he played for the
Kazakhstan national ice hockey team. He served as captain at the
1998 Winter Olympics in
Nagano, where his team achieved a quarter final. He ended his career because of injury in 2001. ==Career statistics==