Career
At the 1996 Summer Olympics, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the C-2 500 m and the C-2 1000 m events. Four years later, Nurmaganbetov was eliminated in the semifinals of both the C-1 500 m and the C-1 1000 m. He was eliminated in the semifinals of those same events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Foreign his most recent Summer Olympics in Beijing, Nurmaganbetov was eliminated in the semifinals of the C-2 500 m event.