Career
Yerlan Sagymbayev is a graduate of the Ust-Kamenogorsk ice hockey school. In 1987, he awarded as a best young forward and invited to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 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 ended his career because of injury in 2001.