29 sportsmen and 6 coaches have joined the sports delegation of Turkmenistan, which will take part in the V World Nomad Games opening on the 8th September in Astana (Kazakhstan). This was reported to the correspondent of «GA» by the State Committee of Turkmenistan for Physical Culture and Sports.
The World Nomad Games are the largest international sports competitions in ethnic sports. The competitions are based on the national games of the historically nomadic peoples of Central Asia. They are aimed at developing the ethnosports and ethnocultural movement as a heritage of human civilization.
It is worth noting that the World Nomad Games have already been included in the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
It is expected that about 4 thousand athletes from 100 countries will take part in the V World Nomad Games, which will be held under the motto «Meeting in the Great Steppe». They will compete for 97 sets of medals in 21 sports, including horse racing, national wrestling, traditional intellectual games, martial arts competitions, archery, national types of bird hunting, horseback riding competitions, and folk games.
The Games program also includes scientific conferences and cultural events aimed at popularizing ethnocultural heritage.
The opening ceremony of the Games will be held on the 8th of September at the «Astana Arena» stadium, and the closing ceremony will be held on the 13th September at the Kazanat Central Hippodrome.
Let us remind that the initiator of the World Nomad Games was the Kyrgyz Republic, which hosted them three times - in 2014, 2016 and 2018 - in the city of Cholpon-Ata in the Issyk-Kul region. The IV Games were held in 2022 in Iznik (Türkiye).
