2014 World Nomad Games

The 2014 World Nomad Games, officially known as the 1st World Nomad Games, was the inaugural edition held in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan from 9–14 September 2014 with 19 sports featured in the games. While organising the first edition of the Games, the Kyrgyz government spent more than 3 million dollars.^[1] More than 400 athletes from 20 countries took part in the event.^[2]

1st World Nomad Games

Host city	Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan
Nations	19
Athletes	400
Events	10 sports
Opening	9 September 2014
Closing	14 September 2014
Opened by	Almazbek Atambaev President of Kyrgyzstan
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A cultural program

The Games are surrounded by a cultural and ethnical program. During the first edition of the Games, a yurt village was installed. Cultural events and entertaining activities not linked with the Games' disciplines also took place.

Competitive sports

Ten sports weree played competitively at the games:^[3]

• The equestrian sports of
  • Kok Boru, team game on horseback, featuring the carrying of a goat carcass
  • Er Enish, wrestling on horseback
  • Kunan chabysh, a young horse race
  • Zhorgo salysh, (aka Jorgo salysh) a trotting race
  • Alaman Baige, a long distance uneven terrain race^[4]
• The traditional wrestling sports of:
  • Kyrgyz Kurosh
  • Alysh (belt-wrestling)
  • Kazakh Kurosh
• Two Kyrgyz national games:
  • Ordo, an ankle bone shooting game^[4]
  • Toguz korgool, a strategy board game

Demonstration sports

The games also featured demonstration performances of other sports:^[3][5]

• Zorhana, a form of wrestling from Azerbaijan and Iran^[6]
• Cirit (from Turkey), a sport played on horseback
• Traditional Turkish wrestling
• Taekkyon (from the Republic of Korea)
• Salbuurun, eagle hunting
• Tyin Enmei, picking up a coin while upon a galloping horse
• Kyz Kuumai, ("girl chasing"), featuring a woman and a man on horseback, the man initially chasing the woman, but if too slow then being chased and whipped by the woman^[7][2]

Medal table

The Kyrgyz team won the most medals, with the Kazakh team coming second and Turkmenistan third.^[3][5][4]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	16	20	19	55
2	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	10	9	9	28
3	Turkmenistan (TKM)	3	0	3	6
4	Tajikistan (TJK)	1	0	3	4
5	Mongolia (MNG)	0	1	6	7
6	Russia (RUS)	0	0	5	5
7	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	4	4
Totals (7 entries)		30	30	49	109

External links

• "Big in Kyrgyzstan: The World Nomad Games", The Atlantic