At a press conference at the CCS site, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Sports and Physical Culture Aigul Bektenova said that the XX Winter Deaflympics will be held in the Turkish city of Erzurum from March 2 to 12. About 30 athletes from Kazakhstan in 3 sports will take part in them. In addition, from June 25 to July 7, the eighth Summer Games "Children of Asia" will be held in the Republic of Sakh, El.kz reports.
"The main event of this year is the Summer Olympics, which will be held from July 26 to August 11 in Paris (France). More than 10,500 athletes from 205 countries will compete for 329 sets of medals in 32 sports. Currently, our country has 17 licenses in 8 sports. We hope that by June our athletes will take part in 90 qualifying, licensing and rating competitions and win tickets," the speaker said.
In addition, the Summer Paralympic Games will be held in France from August 28 to September 8. At the moment there are 5 vouchers.
Also this year, Astana will host the V World Nomad Games, the Asia-Pacific Games in Tehran, 6 World Championships and 7 Asian Championships in Kazakhstan.