2014 World Nomad Games

The Games are surrounded by a cultural and ethnical program. During the first edition of the Games, a yurt village was installed, and cultural events not linked with the Games' disciplines occurred, as well as other entertaining activities.

Ten sports played competitively at the games, which were:[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).

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

• Zorhana (a form of wrestling from Azerbaijan and Iran[6])
• Cirit (from Turkey);
• 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]

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 nations)		30	30	49	109

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