In the Kokpekty district, physical culture and recreation and mass sports work is aimed at organizing and attracting children, youth, adults to an active lifestyle, to sports and improving sports skills. A program for the development of physical culture and sports of the district for the period 2020-2025 has been developed.
By 2021, the growth of the main indicators is planned: the number of sports facilities, the share of systematically engaged in physical culture and sports, the share of children and adolescents under 18 years old engaged in youth sports schools.
There are 194 sports facilities in the Kokpekty district, including: Samar village 1-sports module, 133 flat structures 10-fields with artificial turf for mini-football, 18 outdoor hockey courts, 1 racetrack for national sports. In the village of Kokpekty, in 2020, a sports complex with a 400-meter running track with seating for 478 people was put into operation, as well as a football field with artificial turf for 514 seats, dedicated to the memory of Afghan soldiers, was built.
142 employees work in the field of physical culture and sports of the Kokpekty district. 91-physical education teachers in secondary schools, 1 teacher at the Samara Agricultural and Technical College, 40 full-time coaches at three youth schools. 1 methodologist of the education department, 1 specialist in the FC and sports department, 8 other employees of the sphere.
According to the statistical reports of the rural districts of FC-1, 7828 people of all age categories or 28.4% of the population of the district are involved in physical culture and sports.
The contingent of children's and youth sports schools amounted to 1,218 pupils in 15 sports. Out of 40 coaches, 26 people are full-time coaches with special physical education. Young athletes of the Kokpekty district are winners and prize-winners of international competitions, winners of republican and regional championships and championships in taekwon-do, kokpar, volleyball, freestyle wrestling, athletics, Kazakh kuresi, arm wrestling. In the future, in order to increase the coverage of children and adolescents in sports, the branches of the Youth Sports School were expanded.
All sports facilities in the area are accessible to all categories of residents, especially children and youth. The schedule of classes of the sports section in the gyms at the place of residence, on the recommendation of the sports department, is agreed between the school management .
In 2021, 17 competitions, tournaments, championships of the regional and district level were held. The most popular events are district races for the Presidential Mile, competitions among schoolchildren. Especially popular among all ages of the population are volleyball, arm wrestling, table tennis, Kazakh kuresi, mini-football, cross-country skiing, ice hockey, equestrian sports as well as other tournaments and friendly meetings in various sports. Most of the events are timed to coincide with public holidays and significant dates. In rural districts, events are held within the framework of the actions "Health Festival", "Sport - against drugs" and others, in which all categories of the district's population take part.
Athletes of the district took part in regional competitions in arm wrestling, volleyball and freestyle wrestling.
In 2021, 9 sports events dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan were held;
On April 24 in the village of Kokpekty sports events in cross-country skiing, on March 17 chess, on March 18 table tennis, on March 20 mini football, on April 03 basketball in the village of Samar, on April 10 volleyball in the village of Samar, on April 17 football in the village of Kokpekty. A mini football tournament dedicated to the Olympic champion Zh.Ushkempirov was held in the sports and recreation complex.
At the XXXI Olympic Games inTokyo our countryman Kaysanov Daniyar took the 5th place. In arm wrestling and kettlebell lifting at the Spartakiad among veterans in the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk, Tursunbek Karmen, Yerzhan Toksanbayev, Marat Mardenov took prizes. Taekwondo athletes Maratov Beksultan, Bauyrzhanov Yerasyl took the first places in their weight categories at the championship of Kazakhstan. In the month of August, the best athletes and sports veterans were honored for the day of sports, sports events in volleyball and football were held.
The Akimat of the East Kazakhstan region initiated the "Sports Nation" project within the framework of the "Rukhani Zhangyru" program, the purpose of which is to promote a healthy lifestyle, further improve the work on attracting the population to physical culture and sports. The project program includes the modernization of sports facilities, the organization and holding of mass sports events in rural districts, the creation of sports centers in each rural district. In this regard, the districts of the region have set great tasks for the modernization of the sports sphere.
The construction of a sports and recreation complex for the development of the most popular sports of football ,athletics and other sports has been completed in the district. A swimming pool is being built in the village of Samarskoye.
Reports on the events held, materials on the participation of athletes of the district in competitions of various ranks are published in the mass media.