The number of people engaged in physical culture and sports is increasing in the Urzhar district, including in popular traditional sports such as equestrian events, Kazakh wrestling (Kazak Kuresi), and Toguz Kumalak (a traditional board game).
As of the 2024 reporting year, the district has 64 sports facilities, including 37 sports halls. These include 37 sports halls, 3 sports modules, 3 hockey rinks, 25 sports grounds, and 1 racetrack.
The facilities and venues intended for physical education, sports competitions, and mass sports events are in satisfactory condition.
All sports halls in the district are used to their full capacity every day, including on weekends, with schedules for public access to the sports halls being developed and approved.
The district has a children’s and youth sports school, which focuses on physical education and sports training for school-aged children. The school serves 1,106 students across 9 sports sections.
In the district’s secondary schools, there are 226 sports sections for 15 different sports, with 5,798 students aged 6 to 17 participating.
As of November 2024, a total of 16,829 people, or 40.4% of the district’s population (41,699 people), are regularly engaged in physical culture and sports.
The number of physical education and sports events, as well as competitions, has increased.
The number of people participating in national sports continues to grow annually. As of 2024, the number of participants reached 3,234 people.