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Culture of Kazakhstan


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*Football is the most popular sport in Kazakhstan. The Football Federation of Kazakhstan is the sport's national governing body. The FFK organizes the men's, women's and Futsal national teams.

*Ice hockey – The Kazakhstani national ice hockey team has competed in ice hockey in the 1998 and 2006 Winter Olympics as well as in the 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. Kazakhstan has 7 teams. The teams are Kaztsink-Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhmys Satpayev, Gornyak Rudnyi, Barys Astana, Irtysh Pavlodar, Yenbek Almaty and Sary-Arka Qaragandy.

Top Kazakhstani ice hockey players include Nikolai Antropov and Evgeni Nabokov. Barys Astana – a major professional ice hockey team playing in the Kontinental Hockey League.

*Athletics – Olga Rypakova won the long jump and triple jump at the Asian Indoor Games 2010. In 2011, she won the World Indoor Championships in the triple jump, with an Asian Indoor record of 15.14m. Outdoors, she finished second in the IAAF Diamond League, and improved her Asian triple jump record to 15.25m when winning the Continental Cup. She also won triple jump at the 2012 London Olympics, giving Kazakhstan its first gold medal in athletics since 2000 and first ever gold in the field events.

*Cycling – Kazakhstan's most famous cyclist is Alexander Vinokourov, although cycling is a popular activity throughout the country. Vinokourov had an impressive cycling record while riding for the Telekom/T-Mobile teams early in his career. He won the gold medal in road cycling in the 2012 London Olympics, the silver medal in road cycling in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and finished third overall in the 2003 Tour de France. After moving to the Liberty Seguros team, Vinokourov finished 5th in the 2005 Tour de France, while two other young Kazakhstanis, Andrej Kashechkin and Maksim Iglinskiy, finished 19th and 37th, respectively. In 2006 Vinokourov's team became known as Astana after a drug doping scandal forced his team
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