Kazakh Ministry of Tourism and Sport summed up 2008 results

ASTANA. January 16. KAZINFORM /Bauyrzhan Mukanov/ Kazakh Prime Minister took part in an enlarged Collegium of the Kazakh Ministry of Tourism and Sport, where results of 2008 were summed up; Kazinform reports.

As Kazakh Minister of Tourism and Sport Temirkhan Dosmukhambetov noted, the Kazakh athletes successfully performed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, where they won 13 medals. And now it is planned to hold the seventh Asian Winter Games in Astana and Almaty in 2011 and other large competitions. ?Number of Kazakhstanis, who are involved in physical education, increased to 95 thousand persons and formed about 2,5 million people. The country counts 415 colt physical education schools, where 226 thousand children and teenagers train?, T.Dosmukhambetov said. A Budget of the Kazakh Ministry of Tourism and Sport amounted to KZT 26.7 bln in 2008.