Team Qatar qualify for 2023 ANOC World Beach Games

Greece: Qatar's beach handball team qualified for 2023 ANOC World Beach Games after beating Uruguay 2-0 in the fifth-place match at the 2022 Men's Beach Handball World Championships on Sunday.  Mohsen Mohammed Alyafeai in the Qatar goal was key, ensuring a 19:18 first period win with two late saves and his side saw the job complete with an 18:16 second period victory. Qatar secured their place in the world championships after claiming the second place in the 8th Asian Beach Handball Championships held in Tehran in March 2022.  

Qatar defeat Denmark in Beach Handball World Championships

Greece: Qatar's national beach handball team defeated Denmark 2-1 in their second match at the main round of the 2022 IHF Men’s Beach Handball World Championships on Thursday.  Team Qatar began their campaign in the main round with a 0-2 defeat at the hands of Norway.  In their final match at the main round, team Qatar will take on Iran on Friday.  Qatar secured their place in the world championships after claiming the second place in the 8th Asian Beach Handball Championships held in Tehran in March 2022.

Abou Eleinen takes out former world no.3 Mosaad

Doha: The quarter finals of the QSF 4 threw up a coupe of surprises, as the unseeded Aly Abou Eleinen overcame former World No.3 Omar Mosaad in a five-game battle to reach the last four at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex. Eleinen came into the Challenger 30 level competition in Doha unseeded, and he got the better of Qatari No.1 and home favourite Abdulla Mohd Al Tamimi in the second round of the tournament, before coming into his quarter final match-up with compatriot Mosaad. The World No.79 lost the first game 11-9, before bouncing back to take the second comfortably to level the contest. However, he then went behind once again, losing the third game on a tie-break 13-11, and it looked at times in the fourth like his run was done. He had to save several match balls before winning it 16-14, and Eleinen then went on to take the fifth and final game 11-7 to book his place in the semi-finals of the competition. The unseeded Egyptian will now take on Mexico’s Leonel Cardenas, after he got the better of Pakistan’s Tayyab Aslam, with a first game tie-break proving pivotal to his victory. The No.4 seed saw several game balls saved, with a total of forty points being played in the opening salvo. He eventually won it 21-19, before then claiming the next two games to the loss of just six points, advancing to the last four. The other surprise result of the quarter finals saw No.5 seed Ramit Tandon overcome No.3 seed Karim El Hammamy in five games to make it into the semis in Doha. Tandon, who sits 17 places below the Egyptian in the World Rankings, took the lead in the contest twice, only for the World No.28 to fight back to level on both occasions. The Indian eventually got over the line, though, winning the fifth game after 73 minutes of action to move into the semis. Tandon will now take on top seed Victor Crouin in the last four on Thursday, after the Frenchman overcame the challenge of another Egyptian, in Mazen Gamal. The World No.20 won the first game 11-7, but saw Gamal fight back to take the second game to level the tie. From there, though, it was Crouin who had the control of the match, winning both of the next two games comfortably to move into the semis. The semi-finals of the QSF 4 will take place at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha on Thursday, June 23, with the last four going head-to-head for places in Friday’s finals.

Qatar Olympic Committee spearheads sport development in Qatar

Doha- The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) has played a central role in the development of sport in Qatar. This role has  not only involved the organization of local, regional and world sport events, and establishing strong and competitive teams, but also has seen the creation of inspiring programs and initiatives for younger generations and the broader society. The QOC continues to work hard and commit its best efforts to promoting sports, physical activities, and the Olympic values across the country, as per the Olympic charter. Human development comes at the top of the QOC’s list of priorities, that’s why the QOC spares no effort in developing sport performance, and engaging athletes, from the amateur to the elite, and instilling the Olympic values into their daily lives. To achieve these objectives, the QOC has set up a number of initiatives and community programs that target both genders equally and engage different age groups, with a focus on younger age groups: school students and kindergartens. Moreover, the QOC is committed to affecting social change through the organization of sport events and to remaining a leading sport body that is integral to Qatar’s sustainable sport development and the achievement of the country’s sport objectives. The QOC is fully aware of its duty and the value of its leading role in the field of sustainable events management, a matter that requires the QOC to organize activities related to the events that will meet the sustainability criteria. In this context, some significant sport programs that targets the younger demographics and students have been launched over the past years. Today, on Olympic Day, the QOC highlights some of these key initiatives. Schools Olympic Program The Schools Olympic Program (SOP) was founded in 2007 as a legacy from the Doha 2006 Asian Games. The SOP is a pioneering initiative that came in response to the prestigious initiative of HH Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who was in that period the President of the Qatar Olympic Committee. The program is jointly organized by the QOC and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The State of Qatar is the first nation in the region and one of the first countries in the world to implement such a program in its schools. The SOP is a core component of Qatar’s commitment to developing sport at a grassroots level. It aims to increase sports participation among young people and educate them through the Olympic values, contributing to a healthy and cohesive society. It also aims to be the first steppingstone to producing successful world-class athletes. The QOC works in partnership with its national federations to identify talented athletes who have the potential to represent Qatar on the world-stage. It has grown from 7,099 participants in its inaugural season to 26,454 students from 461 schools participating in the last school year. Students compete across 14 sports, including para-sports, throughout the school year, all striving to qualify for the grand finals every March. The program has become a beacon for sports development in the region, with other nations adopting a similar model in their own schools. Despite COVID-19 challenges that hit the entire world, the SOP organizing committee held the 2020-2021 edition of the event virtually to keep the students safe. Approximately 1700 students from 270 government and private schools took part in this SOP Virtual edition. Athletes Development Pathway Qatar’s Athlete Development Pathway (ADP) model seeks to produce a new generation of Qatari sporting champions. ADP is the outcome of a three-year project led by the QOC in partnership with Aspire Academy. The QOC has completed the first stage of this national project that is serving the most important category of our society. The QOC right now is cooperating with the Qatar sport federations to provide support for the incoming stages. The QOC has organized three editions so far, the latest was in 2019 before COVID-19 began. The ADP is a robust framework that will enable Qatar to be fully unified in its approach to identifying, developing, and nurturing talented athletes at every stage of their career, from early childhood to post-retirement, enabling them to reach their full potential. It is the first of its kind in the MENA region and is another example of how Qatar is always striving to break new ground in the development of sport at every level. The framework includes 39 sport specific models, each tailored to enable optimum development within different sports and disciplines, including para-sport and women in sport. It will be rolled out with an innovative Athlete Management System that centralizes data gathering of all athletes, including sport science data, learning curve and injury history. This will enable insights into athletes’ training to be gathered, which will also help to shape and improve future training programs.

QOC celebrates Olympic Day with community activities at the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic And Sports Museum

Doha- The Qatar Olympic Committee ( QOC) has celebrated  the 2022 Olympic Day  during  amazing event  took place at  the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic And Sports Museum in Doha on Thursday. Team Qatar stars,  Ashraf  Amgad El-Seify,  Abdulla Al-Tamimi and Mubaraka Al Nuaimi have  attended Thursday’s most memorable  Olympic event , which also seen a wide-scale participation from Schools Olympic Program students and athlete Development Pathway (Be an Athlete).  In this event,   the QOC organized a number of tours and activities to shed lights on  the  museum sections , to showcase the history of sports worldwide, history of Olympic Games, Qatar’s most prominent sport events  and top influencing athletes  in the world.  Additionally, the museum’s dynamic activities section was opened for public to  showcase more than 18 dynamic and interactive activities to help increasing  participants’ mental and sports skills. The Olympic Day aims to encourage young age groups category to exercise the sports, learn and explore more about them ,  in a way that will promote the Olympic movement and  instill its  values into the community, a matter that shapes IOC’s most important message  to everyone in this event. On this occasion, the sport Affairs Department Director, Mr. Khaleel Ibrahim Al Jaber said the Qatar Olympic Committee will remain keen to celebrate all IOC’s annual sport occasions, will spare no effort to bring the community together to mark this amazing day annually, exercise sports and explore a healthier lifestyle of life throughout sport”. “We will leave no stone unturned to make this Olympic day message reaching every single person, we are truly belief that sport has the power of peace to unify the people and speak to them with the language they understand” Added Mr. Al Jaber. Qatar rising tennis star, Mubaraka Al Naimi said we are truly grateful to be part of this day at the Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum and shared the celebrations with more than 150 students and toured all sections of the museum, which contain a lasting sport legacy of all nations at different sport arenas. “Qatar is always keen to commemorate all records of  sports memorable moments, today, we had a chance to learn more about the IOC founding day and Qatar Olympic and Sports museum rich galleries” added Al Naimi.

QOC Change Management Training Course begins

DOHA –  Change Management Training Course for the directors and Assistant directors of Qatar Olympic Committee’s departments has began on Tuesday at the QOC’s Headquarters and will last from 21st to 23rd of June. This training course aims to invest any change opportunities available and manage them efficiently in a way that will help QOC’s objectives become achievable and successful.  Additionally, this course could  help the targeted category to evaluate the internal and external work environment  and developing ahead self motivations of change. It will also increase trainees abilities to adopt strategies that could suit all change process- related parties. In Tuesday’s opening session, Dr. Mona Issa – lecturer and expert of institutional performance development and strategic planning – has focused lights on change management concept, change trends and needs for change and innovation. Most notably, the  three-day training course will see other key topics, including change methods ,  how do individuals get involved in change processing management , how  can they  set up strategies to deal with change and build up innovation culture, career empowerment, emotional intelligence to manage change and develop individual plans.