QOC Ramadan Football Tournament to begin on Wednesday

DOHA, May 8, 2019 - The competitions of the prestigious QOC Employees Ramadan Football Tournament 2019 will get underway at Qatar SC on Wednesday.The Tournament will bring together six teams pooled into two groups, A includes: Secretariat-General, Human Resources and Administrative Affairs and workers team , while the group B includes, President Office team, sport affairs department team and Purchase department team.Two matches are scheduled on Wednesday, where Human Resources and Administrative Affairs will face the workers team in the first match, followed by the second match between President Office team and sport affairs Department team.According to the tournament format , the leaders and runners-up in each group will qualify to the semifinals stage.The event will take place from 8-14 May at Qatar Sport Club indoor, where the first match will begin 10:30pm and the second match will start at 11 pm.

Qatar Hosts Final Round of FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 in November

DOHA, May 7, 2019 - The Qatar Swimming Federation announced that the final round of FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 will be held in Doha from 7- 9 November.FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 consists of seven rounds, the first will be held in Tokyo (JPN, August 2-4), then Jinan, in China (August 8-10), and Singapore on August 15-17.After a pause in September, the second cluster will see action in Budapest (HUN, October 4-6), Berlin (GER, October 11-13), Kazan (RUS, November 1-3) and Doha (QAT, November 7-9).For 2019 (it will be the 31st edition of the World Cup), all the meets will take place in a 50m-pool and will be qualifying events for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo (JPN). Doha hosts one of the rounds of the FINA Swimming World Cup annually since 2012. Also, Doha will host the 2023 FINA World Championships.

Qatar to take on Brazil in a friendly match

Doha, May 5, 2019-Asian champions Asian champions Qatar will play Brazil in international friendly at the Mané Garrincha Stadium in Brasilia on June 5, Qatar Football Association (QFA) said on Friday.The match will allow Qatar match practice ahead of this year's Copa America in which Qatar is one of the participating teams.Brazil will host the Copa America from June 14 to July 7, 2019.The friendly match will be an international fixture and will take place on Wednesday, June 5.“The match is an ideal opportunity for Al Annabi to get match practice before it commences its participation in the Copa America," QFA said on Tuesday.Qatar will play against Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay in one of the two groups of 2019 Copa America.Copa America is the oldest international continental football competition. The competition determines the continental champion of South America. Since the 1990s, teams from North America and Asia have also been invited to participate.​

Team Qatar to participate in FINA Marathon Swim World Series in Seychelles

DOHA, May 6, 2019- The Qatari swimming team including Mohammad Mahmoud and Ahmad Samarah will participate in the second round of the 2019 FINA Marathon Swim World Series to be held in Seychelles on Sunday.The Qatari capital city of Doha hosted the first round of the event on February 16. A total of 138 swimmers including 87 male and 51 female athletes from 24 countries participated in the first round.Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil and Florian Wellbrock of Germany emerged victorious on Doha's iconic Corniche.It worth mentioning that Qatar's Mohammad Mahmoud claimed the gold medal of 5km race at the 17th GCC Open Water Swimming Championship held in Kuwait recently.

Qatar team ready for ISSF World Cup in South Korea

DOHA, May 4, 2019 – Qatar shooting team is preparing to participate in the upcoming ISSF Shooting World Cup Series will take place from 7-18 May, in Changwon city of South Korea.The team delegation left Doha on Friday to South Korea's city of Changwon to hold a short training camp ahead of the prestigious world shooting event.The shooting team is presented by Nasser Al Attiyah, Abdulaziz Al Attiyah, Rashid Al Ezbah, Saieed Abo Shareb, Reem Al Sharshani and Nassder Al Homaidi.The two week championship will bring together more than 300 shooters representing 58 nations and will compete in Trap and Skeet.

Doha 2019 IAAF Diamond League meeting proves a huge success

Doha, May 04, 2019-Sweden's Daniel Stahl produced one of the finest discus series in history to highlight action on the infield at the Doha 2019 IAAF Diamond League meeting in the Qatari capital on Friday. The event was attended by HE Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani, President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) who honored Mr. Saad Lamloum Al Mesaifri, First Secretary General of the Qatar Athletics Federation in recognition of his efforts from 1984 to 1996. In the most dominant display of the night, the 26-year-old put the competition out of reach in the first round, throwing his discus 69.63m through the Doha night sky to break the meeting record set by Virgilijus Alekna in 2006. But he was just shaking off the rust.Stahl followed up with throws of 70.49m and 70.56m, his farthest of the night, before capping the evening with efforts of 69.54m, 69.50m and 70.32m to become the first man to produce six throws beyond 69.50m in a single competition.“I've been working a lot on my technique and training hard in the gym so I expected this," said the world and European silver medallist. “It was a great atmosphere."Lukas Weisshaidinger was second with 66.90m with Ehsan Hadadi of Iran, who took the Asian title here two weeks ago, third with 66.78m.In the men's 800m, Qatari hope Addalla Abubaker Haydar put in an impressive performance but had to settle for a fourth-place finish.Abdalla, who won gold in the Asian Championship at the same venue 11 days back, was in contention till his final stride and was only beaten to the bronze by a lunge to the tape from USA's Donavan Brazier.Nijel Amos of Botswana won the gold in 1:44.29sec and Kipkurui Emmanuel Korir took silver in 1:44.50.CROUSER EDGES WALSH IN MAMMOTH SHOT PUT SHOWDOWNHosting a field of seven men who have thrown 22 metres or better, the assemblage of talent in the men's shot put was the deepest of the evening. There, the proceedings went largely according to the early season form book with world leader Ryan Crouser prevailing in a tight battle with world champion Tom Walsh.After a modest 20.06m effort in the opening round, Crouser unleashed a 22.13m toss in the second, a mark that held out for the win.“I really felt the effects of 20 hours of travel, so I'm really glad that the 22.13m held out for the win," said Crouser, who produced a 22.74m blast on 20 April to move up to sixth on the world all-time list.Walsh, the Diamond League winner last year, reached 22.06m in the third round to secure the runner-up spot with South American record-holder Darlan Romani third with 21.60m.IBARGUEN EDGES BEKH-ROMANCHUKUnlike Walsh, Caterine Ibarguen, the 2018 Athlete of the Year and double Diamond Trophy winner, did manage to pick up where she left off last season, taking a victory in the long jump by two centimetres.Brooke Stratton of Australia took command with a 6.73m leap in round two, but was overtaken in the fifth round when the competition sprung to life. Ibarguen reached 6.76m to take the lead and seal the win ahead of Ukraine's Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, the runner-up at last year's European Championships, who leaped 6.74m. “It was a good series of jumps but three fouls is not great," the Colombian said. She's hoping to remedy that in her next competition, which is set for Rome.WINS FOR KENDRICKS AND MAHUCHIKHWorld champion Sam Kendricks drew first blood in the men's pole vault wars, taking the victory with a second-attempt clearance at 5.80m. Olympic champion Thiago Braz was second at 5.71m, his best outdoor leap since the season of his Rio triumph. Japan's Seito Yamamoto was third at 5.61m.“For some strange reason we all had issues out there so it was an odd one," said Kendricks, who equalled his outdoor season's best.Yaroslava Mahuchikh topped a lifetime best of 1.96m in the high jump to become, at 17 years and 226 days, the youngest woman to win a Diamond League event. The Ukrainian teenager topped the winning height on her second attempt to add a centimetre to her previous best. In what turned out to be a low-key competition, Mirela Demireva, Erika Kinsey and Ana Simic tied for second at 1.91m.Among the top performers were Morocco's Soufiane El Bakkali in the men's 300m steeplechase, Kenya's Hellen Obiri in women's 3000m, Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain in women's 200m, Ramil Guliyev of Turkey in the men's 200m, and Swede Daniel Stahl in men's discus throw.For the 10th consecutive year, the Doha meeting kicked off the IAAF Diamond League, a series of the 14 finest one-day athletics competitions on the planet, and with it, the season-long chase for a slice of the $US8 million Diamond League prize pot. Athletes earn points in the first 12 stops to earn qualification for the two final winner-takes-all meetings to be held in Zurich (29 Aug) and Brussels (6 Sep).