Katara to host beach volleyball championship

​DOHA, March 4, 2018-Beach volleyball players will star in the extravaganza to be organized inside Katara Amphitheatre from March 6 to March 10.The amphitheatre, which has hosted world-renowned musicians and operas, will be the venue for the Katara Beach Volleyball Cup 2018. According to Katara, this is the first time in the region hat such a competition is being held inside an amphitheatre. Entry is free.As Katara joins a list of some dazzling world-wide venues which has been hosting the FIVB World Tour, fourteen out of top 16 world-ranked pairs will be seen in action.Qatar will be represented by 3 teams in the Main Draw. The competition in Doha will see the participation of 56 teams from 28 different countries.The championship is the second of the 10 competition called FIVB 4stars organised during the 2018 season by the International Volleyball Federation worldwide.This is the only four-star event the FIVB has allotted in the Middle EastKatara Cultural Village Foundation and Qatar Volleyball Association (QVA) had signed an agreement in February for hosting the event.

QOC winter camp host Beach Volleyball Tournament for workers

​DOHA, March 4, 2018 – The Qatar Olympic Committee's winter camp (Al Ennah) organized beach volleyball tournament for its workers at the Sealine area on Friday.The prestigious event brought together six teams distributed into two groups, where in the final stage, team Vatikara confidently claimed the first place and got a prize money QR 3,000 and team Shrood managed in the runner-up place and received QR 2.000.At the victory ceremony, Mr. Adel Al Hashimi and Nasser Al Modahka crowned the top winners and referees.In the event's post release on Friday , Mr. Khaleel Ibrahim Al Jabir, the Director of sport affairs department at the QOC appreciated the significant role of workers in promoting the sport activities inside and outside the country.Mr. Al Jaber also confirmed that hosting this tournament came in recognition to the tangible role and effort of worker in community.

WU Siu Hong leads HH the Emir Bowling Cup

DOHA, March 4, 2018- Wu Siu Hong of Hong Kong led the standings of the prestigious HH the Emir Bowling Cup on Friday. Michael Mak of Hong Kong occupied the second place while Basil Dill Ng of Singapore settled in the third place. Qatar's Abdulrahman Al Jaidah finished the squad 7 in the 8th place. The one-week long championship brings together elite bowlers from Kuwait, Iraq, Singapore, Hong Kong, and South African beside hosts Qatar.The organizing committee has allocated a total prize money reaches $ 61,400, where the first place winner gets $ 10,000, the runner-up takes $ 6,000 and the third and fourth places winners will collect $ 3.300.

QOC Secretary General meets ISF President

DOHA, February 28, 2018- The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) Secretary General HE Mr. Jassim Rashid Al Buenain met on Tuesday with President of the International School Sport Federation (ISF) Mr. Laurent Petrynka, who is currently visiting the country.The meeting reviewed aspects of sport cooperation and ways to enhance and develop them in the upcoming stage.The QOC Secretary General commended the efforts of the ISF President to promote the school sports globally.For his part, the ISF President lauded the success of the 2018 ISF World School Handball Championship being held in the state of Qatar.The meeting was attended by Director of the QOC Sport Affairs Department Mr. Khaleel Al Jabir.

Saif, Abdulmajeed lead Qatar to last-16

DOHA, March 1, 2018-Ahmed Saif and Bashar Abdulmajeed kept the local hopes alive in the IBSF-ACBS World Team Cup 2018 as the Qatar-1 team made it to the last-16 stage of the inaugural edition of the tournament at the Qatar Billiards and Snooker Federation (QBSF) Hall yesterday.The duo started the day with a dominant 3-0 win over South Africa's Peter Francisco and Mohamed Faaris Kahn, before losing out 2-3 to Malaysia's Keen Hoo Moh and Kok Leong Lim in the evening.However, with South Africa's 3-1 win over Malaysia on the first day of the tournament on Tuesday, Qatar-1 topped Group H and made it to the knockout stages along with South Africa over better frame difference.In the first match of the day yesterday, Saif opened the proceedings against 56-year-old veteran Francisco and won the first frame 68-9, while Abdulmajeed took the second frame 90-16 against Kahn. Abdulmajeed then stitched together a 60-point break in the doubles frame to win it 74-1.In the evening session, the 35-year-old Saif won the first frame 69-31 against Keen before Kok levelled the game 75-66, and then the Malaysians took the doubles 67-22. Saif restored parity with a 60-26 win in the fourth frame, but Keen's 62-point break gave Abdulmajeed no chance in the deciding frame.In today's last-16 match, the duo is up against the current world champions, Pakistan's Mohamed Asif and Babar Masih. Pakistan 2 team, comprising Asjad Iqbal and Mohamed Sajjad were unbeaten in the group stages, winning both their matches, and were ranked second behind Ireland-1 (Brendan O'Donoghue and Michael Judge). On Tuesday, the duo had beaten India-2 team of Pankaj Advani and Manan Chandra, before following it up with 3-0 win over Polish team of Mateusz Baranowski and Grzegorz Biernadski.The Polish duo then lost 1-3 against India-2 to hand the latter a passage through to the last 16. Advani-Chandra combine will face Chinese teenagers Zhang Jianjang and Fan Zhengyi in the next round.India-1, comprising Shahbaaz Adil Khan and Malkeet Singh, were also among six teams — Iran, Russia and Hong Kong-1 being the other — that stayed unbeaten in the group stages and were ranked third going into the knockouts.India-1 will now face the Australian team of Steve Mifsud and Ryan Thomerson in the first round of the knockouts today. Qatar-2 team of Mohsen Bukshaisha and Mhanaa al-Obaidli were edged out of the knockout spot in a thriller by Hong Kong-1, comprising Lee Chun Wai and Fung Kwok Wai.Bukshaisha opened the game with a 53-point break taking the first frame 64-39, however, Fung replied with a 65-point break in the second frame, blanking al-Obaidli 77-0.After the Hong Kong duo won the doubles frame, al-Obaidli managed to level the match at 2-2 with a single-point victory in the fourth frame.However, Fung closed out the game at 72-6 to stay unbeaten, and set up a last-16 encounter with Isle of Man's Darryl Hill and Sean Corkish.Russian teenagers Ivan Kakovskii and Mikhail Terekhov will take on Iceland's Gunnar Hreidarsson and Gudni Palsson in the knockouts, while Iran's Amir Sarkhosh and Ehsan Heydari Nezhad will take on Egyptian duo of Hesham Shawky and Wael Talaat.

Ghanim Bu Jassoum leads HH the Emir Bowling Cup

DOHA, March 1, 2018-Qatar's Ghanim Bu Jassoum led the standings of the prestigious HH the Emir Bowling Cup on its second day on Wednesday. Kuwait's Aseel Al Rumi occupied the second place while Qatar's Fahad Al Emadi settled in the third place. The one-week long championship brings together elite bowlers from Kuwait, Iraq, Singapore, Hong Kong, and South African beside hosts Qatar.The organizing committee has allocated a total prize money reaches $ 61,400, where the first place winner gets $ 10,000, the runner-up takes $ 6,000 and the third and fourth places winners will collect $ 3.300.