The “Youth Athletics Coaching Congress”, an event hosted by Aspire Academy and the Qatar Athletics Federation, will bring together a large panel of internationally recognised coaching and sport science speakers today and tomorrow.

The event starts today with the official welcome of all participants by Dahlan al-Hamad, President of the Qatar Athletics Federation, and Ivan Bravo, Director General of Aspire Academy, at 8:15 am at the auditorium of Aspire Academy.

This congress is another way of Aspire Academy to gather international experts in order to share their know-how with each other. The ones that should specifically benefit from this event are, of course, athletics coaches from Qatar and the registration proves that they are taking on the offer. Among the 270 registered people are 56 club coaches from Qatar and 20 QAF coaches. Besides local participants, the coaches in the audience include delegates from all over the world from Australia over Slovakia to Singapore.

“We are all gathering at Aspire Academy in the spirit of cooperation to learn from one another about the subtle intricacies of developing youth athletes,” says Chris Earle, Director of Sport at Aspire Academy.

“In partnership with the Qatar Athletics Federation, we are proud to host this conference that includes an outstanding panel of internationally respected coach educators from around the world.”

The presenters all work, or have worked extensively with athletes from all ages and have produced many medals at all international events and include names such as Paddy Upton, a World Champion cricket coach, who is going to give the keynote speech, John Godina, a four-times World Champion in shot put and CEO of the “World Athletics Centre” or Kevin Tyler, the former Head of Coaching at UK Athletics.

“I’m very excited to come and present at the world-leading Aspire Academy in Doha. Coach education is an important step for all of us coaches. When you can learn a few things to incorporate within your own coaching practice, your athletes immediately benefit,” says Tyler.

Furthermore Qatar Middle Distance Coach Jama Aden, coach of world record holders as well as World and Olympic Champions, is going to be part of the congress. “I’d like to thank Aspire Academy for giving me the opportunity to share my coaching experiences at this conference,” says Coach Aden, who will be speaking about the organization of training for teenage distance runners as well as endurance technique. “I’m looking forward to spending time over the two days with my coaching colleagues and to discuss the newest methods of training athletes.”

In addition, the congress also includes presentations of Aspire Academy experts with the goal to communicate complex information into simple information that will be easy to use for coaches. The congress is also using some of their expertise to run parallel sessions designed for Aspetar and football audiences.

 

 

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