Doha: The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) yesterday announced that the third edition of its 2023 Beach Games will be held from March 10 to 17 at Cultural Village Katara.
The 2023 Beach Games Director Rashid Adiba said organisational and administrative measures are in place to host the event. “By hosting this community event, the QOC aims at taking the sport community to new grounds and building up standards of physical and social health for local society individuals. The organising committee is hopeful that almost 1000 athletes from men and women will be participating at the Beach Games, which includes beach football, volleyball, 3x3 basketball, boxing, karate, swimming go and duathlon,” he said
“Based on the rising turnout and positive response from the public over the last two years, we have increased the number of sports and participants, with purpose of promoting the games culture. Organising Committee has allocated a total QR500,000 in prize money for winners. The committee is inviting sports lovers to register right now through the link posted on the QOC’s social medial accounts,” added Adiba.
Beach Games Deputy Director Abdulaziz Ghanim said the tournament is one of the community events and activities organised by the QOC annually to take all individuals of the society to greater standards of health and to improve their physical fitness.
Also Ghanim has confirmed that applying this system into the beach games will enhance all event management operations in sequence, starting from concept, planning, implementation and auditing stages and post-events activities. It also reduces environment impact, boosts economic growth, and build up real sustainable communities.
The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) was awarded with Event Sustainable Management Certification (ISO20121:2012 ESMS) in June 2022, that as an outcome of its constant effort of keeping annual sport events and related- activities more sustainable.
