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 With 50 days to go until the 2026 Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final, Doha prepares to host the Final for the second time, welcoming the world’s leading triathletes alongside people from across the community who are gearing up to take part.  Taking place from December 10 to 12, the event will mark the culmination of the 2026 T100 Triathlon World Tour on a course that brings together the country’s coastal and urban landscapes, from a swim in the Arabian Gulf to cycling through Lusail and running through Lusail Plaza and Boulevard.  Whether taking on the full challenge, joining a relay team across the 100km and Sprint distances or participating in the community Kick Off Run, people of different ages, backgrounds and fitness levels can be part of a world-class sporting event.  Among those taking part is Alia al-Hamad, Qatar’s first female triathlete to compete in World Triathlon races. Returning for her second Qatar T100, she will compete in the 30–35 age group.“I started as a runner who was afraid of deep water, and I became a triathlete. You don’t have to be good at everything from the beginning; you must be willing to start, learn and keep going,” said al-Hamad.  Michael Anderson, a former Qatar motocross champion and teacher, has also embraced triathlon as a way to challenge himself and discover more about his physical and mental limits. He said: “Pushing yourself into situations where you learn things about your mind, body and soul is something that can’t be replicated. That’s why I started getting into triathlons.”  For Dr Saif al-Azzawi, a Qatar-based Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon and father of two, training alongside friends in Qatar has reignited his passion for the sport and inspired him to take on the Qatar T100.  “Rather than viewing getting older as a reason to become less active, I decided to use it as a reason to challenge myself more. For me, Qatar T100 is much more than a race. It represents fatherhood, resilience, discipline and leading by example,” said Dr al-Azzawi.  Former Olympic cross-country skier Danny Silva also brings a distinctive sporting journey to the event. Having begun his sporting career in triathlon, Silva was inspired by Portugal’s first Olympic gold medal in 1984. “Triathlon was the missing link to who I was, am and will ever be. I just wish I could have seen it earlier. But better late than never,” said Silva. 

World championship leader Kimi Antonelli topped the times for Mercedes ahead of both Red Bulls in Saturday's third and final free practice ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia.The 20-year-old Italian produced a late fastest lap of 1min 36.302sec to outpace four-time champion Max Verstappen by 0.278 seconds with Isack Hadjar third, adrift by half a second. His Mercedes team-mate George Russell was fourth, six-tenths off the pace, ahead of the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton. World champion Lando Norris was seventh ahead of McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri. Franco Colapinto, who faces a 15-place grid penalty for Sunday's race after crashing in Baku last week and taking a new engine, was ninth for Alpine ahead of Racing Bulls' rookie Arvid Lindblad.Verstappen once again showed his prowess with a brief appearance on softs in an uneventful session run in hot and humid conditions, but the action was mainly concerned with tyre evaluation and preservation. It began in leisurely fashion with only two cars venturing out in the heat, with the serious stuff only starting when Leclerc and Norris joined in after 15 minutes. The first meaningful times did not come until Norris topped Leclerc and Gasly in 1:37.161, as most teams looked to save their tyres for qualifying later Saturday. With 25 minutes run, both Mercedes, both Red Bulls, Antonelli and Hamilton remained in the pits, while Norris and Piastri, on mediums, topped the time-screens ahead of Leclerc, on hards, with the rest all on softs. The action paused mid-session for three minutes when a red flag as Oliver Bearman's Haas shed some brake shrouding at Turn 10.The big guns then joined the fray, with Antonelli going top in 1:36.924 ahead of Russell. Hamilton, still struggling with a faulty mirror, was then impeded on his first push run on softs. Ferrari had been fined 10,000 euros ($11,260) on Friday when his mirror partly caused an impeding incident. It was a mostly unspectacular session until the final minutes, as the drivers lapped with care to keep tyres cool and fresh before their flying laps -- and needing to retain multiple sets of softs in particular. 

 Doha will host the ISSF World Championship Doha 2026 at the Lusail Shooting Complex from November 1 to 14, with the world’s leading shooters competing for 36 direct qualification places for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.The championship will feature competitions in skeet, trap, rifle and pistol, with Qatar’s shooters aiming to make the most of home advantage and secure Olympic qualification places.Qatar Shooting and Archery Federation Secretary General Jassim Shaheen al-Sulaiti said the Lusail Shooting Complex is fully prepared to host the global event and provide an ideal competitive environment.“We look forward to the home advantage and the crowd being an exceptional incentive for our national team shooters to deliver their best performances and secure qualification,” Al-Sulaiti told QNA.He said Qatar’s hosting of the championship reflects the confidence placed in the country’s ability to organise major international events, adding that intensive training plans and camps have been put in place for the national team.The championship is expected to attract an elite field of male and female shooters, with the Lusail Shooting Complex equipped to meet international standards for the two-week competition. 

As part of the State of Qatar's preparations to host the FIVB Volleyball Men's U-17 World Championship from Aug. 19-29, 2026, the organizing committee convened a coordination meeting to follow up on the latest updates regarding these preparations.The meeting, held virtually, was chaired by President of the Qatar Volleyball Association (QVA) Ali Ghanem Al Kuwari, with members of the supervising committees in attendance.The meeting took stock of several matters pertaining to the organizational, technical, media and logistical preparations to ensure all committees remain focused ahead of the launch.As such, Al Kuwari hailed the tremendous efforts of the committee members and tournament workers, emphasizing the importance of constant cooperation in the spirit of teamwork and exerting utmost efforts to ensure a successful global championship in an image that aligns with the State of Qatar's stature and capability of hosting and organizing major global sporting tournaments.He urged all workers to steadfastly continue their collaboration throughout the upcoming phase so as to help achieve the intended goals of this tournament and showcase a superb experience to teams, participating delegations, guests and spectators. 

World number one Magnus Carlsen will compete in November's pilot event of the FIDE-approved Total Chess World Championship Tour, organisers said on Tuesday. The November 10-21 tournament in Budapest will feature competition across ⁠three formats - blitz, rapid and fast classic chess - with results from all ⁠events combined to determine the overall champion. The pilot event will serve as a precursor to the inaugural global season, which is due to begin in March 2027, the organisers said. The official tour will feature four events annually in cities around the world and the overall winner will be crowned ⁠FIDE World Combined Champion. "We are convinced that the tour will attract new audiences, commercial partners and greater media interest, helping us expand chess globally," FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich said."We look forward to seeing this new chapter begin in one of Europe's great chess capitals." Organisers said the November event would provide a blueprint for the full-fledged championship ⁠circuit launching next year. "As the official pilot ⁠of the ⁠Tour, this event will set the benchmark for the global championship that begins in March 2027," Total Chess CEO Kjell Madland said. "Chess heritage runs deep here, making it the ideal place to write the next chapter before the Tour travels to cities around the world." Developed by Norway Chess, the Total Chess World Championship Tour has already secured significant commercial backing, with Manchester City striker Erling Haaland and Olympic cross-country skiing champion Johannes Klaebo among its investors.  

KTM's Pedro Acosta set the fastest time in Friday's practice for the Catalan Grand Prix, the sixth of 22 rounds in the MotoGP world championship.Under threatening skies, Acosta finished 0.018sec ahead of fellow Spaniard Alex Marquez of Ducati-Gresini and 0.070sec in front of his South African teammate Brad Binder.Raul Fernandez posted the fourth-fastest time at the very end of the session, just ahead of Johann Zarco and Italian Fabio Di Giannantonio.Championship leader Marco Bezzecchi took seventh place for Aprilia, ahead of Honda's Joan Mir and Australian Jack Miller.In the absence of reigning world champion Marc Marquez, who underwent surgery on his right foot and shoulder on Sunday, Jorge Martin, winner of both the sprint and the Grand Prix at Le Mans last weekend, failed to seize his chance.The 2024 world champion, who had fallen in the morning during free practice, went down again in the afternoon and could do no better than 17th fastest.With only the top 10 going directly into Q2, Martin will need to finish in the top two of Q1 to have a chance of a decent starting place on the grid.Two-time champion Francesco Bagnaia, Marquez's teammate at Ducati, also missed out on direct qualification as he could only manage the 13th quickest time. 

George Russell believes he has been handed a car ready to win the world championship as Mercedes head into a new era for Formula One as the title favourites. Under the leadership of Toto Wolff, Mercedes won eight consecutive constructors’ championships and seven drivers’ titles between 2014 and 2021. Since Russell joined in 2022 they have struggled to keep pace with Red Bull and McLaren. However, a major upheaval of the sport’s technical rulebook for the new season means a fresh start for all the teams on the grid. Mercedes caught the eye in last week’s first test at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya by boasting both impressive speed and reliability, with the bookmakers making Russell favourite for his first world title. “I feel ready to fight for a world championship, and whether we have that tag as favourites above us or not, it doesn’t change my approach one single bit,” said the British driver at Mercedes’ digital launch Monday. “There are a lot of things we need to learn very quickly, but I feel I can take advantage of that and I feel confident in myself and in the team.” Four-time world champion Max Verstappen will lead Red Bull’s challenge, aiming to regain the title after losing out to Lando Norris last season. Russell and Verstappen have clashed on and off the track in recent years and the former is relishing the prospect of a title battle to add to the feud between the pair. “I would love that. He is very much going to be in the fight this year,” added Russell. “You obviously wish you had a slightly easier time of it, but it should never be easy, and if you are going to win, you want to have fought for it and won it fair and square on track. “The best-case scenario is if you have a number of teams battling it out, and at the moment it does look like Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari and ourselves are the four teams that are quite close,” Russell said. Wolff is relieved to have what appears a competitive car at the front of the grid after four seasons of disappointment, but is not getting carried away despite a positive first test session. “It is always nice if your driver is the favourite with the bookmakers, and he (Russell) deserves it because he is one of the best,” said the Austrian. “But it is always the best driver and the best car that wins, and we have not proven yet that we have a package that is good enough.” There will be two three-day tests in Bahrain later this month before the season begins in Australia on March 8. 

Visit Qatar has successfully concluded the inaugural Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final, held from December 10 to 13 in Lusail, marking a major milestone in Qatar’s growing international sporting calendar. The four-day event brought together elite athletes, amateur competitors and community participants from across the world, reinforcing Qatar’s position as a leading host of world-class endurance sport.The event attracted a total of 5,171 participants across all race categories, reflecting strong international interest and community engagement. Running events saw 3,087 participants, with 2,334 runners competing in the 5km community run and 753 children taking part in the 1km run. Triathlon participation totalled 2,084 competitors, including 63 athletes in the Youth Super Sprint, 1,125 competitors in the 100km Open race, 255 participants in the inaugural T100 Age Group World Championship, and 642 athletes in the Sprint Triathlon. Participants from the United Kingdom topped the list of nationalities, accounting for 11% of competitors, followed by Qatar at 10%, the Philippines at 6%, France at 2%, and Germany at 1%.Ahmed Al Binali, director of Festivals and Events at Visit Qatar, said: “The Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final delivered an outstanding celebration of elite sport, complemented by strong community participation. From world-class competition in Lusail to thousands of participants across running and triathlon events, the four-day programme highlighted Qatar’s proven capability to host major international sporting events that engage athletes, residents and visitors.”In the men’s professional race, New Zealand’s Hayden Wilde was crowned T100 Triathlon World Champion after completing a perfect season, winning every T100 race he entered. He was joined on the podium by Morgan Pearson of the United States in second place and Belgium’s Marten Van Riel in third.In the women’s race, Great Britain’s Kate Waugh secured her first T100 World Championship title following a consistently strong season. She was followed by fellow Briton Georgia Taylorbrown in second place, with Swiss Olympian Julie Derron completing the top three.The 2025 T100 Triathlon World Tour features more than $8mn in total athlete prize money and compensation. The individual men’s and women’s winners of the T100 Race to Qatar series each received $200,000, in addition to race-specific prize earnings from the Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final.Qatar’s global positioning as a hub for international sporting excellence continues to grow, with the 2025 T100 Triathlon World Championship further enriching its sporting legacy and highlighting its position as a leading destination for world-class sporting events.

The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) announced that Kia as the Official Transport Partner for the 2025 Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final, taking place in Doha from December 10 to 13.This marks Kia’s first partnership with the PTO in the region, supporting the launch of a major global triathlon event in Qatar and bringing the world’s best triathletes and fans together in a thrilling celebration of sport.Kia joins the T100 Triathlon World Tour as Official Automotive Partner for the Doha event, uniting two brands driven by performance, innovation, and design excellence.As Kia introduces its latest range of premium vehicles to the market, the partnership provides a powerful platform to showcase its multi-utility capability, refined craftsmanship, and bold new aesthetic.Kia vehicles will play a central role across the event, supporting the athletes, enhancing the overall experience, and connecting the brand with a global community that shares its spirit of progress and ambition.Stuart Ramsey, PTO Chief Commercial Officer, said: "We are thrilled to welcome Kia, through its official distributor Al-Attiya Motors and Trading Co (AMTC), as a key partner for the Qatar T100. Their support will enhance the experience for athletes, staff, and fans alike, while helping us deliver a first-class, world championship event in a new region. Kia’s brand aligns perfectly with the performance, innovation, and global ambition of the T100 Triathlon."Hossam Abu Shadi, Vice-President – Commercial of Kia Qatar added: "Partnering with the PTO for the Qatar T100 is an exciting opportunity to bring our vehicles into a dynamic, international sporting event."The Qatar T100 Triathlon World Championship Final is the culmination of the T100 Race to Qatar, a season-long global series featuring 100km races; 2km swim, 80km bike, 18km run, across nine iconic locations including Singapore, San Francisco, Vancouver, London, the French Riviera, Spain, Wollongong, and Dubai.The Doha weekend will showcase the season’s professional races, amateur competitions, and community events, including a mass 5km fun run and immersive fan village experiences.By partnering with the PTO, Kia is connecting with a highly engaged, active, and international audience of athletes, multisport enthusiasts, and fans, while demonstrating its commitment to supporting high-performance sport and memorable experiences. Kia vehicles will be an integral part of the event, both on the road and on display, offering fans a chance to engage with the brand in a dynamic, memorable environment.T100 weekends are ‘festivals of multisport’ and feature a range of opportunities for amateur athletes of all levels to get involved. From experienced amateurs tackling the 100km distance to other triathlon distances and first-time swim, bike and run participants taking on single discipline, untimed events.Event highlights in Qatar include the following and a youth triathlon will also be announced in the coming weeks: December 10: Mass 5k/1km fun run for the local community and visiting athletesDecember 11: Event and fan village opens with dining, entertainment, and expo across Lusail PlazaDecember 12: Season-long T100 Race To Qatar series concludes with T100 Professional Races, awarding the 2025 World Championship titleDecember 13: Amateur races including the T100 Age-Group World Championship, open-entry 100km distance, and sprint triathlon 

Lando Norris insisted he was feeling calm and composed ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix where he could win his first drivers’ world championship title. Unperturbed by the double disqualification of himself and McLaren teammate and title rival Oscar Piastri in Las Vegas last weekend, the 26-year-old Briton told reporters at the Lusail Circuit he was completely at ease ahead of this weekend’s showdown. “I feel as relaxed now as I was before when I was 35 points behind and I feel the same when I’m 24 points ahead,” Norris said. “For now, that’s my strength. It feels the same to me now as before Mexico when I wasn’t leading and in Austin.” Norris, who needs only to out-score Piastri and defending four-time champion Max Verstappen of Red Bull by two points to win the title this weekend, made light of the pressures of expectation and the Dutchman’s fightback. “We’ve treated him as a threat the whole year even when he was a few more points behind,” he said of Verstappen, who was 104 points behind in the title race at the end of August, but is now level with Piastri – 24 behind Norris. “We treat him as a threat because we know what he’s capable of, we know what Red Bull is capable of – so therefore nothing changes now because he’s still the threat he’s always been through the whole year.” Norris conceded that his disqualification in Las Vegas had hurt, but said he and the team had dealt with it and moved on. “We all felt let down by the result and we were all disappointed, but actually I found it was quite easy to move on and have a few days off – and then come into this weekend,” he explained. Piastri appeared to be equally calm, but made it very clear that as things stood he had no intention of abandoning his own bid for glory in favour of helping his McLaren team-mate. “We’ve had a very brief discussion on it and the answer is no,” the Australian said. “I’m still equal on points with Max and I’ve got a decent shot of still winning it if things go my way. So, yeah, that’s how we’ll play it.” McLaren team chief Andrea Stella explained that the disqualification of both cars, for excessive wear of the skid blocks, was a result of an unexpected level of “porpoising... exacerbated by the conditions” in Nevada. “We knew we were having a lot more issues than we ever expected during the race,” Norris said. “Maybe it would have hurt more if we won the race, but we didn’t so it doesn’t change anything... There’s no point being too sad about it. I’m excited to go again this weekend. It doesn’t change anything. I want to try and win here in Qatar and to win in Abu Dhabi. It sucks, but that’s life sometimes.” 

Equipment is in place, registration and scrutineering is over and the world’s finest aquabike riders are now making their final preparations for the start of the Old Doha Port Grand Prix of Qatar Wednesday morning.The new venue is hosting the finale to this year’s UIM-ABP Aquabike World Championship under the auspices of the UIM and the guiding hands of Aquabike Promotion and the Doha Marine Sports Club (DMSC).**media[374833]**Riders and team personnel busied themselves with fine tuning their skis after the recent round of the series at Olbia in Sardinia. Ten years ago, the last Qatar race was held in Doha Bay along the Corniche adjacent to the iconic Sheraton Hotel. On this occasion, the Old Port area around the Corniche will host the weekend’s action.Quinten Bossche is the defending Ski Division GP1 World Champion and is making his first appearance in Qatar with the Grand Prix returning after that 10-year absence. He has three Moto wins and three retirements so far this season and is arguably one of the fastest racers on the UIM-ABP tour.**media[374832]**The Ostende-based Belgian said: “I have lost too many points in the championship to do something so I just need to do some good results. With some good luck, I could maybe still finish third. When you come here, especially as the World Champion, you come here for a victory. I try and do my best, set the boat up and finish all the races this time and go for the victory in the GP.“Personally, I would have loved to see the course on the other side (Doha Bay). I like the waves. I think, as a pro ski racer, that is what you like to battle against the weather. For me, that’s a big thing. I love waves and all of the challenge. It puts everybody back at zero. It’s pure skill and the ski doesn’t make a difference any more. I do think with the walls and the fact we have 23 riders (Ski GP1), it’s still going to be a rough race. Everyone has the same issues with the heat. Just stay hydrated and rest.”**media[374834]**Jessica Chavanne is the defending European champion and a former World Champion. Boat damage in Sardinia has now ruled her out of overall title contention but the French girl is looking forward to her first ever race weekend in Qatar. Speaking before a brief ski shakedown on Wednesday afternoon, she said: “I think it will be a good race. I had a delamination on the side of the ski in Sardinia and my hull was under the water. The marshals saved my ski and I had a big shock. That’s why I feel a bit sick. I am really grateful that I had nothing else (injury).“The first goal is to take pleasure. In Indonesia, I had the covid, in Olbia the problem with the hull and now I want to give everything I can and after that we will see. We will make a set-up for me to be more comfortable.”Thursday timetable sees the free practice sessions for the Runabout GP2 Asian Continental Championship fire into life from 09.30hrs and precede nearly two hours of practice for the Ski Ladies GP1, Ski Division GP1, Runabout GP1 and Freestyle competitors.Thursday afternoon will be dominated by the various qualifying and pole position sessions.

Qatar returns to the 2025 sporting calendar after a 10-year absence to host the final round of the UIM-ABP Aquabike World Championship this weekend (October 30-November 1).Aquabike Promotion and the Doha Marine Sports Club (DMSC) will host the three-day Old Doha Port Grand Prix of Qatar on Doha Bay. The event will act as the final round of the World Championship and the stand-alone Runabout GP2 Asian Continental Championship.The provisional entry features 90 riders from 19 nations, with 28 competing in Runabout GP1, 23 in Ski Division GP1, 13 in Ski Ladies GP1 and a staggering 12 in Freestyle. In addition, 14 will compete in the Asian Continental section of the weekend.Francois Medori heads to Doha with a maximum 100 points for winning four successive Runabout GP1 Motos. The Corsican will be aiming to defend a 16-point advantage over Jeremy Perez, with current World Champion Samuel Johansson somehow retaining third in the rankings, despite picking up just three points from the second of the recent heats in Sardinia.All the major protagonists are among the 28-rider field and they include Pierre-Francois Savelli, Robin Laforge, Gyorgy Kasza, Andrzej Wisniewski, Martin Doulik and Linus Lindberg.The host nation will be represented by Khalid al-Mohannadi and Waleed al-Sharshani and the Emirati trio of Khalid al-Maazmi, Khalifa Belsalah and Mohammed Mohsin boost the regional entry.The Qatar event also sees the dramatic return of five-time World Champion Yousef al-Abdulrazzaq and fellow Kuwaiti riders, Rashed al-Dawas and Ahmad al-Khadhari.Dane Oliver Koch Hansen arrives in Doha with an 11-point lead over Jeremy Poret in the battle for the Ski Division GP1 world title. The leading racers on the planet battled it out in three gripping Motos in Sardinia two weeks ago with a pair of victories for Belgian Quinten Bossche sandwiching a lone win for Mickael Poret.Reliability issues have plagued defending champion Bossche this season, however, and three Moto wins have been coupled with three non-finishes. That was left the Ostende racer languishing in sixth in the standings behind Koch Hansen, Jeremy Poret, Japan’s Toshi O’Hara, Mickael Poret and young Belgian Yoni Hamelin.All of the title contenders will be present in Doha where they line up against the likes of former champion Kevin Reiterer, Anthony Beernaut, Morgan Poret, Benjamin Scharff and Axel Courtois.Nizar Abuljadayel represents the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and is the only GCC entrant in the field.The fight for honours in Ski Ladies GP1 promises to be a classic and 13 riders are making the trip to Qatar for the three-Moto finale. Estelle Poret has a seven-point cushion over Benedicte Drange with defending champion Jasmiin Ypraus a further point adrift in third. Naomi Benini and Virginie Morlaes are tied for fourth, albeit 35 points behind the leading French girl.Drange has taken four wins from six Motos but suffering a costly retirement from the third Moto in Indonesia. Poret has never been off the podium and won one heat, while Ypraus had a win and four podium finishes before engine issues plagued her before the last of the Motos in Sardinia.The Estonian’s number one ski failed to start and she was forced to turn to her back-up machine which misfired its way around the course to pick up just 10 points. Could that have been the moment when Ypraus lost the world title?Jessica Chavanne suffered a miserable weekend in Sardinia and the new European champion will be hoping for better fortune on Doha Bay, where she lines up alongside the likes of Sofie and Jonna Borgstrom, Heloise Delcluze, River Varner, Joana Graça, Janina Johansson and French newcomer Emy Garcia.The Freestyle category has attracted a staggering 12 entrants, although the defending European champion and current World Championship leader Roberto Mariani tops the field from defending champion and title rival Rashid al-Mulla from Abu Dhabi. The pair are separated by 10 points heading into the final two Motos of the season with Massimo Accumolo three points further behind in the bronze medal position. Portugal’s Paulo Nunes is fourth.There are six Qatari entrants in the provisional field: Abdulaziz al-Abdullah, Nayef al-Nama, Salem al-Kubaisi, Issa al-Assi, Abdulrahman al-Sulaiti and Bader al-Abdullah will be hoping for success in front of home crowds. They will be joined by Kuwait’s Aziz al-Armeli and Saudi Arabia’s Nizar Abuljadayel.Four of the Runabout GP2 Asian Continental Championship entrants will represent Qatar, with five from the UAE, four from Saudi Arabia and one from Kuwait. Mahmoud Abumaali, Khalaf al-Kuwari, Waleed al-Ibrahim and Waleed al-Sharshani will fly the Qatari flag with Abdullah al-Fadhel lining up for Kuwait.Registration and scrutineering formalities take place Wednesday. A hectic Thursday timetable sees the free practice sessions for the Runabout GP2 Asian Continental Championship fire into life from 9:30 am and precede nearly two hours of practice for the Ski Ladies GP1, Ski Division GP1, Runabout GP1 and Freestyle competitors.The afternoon is dominated by the various qualifying and pole position sessions.The first Runabout GP2 Asian Continental Championship Moto kickstarts Friday’s action from 10am and is followed by opening Motos for Ski Ladies GP1 and Ski Division GP1. The second of the Motos follow in the afternoon before the Runabout GP1 and Freestyle contenders take part in their first heats.The evening’s action will be rounded off by a Parallel Slalom competition and a Freestyle night show to entertain spectators in the Old Port area on Doha Corniche.Qualifying for the Qatar International Cup and a session for non-qualified Runabout GP2 riders opens Saturday morning’s action. Further free practice follows before a Moto for the Qatar International Cup to round off the morning.The third Runabout GP2 Asian Continental Championship Moto is first on the agenda in the afternoon and precedes the final Ski Ladies GP1 and Ski GP1 Motos that will decide the outcome of the World Championship.Runabout GP1 and Freestyle contenders then take to the water for their second Motos that will draw a curtain on the season’s UIM-ABP Aquabike Circuit Pro World Championship.