21-December-2021 The Arab teams are working on increasing standards to compete in global tournaments. The Saudi national & Kuwaiti women’s fencing team arrived in Qatar for a training camp at Fencing Training Hall (Al-Mamoura) & Aspire Academy in Doha alongside its Qatari and Kuwaiti counterparts. The Saudi team consists of 10 women: Leenn Al-Fozan, Aya…
08-August-2021 (By: QOC) Doha-(QNA) – H.E. President of Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al-Thani underlined that Qatar’s participation in the 32nd Summer Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020) is the best in the Qatari sports history. H.E. the QOC President said that Qatar claimed three medals in the Olympics for the first time –…
08-August-2021 (By: QOC) Doha- (QNA) – HH Personal Representative of HH the Amir, Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani, led the well-wishers to welcome Team Qatar Olympic mission, which claimed two gold medals in high jump and weightlifting and a bronze medal in beach volleyball at Tokyo 2020 Olympics, headed by H.E. President of Qatar Olympic…
Local Fencing Competition: Qatar Fencing Federation successfully organized the local Fencing competition for kids on 15th of July 2021.
Euro Fencing Olympic Foil Qualification By Ranking Complete The Doha Foil Grand Prix at the weekend marked the conclusion of foil qualification for the Olympic Games by ranking. WOMEN’S FOIL PREVIEW Going into the event Germany’s Leonie Ebert and Maria Diaz of Spain held the two additional individual European Olympic places. Despite going out…
By Michael Houston The United States’ Gerek Meinhardt and Russia’s Inna Deriglazova won the men’s and women’s foil gold medals at the Fencing Grand Prix of Qatar in Doha. In the men’s final, Meinhardt overcame Japan’s Takahiro Shikine 15-11. The American’s route to the final featured a quarter-final victory over Hong Kong’s Chun Yin Ryan…
By Michael Houston The opening round of the women’s foil at the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Fencing Grand Prix of Qatar took place today, whittling the field down to 64 competitors Joining 32 fencers who were given automatic qualification to the last 64, was another 32 who came through the opening day of competition. The top…
Euro Fencing The final foil Olympic qualification event by ranking takes place this weekend in Doha, Qatar. Fencer in the men’s and women’s division will compete for the final individual places at the Aspire Dome. WOMEN’S FOIL PREVIEW Going into the event Russia, Italy, France and Hungary had already secured their team berths with…
LAUSANNE, Switz., March 25, 2021—The International Fencing Federation (FIE) is announcing the Olympic-qualifying Fencing Grand Prix of Qatar, an individual foil competition for men and women and the first Grand Prix of the 2020-2021 competitive fencing season. The event will take place in Doha, Qatar from March 26 to 28 at the “Aspire Dome”. Qualification…
Doha- The Qatar Weightlifting and Fencing Federation (QWFF) and Aspire Academy underlined Wednesday Doha’s readiness to host the Fencing Grand Prix Qatar 2021 Foil, which will kick off Friday and run over three days at Aspire Dome. This was announced during the press conference held yesterday and witnessed the signing of the contract to host…