Kuwait is gearing up to participate within the fourth Gulf Video games, Doha 2026, to start Monday within the Qatari capital and proceed till Might 22.
The video games will function athletes from Gulf nations competing in 19 sports activities, together with handball, desk tennis, athletics, squash, padel, fencing, boxing, taekwondo, karate, swimming and capturing.
That is along with basketball, volleyball, equestrian occasions, bowling, billiards and snooker are additionally included within the competitors.
Held beneath the slogan “One Gulf, One Coronary heart,” the occasion will collect round 1,074 female and male athletes. Kuwait will take part with 120 athletes competing in 13 sports activities, together with handball, athletics, swimming, bowling, fencing, taekwondo, karate and basketball 3×3.
Competitions will likely be held throughout 11 venues geared up with trendy services, together with Aspire Dome, Hamad Aquatic Middle, Khalifa Worldwide Tennis and Squash Complicated and Lusail Capturing Vary.
The organizers stated preparations had been accomplished to host the occasion in line with the very best organizational and technical requirements. The organizing committee unveiled the event mascot “Washeq,” impressed by the desert lynx, an emblem of the Arabian Peninsula’s pure atmosphere.
The occasion emblem was impressed by the palm tree, reflecting shared Gulf values together with resilience, generosity and powerful ties to heritage and land.
The primary Gulf Video games had been held in Bahrain in 2011, adopted by the second version in Saudi Arabia in 2015 and the third version in Kuwait in 2022.
— KUNA