The announcement by the Olympic Council of Asia of the Kingdom’s victory in hosting the 2029 Asian Winter Games in Trogin with the NEOM project is an unprecedented historical achievement for the Kingdom’s sport and the culmination of the vast and colossal work of wise leadership in recent years, after the Kingdom’s emergence as a global center for organizing and hosting major international sporting events. One day, one of the countries of Western Asia will host the Asian Winter Games. sports jumping
During the reign of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz – God bless him – and under the special attention of HRH Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, sport has witnessed a qualitative transformation that has made the Kingdom a global hub for hosting world championships; and putting Saudi Arabia on the international agenda for hosting events and competitions in various sports and the World Games.
At the local level, Saudi sport has taken a huge step forward, as evidenced by many, especially in football, and the impressive and impressive emergence of women as a main partner in sports, leaving a mark of Saudi women on continental, regional and international participation.
Without the financial and moral support of the sporting leadership, as well as the commitment and diligent follow-up to develop development plans and programs, the Saudi Roshan League would not have become an attractive factor for football stars around the world and a target for sponsors, and it would not have become one of the top leagues of the Asian continent in terms of marketing value.
In this context, the Ministry of Sports is moving forward with its various plans to achieve the goals of our country’s vision and implementation of strategies, to strengthen the position of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the regional and global levels, and to create an integrated sports system, both competitive and healthy, thanks to the sports community, which ensures future generations of talented people, in addition to maintaining public health, achieves the highest quality of life standards.
As a result of the leadership’s unrestricted support for sports, the Kingdom is gearing up this October and under the generous patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to host the largest sporting event in Saudi Arabia through the first Saudi Games, with more than 6,000 athletes and 2,000 technical and administrative leaders representing more than 200 clubs from different parts of the Kingdom, in addition to the category of persons, will participate under the flag of the Olympic and Paralympic Committees and will compete in 45 individual and team sports, including 5 games dedicated to Paralympic sports.
Tournament participants compete for prizes that are the highest in the history of the region and amount to more than 200 million rials. The winner of the gold medal in any game receives one million rials, silver – 300,000 rials, bronze – 100,000 rials. .
The course is the largest national sporting project and one of the most important comprehensive programs and initiatives stemming from the Kingdom Vision 2030 as it provided the opportunity for over 20,000 male and female athletes to participate in qualifying trials and trials.
In recent years, the Kingdom has hosted the largest auto race, the Dakar Rally, taking advantage of its nature suitable for this sport and adding to it a kind of excitement that has drawn the attention of the whole world to a rare geographical nature, along roads that cut through deserts and mountains. over a distance of more than 7600 km.
The Kingdom has also become a meeting place for the heads of international federations for consultations and exchanges, which is what Swiss Gianni Infantino, President of the International Football Association (FIFA), is fond of.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has extended the date of the Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, which is scheduled to take place at Jeddah, home of the world’s fastest street circuit, from 17 to 19 March 2023.
The third visit of the World Motorsport Summit to the Kingdom will be the second race on the Formula 1 World Championship calendar for 2023.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of the newest locations on the Formula 1 calendar. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia also hosted a Formula E event in Diriyah as part of the seventh season of the Formula E World Championship, which won the title of its British Tour, Sam Bird.
In horse racing, Mushrif, a horse from Saudi Arabia, won the title of the Saudi Cup in horse racing and received a prize of $20 million.
In March, the Eastern Desert Rally was organized and held, which is the third stage of the World Cup in the short rally in the Baha Desert, and the first stage of the Saudi Arabian Desert Rally Championship, which was attended by many participants in five categories. The Kingdom has continued to host a series of international championships in various races as the province of Al-Ula has hosted the “Extreme e Al-Ula” race, part of the Kingdom’s strong interest in the sports sector and clean energy, as well as looking to the future. through the “Vision of the Kingdom 2030” and took part in a two-day race with 18 men and women representing 9 international teams, this is the first race in the history of the “Extreme E” electric SUV series. where the German team (Rosberg X-Racing) consisting of the Swede Johan Kristofferson and his Australian colleague Molly Taylor won the race and took first place.
Achievements included not only holding but winning championships and continental podiums as the Saudi Arabia national team won the AFC U-23 Cup title for the first time in their history after beating Uzbekistan with two unanswered goals. , in the final match, which brought the two teams together in the capital Tashkent last June.
In July, the Saudi Arabia Under-20 team won the Arab Under-20 Cup by beating Algeria 2-1 at a tournament in the Arab Republic of Egypt. In July, the Ministry of Sports also announced the launch of the Pride Program. The initiative organized by the Saudi Arabian Paralympic Committee falls under the “Quality of Life” program to achieve the goals of “Vision 2030”, the idea of which is based on the rehabilitation of people with disabilities, discovering and developing their athletic abilities, improving their quality of life, improving their participation in society in sporting events and creating local and international sports champions among them. These achievements will continue in August, when the unique event was marked by the receipt of the silver medal of karate by Tariq Hamdi at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. .
Jeddah hosted the Red Sea World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in August. Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk retained the title after defeating his giant British opponent Anthony Joshua on points after 12 specific rounds, in the presence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and several personalities, as well as over 40,000 spectators from all over the world.
In the city of Taif, the Saudi Arabian Camel Federation organized the third edition of the Crown Prince’s Camel Festival, which is the world’s largest camel race in terms of financial prizes and participating camels. In the month of September, new achievements of Saudi Arabia in motorsport were also achieved, as Yazid Al Raji topped the tour (Baja Italy) and overall ranking in the T1 category of the Desert Rally World Cup, T4, leading the overall standings and winning the Baja Italia in its category. In the middle of the month, Al-Akhdar shooters managed to achieve the title of Asian champion in Kazakhstan among shooters (Atallah Al-Anzi – Akil Al-Badrani – and Safar Al-Dosari). In jiu-jitsu, Saudi Arabian champion Faris Kashmiri won bronze at the Asian Championships, held in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi.
