Asia Triathlon

On February 28th 2006, the first Technical Officials Training for the Doha 2006 Triathlon World Cup took place at the Cycling Federation’s meeting room in Doha, State of Qatar.

The seminar was conducted by the Triathlon Competition Managers Mr. Ahmed Al Hemaidi and Mr. Thanos Nikopoulos with the great support of the local Triathlon Federation.
The meeting included an informative presentation concerning essential elements of Triathlon Competition in front of the presence of 52 National Technical Officials, due to the World Cup that is taking place in Doha, on March 3rd 2006.

Among them, there were for the first time 4 women serving as National Technical Officials for the ITU Triathlon World Cup. The presentation was in Arabic and English and important documentation as Competition rules in Arabic and English and Event Schedule, was distributed to the audience.

The importance of those great athletic events was highlighted in the dawn of a promising era for sports while Doha is the host city for the 15th Asian Games 2006.

The circle of seminars will be continued for two more sessions during February, leading the Local Technical Officials to the ITU Technical Officials Seminar which will take place parallel to the event.