DOHA: For almost two weeks, Asia’s most talented long-jump athletes and middle-distance runners between the ages of 16 and 17 years have been training at the OCA Youth Training Camp at Aspire Academy. The camp concluded on Saturday with a competition.
Since the beginning of September, Aspire Academy has been the home for an international delegation that included 59 athletes from 31 Asian countries such as China, Kuwait, Lebanon and Malaysia, as well as their personal coaches.
All of these athletes were nominated by their respective national Olympic committees to participate and train at the facilities of Aspire Academy.
In the course of their stay, they had the chance to work with Aspire Academy’s coaches and sports science team to further develop their outstanding abilities.
During their stint at Aspire Academy, the athletes trained daily at the indoor and outdoor track in the morning and the afternoon.
They were supported by coaches and sport scientists of Aspire Academy who collected data of the athletes and gave this information to their personal coaches so that they could use in their training both here and when they return to their home countries.
Several Youth Olympic Games medallists participated in Saturday’s competitions and Aspire Academy’s student-athlete and World Junior qualifier Abubaker Haydar and Qatar’s middle distance star and Asian Junior Champion Adam Yousef Idriss were also in action.
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