The Worldwide Hockey Federation (FIH), with the help of Olympic Solidarity, the Asian Hockey Federation, the Malaysian Nationwide Olympic Committee, the Malaysian Hockey Confederation and the Raja Ashman Shah Hockey Academy shall be delivering the FIH World Youth Hockey5s Pageant from 16-21 December 2024 in Ipoh, Malaysia.
The challenge, made attainable by means of the Olympic Solidarity Youth Athlete Improvement Programme, is supporting over 500 younger athletes to take part in Nationwide Coaching Camps and the FIH World Youth Hockey5s Pageant.
24 groups from 17 nations will take part within the programme together with Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malawi, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Zambia, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, Chinese language Taipei, Kazakhstan, Brunei and Thailand.
FIH President Tayyab Ikram stated of the challenge: “This marks the primary time the FIH has had the privilege to conduct the celebrated IOC Olympic Solidarity Youth Athlete Improvement Programme. This initiative is a major funding sooner or later generations of rising nations and can present immense advantages to younger athletes.
What makes this programme significantly particular is that it caters to 2 continents concurrently, bringing them collectively below the steerage of our certified specialists. We’re assured and hopeful that this initiative will play a significant position in guaranteeing the sustainable improvement in these areas. Common follow-ups shall be carried out as a part of the FIH Empowerment and Engagement Technique to make sure its success and affect.
We additionally plan to broaden this programme to remaining continents beginning subsequent yr, enabling even broader participation and advantages.
Our heartfelt gratitude goes to the IOC for his or her particular initiative for rising nations and NOCs, in addition to to our gracious hosts in Ipoh and Malaysia for welcoming individuals from two continents and supporting this significant endeavor.”
The target of the Olympic Solidarity Youth Athlete Improvement Programme is to supply help to Nationwide Olympic Committees (NOCs) to determine and practice younger athletes for youth competitions as a part of the pathway to participation within the Youth Olympic Video games. For this explicit challenge, the supply is to help NOCs to entry Worldwide Federation (IF) Coaching Alternatives. The programme is particularly for nations with a low illustration stage within the Olympic Video games (primarily based on Tokyo 2020).
Girls and boys groups from the below 16 age teams, along with younger leaders/umpires and group coaches will take part in Nationwide Coaching Camps of their dwelling nation, and within the World Youth Hockey5s Pageant in Ipoh. The Pageant will embody a spread of studying alternatives for all individuals, together with classroom primarily based workshops, pitch classes and pageant competitors. FIH Academy Educators will facilitate all classes in collaboration with Nationwide Coaches.
FIH Head of Schooling Improvement Mike Joyce added: “The challenge is a superb alternative for us to help lots of our smallest hockey nations with youth expertise identification and improvement. The monetary help offered to NOCs by Olympic Solidarity has made this improbable challenge attainable.”
Supply: FIH.hockey
