Qatar at the 2017 Asian Winter Games

Qatar at the
2017 Asian Winter Games
Qatar at the; 2017 Asian Winter Games
IOC code	QAT
NOC	Qatar Olympic Committee
in Sapporo and Obihiro; February 19–26
Competitors	32 in 3 sports
Flag bearer	Thamer Al Mohannadi
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Asian Winter Games appearances
	2011; 2017; 2025; 2029;

Qatar is scheduled to compete in the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo and Obihiro, Japan from February 19 to 26.^[1]^[2]

Qatar is scheduled to compete in three sports.^[3] After competing in speed skating in its debut at the 2011 Games, this will mark the country's debut in all three sports it contests at this edition: curling, hockey and short track speed skating.^[4] Qatar's team will consist of 32 athletes.^[5]

On February 19, 2017 it was announced that ice hockey player Thamer Al Mohannadi would be the country's flagbearer during the parade of nations at the opening ceremony.^[6]

Competitors

The following table lists the Qatari delegation per sport and gender.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Curling	4	4	8
Ice hockey	21	0	21
Short track speed skating	3	0	3
Total	28	4	32

Curling

Qatar has entered a men's and women's team, each consisting of four athletes (for a total of eight).^[7]^[8]^[5]^[9]

Men's tournament

Nabeel Alyafei – Skip
Ahmed Al Fahad – Third
Jaber Al Ozali – Second
Ahmad Khashabi – Lead

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Country v t e	Skip	W	L
China	Liu Rui	5	0
South Korea	Kim Soo-hyuk	4	1
Japan	Yusuke Morozumi	3	2
Chinese Taipei	Randolph Shen	2	3
Kazakhstan	Viktor Kim	1	4
Qatar	Nabeel Alyafei	0	5

Round-robin

Qatar has a bye in draw 3

Draw 1

Saturday, February 18, 9:00

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
South Korea (Soo-hyuk)	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	x	x	x	20
Qatar (Alyafei)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	x	x	x	0

Draw 2

Saturday, February 18, 18:00

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Morozumi)	1	2	4	3	4	5	0	X	X	X	19
Qatar (Alyafei)	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	X	X	X	1

Draw 4

Monday, February 20, 13:30

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Qatar (Alyafei)	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	4
Kazakhstan (Kim)	0	1	0	0	4	0	2	0	4	1	12

Draw 5

Tuesday, February 21, 9:00

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Chinese Taipei (Shen)	3	3	2	1	3	0	2	0	0	0	14
Qatar (Alyafei)	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	X	X	X	1

Draw 6

Tuesday, February 21, 18:00

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Qatar (Alyafei)	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	1	X	X	5
China (Rui)	3	4	3	0	1	0	3	0	X	X	14

Women's tournament

Maryam Binali – Skip
Hanan Al Boinin – Third
Mubarka Al Abdulla – Second
Dhabya Al Boinin – Lead

Key
	Teams to playoffs

Country v t e	Skip	W	L
South Korea	Kim Eun-jung	4	0
China	Wang Bingyu	3	1
Japan	Satsuki Fujisawa	2	2
Kazakhstan	Ramina Yunicheva	1	3
Qatar	Maryam Binali	0	4

Round-robin

Qatar has a bye in draw 5

Draw 1

Saturday, February 18, 13:30

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Japan (Fujisawa)	2	3	1	0	4	3	2	2	X	X	17
Qatar (Binali)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	1

Draw 2

Saturday, February 19, 9:00

Sheet A v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Qatar (Binali)	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	X	X	2
South Korea (Eun-jung)	4	5	4	0	4	6	1	0	X	X	24

Draw 3

Sunday, February 20, 9:00

Sheet C v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
Qatar (Binali)	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	2
Kazakhstan (Yunicheva)	2	0	1	0	4	2	2	3	X	X	14

Draw 4

Monday, February 20, 18:00

Sheet B v	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Final
China (Wang)	4	0	5	4	5	5	X	X	X	X	23
Qatar (Binali)	0	1	0	0	0	0	X	X	X	X	1

Ice hockey

Qatar has entered a men's team. The team will compete in the Division two.^[10]^[11] Qatar finished in seventh place (17th place overall) in division 2 of the competition.^[12]

Men's tournament

Qatar was represented by the following 21 athletes:^[13]

Legend: G = Goalie, D = Defense, F = Forward

Group A

Rank	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Kyrgyzstan	3	3	0	22	7	+15	9
2	Philippines	3	2	1	27	15	+12	6
3	Independent Olympic Athletes	3	1	2	9	15	–6	3
4	Qatar	3	0	3	6	27	–21	0

21 February 2017
16:30

Qatar

2–6
(0–1, 0–2, 2–3)

Independent Olympic Athletes

Hoshioki Ice Skating Rink
Attendance: 62




4 min	Penalties	16 min
16	Shots	33

23 February 2017
20:00

Qatar

2–14
(1–4, 0–5, 1–5)

Philippines

Hoshioki Ice Skating Rink
Attendance: 103




39 min	Penalties	10 min
32	Shots	50

24 February 2017
16:30

Kyrgyzstan

7–2
(2–0, 4–0, 1–2)

Qatar

Hoshioki Ice Skating Rink
Attendance: 68




26 min	Penalties	14 min
55	Shots	24

Short track speed skating

Qatar has entered three male short track speed skaters.^[5]

Men

References

^ "Sapporo 2017". www.ocasia.org/. Olympic Council of Asia. Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
^ "OCA welcomes record number of teams, athletes to Sapporo 2017". www.ocasia.org/. Olympic Council of Asia. 17 February 2017. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
^ "2017 Sapporo AWG sport entries by NOC". www.sapporo2017.org. 8th Sapporo Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee. 16 December 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
^ "Qatari stars urge active public engagement on National Sport Day". The Peninsula. Doha, Qatar. 12 February 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c "وكالة الأنباء القطرية الأخبارأخبار محليـةرياضة المنتخب القطري للرياضات الشتوية يشارك في منافسات دورة" [Qatari team for winter sports participate in the competitions of the Asian Games in Japan]. Qatar News Agency (in Arabic). 14 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
^ الوطن, جريدة (19 February 2017). "حفل افتتاح الألعاب الآسيوية الشتوية" [The opening ceremony of the Winter Asian Games]. جريدة الوطن (in Arabic). Retrieved 19 February 2017.
^ "Curling Playing Schedule for the 8th Asian Winter Games Sapporo 2017" (PDF). www.sapporo2017.org/. 2017 Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee. 27 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
^ "Asian Winter Games return to Sapporo for the third time". www.worldcurling.org/. World Curling Federation. 15 February 2017. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
^ Armstrong, Jim (18 February 2017). "Desert to ice: Qatar takes on curling at Asian Winter Games". Associated Press. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ "Entry list for hockey at the 2017 Asian Winter Games". www.nationalteamsoficehockey.com/. National Teams of Ice hockey. 3 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
^ Morgan, Liam (4 January 2017). "Sapporo 2017 confirm entrants in men's and women's ice hockey tournaments". www.insidethegames.biz/. Dunsar Media Ltd. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
^ "Ice hockey Men's Division II Tournament Progress" (PDF). www.info.sapporo2017.org/. Sapporo Organizing Committee for the 2017 Asian Winter Games. 26 February 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
^ "Team Rosters - Men's Division 2" (PDF). Sapporo Organizing Committee for the 2017 Asian Winter Games. 22 February 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2017.

[1] "Sapporo 2017". www.ocasia.org/. Olympic Council of Asia. Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 25 November 2016.

[2] "OCA welcomes record number of teams, athletes to Sapporo 2017". www.ocasia.org/. Olympic Council of Asia. 17 February 2017. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 17 February 2017.

[3] "2017 Sapporo AWG sport entries by NOC". www.sapporo2017.org. 8th Sapporo Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee. 16 December 2016. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2016.

[4] "Qatari stars urge active public engagement on National Sport Day". The Peninsula. Doha, Qatar. 12 February 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2017.

[team-5] "وكالة الأنباء القطرية الأخبارأخبار محليـةرياضة المنتخب القطري للرياضات الشتوية يشارك في منافسات دورة" [Qatari team for winter sports participate in the competitions of the Asian Games in Japan]. Qatar News Agency (in Arabic). 14 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.

[6] الوطن, جريدة (19 February 2017). "حفل افتتاح الألعاب الآسيوية الشتوية" [The opening ceremony of the Winter Asian Games]. جريدة الوطن (in Arabic). Retrieved 19 February 2017.

[7] "Curling Playing Schedule for the 8th Asian Winter Games Sapporo 2017" (PDF). www.sapporo2017.org/. 2017 Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee. 27 January 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 January 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.

[8] "Asian Winter Games return to Sapporo for the third time". www.worldcurling.org/. World Curling Federation. 15 February 2017. Archived from the original on 16 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2017.

[9] Armstrong, Jim (18 February 2017). "Desert to ice: Qatar takes on curling at Asian Winter Games". Associated Press. Retrieved 18 February 2017.

[10] "Entry list for hockey at the 2017 Asian Winter Games". www.nationalteamsoficehockey.com/. National Teams of Ice hockey. 3 December 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2016.

[11] Morgan, Liam (4 January 2017). "Sapporo 2017 confirm entrants in men's and women's ice hockey tournaments". www.insidethegames.biz/. Dunsar Media Ltd. Retrieved 4 January 2017.

[12] "Ice hockey Men's Division II Tournament Progress" (PDF). www.info.sapporo2017.org/. Sapporo Organizing Committee for the 2017 Asian Winter Games. 26 February 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2017.

[13] "Team Rosters - Men's Division 2" (PDF). Sapporo Organizing Committee for the 2017 Asian Winter Games. 22 February 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2017.

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Qatar at the 2017 Asian Winter Games

Competitors

Curling

Men's tournament

Women's tournament

Ice hockey

Men's tournament

Short track speed skating

References

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