Lolowa Al-Meghaiseeb
Thirty-eight Olympic places will be up for grabs at the 14th Asian Shooting Championships from November 3 to 13.
The continental tournament organised by Qatar Shooting and Archery Association will serve as the last qualification for Asian shooters for next year’s Tokyo Olympics.
The top three finishers in each of the shotgun, rifle and pistol events of the tournament will gain quota places to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Qatar challenge will revolve around Skeet shooters Rashid Saleh Al Athba and Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah, who is aiming to qualify for a record seventh Olympics.
In the Skeet team event, Qatar’s Rashid Saleh Al Athba, Masoud Saleh Al Athba, and Abdulaziz Sahel Al Attiyah will be looking forward to putting up a good show before home fans in familiar conditions.
The men’s Double Trap team of Hamad Al Akhan Al Marri, Rashed Al Athbi and Masoud Al Athba 9th Asian Shotgun Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan will be eager to touch the Tokyo Games qualification mark.
Trap shooter Mohammed Ahmed Al Rumaihi, who received a bronze medal at Austria Open in August at Vienna meet, will be keen to prove a point or two at the Asian event.
Besides the men’s shooters, a number of women competitors will be aiming to pull off a few surprises and lay grab on the Olympic quota places up for grabs at the 10-day event.