OCM Weekly Highlight - 06 February 2011

OCM Weekly Highlights

6th February 2011

OCM Official Website: www.olympic.org.my

Coming Events

V Commonwealth Tenpin Bowling Championship 2011 – 19th to 26th February 2011 at Sunway Megalanes, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

SEA Games Federation Executive Committee Meeting – 25th February 2011 from 9.30 am to 11.00 am at Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

SEA Games Federation Council Meeting – 25th February 2011 from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm at Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

9th World Conference on Sport and the Environment – 30 April to 2 May 2011, Qatar.

Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Executive Board Meeting – 9th & 10th May 2011, Kuala Lumpur.

30th General Assembly of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) – 14th July 2011 at Tokyo, Japan.

MAJOR SPORTS EVENTS 2011/2012

7th Asian Winter Games 2011, Astana-Almaty, Kazakhstan – 30th January to 6th February 2011

4th Commonwealth Youth Games 2011 – 7th to 13th September 2011, Isle of Man.

26th SEA Games 2011 – 11th to 25th November 2011 at Pelembang and Jakarta, Indonesia.

Games of the XXX Olympiad – 27th July to 12th August 2012, London.

News Items

Congratulations

The OCM wishes to congratulate former national Football player, Y.Bhg. Dato’ Santokh Singh and former national Shooter Y.Bhg. Dato’ Sabiahmad Abd. Ahad for being conferred the Darjah Panglima Mahkota Wilayah (P.M.W.), which carries the title “Datuk”, by the SPB Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin on the occasion of Federal Territories Day on 1st February 2011.

Y.Bhg. Dato’ Santokh Singh was a member of the Malaysia Football that qualified for the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, while Y.Bhg. Dato’ Sabiahmad Abd. Ahad represented Malaysia at the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games.

The following officials from the National Sport Associations were also awarded:

Karate

• National Coach Mr. P. Arivalagam – Pingat Kesatria Mahkota Wilayah (K.M.W.)
• Wushu
• Mr. Ho Ro Bin – Darjah Johan Mahkota Wilayah (J.M.W.)
• Mr. Oh Poh Soon – Pingat Kesatria Mahkota Wilayah (K.M.W.)

7th Asian Winter Games, Astana/Almary, Kazakhstan

The Malaysian Ice Hockey team was placed fifth out of seven teams in the Men’s Premier Division After winning its first two matches against Bahrain and Kuwait, by 25 goals to zero and 12 goals to 7 respectively, the Malaysian team lost its remaining 4 matches as follows:

• Malaysia lost to Kyrgyzstan 2 – 23
• Malaysia lost to Thailand 1 – 16
• Malaysia lost to UAE 1 – 7
• Malaysia lost to Mongolia 5 – 6

After the match against Kuwait, a few of the Malaysian players fell ill and were either unable to play or could not play up to their normal standard. Against Kyrgyzstan, 3 players were ill and did not play. Another reason for the loses, was the standard of Ice Hockey in the Premier division had improved a lot and the Malaysian team, without the opportunity to play in a standard Olympic size Ice Hockey rink, was an a great disadvantage playing against teams which have been training and competing in full Olympic size Ice Hockey rinks.

26th SEA Games Sports and Events

The 26th SEA Games Organising Committee has announced, on 25th January 2011, the list of 43 sports and 542 events to be competed in the 26th SEA Games 2011.

The list of sports is as follows:

Olympic Games sports:

Archery (Recurve and Compound), Aquatics (Diving, Swimming, Synchronized Swimming and Water Polo), Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Boxing, Canoeing, Cycling, Equestrian, Fencing, Football (Futsal), Golf, Gymnastics, Judo, Rowing, Sailing, Shooting, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Tennis, Volleyball (Beach and Indoor), Weightlifting, Wrestling (Freestyle and Grego) – 23 sports – 319 events or 58.8% or an average of 13.8 events per sport.

Asian Games sports:

Baseball, Billiards & Snooker, Bowling, Karate, Sepaktakraw, Softball, Soft Tennis, Wushu – 8 sports – 53 events or 9.8% or an average of 6.6 events per sport.

SEA Games sports:

Chess, Fin Swimming, Pencak Silat, Petanque, Traditional Boat Race, Water Ski – 6 sports – 98 events or 18.1% or 16.3 events per sport.

New sports:

Bridge, Paragliding, Roller Sports, Shorinji Kempo, Vovinam, Wall Climbing – 6 sports with 72 events or 13.3% or 12 events per sport.

The above shows that based on the number of sports, the SEA Games sports of 6 sports with 18.1% has the highest number of events per sport, while the Asian Games sport, with only 6.6 events per sport is the lowest.

Advanced Sport Management Course 2011

The 4th Advanced Sport Management Course will be held as follows:

• Session 1 – 24th to 27th February 2011.
• Session 2 – 19th to 22nd May 2011.
• Session 3 – 4th to 7th August 2011.
• Session 4 – 6th to 9th October 2011.

The closing date for application has been extended to Saturday, 19th February 2011 at 12.00 pm. All NSAs are encouraged to send their participants to this course.