Muscat, ONA) - The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Swimming Organizing Committee held its meeting chaired by Taha bin Sulaiman Al-Koshari, Chairman of the Oman Swimming Association and Chairman of the Organizing Committee, via video conferencing.

Qais bin Saud Al-Zakwani, Secretary General of the Committee, Abdullah Mubarak Al-Zahmi, member of the committee, representative of the United Arab Emirates Swimming Association, Ali Saleh Aoun, member of the committee, representative of the Saudi Swimming Association, Talal Al-Darwish, member of the committee, representative of the Qatar Swimming Association, Thamer Al-Shamroukh, member of the committee, representative of the Kuwait Swimming Association, and Ahmed Muhammad, member of the committee, representative of the Bahrain Swimming Association participated in the meeting.

During the meeting, many topics on the agenda were discussed, as the attendees approved the minutes of the previous meeting No. 65, which was held in Kuwait on September 7, 2019. The program and activities of the Swimming Organizing Committee for the year 2021 were discussed, as it was agreed to delay tournaments scheduled for 2020 to 2021.

The United Arab Emirates will host the 16th swimming championships for short pools in February 2021, while the 18th open water swimming championship will be held in October 2021 in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the 28th water games tournament will be held in the State of Qatar in August 2021.

Furthermore, during the meeting, letters received by the committee from the General Secretariat and the member Gulf federations were reviewed, and Muhammad Al Sahili, in charge of the work of the technical expert at the Oman Swimming Association, was chosen to be the technical coordinator for the organizing committee.

(ONA)