JUST days after being awarded the FIFA World Cup 2022, Qatar launched a bid for another major team sport world championship.
Qatar Olympic Committee and Qatar Handball Federation have submitted a bid to host the 2015 Men’s World Handball Championship.
The event concept recently delivered to the International Handball Federation (IHF), offers new opportunities for handball, for the World Championship and for the IHF – Qatar 2015: New Times, New Start.
Qatar 2015 would be the first handball world championship ever hosted in the region. The bid of Qatar would offer an opportunity to innovatively promote handball to a new audience, to set new standards of excellence for the world championship and to further strengthen the role, status and reach of the IHF.
For the first time, the 2015 Handball World Championship could be hosted in a single city as all of the required competition and training halls and hotels are available in the capital of Doha.
The concept for Qatar 2015 focuses not only on the event itself, but also on creating new opportunities for the IHF by developing a new market and showcasing handball’s commitment to universality and worldwide development.
Qatar 2015 has the full support of the Qatari government through the Qatar National Vision 2030 – a plan that bridges government and sport, within which the FIFA World Cup will be one of the drivers.
The bid team was to make a first technical presentation to the IHF in Basel, Switzerland on December 10. The final presentation and decision will be made in January 2011 in
Qatar Handball president and chairman of Qatar 2015, Ahmed Mohammed Al-Shaabi, says: