Directorate of Sports KP announced Annual Sports calendar 2020-21

Directorate General of Sports Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has announced the calendar of sports competitions for the year 2020-21 after a deadlock for almost five-month due to coronavirus.

The dates of the competitions have also been fixed.

According to the calendar, the U-16 Talent Hunt program, district and provincial level player selection, U-16 Talent Hunt, U-21 Games, U-21 Inter-Region Swimming competitions, Special Sports and Traditional Sports are part of the calendar.

The Under-16 Talent Hunt will include boy’s events like badminton, squash, table tennis, athletics, volleyball, football and hockey while the girl’s games include badminton, table tennis, athletics and volleyball.

Talent hunt competitions will be held across the province in which 1500 to 2000 players from the settled and integrated districts will participate, 700 special players will participate in the games, players will be selected at the district level from September 15-30, 2020.

Special players will be selected from September 25 to 30.

 In the first phase, Under-19 (excluding cricket) two-day trials will be held in 35 districts. In each district, two men and women in badminton, squash, table tennis, five men and four women in athletics, three men in volleyball and three volleyball players would be short-listed.

In the second phase, players will be selected at the provincial level from October 10 to 16 in which trials will be taken from 1700 players, 2500 special players will also participate in the trials.

 Under-21 swimming competitions will be held in Peshawar from September 9 to 11 in which 100 athletes will participate.

Under-21 Inter-District Games include hockey, table tennis, judo, karate, taekwondo, wrestling, basketball, gymnastics, wushu, weightlifting and girls' Volleyball, netball, athletics, tug-of-war, badminton, table tennis and cricket competitions will be held across the province from December 2 to 7 in which 6825 male and female athletes will participate.

Traditional games will be held in seven divisional headquarters from March 10 to April 15, 2021. Three hundred players will participate in the games in each division.

The Khyber Traditional Games will be held from April 25 to April 30, 2021 in Peshawar in which 1400 players will participate.

The individual Games will be held in Peshawar from May 1 to May 25, 2021, with 400 players taking part.

Reported By: Ijaz Ahmad