Tomorrow (Thursday) the fourth World Cup Peg Picking Championship will start in George, South Africa, with the participation of elite peg picking teams from different countries of the world. The stakes are hosted by South Africa with the participation of our national team, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Oman, Pakistan, India, Norway and South Africa.
Tomorrow (Thursday) the fourth World Cup Peg Picking Championship will start in George, South Africa, with the participation of elite peg picking teams from different countries of the world. The stakes are hosted by South Africa with the participation of our national team, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Oman, Pakistan, India, Norway and South Africa.
Technical meeting
The technical meeting of the teams was held at the residence of the participating teams, in the presence of Muhammad bin Issa Al-Fayrouz, President of the International Peg Picking Federation, Haitham bin Muhammad Jawad Al-Lawati, Secretary-General of the International Federation, and representatives of the Organizing Committee including the Technical Commissioner, Chairman of the Arbitration Committee, Chairman of the Appeal Committee and Chairman of the Veterinary Committee, in addition to the heads of delegations of the participating teams And the coaches of the teams. During the meeting, all the requirements for the tournament were clarified through a speech delivered by the tournament director, Jerrold Menard, in which he talked about the number of horses that were provided for the competition, which numbered (56) horses, and the mechanism for drawing the lottery for entering the teams and horses, as well as the distribution of horses in the cleats that It was allocated in the field of the tournament, after which Dr. Saad Al-Hilali, head of the veterinary committee, spoke about the veterinary committee examining all the horses yesterday and making sure of their safety and readiness to participate and focused on the importance of not exhausting the horses. After that, Moftah Al-Harassi, head of the Referees Committee, and Abed Tarin, the technical commissioner of the tournament, talked about the special laws and regulations Picking pegs championship and focused on the importance of the safety of riders and kindness to horses.
The lottery for the participating teams
After that, a lottery was held for the teams participating in the World Cup to pick up the pegs in South Africa 2023 AD, as the lottery resulted in the entry of our national team into the fifth ranking of the teams, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia came in the first place to enter the participating teams, followed by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, then South Africa, then the Sultanate of Oman, then Norway and seventh India The eighth is the Egyptian team and the ninth is Pakistan.
Horses lottery
Then the delegations of the participating teams went to the field of the tournament in order to inspect the field designated for the competition, as well as to attend the draw for the distribution of horses to the knights participating in the tournament, and our national team got four horses with numbers 51, 6, 3, 8,52
The draw was held in an atmosphere of familiarity and love among the participating teams, in preparation for the honorable competition in this international championship that brings together the world champions in the sport of peg picking.
Cool atmosphere
The city of George, South Africa, the city that hosts the World Cup, witnesses picking pegs during this period, with cold weather and sometimes rainy weather.
High spirits
The mission of our national team, headed by Dr. Kamal Al-Sharif, includes Kamal Al-Taweel as deputy head of the mission, and the knights enter, and the knights of our national team enter with high spirits and their eyes looking forward to the first World Cup title for Yemen, led by the national coach Jamal Al-Taweel. Abdulaziz Omar and Knight Abdullah Al-Maghribi