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The 5th edition of the 2022 Islamic Solidarity Games even will be held from 9 to 18 August at Konya, Turkey under the aegis of Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF). It will be the first time in history that the event will be organised by the Turkish Olympic Committee.
It was formerly scheduled to take place from 20 to 29 August 2020, but in July 2020, it was postponed to be held from 10 to 19 September 2021 by the ISSF. This was done due to the original dates that were coinciding with the 2020 Summer Olympics, which were also later postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2021, the ISSF postponed the event to August 2022 citing the COVID-19 pandemic situation in the participating countries.
In October 2019, Organizing Committee in cooperation with Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) announced following 24 disciplines from 21 sports to be contested in this edition of Islamic Solidarity Games. Some sports also included their Paralympic counterpart as athletics, judo, swimming, and weightlifting. In March 2022, the final program was announced with 22 disciplines from 19 sports including 4 para sports. In relation with the program from 5 years early, the organizers choose to remove 6 sports: water polo, diving, field hockey, tennis, wushu and zurkhaneh. At their place they choose to add archery, boccia, fencing and kickboxing. At the Paralympics’ events, para powerlifting and blind judo was dropped and their place was added para table tennis and para-archery. Along this event, in archery was included 4 extra events with the Traditional Turkish Archery discipline.
It is expected that the 57 members of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation will present at the Games. In July 2022 Iraq withdrew from participation in protests against the Turkish bombing of Iraq.
The Maldives Basketball Associations Men’s 3×3 team has already departed for the games this week.
Photo Credits: Maldives Basketball Association
