{"id":50701,"date":"2021-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/?guid=cb961504f6512a4d9f753054919eb49b"},"modified":"2021-08-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T00:00:00","slug":"kuwait-womens-handball-side-set-to-compete-in-first-international-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwaitnewsgazette.com\/kuwait-womens-handball-side-set-to-compete-in-first-international-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuwait women&#8217;s handball side set to compete in first international event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/P><P>&#8211; Kuwait will face a tough test in their first international competitive tournament after being drawn alongside 2018 finalists Japan in the 2021 Asian Women&#8217;s Handball Championship, slated for Amman on September 15.<\/P><P>The Kuwaitis will also face Afghanistan, India, Iran and host nation, Jordan, in Group B, while Group A includes reigning champions, South Korea, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Singapore and Uzbekistan, the draw revealed on Wednesday.<\/P><P>This year&#8217;s event will be held without the attendance of spectators due to fears over the spread of COVID-19, organisers said.<\/P><P>The group draw was administered by Kuwaitis Bader Al-Theyab, International Handball Federation (IHF) Vice-President and Asian Handball Federation (AHF) Treasurer, and Asian Handball Federation Executive Director Ahmed Abu Al-Lail. <\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: Kuwait News Agency<\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Kuwait will face a tough test in their first international competitive tournament after being drawn alongside 2018 finalists Japan in the 2021 Asian Women&#8217;s Handball Championship, slated for Amman on September 15.The Kuwaitis will also face Afghanist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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