India to host equestrian tent pegging World Cup qualifiers
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World Cup qualifiers for equestrian tent pegging shall be held in Greater Noida from MaRch 11 to 14. The qualifiers shall be hosted collectively by the Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) and Equiwings Sports, a personal agency organising the game in India.
Among the seven nations that shall be collaborating within the qualifiers shall be Pakistan, thus making it the primary occasion in India in a yr by which athletes from the nation shall be collaborating. Russia, USA, Belarus, Sudan, Bahrain and hosts India would be the different six competing nations. The groups that end within the prime two will compete on the World Cup scheduled to be held in South Africa in 2023.
The final occasion by which a Pakistan staff competed in India was the Asian Wrestling Championships that was held in New Delhi in February 2020.
World Cup Qualifiers shall be part of The Penta Grand 2021; which additionally consists of National Equestrian Tent Pegging Championship, the Half Million Cup and the Noida Horse Show to be held on the Gautam Buddha University Sports Stadium, Greater Noida from March 3 to 14.
“Efforts are being made by the Federation (EFI) through a constant dialogue with Asian Equestrian federation (AEF) to get Tent Pegging re-included in the Asian Games,” mentioned EFI secretary common Jaiveer Singh.
Tent Pegging is a sport that includes a mounted horseman using at a gallop and makes use of a sword or a lance to pierce pickup and carry away a small floor goal symbolic of a tent peg. It was included as an official sport by Olympic Council of Asia in 1982 and is an International schedule sport as we speak.
