Qatar reveals Doha 2019 mascot

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Falah - an athletic hawk embellished in the Qatari banner's maroon shading - was revealed as the official mascot of the Doha 2019 World Athletics Championships amid a service at Qatar Foundation's Awsaj Academy on the event of the yearly National Sports Day.

The triumphant plan of the mascot for the Middle East's first-historically speaking World Athletics Championships was reported after an across the country rivalry here yesterday.

The President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC),

H E Sheik Joaan container Hamad Al Thani, and a large group of present and future Team Qatar competitors were available for the uncovering function.

Likewise present were more than 490 youngsters from a various scope of nearby and universal schools crosswise over Doha, who participated in a progression of games related exercises to praise the dispatch of Falah with the assistance of Team Qatar's 400m sprinter Mariam Farid and a gathering of Aspire Academy's promising competitors.

The youngsters partook in various rousing and instructive games exercises, composed by the IAAF and executed however the Qatar Athletics Federation and Tsukuba University, who are a piece of the Tokyo 2020 inheritance program, Sports for Tomorrow.

The University of Tsukunba has collaborated with the IAAF in motivating youthful kids through game in this joint program which began in Rio in 2016 and will finish up in Tokyo in 2020.

The choice of Falah pursued a careful and detailed procedure in which an aggregate of 21 outlines were submitted to the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) from inhabitants of Qatar before a multi-arranged casting a ballot procedure occurred to choose the champ.Young ambassadors aged 8-16 were invited to vote for their favourite designs as Team Qatar’s hammer thrower Ashraf Amgad El Seify introduced and explained the sketches to them. The young ambassadors’ vote narrowed the competing designs down to eight. Then QOC President H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani and LOC staff cut the selection down to a shortlist of three final designs.

Falah a character with close connections to the Qatari culture and heritage, was finally chosen as the eventual winner.

The winning sketch was designed by Theodore Paul Manuel, a Filipino expat.

Explaining her vote for Falah, nine-year-old Maria from Park House School said: “I really like falcons, so I liked Falah a lot and he also looks like a superhero in his outfit which is what athletes are. So strong, powerful, and fast!”

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