Cuban indoor and beach volleyball officials and coaches have arrived in Phnom Penh to provide technical assistance and coaching for the Cambodian national team. The visit comes as the Kingdom’s national teams, particularly beach volleyball, ramp up their preparations to be competing for medals when the Kingdom hosts the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) next year. Bringing in the four Cuban technical officers and coaches is part of a collaboration between the Volleyball Federation of Cambodia (VFC) and the Cuban embassy in Phnom Penh. Karell Pena Ventoza is the beach volleyball coach and Berto Friol Barrios the indoor volleyball coach,…
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The leaders of the Cambodia Gymnastics Federation (CGF) and their athletes are working together to realise their dream of claiming their first gold at the Aerobic Gymnastics Asian Championships. This year’s champs, the 7th, will be held in Thailand from September 1-6. The federation will send a party of 18 delegates, including eight female and five male athletes. Two international judges and sundry coaching staff make up the remainder of the party. CGF secretary-general Noy Phanna told The Post on August 24 that their ambition is to return to Cambodia with nothing less than gold. This is the fourth time…
The Cambodian SEA Games Organising Committee (CAMSOC) is paying close attention to preparations ahead of its hosting of the 41st Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly, scheduled to take place in Phnom Penh from October 1-5. CAMSOC, under the auspices of Minister of National Defence General Tea Banh, has already received the support of Prime Minister Hun Sen to host the rare OCA General Assembly and is eagerly anticipating the opportunity to welcome the high-profile leaders of about 400 major sports institutions from around the world. According to CAMSOC secretary-general Vath Chamroeun, 400 sports leaders from around the world,…
From provincial girl who could not afford a uniform or sneakers to play to national representative, Phorn Chenda’s story is a lesson in determination. Originally from Boeung Kuk village and commune of Kampong Cham town and province, Chenda started playing sports to keep fit in 2016, when she was in grade 7. Encouragement from her family and friends – and notably Huot Vutty, head of the Kampong Cham provincial Sports League – led to a rapid improvement in her badminton skills. In less than a year, she had gone from a casual player of the game to one of her…
With the Kingdom set to host the 32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in 2023, Cambodian tennis players weighed in on what they thought their chances of medaling would be. Experienced 29-year-old player Long Samneang – who won bronze in the team event at the 2011 SEA Games in Indonesia – said he did not have high hopes of winning in the singles matches, but thought the doubles events might offer a path to the podium. For example, he said, in 2011 Vietnam was ranked lower than Cambodia, but now they are very strong – claiming old at this year’s…
Minister of National Defence General Tea Banh, who also chairs the organising committees for next year’s SEA Games and ASEAN Para Games, announced that 5,270 soldiers will participate in the opening and closing ceremonies of the biennial multi-sports event. “In his role as president of the Cambodian SEA Games Organising Committee (CAMSOC), Tea Banh decided to utilise the troops to support the committee’s work, especially the opening and closing ceremonies,” said CAMSOC secretary-general Vath Chamroeun. Minister of Tourism and CAMSOC permanent vice-president Thong Khon instructed Chamroeun to meet with stakeholders led by CAMSOC deputy secretary-general Khieu Chhen, as well as…
Minister of Tourism Thong Khon has urged the promotion of several public awareness campaigns – including one to reduce road accidents and drugs use at target areas identified by the Cambodian SEA Games Organising Committee (CAMSOC) – as the Kingdom prepares to host the biennial multi-sports event next year. Khon, who is also permanent vice-chair of CAMSOC and president of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC), urged the NOCC’s Commission on Culture, Environment and Sports Education to take responsibility for advancing the goals of the campaigns, especially in Phnom Penh. According to Top Sopheak, chairman of the commission, the…
Korsak Chairasmisak, co-vice-chairman of Thailand-based CP All Public, promised Prime Minister Hun Sen that he would sponsor 30 Cambodian children to study Go, a strategy game sometimes referred to as “Chinese chess”. He proposed that the students study in Thailand, and offered to cover all expenses. During an August 16 courtesy call at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Korsak told the premier that his current visit was to contribute to Cambodia’s human resource development. The strategy game consists of black and white balls that are moved around a board. The game originated in China around 3,000 years ago. Korsak,…
Cambodia’s women’s hockey team made history and received a timely confidence boost ahead of the 2023 Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) with a 3-0 victory over Singapore at the 2022 Women’s Indoor Hockey Asia Cup, which concluded on August 15. The historic win at the Indoor Stadium Huamark in the Thai capital Bangkok was the Cambodian women’s hockey team first since the federation was re-established 12 years ago. Kaing Sothea, secretary-general of the Cambodian Hockey Federation (CHF), said the victory raised the profile of the sport in the Kingdom. Sothea hailed the support of the Cambodian SEA Games Organising Committee…
Cambodia is determined to ensure that match-fixings are strictly forbidden in the 64th SEA Games next year, which it hosts for the first time, in a bid to uphold the principle of justice, fairness and transparency. Cambodia also vies for more gold medals and hopes to better its medal tally position among other countries, an aspiration it holds despite being the host, said Cambodian SEA Games Organising Committee (CAMSOC) secretary-general Vath Chamroeun. “On that basis, Cambodia would not allow any scandal involving the fixing of results to win medals in any sport,” he reiterated. Citing the advice of Deputy Prime…