The annual “Macau Women’s Sports Carnival” is slated for March 21 (Saturday) in the city’s main square, Largo do Senado (議事亭前地), and on the following day at the Tap Seac Multi-Sports Pavilion, aiming to enable women to participate in sport through different means, the Sports Bureau’s (ID) Sports Development Department Chief Chao Kuok Wai announced in a press conference yesterday.
The press conference about the sports carnival took place at the bureau’s headquarters in Zape.
The two-day event, jointly hosted by the bureau and the Macau Women’s General Association (commonly known as Fu Luen in Cantonese), will be divided into two parts, namely the mass sports fitness display and the inter-team sports competition.
On the first day of the carnival, women’s groups and associations from Macau, other cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) and the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin as well as local public fitness interest classes’ coaches and trainees will demonstrate different sports with regional characteristics on March 21 at 4:30 p.m. in Largo do Senado.
The second day of the carnival at the Tap Seac Multi-Sports Pavilion will begin at 9 a.m. on March 22.
According to the press conference, female residents born between 1966 and 2008 can form their own teams and sign up under the name of local women’s organisations or other institutions to participate. The participants will be divided into Group A (1986 to 2008) and Group B (1966 to 1985) based on age; initially, the maximum number of teams is set at 70. If the registration quotas are fully booked, an increase in the number of teams will be considered, Chao added.
Chao said in a speech during yesterday’s press conference that in addition to continuing to invite women’s organisations from cities in the GBA and the in-depth cooperation zone in Hengqin to participate in the event this year, the event will also invite women’s organisations from other mainland cities to join, aiming to promote sport exchanges between Macau and mainland cities, as well as the Greater Bay Area and Hengqin.
Female residents can register via the ID website www.buy.gooutmall.com/macauwomenssportsfestival – applications can until March 13 (Friday) at 12 p.m.
Women’s General Association of Macau Vice President Ng Ka Teng (left) and the Sports Bureau’s (ID) Sports Development Department Chief Chao Kuok Wai pose during yesterday’s press conference about the upcoming Macau Women’s Sports Carnival, at the ID headquarters in Zape. – Photo: Ida Cheong
