Kuwait Olympic Committee : Important Dates

1957-1958 A.D:

Jassem al Katami headed, for one year, the first KOC board of directors. Afterwards a decree was issued in stopping and freezing the sports activities including the bodies that take care of directing these sports. This council was considered as the starting point to set the Kuwait sports movement on a new track.

1962-1969 A.D:

After being off the scene for 3 years, the Kuwait Olympic committee was reestablished on the 17th of April 1962 and some amendments were made by which a representative of the ministry of education and another from the ministry of social affairs and labor became members in the board of directors.
Issa al Ahmad headed the committee for approximately 8 fruitful years.

1969-1974 A.D:

On the 10th of March 1969 a new board of directors was elected headed by Ahmad Mouhana. However the board of directors didn’t last for long since seven members including the head signed their resignation, so the general assembly held a meeting on the 14th of November 1970 and elected seven new members and Abdullah Dakhil al Rachid as the head of the new council. It is to be noted that before this period, Khalid Ahmad al Ahmad was responsible of administrating the Olympic committee and that is when the members resigned and he was the head of the Kuwaiti volleyball federation.

1974-1990 A.D:

Sheikh al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah was the head of the KOC for three consecutive elections starting the first time on the 5th of May till the 12th of February 1977, then from the latter till the 17th of March 1980, then from the latter till the 2nd of August 1990. This is when Baghdad’s leader and army invaded the Kuwaiti lands. During this period life froze in Kuwait, but the striving of its citizens who dedicated their lives for their country kept on going.
However the consequences of this strive was the death of 31 sportsmen among which was the late Sheikh Fahed al Ahmad al Jaber. In addition to that the invading forces imprisoned 34 sportsmen among hundreds of the Kuwaiti prisoners. Sheikh Fahed al Ahmad’s administrative period of the sports committee was distinctive in a way that sports developed and started occupying an important place in society. The 2nd of October 1981 left an important trace in the history of the Kuwaiti sports movement and the Kuwaiti Olympic committee in a way that at 1:00 pm Khwan Antonio Smaranch head of the international Olympic committee declared the election of Sheikh Fahed al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah for the membership of the international Olympic committee and this election was made by the nine members at the executive office.

From 1990 to 2001:

after the late Sheikh Fahed al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah, who was considered a loss to international, Arab and Kuwaiti sports, Sheikh Ahmad Fahed al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah (his son) headed the committee’s board of directors on 2/8/1990 and stayed in office till 12 March 2001A.D, where Sheikh Talal Fahed al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah was assigned as the head of the committee. The general assembly recommended in assigning him as the successor of Sheikh Ahmad al Fahed who undertook the responsibility of the ministry of information’s portfolio after he had spent a period of time as the head of the KOC. Regardless of the situation in Kuwait regarding the Iraqi occupation at that time the committee pursued its work and achieved a lot for the sports movement and it was able to freeze the Iraqis participation in all the congregations.

Sheikh Ahmad Fahed al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah was the 8th president of the KOC.
The committee was headed, since its establishment, by: Jassem al Katami, Issa Ahmad al hamad, Ahmad Mouhana Muhammad, Abdullah al Dakhil al Rachid, the late Sheikh Fahed al Ahmad, Sheikh Ahmad al Hamoud al Jaber al Sabbah, Sheikh Salman al Hamoud al Salman al Sabbah and then the return of the late Sheikh Fahed al Ahmad until the Iraqis aggression on Kuwait and its people. Following was Sheikh Ahmad Fahed al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabbah and currently Sheikh Talal Fahed al Ahmad is heading the committee. The committee had an important role during the Iraqi aggressions in a way that through its sports activities that spread in the Arab world, it raised Kuwait’s unfortunate situation to the rest of the world, where the world’s sportsmen sympathized with Kuwait and its people through their total certainty of the convincing evidences that were raised. This then proves that sports and the country’s general and private policy are two inseparable entities.