Kuwait at the 2025 Asian Winter Games

Kuwait at the 2025 Asian Winter Games
Flag of Kuwait
IOC code	KUW
NOC	Kuwait Olympic Committee
Website	www.kuwaitolympic.org
in Harbin, China 7 February 2025 (2025-02-07) – 14 February 2025 (2025-02-14)
Competitors	25 in 4 sports
Flag bearer	Mohammed Al Duaij & Fatema Abdulateef
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Asian Winter Games appearances
1996 1999 2003 2007 2011 2017 2025 2029
Other related appearances
Athletes from Kuwait (2011)   Independent Olympic Athletes (2017)

Kuwait competed at the 2025 Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China, from February 7 to 14. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

The Kuwaiti team consisted of 25 athletes. ^{[4] [5]} During the opening ceremony, hockey player Mohammed Al Duaij and curler Fatema Abdulateef were the country's flagbearers. ^[6]

Competitors

The following table lists the Kuwaiti delegation per sport and gender. ^[7]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Alpine skiing	2	0	2
Curling	1	1	2
Freestyle skiing	1	0	1
Ice hockey	20	0	20
Total	24	1	25

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2025 Asian Winter Games

Kuwait entered two male alpine skiers. ^[7]

Athlete	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Faris Al Obaid	Men's slalom	1:23.90	45	1:21.72	39	2:45.62	39
Abdulrahman Al Wahibi		1:21.34	44	1:18.52	38	2:39.86	38

Curling

Main article: Curling at the 2025 Asian Winter Games

Kuwait entered two curlers. ^[7]

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage						Qualification	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Fatema Abdulateef Saud Alkandari	Mixed doubles	Mongolia W 6–5	Thailand L 3–12	Chinese Taipei L 3–13	Hong Kong L 2–11	Japan L	5	Did not advance			10

Mixed doubles tournament

Main article: Curling at the 2025 Asian Winter Games – Mixed doubles

Kuwait entered a mixed doubles pair. Abdulateef and Alkandari finished fourth in their group in the preliminary stage.

Round robin

Group A Athletes W L W–L PF PA EW EL BE SE DSC   Japan Tori Koana / Go Aoki 5 0 – 49 8 21 5 0 15 57.23   Hong Kong Ling-Yue Hung / Martin Yan 4 1 – 46 26 19 17 0 8 56.68   Chinese Taipei Chou Yi-hsuan / Liu Bor-kai 3 2 – 44 25 20 14 0 9 65.56   Thailand Chanatip Sonkham / Teekawin Jearateerawit 2 3 – 29 46 14 20 0 7 142.12   Kuwait Fatema Abdulateef / Saud Alkandari 1 4 – 14 41 12 17 0 4 197.23   Mongolia Enkhzaya Ganbat / Bayar Bulgankhuu 0 5 – 16 52 11 24 0 2 134.74 Draw 1 Tuesday, 4 February, 10:00 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Kuwait (Abdulateef / Alkandari) 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 1 6   Mongolia (Ganbat / Bulgankhuu) 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 0 5 Draw 2 Tuesday, 4 February, 14:00 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Thailand (Sonkham / Jearateerawit) 0 1 4 1 0 4 2 X 12   Kuwait (Abdulateef / Alkandari) 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 X 3 Draw 3 Wednesday, 5 February, 10:00 Sheet E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Chinese Taipei (Chou / Liu) 2 0 5 2 0 0 4 X 13   Kuwait (Abdulateef / Alkandari) 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 X 3 Draw 4 Wednesday, 5 February, 14:00 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Kuwait (Abdulateef / Alkandari) 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 X 2   Hong Kong (Hung / Yan) 5 1 0 1 2 2 0 X 11 Draw 7 Thursday, 6 February, 14:00 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Final   Japan (Koana / Aoki) 5 5 W   Kuwait (Abdulateef / Alkandari) 0 0 L Kuwait forfeited the game after end 2 as a player was feeling unwell and could not continue to play. [8] Freestyle skiing Main article: Freestyle skiing at the 2025 Asian Winter Games Kuwait entered one male freestyle skier. [7] Men Athlete Event Qualification Final Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best Rank Salman Al-Kandari Halfpipe Did not start Slopestyle 42.00 DNI DNI 42.00 10 Ice hockey Main article: Ice hockey at the 2025 Asian Winter Games Men's tournament Main article: Ice hockey at the 2025 Asian Winter Games – Men's tournament Kuwait qualified a men's hockey team. The Kuwaiti team qualified after being ranked as one of the top 12 teams in Asia on the IIHF World Ranking as of May 2024. [9] Kuwait was represented by the following 20 athletes: [10] Barvik Adam (G) Mashari Al-Ajmi (F) Abdullah Al-Asousi (F) Jasem Al-Awadhi (D) Abdulrazaq Al-Daei (D) Mohammed Al-Duaij (D) Meshal Al-Foudari (D) Abdulaziz Al-Khashan (F) Abdulmohsen Al-Khashram (F) Abdulaziz Al-Maraghy (F) Abdullah Al-Maragi (F) Mohammad Al-Maraqi (D) Salem Al-Mari (F) Zaid Al-Saied (G) Valery Budzevich (F) Ilia Drozdetskikh (F) Khalaf Khalaf (D) Anton Tcibin (D) Kamil Vavra (F) Bojan Zidarevic (F) Legend: G = Goalie, D = Defense, F = Forward Group stage Pos Team v t e Pld W OTW OTL L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation 1   Kyrgyzstan 3 2 1 0 0 49 10 +39 8 Quarterfinals 2   Kuwait 3 2 0 1 0 52 12 +40 7 Ranking playoffs 3   Singapore 3 1 0 0 2 25 22 +3 3 4   Bahrain 3 0 0 0 3 1 83 −82 0 Source: Asian Winter Games 2025 3 February 2025 (2025-02-03) 9:00 Kuwait   8–9 OT (5–3, 2–2, 1–3) (OT: 0–1)   Kyrgyzstan Harbin Ice Hockey Arena, Harbin Attendance: 1,837 Game reference Referee: Shen Yen-chin Linesmen: Fu Dahe Su Won-il 5 February 2025 (2025-02-05) 9:00 Singapore   3–10 (0–3, 0–4, 3–3)   Kuwait Harbin Sport University Student Skating Hall, Harbin Attendance: 383 Game reference Referee: Timur Morev Linesmen: Choi Do-yeon Zhu Jialin 9 February 2025 (2025-02-09) 21:00 Bahrain   0–34 (0–10, 0–10, 0–14)   Kuwait Harbin Ice Hockey Arena, Harbin Attendance: 907 Game reference Referee: Li Ho Ching Linesmen: Timur Iskakov Su Won-il Ninth place game 10 February 2025 (2025-02-10) 17:00 Kuwait   8–4 (3–2, 3–2, 2–0)   Turkmenistan Harbin Sport University Student Skating Hall, Harbin Attendance: 668 Game reference Referees: Anton Boryayev Chae Young-jin Linesmen: Gao Yinfeng Zhu Jialin References "Record-high 34 countries and regions will participate in Harbin Asian Winter Games". 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