Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, May 1 (Reporter Feng Guodong, Li Jinfeng) on the morning of the 1st, the table tennis test competition of the 7th World Military Games and the 2019 Wuhan Youth table tennis competition were located in the opening area of Wuhan airport port (East West Lake District) wuhan fifth ring sport center gymnasium kicked off.
The table tennis test competition is organized and implemented by the military games executive committee. A total of 186 young athletes from 9 urban areas in Wuhan participated in the competition that day. During the three-day competition, they will compete in three age groups and seven projects.
9-year-old Qiao Yujin, a contestant, said: “I was a little nervous when I played in such a beautiful stadium for the first time. The venue is ‘high-end ‘. After the opening of this year’s military games, parents must bring me here to watch the game.”
Peng Tao, director of Wuhan competition committee and district chief of Dongxihu district of Wuhan City People’s Government, said that this event was an all-round test of table tennis venues of the military games, it aims to comprehensively examine various preparations of table tennis project, so as to sum up experience and find problems, and provide reference for running table tennis competition of military games well.
The 7th World Military Games will be held in Wuhan from October 18-27. At that time, nearly 10,000 active soldiers from more than 100 countries and regions will compete on the same stage.