The National Olympic Committee, Sri Lanka (NOC Sri Lanka) is conducting a national level painting/drawing contest on behalf of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) for children under 13 years to mark the celebration of ‘Asian Games for All’ by giving everyone the chance to be involved in the games to be held in Hangzhou in 2022 and live the experience regardless of age, gender, or athletic ability to get involved to promote the Asian Games.
The “Asian Games for All” project aims to engage Asian societies all over the continent, to give everyone the chance to be involved in these games and live the experience regardless of age, gender, or athletic ability to get involved to promote the Asian Games. “Asian Games for All” is a brace to express the harmony and spirit of the team and the country’s best representation.
The project, the Asian Games Drawing Contest offers the opportunity for primary school students in Asia to express their imagination and understanding of the Hangzhou Asian Games and to show their support for their favourite athletes in their own country or region or to draw their favourite sport.
The NOC SL invites children under 13 to engage and promote the concept “Asian Games for All” by sending your drawing expressing your imagination and understanding of the Hangzhou Asian Games and to show their support for their favorite athletes in Sri Lanka or region or to draw their favorite sport. If you are interested, please notify your willingness through submitting a drawing on the theme highlighted above.
A national level painting/drawing will firstly be conducted for kids under 13 years old to select the top 10 drawings (5 boys and 5 girls) from Sri Lanka. Those best 10 drawings will be sent to China for the Asian level contest to select the best four drawings (2 boys and 2 girls) in Asia.
Children who are 13 years and below on March 31, 2022. That means child should be born after March 31, 2009.
Interested candidates are encouraged to register online via https://forms.gle/3ouBJu13hPJHqabj6 on or before May 8, 2022. Then, the registered candidates will be briefed virtually about the contest on May 9, 2022 at 5.30 p.m.
The link for the briefing about the contest:
The deadline for the online submission of your painting/drawing is May 13, 2022. The best 50 paintings/drawings will be selected for the next stage of the contest and that will be notified on May 17, 2022. Then, there will be an online workshop for the best 50 contestants on May 17, 2022 on virtual.
Finally, the selected 50 candidates will have to draw their best again on May 21, 2022 and that contest will be held at Olympic House, Colombo 07.
The judges’ decision will be final and no appeal will be entertained.
Your submission should be via email. You may scan or take a good quality photo using a mobile phone of your painting/drawing and send it to nocsrilanka@gmail.com along with a scanned birth certificate. Do not forget to mention the below details in your email.
- NOC Sri Lanka
