Dates for a Chef de Mission Seminar ahead of the Asian Beach Games have been confirmed ©Danang 2016

A major test ahead of the Asian Beach Games will take place on June 1 when representatives from all 45 National Olympic Committees travel to Danang for a Chef de Mission Seminar.

They will meet for a one-day seminar at the Royal Lotus Hotel in the central Vietnamese city, organisers from the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) have announced.

The visit will also include a venue tour.

It will come less than four months before the Opening Ceremony of the 10-day Games on September 24 and will be a key opportunity to assess various challenges observed over recent months.

This has included concerns over the cash flow for the Games.

Celebrations last September took place to mark one year to go until the Asian Beach Games ©Danang 2016
Celebrations last September took place to mark one year to go until the Asian Beach Games ©Danang 2016

Fourteen sports are due to be contested, consisting of 22 disciplines and 172 medals events.

These include aquatics sports - including marathon swimming and beach water polo - beach kabaddi, beach soccer, beach volleyball, beach handball, basketball 3x3, beach sepaktakraw, beach shuttlecock, beach petanque, beach bodybuilding, beach woodball, coastal rowing, beach athletics and beach martial arts.

Wrestling, sambo, ju-jitsu, kurash, pencak silat, vovinam and muay thai will all be held under the martial arts umbrella.

In total, around 5,000 people are expected to take part, including team and technical officials as well as athletes.

It will mark the fifth edition of the Asian Beach Games after Bali, Indonesia in 2008, Muscat, Oman in 2010, Haiyang, China in 2012 and Phuket, Thailand in 2014. 

The OCA General Assembly is also due to take place in Danang on the first day of the Games on September 25.