HRH Prince Fahd bin Jalawi, head of the Saudi mission participating in the Fifth Islamic Solidarity Games, visited the headquarters of the Saudi Arabian mission at the Athletes’ Village in Konya, Turkey.
His Highness met with the players, players and mission administrators and received assurances on all the equipment provided to them and the athletes in particular, expressing his full support for anything that would facilitate their sporting mission to represent the Kingdom in a manner. matching its name.
As for today’s competition, Saudi Arabian runner Abdullah Abkar broke his personal best and the Saudi Arabian record in the 100 meters by finishing second in the final of the race with a time of 9.95 seconds, announcing that he had won the silver medal in the 100 meters. , who ranked in athletics.
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Abkar had previously violated the Saudi number and his personal number by taking first place in the semi-finals of the race, which took place in the evening, with a time of 9.96 seconds, thus registering his name as the first Saudi to break 10-. second hurdle in competition history.
Fellow jumper Hussain Al Khizam won silver in the pole jump competition with a jump of 5.40m.
With these two silver medals, the number of Kingdom medals has grown to five (three silver and two bronze).
In other track and field results, Hassan Doshi finished sixth in the triple jump after jumping 15.90 meters, while his colleague Mohammed Daoud was eliminated from the 100 meters, placing third in the semi-finals of the race with a time of 10.30 seconds, and runner Mohammed Al-Maawi placed seventh in the final of the 400m hurdles with a time of 50.32 seconds.
Today’s track and field event culminated in shooter Mohamed Tolo with the silver medal in shot put he won last night.
In football competition, the Saudi Arabia Under-23 team is looking for a place in the second group and advancement to the final rounds when tomorrow, Wednesday, at 13:30, they meet their Moroccan counterpart. the team did a reflexive exercise in the Mission Residence gym, and the other group did a tactical exercise on the field, followed by work on set pieces.
In the table tennis competition, the Saudi Arabian team consisting of Ali Al-Khadrawi, Khaled Al-Sharif, Abdulaziz Bou Shalibi and Turki Al-Mutairi reached the quarterfinals of the team competition, defeating the teams of Kyrgyzstan and Lebanon, respectively, with a score of 3: 0 in the meeting, who brought them together this morning.
At the Paralympic swimming competitions, Turki Al-Mutairi reached the final of tomorrow’s 50m freestyle and 100m breaststroke. Ibrahim Al-Marzouki finished fifth in the 50m freestyle with a score of 51.07 seconds.
In the taekwondo competition, the duet of Fahd Al Samih (54 kg) and Donia Abu Taleb (53 kg) lost in the quarterfinals of the competition, which took place this morning.
Donia advanced to the quarter-finals after beating Somali Munira Abdel Wahed in two clean rounds before losing in two rounds to world No. 4 Iranian Nahed Zadeh and No. 1 in Asia.
While her colleague Al-Samih beat Chafian Bara Jof by two rounds before losing to Kazakhstan’s Jakir Bey in the quarter-finals by the same result, and their colleague Riyad Al-Dafari was defeated by Jordanian Mahmoud Al-Tarar in two rounds . against a round in the 58 kg category.
The Saudi Arabian national handball team will begin their participation in the tournament against their Moroccan counterpart, while the Paralympic swimming competitions will continue at ten in the morning, and athletics competitions at four in the evening, as well as gymnastics and taekwondo competitions. Hisham Al-Dukhi (68 kg) and Hamad Al-Mabrouk (63 kg) competitions will continue at nine in the morning, and the table tennis team quarter-final competition will be held at ten in the morning, while the wrestling and shooting competitions will begin at nine in the morning.