The Saudi national teams participating in the Fifth Islamic Solidarity Sports Games Konya 2021 won 5 medals yesterday, bringing the total number of medals to 12 (one gold, seven silver and four bronze).
Saudi weightlifter Mansour Al Salim won gold in snatch, silver in netter and overall in the 55kg weight class, while His Highness Prince Fahd bin Jalawi bin Abdulaziz bin Musaed, head of the Saudi mission, will take part in the Islamic session. , and Al Salim won medals by lifting 115 kg in the snatch and 137 kg in nitrates, scoring a total of 252 points.
In the table tennis competition, Saudi Arabian team players Ali Al-Khadrawi, Abdulaziz Bushlibi, Khaled Al-Sharif and Turki Al-Mutairi won the silver medal in the team competition, losing 3-0 to Iran in the final. In taekwondo, player Ali Mabrouk won a bronze medal in the weight category up to 80 kg, losing in the semifinals to Turkish Hussein Tarkal with a score of 7-8.
Yesterday, Thursday, His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, President of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation, watched a number of competitions in the tournament, and Kyrgyzstani Aran Akmalaliev won gold in the 70 kg weight category in wrestling competitions, and Moroccan Sakina Suhaib won gold in the weight category up to 46 kg in taekwondo.
In the power competition, the Saudi 4x100m relay team, consisting of Abdullah Abkar, Mohammed Daoud, Ahmed al-Marwani and Fahd al-Subaye, reached the final of the 100m race, which will take place today at 18:40. They then finished third in the semi-final with a time of 40.12 seconds.
In the hammer throw final, Saudi Arabian track and field team player Mohammed Al-Dubaisi finished eighth with a throw of 62.30 meters.
It is noteworthy that at yesterday’s athletics competitions, runners Youssef Masrahi and Mazen Al-Yasin won silver and bronze in the 400 meters. In the shooting competition, Al-Akhdar finished their participation in the Faisal Al-Dajani tournament in fifteenth place with a total of 116 plates out of 125, and Muhammad Al-Sharida in 20th place after throwing 114 plates, and Fahd Al-Mutairi in 25 th place with a total of 110 dishes.
Saudi Arabian weightlifting team member Munira Abdullah ended her participation in the tournament finishing fourth in the 49kg weight class with a total of 108 points in her first outside entry, while fellow Saudi Arabian weightlifter Ghada Al-Tassan finished fourth in the weight competition (45kg) . ) with a total score of 102.
Paralympic swimmer Turki Al-Harbi finished fifth in the 100m freestyle final with a time of 1:10.39 minutes. Al-Harbi advanced to the final by placing third in the semi-finals with a time of 1.09.18 minutes, Ibrahim Al-Marzouki placed sixth with a time of 1.58.64 minutes. Thus, the Paralympic swimming pool has completed its participation in the course.
In today’s competition, Saudi Arabian weightlifter Siraj Al Salim is determined to win three medals in the 61kg division at 11 am, while his colleague Nawaf Al Mazidi is aiming for one of the medals in the 67kg division at 2am. afternoon. At today’s competitions at 16:30, the first participation of weightlifter Al-Anud Al-Shehri in the weight category of 59 kg will be registered.
In handball, the Saudi Arabian team hopes to strengthen their lead in the first group when they face their Qatari counterpart at 11 am, who has the same two-point balance as the group’s second-placed team. Yesterday Al-Akhdar won their first match against their Moroccan counterpart with a score of 29-25. It is noteworthy that the first group included Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Morocco, and the second group included Iran, the leader of the group and Turkey, which took second place, as well as the Azerbaijani team that was eliminated from the tournament.
Today at 11:30 the Saudi Arabian wrestling team will begin its participation in the Roman wrestling competition as part of a team consisting of Hassan Barnawi (72 kg), Misfir Al-Subaye (63 kg) and Ibrahim Fallat (97 kg). The Saudi Arabian Athletics team will conclude their participation in the tournament today with the presence of Hammoud Al-Alwani in the final of the long jump at 17:50, and the participation of the relay team of Youssef Masrahi, Mazen Al-Yasin, Ibrahim Fatini and Muhammad Al-Maawi in the final of the race 4×400 m at 19:00.
Ahmed Al-Mawlid, a member of the Saudi Arabian Taekwondo team, will begin his participation in the tournament by competing in the 74 kg weight category at 9 am.