The Organizing Committee of the third Gulf Games, which concluded yesterday in Kuwait, represented by Sheikh Mubarak Al-Faisal Al-Sabah, handed over the session flag to Engineer Azza Sulaiman, Assistant Secretary General of the Qatar Olympic Committee, as the UAE prepares to host the Gulf Youth Games in 2023.
Players from the Saudi fencing, karate and tennis teams lifted Saudi medals at the third Gulf Games, which concluded on Tuesday in Kuwait, after winning 8 different medals, bringing the overall balance of Saudi teams to 67 medals, including 16 gold, 22 silver and 29 bronze.
The Kingdom ranked fourth among the six countries after winning 16 gold medals, equal to Qatar, while the UAE won 18 gold medals and Bahrain won 20 gold medals, while Kuwait topped the rankings with 36 gold medals.
The Saudi fencing team opened the medals on Tuesday by taking gold in the team competition through Hussain Al-Taweel, Zakaria Al-Dawud, Ahmed Al-Hussein and Jawad Al-Taweel after beating their Kuwaiti counterpart 45-35. 36.
In karate competitions, three golds and two silvers were won, the first of which went to Fahd Al-Khatami, who won gold in the 67 kg weight, defeating Kuwaiti Musa Hassan with a score of 8-4, and his fellow Olympian Tariq Hamdi won gold in +84 weight. kg after defeating Kuwaiti Mohammed Al-Majadi 2-1. And their colleague Faraj Al-Nashiri added a fourth gold by defeating Bahraini Salem Al-Juma 6-1.
Badr Al-Otaibi won silver in the 60 kg weight category, losing to Kuwaiti Abdullah Shaaban 4:2, and the third silver went to Yasser Barki, who lost in the final of the 55 kg weight category to Kuwaiti Sultan Al-Mutairi 3:0.
In the tennis competition, Saudi Arabia’s Abdullah Al-Faraj, Omar Ahmed, Ammar Al-Haqbani, Suleiman Al-Qasim and Saud Al-Haqbani took bronze in the team competition after losing 2-1 to Kuwait.
Athletics has captured the highest proportion of medals with 24 medals (5 gold, 7 silver and 12 bronze).
Second place went to karate with 7 medals (4 gold, two silver and one bronze), followed by fencing with 6 medals (one gold, two silver and three bronze) and fourth, swimming with five medals (one gold, one silver and three bronze). ), tennis with five medals (one gold, one silver and three bronze), as well as four medals in table tennis (one gold, two silver and one bronze), archery (gold, silver and two bronze), judo (three silver and one bronze), and two golds for electronic games, one of them for women, as well as silver and bronze for women cyclists.
In group games, the Saudi men’s futsal team won the silver medal, the women’s futsal team won the bronze medal, the Saudi men’s basketball team won the bronze medal, and the ice hockey team won the silver medal.
