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The festival has helped to establish the Kingdom as the world’s premier destination for camel racing. Saudi Arabia heads the Camel Racing World Federation, founded in 2019 and based in Riyadh.
In that same year, the Crown Prince Camel Festival set a new Guinness World Record when 13,377 camels participated in the even
Al-Faran had three camels running in the “Al-Haqayeq” category (for two-year-olds) as part of the festival’s preliminary stage — Al-Dana, The Pearl, and Jarrah. At one point in the 4-kilometer race, Jarrah led the field, but ultimately came in second.
source/content: arabnews.com
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Amal Misfer Al-Faran had three camels running in the ‘Al-Haqayeq’ category (for two-year-olds) as part of the festival’s preliminary stage — Al-Dana, The Pearl, and Jarrah. (Supplied) /pix: arabnews.com
Qatar’s national swimming team claimed the title of age groups competitions at the 28th GCC Aquatics Championships on Friday, 20 August 2021. The competitions will conclude at the Hamad Aquatic Centre on Sunday, 22 August 2021.
Team Qatar swimmers claimed 24 medals on the second day including 12 gold medals, 10 silver medals, and two bronze medals taking their tally of medals to 52 including 30 gold medals, 15 silver medals, and 7 bronze medals.
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait finished second and third respectively. Bahrain UAE and Oman were the other teams in the competition.
Qatari swimmers also emerged on top in all three age categories. While Ziad Morsi (three gold two silver) was the best in the 11-12 years category, Abdullah Al Ghemri (13-14 years) was unstoppable in all six races he took part in.
Omar Ashraf, who set a Gulf record on the opening day, took home five gold and a silver in the 15-17 years group.
The Qatar Swimming Association president Khaleel Al Jabir was thrilled with the overwhelming display of strength.
“This is the first time in the competition’s 28 editions that a country is winning 30 gold medals. We left everyone far behind, and it shows the strength of our programme. I congratulate the boys on a job well done, and we’ll strive to make them more competitive at higher levels,” said Al Jabir.
Razan Al-Sous and her husband Raghid Sandouk fled Syria to start a new life in Yorkshire, leaving behind their dream of setting up their own pharmaceutical company but opening up a new entrepreneurial life in the city of Huddersfield.
With the simple idea of making halloumi-style cheese from cows’ milk and launching a best-selling range of Arabian flavoured cheeses, the innovative pair have won more than 30 awards for their product and gained royal approval from Princess Anne.
When they arrived in Yorkshire, Mr Sandouk’s brother let them run his chicken food outlet and it was there the first Yorkshire Dama Squeaky Cheese was created.
Now they have nine flavours in their range, from plain and chilli to black onion seed, rosemary and mint.
The couple recently won their latest award, for their black pepper squeaky cheese.
n 2017 the couple expanded to new premises and were given a royal seal of approval when Princess Anne officially opened their factory in Sowerby Bridge.
Now the couple have been invited to Buckingham Palace.
This month they won yet another award for their Middle Eastern style cheese, Nabulsi, which contains black onion seeds and has now become a bestseller in the UK.
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Syrian cheese maker Razan Al-Sous. / pix: Ashraf Helmi / The National
The Qatar Skydive Team of Qatar Air Sports Committee – Joint Special Forces clinched the bronze medal in the four-way formation skydiving category at the 24th FAI Mondial World Championship yesterday, 14 August 2021, in Russia.
The Qatari team finished third with 160 points. Belgium clinched the gold medal with 193 points, while the USA finished second with 169 points.
Qatar’s national team won a second gold after the junior U-13 team crowned champions in their age group at the Arab Table Tennis Championships, held in Jordan’s capital Amman.
The Qatari team defeated its Tunisian counterpart 3-0 in the final. The Qatari juniors yesterday defeated Egypt 3-0 in the finals.
Qatar U-11 also were crowned champions after defeating their Tunisian counterparts 3-2 in the final yesterday.
Qatar national men’s team secured the bronze medal after their 3-0 defeat against Jordan in the semi-finals yesterday.
Malaysia has granted Muslim World League (MWL) Secretary-General and Chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars Dr. Mohammed Abdulkarim Al-Issa, the ‘Hijra of the Prophet award’ — the most prestigious award granted to Muslim scholars in the world.
Al-Issa was honored for his efforts during a ceremony held by the Malaysian government to celebrate the new Islamic year.
The ceremony was held in the presence of Malaysia’s King Al-Sultan Abdullah, Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, government members and representatives of Islamic and non-Islamic states in the country.
Ahmed Tijan Jankol and Cherif Younousse Samba. Men’s Beach Volleyball. Sportsmen. Athletes.
Younousse and Tijan win Qatar’s first beach volleyball bronze
Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan downed Latvia’s Martins Plavins and Edgars Tocs in the men’s beach volleyball bronze medal match, 21-12, 21-18.
The straight sets victory provided Qatar’s first medal in the sport — and eighth overall medal in the history of the Olympics.
Ahmed El-gendy (aka) Ahmed Elgendy. Modern Pentathlon. Athlete
Ahmed Elgendy has made Olympics history for Egypt, winning the country’s first ever medal in the men’s modern pentathlon event and the country’s first non-bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
Elgendy, who is just 21-years-old, won the historic silver medal after finishing in second place with 1,477 points, just five points away from Great Britain’s Joseph Choong.
Modern pentathlon is an Olympic sport that comprises five different events: fencing, freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping and final combined ‘laser-run’ event of pistol shooting and cross country running.
Kalkidan Gezahegne won Bahrain’s first medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games after clinching silver in the Women’s 10,000 metres final.
Kalkidan ran a brilliant race to finish in a time of 29 minutes 56.18 seconds. She was right behind gold-medallist Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands, who won in 29:55.32. Letesenbet Gidey of Ethiopia, who was leading for much of the event, came third in 30:01.72.
Kalkidan’s silver medal was her first in the Olympic Games. It is also Bahrain’s fourth medal in the history of the Olympiad
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Bahrain’s Kalkidan Gezahegne won the Kingdom’s first medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games. (bahrainolympic)
Tarek Hamdi wins a silver medal in the Men’s karate competition at Tokyo Olympics.
Hamdi had endured a heartbreaking end to the final of the Men’s Karate Kumite +75kg when a penalty for dangerous play denied him a gold when he was leading 4-1 against Sajag Ganzjadeh of Iran, who departed the mat at Nippon Budokan arena on a stretcher. The match was awarded as a default 4-0 win for the Iranian.
This is Saudi Arabia’s second silver in its history after runner Hadi Sawan picked up silver in the 400m hurdles at the Sydney 2000 Games.
