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Qatar’s Samba and Hemeida shine to win gold and silver in 400m hurdles
HANGZHOU - Showman Abderrahman Samba Alsaleck, sartorially splendid in dark shades, gave Qatar its second gold medal on the track when he won the men’s 400 metres hurdles at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou on Tuesday.
Looking every bit a gangsta rapper with his dark glasses, Samba left everyone in the shade as he led Qatar to a 1-2 finish with compatriot Bassem Hemeida taking the silver medal.
Samba ran his best race this season to finish first in 48.04 seconds. It was Qatar’s second gold on the track following Mohamad Al-Garni’s triumph in the men’s 1500m last Sunday. Hemeida took the silver in 48.52 while China’s Xie Zhiyu ran 49.16 for bronze.
“It’s all a show. You need to be looking good and that is what it’s all about,” Samba said.
Indeed, he looked good as he breezed to an easy win and celebrated with an extravagant victory salute as he crossed the line.
Samba retained his 400m hurdles title at Hangzhou while Hemeida took silver making it an historic 1-2 for Qatar.
Samba, who was fifth at the Tokyo Olympics but has been plagued by injuries, could not have asked for a better comeback.
“I am proud to win this medal because it came at a very difficult time for me. It came after a series of injuries, including two injuries this season. But, thank God, I succeeded in overcoming all the difficulties and was able to return with all strength and win the gold medal,” he said.
“It is wonderful to end the season with this medal and this will serve me as a great motivation before the 2024 Paris Olympics Qatar coming 1-2 makes it really special. Now we have two medals in 400m hurdles, that is really difficult at a world level,” the 28-year-old said.
Hemeida was a semi-finalist at the Budapest World Championship in August and the 23-year-old underlined his quality with another big performance. “My happiness is doubled in winning the silver because the gold was also won by Qatar through Samba. We feel very proud after this achievement and I cannot describe my feeling in words,” he said.
“It won silver, especially since I suffered an injury at the beginning of the season. But thankfully I came back with all my strength.
My target was to win gold, though I fell short. This season was wonderful for me because I achieved many goals, including finishing first in the Arab and Asian Championships. This silver medal at the Asian Games will push him to work harder for the Paris Olympics,” Hemeida added.
Qatar’s handball team reaches final
Hangzhou: The defending champions Qatar booked place in the handball final after defeating Kuwait 29-24 at Zhejiang Gongshang University Sports Centre yesterday.
It was a close semi-final as both the teams headed into the second half with scores of 12-12 following an exciting opening session. Frankis Marzo (seven goals), Rafael Capote (five) and Eldar Memisevic (five) were the standout performers for Qatar.
Team Qatar will meet another GCC counterparts Bahrain, who defeated Japan 30-28 in the other semi-final, in a mouth-watering final tomorrow
QOC organises visit to HBKU to enhance employees experience and knowledge exchange
DOHA - The Qatar Olympic Committee has organized a two-day educational visit to Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) to enhance experience & knowledge exchange between the two organizations on Tuesday and Wednesday.
On the opening day of the visit , the employees exchanged experience and knowledge on key topics including, strategic plan development, strategic management framework, integrated annual planning process and, annual performance process and risk assessment and management.
This visit aims to help the QOC employees exchanging experience and building up a valuable knowledge with others . It also empowers the QOC’s young employees to get through daily challenges of work and learning how to apply the best administrative measures they learned into the QOC system.
The visit objectives come in tune with the strategic goal of the QOC Human Resources & Administrative Services Department :” Create an attractive and an ideal working environment for better talents and experiences”.
Mrs. Noora Hussain Al-Ahbabi, head of training and development unit, said the visit comes as an integral part of the QOC’s ongoing effort to achieve sustainable development and adopt better measures that meets the world standards and cope with the QOC’s vision that is derived from 2030 Qatar National Vision.
Most notably, the Qatar Olympic Committee spares no effort to improve the professional and administrative level of Qatari employees. To this end, the QOC had organized a number of programs and visits, namely post- FIFA World Cup 2022 experience exchange and knowledge transfer workshop and field visits to other organizations.
These programs will help developing the organizational and administrative abilities of Qatari employees during major sport events , namely in the fields of mobility management, communication & Media management, Security Services Management and venue management, sustainability management, manpower management, volunteers management, visitor event management, fan zone management.
Qatar to take on Iran in Men’s FIVB Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifiers
Rio de Janeiro: Qatar volleyball team will take on Iran in their third match at Men’s FIVB Road to Paris Volleyball Qualifiers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Tuesday.
Team Qatar began their campaign in the qualifiers with a 0-3 defeat against hosts brazil then they suffered another defeat at the hands of Italy.
Qatar’s spikers are competing in group A along with teams that have long experience and have previously won a number of world titles and medals, led by hosts Brazil, Italy, Germany, Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, and the Czech Republic.
Al Garni wins Qatar’s second gold in 1500m
HANGZHOU - Mohammed Al Garni won Team Qatar their second gold medal at the 2022 Asian Games on Sunday winning the men’s 1500m while clocking his season’s best time of 3:38.36secs at the Hangzhou Olympics Sports Centre Stadium.
Al Garni cruised ahead of India’s Ajay Kumar Saroj (3:38.94) and India’s Jinson Johnson (3:39.74) to take the celebrated top podium place.
In a post victory statement on Sunday, Al Garni said:” I dedicate the gold medal to our nation’s wise leadership. I am proud of this honourable achievement”.
“ I am happy that my efforts have culminated in winning a gold medal. I hope that it will motivate me to achieve more achievements in the future.” Added Al Garni.
Qatar Olympic Committee celebrates TAFISA World Walking Day
DOHA - The Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) has marked the TAFISA World Walking Day on Sunday at the Al-Gharafa Park, Doha. It’s an event that annually celebrated by the Association for International Sport for All (TAFISA).
Around 250 students (boys and girls ) from primary schools, enthusiasts of walking sport, directors of QOC departments, heads of sections and units , representatives from Ashghal Public Works Authority and Ministry of Municipality as well as the sport and community personalities were integral part of Sunday’s event. All participants walked a 1km distance around Al-Gharafa Park.
Event director, Mohammed Abdulsalam Abdulla said “ this event is celebrated worldwide by the lovers and amateurs from all age groups, as it is one of the QOC’s community programs that will keep sport for all concept active and will help individuals to build up better communities and improve the learning process for students”.
For her part, Event deputy director , Saeeda Mubarak Al-Abdulla said :” We are truly grateful to having primary school students and sport enthusiasts in this event, as one of the event’s key objectives is enhancing physical and mental activity, fight against modern disease and make sport for health concept applicable and real”.
The key objective of TAFISA World Walking Day is to promote sport for all culture , to encourage society doing all types of sports, namely the walking sport, because it is more safer and acceptable to all age groups.
