UAE’s Noura Al Ketbi bags gold, Iraq’s Ahmed sets new record

UAE’s Noura Alketbi (proper) and bronze medallist Thekra Al Kaabi have fun with their medals

Gulf At the moment, Workers Reporter

It was a great day for the hosts UAE on the Dubai 2022 World Para Athletics Grand Prix — thirteenth Fazza Worldwide Para Athletics Championships — with throwers grabbing the limelight on the second day of competitions on the Dubai Membership for Individuals of Willpower grounds.

Rio Paralympic silver medallist Noura Al Ketbi led the medals cost for UAE successful the gold in shot put wheelchair ladies F32 closing, getting a distance of 6.07m.

Noura, who had a fourth place end at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, saved the most effective for the final to complete forward of Algeria’s Mounia Gasmi (5.74 m) and fellow UAE thrower Thekra Alkaabi (4.26 m).

After two days of competitions, UAE sat in thirteenth place with eight medals. Colombia was on prime of the medals desk with 13 medals that had six gold, forward of Thailand (16) and Tunisia (7).

Rio 2016 Paralympic bronze medallist Sara Al Jneibi threw the shot put to a distance of 5.79m sufficient to take the silver in ladies’s shot put wheelchair F34 behind Asmahane Boudjadar (6.42 m) who took the gold in F34 class.

Aljneibi’s fellow thrower Ansaf Alnuaimi managed a distance of 6.63 m for the bronze.

Discus thrower Abdulla Mesbahi added one other silver for UAE on the second day of competitions with an effort of twenty-two.19 m in discus wheelchair males closing F54/55 finals. Syria’s Wasim Alrezk (31.26 m) took the gold within the F55 class.

In ladies’s discus closing F40/41/44 finals, Maryam Alzeyoudi introduced house a silver together with her effort of 21.21m ending behind Tunisia’s Raoua Tlili (33.77m).

Syria took their second gold within the day via visually impaired shot putter Ali Asaad who received a distance of 11.08m within the males’s shot put F11/20 closing.

The day additionally witnessed one world file in males’s javelin F40 when Iraq’s Naas Ahmed hurled the javelin to a distance of 39.08 m to take the gold, additionally an Asian file.

Among the many prime names, Switzerland legend Marcel Hug (2:54,74 min) began his marketing campaign on the Championships with a gold medal within the males’s 1500m wheelchair T54 race.

Nice Britain’s ladies’s wheelchair racing legend Hannah Cockroft ran in 17.36 sec to clinch her second gold of the competitors, this time in 100 m wheelchair ladies closing T34/53.

Likewise, Thailand’s wheelchair Paralympic star Pongsakorn Paeyo claimed his second gold within the Dubai 2022 occasion racing in 14.43 sec in males’s 100 m wheelchair T53 closing.

The Championships, hosted below the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Sports activities Council, kicked off the World Para Athletics’ Grand Prix season with round 500 para-athletes from 43 nations in motion on the Dubai Membership for Individuals of Willpower grounds this week.