Manama, Dec. 6 (BNA): His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister delegated His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Consultant of His Majesty the King for Humanitarian Work and Youth Affairs to attend the closing ceremony of the IRONMAN 70.3 Center East Championship Bahrain 2025, which was a particular version that highlighted the Kingdom’s superior place on the worldwide sports activities map.
The closing ceremony was attended by plenty of senior officers.
His Highness affirmed that the success of this 12 months’s version is a continuation of the Kingdom’s excellence beneath the management of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, with the assist of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister. His Highness identified that the championship displays the Kingdom’s formidable imaginative and prescient of constructing Bahrain a most popular sporting vacation spot for continental and worldwide championships.
His Highness added that the massive turnout {of professional} and beginner opponents from around the globe confirms the rising worldwide confidence within the Kingdom’s organisational capabilities and displays the size of funding in sport as an influential sector in complete growth.
His Highness famous that the success of this version provides to the Kingdom of Bahrain’s monitor file of internet hosting main sporting occasions, reinforcing its place as a number one platform for innovation and sporting excellence within the area and the world.
His Highness additionally expressed satisfaction within the victory of Crew Bahrain Victorious within the males’s and ladies’s skilled classes, emphasising that this achievement displays the superior stage the group has reached in main competitions and embodies their skill to compete and obtain honourable ends in the largest worldwide tournaments. His Highness famous that this excellence provides to the sequence of successes achieved by the group at varied ranges.
On the finish of the ceremony, His Highness Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad honoured the supporting and contributing entities and companions in recognition of their very important function within the championship’s success, and in establishing it as one of the outstanding sporting occasions within the Center East. His Highness additionally offered trophies to the winners in varied classes.
The championship witnessed huge participation from professionals and amateurs from around the globe, and included a 1.9 km swimming race, a 90 km biking race, and a 21.1 km operating race. It additionally featured an IRONKIDS championship with outstanding participation from youngsters.
Crew Bahrain Victorious stood out through the championship with its outstanding efficiency, persevering with to ship superior ranges and excelling in each the lads’s and ladies’s skilled classes, reflecting its excessive readiness and talent to compete on the earth’s strongest races. The group’s outstanding efficiency was a continuation of its profitable monitor file and cemented its place as one of the outstanding groups on the worldwide sports activities scene.
Vincent Luis of Crew Bahrain Victorious took first place within the skilled class, whereas his teammate Vasco Vilaça got here in second, and Pieter Heemeryck took third place. Georgia Taylor-Brown of Crew Victorious additionally gained the ladies’s title, with second place going to Natalie Van Coevorden (Australia) and third place to Crew Victorious’s India Lee (UK). Within the Gulf males’s class, Hamad Al Khaldi (Kuwait) gained first place, Mohammed Al Ghais (Bahrain) got here second, and Mohammed Ahmed (Bahrain) got here third. Within the Bahraini males’s class, Mohammed Al Ghais gained first place, Mohammed Ahmed gained second place, and Mohammed Kazem gained third place. Within the Gulf and Bahraini Ladies’s classes, Mai Al Hajji gained first place, Ruya Al Saati gained second, and Lana Al Alawi gained third.
