SHOOTING – BAHRAIN named a seven-athlete shooting team that will be a part of the kingdom’s delegation at the 20th Asian Games in Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, starting next month.
The Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) announced yesterday four women and three men’s shooters for their respective events in this year’s Asiad. The women’s competitors include Maryam Hassani, Maryam Alasam, Maryam Sulaiti, and Marwa Bu Araki; while the men are Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Tammar Alwatt, and Saeed Hassan.
The 20th Asian Games are scheduled for September 19 to October 4. More than 11,000 athletes from the Olympic Council of Asia’s (OCA) 45 member nations, both men and women, will be vying for the podium in 469 medal events across 43 sports in the OCA spectacle. The shooting competitions will be held from September 20 to October 1 at Aichi Prefectural Shooting Range.
The kingdom’s shooters are the latest members of Bahrain’s delegation revealed by the BOC for the upcoming Asian Games.
They join reigning Olympic champion and former world champion Winfred Yavi, who leads a full-strength, 34-member athletics team; reigning Olympic champion and ex-world champion Akhmed Tazhudinov and Alibeg Alibego in men’s wrestling; Fatema Sadeq Kalawadh and Ola Abdulaziz Aldoseri in women’s taekwondo; Khalid Faraj and Abdulla Alshaikh in men’s jiu-jitsu; Adnan Ebrahim in men’s badminton; and Mohamed Hujairi, Fadhel Abdulla Taher, Hassan Khalil Ebrahim, Hussam Rashed Al Ansari, Mohammed Abdulnabi Darbas, and Yousef Abdulaziz Bahram in esports.
This year’s Asiad will mark the 14th time Bahrain are participating in the quadrennial OCA spectacle. The kingdom first competed in 1974 and have been a part of the Asian Games in each edition since.
patrick@gdnmedia.bh
&uuid=(email))