Tokyo: Qatar’s Abderrahman Samba will gun for the gold medal in the final of Men’s 400m hurdles event at Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games to be staged on Tuesday. The world bronze medallist advanced to the final of 400m hurdles after clocking at time 47.47 in the semi-final held on Sunday. In today’s final, Samba […]
The Al Shaqab Racing-owned ALMAFJAR (FR) (Mister Ginoux / Al Dhabi) produced a fine front-running performance to take the Prix Arca – WATHBA Stallions Cup, a mile race for four-year-old and older Purebred Arabians at La Teste de Buch on Sunday, 1 August. Trained by in-form trainer Elizabeth Bernard, ALMAFJAR was ridden to success by apprentice jockey […]
Tokyo: Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan qualified to the quarterfinals of the Tokyo 2020 men’s Olympic beach volleyball tournament. The Qatari duo defeated USA’s Nick Lucena and Phil Dalhausser 2-1 (14-21, 21-19, 15-11) in the round-of-16 at on Sunday. “Thank god we won this game!” Cherif exclaimed. “We were ready for a long game. […]
Sent off as a favourite for the seven-runner contest, the Qatar Racing Limited-owned BUCKAROO (GB) (Fastnet Rock x Roheryn) proved the toughest when taking the Irish Stallion Fams EBF Maiden, for two-year-olds, at Galway on Saturday 31st July. The bay colt was having his second start and improved on his third-placed effort on debut at Killarney […]
Baghdad Minister of Youth and Sports Adnan Darjal and the head of the Iraqi Football Association’s normalization body, Iyad Bunyan, and the Iraqi ambassador to Spain, Adel Mustafa, visited today, Sunday, the Marbella Training Center in Spain and toured its facilities. The minister was briefed, according to a ministry statement, about the sports complex, which […]
Tokyo: H.E. President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani dedicated the historic achievement of our weightlifter Fares Ibrahim, claiming Qatar’s first Olympic gold medal, to HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, HH the Father Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani and the Qatari people. On this […]
Tokyo: Qatar’s Fares Ibrahim made history winning the country’s first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting competitions on Saturday. Fares Ibrahim put up 177kg in the snatch before sliding into the clean and jerk and setting an Olympic record in that lift with a weight of 225kg. Venezuela’s Keydomar Vallenilla Sanchez took the silver […]
Tokyo: H.E. President of the Qatar Olympic Committee Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al-Thani met today in Tokyo with H.E. Chairman of the Japan-Qatar Friendship Association Katsuno Satoru and the members of the Association on the sidelines of Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games. The meeting reviewed aspects of sports cooperation and ways to support and develop […]
SUESA new winner of Gr2 King George Qatar Stakes The Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club (QREC)-sponsored Qatar Goodwood Festival will reach its final day On Saturday, 31 Saturday. The race meetings of the 2021 renewal of the five-day annual Festival continued over four days before the curtain will fall on this year’s edition on Day […]