77 athletes and sports represent the UAE in the Gulf beach games in Muscat

Muscat on April 4/ WAM/ The UAE, represented by the National Olympic Committee, participates in the activities of the third Gulf Games hosted by the sisterly Sultanate of Oman during the period from April 5 to 11 through 77 athletes and sports in 8 different sports: football, handball, volleyball, athletics, pegs, sail, swimming, and paragliding.
The UAE has not lost this forum since its start for the first time in 2010 in the Kingdom of Bahrain, during which it succeeded in crowning 5 colored medals with a gold medal and 4 bronze medals, while the Emirati participation doubled its harvest in the Qatar 2015 version with a total of 10 colored medals with a gold medal, 3 silver and 6 bronze medals.
The course opens tomorrow at the lake theater in the Natural Crimea Park at eight in the evening Emirates time, and our national air sports team starts to participate in the event tomorrow through the Plugging Aviation Competition with the participation of five athletes, Rashid Ibrahim Al -Samahi, Muhammad Jaber Al -Mazmi, Tariq Muhammad Al -Obaidli, Abdullah Nasser Mustafa, and Muhammad Abdullah Al Jasmi, as our team is playing six rounds distributed over two days with three days in the first day. On the second day.
The UAE beach handball team also begins its tournament tomorrow with the meeting of Amman, to face the Saudi national team on the next day, while meeting with Bahrain next Monday.
The tournament is witnessing the participation of 330 athletes and sports from various Gulf countries competing in 8 sports through 39 different competitions.
The UAE teams began reaching Muscat yesterday represented in the sail and air sports teams, and the handball, and was preceded by the administrative mission on the first of April to check on the headquarters of delegations and see the organizational aspects, and to know the mechanisms of movement between the places of competition and various training.
The UAE beach volleyball team will face its Kuwaiti counterpart next Monday, as it meets with the Oman national team on the same day, and our national beach soccer team will start its career in the tournament in Saudi Arabia next Monday, to face Bahrain next Wednesday, while the Oman team will meet next Thursday, and the group stage will end with Kuwait meeting on Friday, April 11 in the last day of the event.
Our national beach handball team fought four training gatherings last March in preparation for participation in the Gulf forum

His Excellency Nasser Salem Al Hammadi, Secretary -General of the Emirates Handball Federation, a member of the technical committee for the Gulf Championships, stressed that the participation of the first national beach handball team in the third Gulf Games Games comes in the first place in response to the directions of the Gulf Olympic Movement, and to seize a good opportunity to train and qualify technical and administrative cadres, and an affirmation of the presence of Emirati handball in this distinguished Gulf Olympic forum.
He added that due to the nature of the beach handball and its own laws, as well as the handball game competitions in the third Gulf Games, which will be held in the full league system from two floors “going and going”, the competition will be a debate between the four teams, especially since the levels of the participating teams are technically equal.
On the other hand, our national team to pick up the pegs fought a period of preparation before participating in the Gulf beach games, through an internal camp in the fields of Bouheeb Equestrian Academy in Abu Dhabi that started on March 10 and continues until the date of traveling to Muscat next Sunday, with the aim of standing on the readiness of all the knights before the start of the competitions in the competitions of the course.

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