Jiu-Jitsu raises the UAE’s tally to 21 medals in the Asian Games

Emirati champion Obaid Al Ketbi was crowned with the 56 kg jiu-jitsu gold medal after defeating his Kazakh counterpart, Olkhan Al Diyar, in the third edition of the Third Asian Youth Games, hosted by the Kingdom of Bahrain and concluding the day after tomorrow, Friday, with the participation of more than 5,000 male and female athletes from 45 countries, in which the UAE participates in 19 diverse sports.

Our player Salem Al Qubaisi also won the silver medal in jiu-jitsu after losing to the Kazakh player Batyrbek Abdullah in the 62 kg competition.

The UAE’s tally rose to 21 colored medals, with 9 gold, 7 silver, and 5 bronze medals in sixth place in the ranking table, continuing its Arab lead less than 48 hours before the end of the event, while China continued to lead the overall ranking table with 105 medals, Uzbekistan in second place with a total of 45 medals, Kazakhstan in third place with 59 medals, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia came in thirteenth place (second In the Arab world, with 18 colored medals (3 golds, 4 silvers, and 11 bronze medals), while Iraq came in 14th and third place in the Arab world with 11 medals, 3 golds, 4 silvers, and 4 bronze medals. The host country, the Kingdom of Bahrain, also came in 15th and fourth place in the Arab world with 9 medals, including 3 golds, 4 silvers, and 2 bronzes.

Rayan Malhan, the player of our national badminton team, continued his brilliance in the tournament competitions, after he succeeded in qualifying to the semi-finals after his well-deserved victory over the Indonesian player, Jin Maharishil, in two clean games. He will meet his Chinese counterpart, Xu Jining, in the semi-finals on Wednesday evening.
Sultan Al Hammadi, a player for our national cycling team, also finished his participation in the road race in eighth place with a time of 2:24:15 hours, amid the participation of 69 cyclists from various Asian countries.