Qatar's Fares Wins Gold with Record Lift
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SPORT Saturday 22 December 2018 PAGE | 17 PAGE | 19 Track & Field News Disgraced ranks Qatar’s Steve Smith is Samba second desperate best in 2018 to return Fifth round of Qatar Manateq Baja flags off today Minister of Culture and Sports, H E Salah bin Ghanem Al Ali, having a discussion with the competing drivers during the technical scrutineering yesterday, ahead of the fifth round of the Qatar Manateq Baja which flags off today. Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) President, Abdulrahman Al Mannai and the General Manager of Lusail Circuit Club, Khalid Al Rumaihi are also seen. Qatar’s Fares wins gold with record lift THE PENINSULA DOHA Qatar’s weightlifting star Fares Ibrahim Hassouna lifted a record total of 397kg to win gold during the 5th edition of Qatar International Cup 2018 in Doha yesterday. In the men’s 96kg category (Group A), Fares lifted 172kg in the snatch, followed by a clean and jerk lift of 225kg to outsmart a field of 14 top class weightlifters. With yesterday’s lift, Fares also renewed the junior records in both clean and jerk and combined weights. Chinese weightlifter Fuxuan Tian lifted 170 in snatch and 212kg in the clean and jerk round to win the silver medal with a total lift of 382kg. Belarusian athlete Yauheni Tsikhantsou, was placed third after being just one kilo short of the total weight lifted at the Inter- Continental Doha. In the women’s 64kg class, China’s Ting Huang established a new junior world record by lifting a total of 232kg. In the process, she Qatari weightlifting star bettered the previous records for snatch and Fares Ibrahim Hassouna jerk with new figures of 105kg and 127kg celebrates after winning respectively. the gold medal in the Taiwanese Kuo Hsing Chun also won yes- men’s 96kg category terday, with a snatch lift of 103 kg, clean and (Group A), during the jerk of 130 kg and a combined lift of 233 kg 5th edition of Qatar in the women’s 59 kg division. International Cup 2018 As many as 130 athletes from 35 coun- at the InterContinental tries including 64 male contenders are taking Doha yesterday. INSET: part in the event, a qualifying competition Fares in action. PICTURES: for the 2020 Olympic Games, hosted by the SYED OMAR Qatar Weightlifting Federation (QWF). Eto’o brace helps Qatar SC rout Al Kharaitiyat 4-0 THE PENINSULA more enthusiasm in the player and Algerian interna- on five points. The match DOHA second half in their bid to tional Madjid Bougherra really came alive after make a breakthrough, as standing in place of regular resumption of play following Former Cameroonian and Qatar SC slightly took their coach Nabil Maaloul from a barren first half. Barcelona star Samuel Eto’o foot off the pedal, having had Tunisia, had an upper hand After Al Gharafa went 2-0 netted a brace (27, 40) as a three-goal cushion. right throughout the game. up through goals from Fahad Qatar SC recorded breezed However, amid Al Edmilson was the and Vladimir, Nasser gave past Al Kharaitiyat 4-0 in Kharaitiyat’s moves, Qatar SC livewire in the Al Duhail Umm Salal slight hopes by their QSL Cup round four shook the rival net one more ranks as they dominated the finding the target towards the match yesterday. time when Ali headed in a ball with 62 per cent pos- end. Fadl Omar and Ali Said Al cross. session even though Al Arabi However, Al Gharafa Mohannadi scored the other Qatar SC are unbeaten so forced three corner kicks as sealed the issue through goals in the 36th and 68th far in the tournament. against the rivals’ one. Monkez’s stoppage-time minute respectively. Al Duhail also recorded Meanwhile, the goal. Yesterday’s win also a win in the simalar fashion defending champions Al Al Duhail, Qatar SC and secured Qatar SC their place yesterday against Al Arabi to Gharafa defeated Umm Salal Al Gharafa have collected in the quarter-finals of the maintain their unbeaten 3-1 for their second victory. eight points each at the end tournament, along with Al streak in the tournament. Fahad Al Shammari (48), of the fourth round. Umm Duhail and Al Gharafa. They overcame Al Arabi Vladimir Weiss (69) and Salal and Al Kharaitiyat will At the Al Duhail Stadium, by a 4-0 margin thanks to Monkez Mohammed (90+1) fight it out for the other last- Al Kharaitiyat’s best chance goals from Saleh Al Hilabi found the net for Al Gharafa, eight spot from Group A. to pull one back came in the (31), Salmin Zayed (57), Rabeh while Nasser Al Nasr pulled Al Arabi are out of con- Qatar SC’s Samuel Eto’o 58th minute, but Maher’s shot Bousaffi (61) and Paolo a goal back for Umm Salal in tention as they have yet to celebrates after scoring was blocked by Qatar SC Edmilson (83). the 88th minute. open their account, having a goal against Al goalkeeper Rajab Hamza. Al Duhail, under the Umm Salal thus crashed lost all four of their Kharaitiyat yesterday Al Kharaitiyat showed watchful eyes of their former to their first defeat and stayed matches. SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER 2018 SPORT 17 Track & Field News ranks Samba second best in 2018 CHINTHANA WASALA man ever to break 47 second barrier and THE PENINSULA his 46.98 in Paris leaves him just 0.20 shy of the all-time best, held by Kevin Young Track & Field News, the international of the USA. magazine on athletics, ranked Qatar’s The top Qatari athlete also won the Abderrahman Samba as the second best IAAF Continental Cup and also struck a behind Men’s Athlete-of the-Year Eliud double at the Asian Games, winning the Kipchoge. 400 hurdles and the 400 relay. According to a list of top 10 male ath- Samba was not alone in the top 10, as TRACK & FIELD NEWS MEN’S letes, released by Track & Field News, the Qatar’s world champion Mutaz Essa ATHLETE-OF -THE-YEAR (TOP star 400m hurdler received 278 points Barshim also found a spot in the list. 10) whereas the marathon world record Despite not competing since July, due holder, Kipchoge received 299 points. to an injury, the gravity defying star was 1. Eliud Kipchoge (Kenya) The voting was done by a 31-member named the 10th best. 2. Abderrahmane Samba (Qatar) international panel selected by the mag- Before his season was cut short, the 3. Kevin Mayer (France) azine for the 60th year. IAAF Athlete-of-the-Year in 2017, showed The Kenyan, Kipchoge, achieved the world that he is the one to beat, 4. Noah Lyles (US) several firsts during his highly successful jumping a world-leading 2.40-metre mark 5. Tom Walsh (New Zealand) year. He became the first marathoner ever twice. 6. Emmanuel Korir (Kenya) to become the Athlete-of-the-Year and also Barshim also had four of the five 7. Sergey Shubenkov (Russia) this was the fifth year in a row that he made highest jumps of the year. 8. Juan Miguel Echevarría (Cuba) it to the rack & Field News Top 10 list. This was the 27-year-old athlete’s third year 9. Timothy Cheruiyot (Kenya) The World Record in Berlin (2:01:39) in the Track & Field News’ Top 10 list. was the highlight of the year for the tireless The 70-year-old monthly magazine, 10. Mutaz Barshim (Qatar) 33-year-old. which ceased the print version in The Qatari, on the other hand, also had December last year, featured Qatar’s Qatari high jumper and reigning world champion Mutaz Essa Barshim an amazing year, being undefeated in nine Barshim on its last print issue - the annual poses for a photograph with the IAAF Men’s Athlete of the Year award races. ranking edition on its cover as 2017 Man in this November 24, 2017 file photo. LEFT: Qatar’s Abderrahman Samba The 23-year-old become the second of the Year. celebrates after winning the men’s 400m hurdles during the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, in this August 27 file photo. Record audience watched FIFA president gets votes ‘best World Cup ever’: FIFA pledge from Caribbean AP 2016 to complete the fifth term of REUTERS which gave them their second World FIFA says 3.572 billion ZURICH Sepp Blatter, who was banned by ZURICH Cup title following their triumph in viewers - more than half of FFIFA’sIFA’s ethethicsi cs 1998, was the most watched game of the global population aged FIFA President Giannianni Infantino still committee.committee. A record audience of more than 3.5 the competition. looks set to be re-electedlected unopposed,unopposed, billion people watched this year’s It was followed by England’s semi- four and over - watched with a pledge off 25 votes fromfrom World Cup in Russia, with the final final defeat to Croatia and the other some part of the official Caribbean soccer federations.federations. between France and Croatia attracting last-four clash between France and coverage. The Caribbeann Football Union 1.12 billion viewers, world soccer’s Belgium. says its executive committeecommittee agreedagreed governing body said yesterday. “These figures really do support unanimous supportt for Infantino FIFA said 3.572 billion viewers - the claim that Russia 2018 was the A further 309.7 million for the June 5 vote in Paris. FIFA President more than half of the global population best World Cup ever,” said FIFA’s caught the action on The CFU sayss all its Gianni Infantino aged four and over - watched some chief commercial officer, Philippe Le digital platforms, public members “alreadydy pro-pro- part of the official coverage, which was Floc’h.