SPORT Tuesday 7 March 2017 PAGE | 25 PAGE | 26 PAGE | 27 Top-ranked Johnsonson Pujara leads BarcelonaBarc face uphill wins WGC Mexicoo India's revival in taskta against PSG in crown Bangalore ChChampions League Qatar eye victory over UAE after loss to Japan Bahrain women's team, aiming to complete a hat-trick at the GCC Women's Games, pose for a picture on arrival in Doha. Bahrain won the 2013 and 2015 Games held in Bahrain Japan players the beginning. Takaaki Oba Bahamas ticket and Oman respectively. celebrate scored Japan’s first goal with a The top three after scoring smart right-foot shot that caught keeper Amro Shana’ unawares, finishers will get the against Qatar before Brazilian-born captain ticket to represent in the AFC GCC Women's Games Ozu Moreira fired home to dou- Asia at the 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer Beach Soccer World ble his side's advantage. Championship Ozu then converted a pen- Cup in Bahamas. in Malaysia kick off in Doha today alty following a handball in the yesterday. area to extend Japan's lead and Fawad Hussain bring the first period to an end The Peninsula ceremony will be 'simple and The Peninsula with a comfortable lead for classy'. Mendes Marcelo’s side. he 5th GCC Women's Al Marri said that the com- fter facing a heavy Hotshot Ozu again showed Games will be kick off mittee had completed all defeat to Japan, his prowess from distance with Ttoday with an opening preparation to host the GCC Qatar are looking to his third after the restart, before ceremony at the Khalifa Ten- Women's Games,. bounce back Takasuke Goto rattled in a free- nis and Squash Complex. The event will be held strongly at the AFC kick shortly after and Takuya The 11-day event will see under the patronage of H E BeachA Soccer Championship, Akaguma scored to make it six 891 athletes representing Bah- Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al- targeting a win against neigh- for Japan. rain, Oman, UAE and the host Thani, Vice Chairperson and bouring rivals UAE in their A second penalty was country, Qatar taking part in the CEO of Qatar Foundation for second group C match today in expertly put away by Akaguma event. Education, Science and Com- Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. ahead of further strikes from Jun The Women's Games will munity Development. Qatar entered the event with Sakata and Goto. Akaguma went be contested in ten different Competitions will be held an aim to reach the semi-finals on to bag a third goal courtesy games namely basketball, on Aspire Dome, the Ladies of the competition but their taking part in the competition here to make sure we improve of yet another penalty, before handball, table tennis, volley- Club in Aspire Zone, the Eques- campaign suffered a jolt follow- with the top three finishers will our games to get the desired Ozu claimed his fourth from ball, chess, athletics, archery, trian Federation, and Lusail ing a 14-0 loss to mighty Japan be getting the ticket to represent result. The teams in the group close range and Sakata scored fencing, taekwondo and Shooting Circuit, Qatar Sports in their opening game. Asia at the 2017 FIFA Beach Soc- are very formidable but we will his second. bowling. Club, Qatar Bowling Center, and The coach Carlos Lisboa’s cer World Cup to held in Nassau, give our best to go beyond the A Tomoyuki Iino brace Bahrain will be looking to Qatar Chess Association. side need positive results in their Bahamas from April 27 to May group stage this time and enter rounded off the scoring as Japan complete a hat-trick having Meanwhile the organizing remaining next two group games 7. the semi-finals,” the coach had went top of Group C above the won the 2013 and 2015 Games committee of the event has to go beyond the group stage. Ahead of the event, Lisboa said. UAE who earlier beat Iraq 6-0. held in Bahrain and Oman been holding daily meeting for After meeting UAE, Qatar are hoped his team to give an However, the team had no Qatar have made two respectively. the last two months for the suc- slated to meet Iraq in their final improved show in the event. answer against two-time cham- appearances at the continental President of Qatar Women cessful conduct of the event group game tomorrow. “We know fully well our per- pions and five-time runners-up competition - the 2013 and 2015 Sport Committee (QWSC) Lulua which is being held in Qatar for As many as 12 teams are formances in the past and we are Japan who dominated right from editions that they hosted. Al Marri said that the opening the first time. Qatar gear up for Cup qualifiers Qatar national team players take part in a training session under the watchful eyes of coach Jorge Fossati in Doah yesterday. Qatar is preparing for the upcoming two matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Iran and Uzbekistan. Qatar will take on Iran in Doha on March 23 before meeting Uzbekistan on March 28 in Tashkent. Iran lead Group A with 11 points from five matches followed by South Korea and Uzbekistan with 10 and 9, respectively. Qatar are in fifth spot with four points from five matches and will have to win maximum Jassim Al Muraikhi of Qatar, winner in the Emir Cup 2017, poses for a picture along with the winner's cheque and bowling points from their remaining five matches to qualify for officials on Sunday at the Qatar Bowling Center in Doha. next year’s World Cup in Russia. Bowling: Qatar's Jassim wins Emir Cup The Peninsula Bowling Federation (ABF) and Kingdom International Open in the Year Mika Koivuniemi, A Kuwait Bowling Federation December 2015 in Saudi Arabia -Muraikhi rolled the only 300 assim Al Muraikhi of Qatar (KBF), crowned the winners of for his first career World Bowl- game in the finals and the fourth averaged 248 in the head-to- the tournament. ing Tour title, had to settle for perfecto of this year’s event only Jhead finals over two games Sheikh Talal Al Mohammad second place worth $6,000. to tie the Finn after two games, total pins to triumph in the Emir Al Sabah said that bowling is In the semi-finals Al- 506-506. Cup 2017 on Sunday at the Qatar witnessing a great development Muraikhi eliminated Shayna Ng The Qatari won a one-ball Bowling Center in Doha. in the Gulf region and Qatar in of Singapore, 477-463, while roll-off to advance. In the title match against particular due to the great sup- Louw ousted Siti Safiyah of The Emir Cup 2017 drew 84 Francois Louw of South Africa, port given to it. Malaysia, 509-436. players, 69 men and 15 women, Al-Muraikhi took a slim two-pin Jassim is the first Qatari win- Ng and Safiyah, who from 16 countries. lead after the first game, 258 to ner since Mubarak Al Muraikhi received eight pins women’s The Emir Cup 2017, the 256. He followed with a 247-217 won the event in the year 2010. handicap each game, earned opening event of the 2017 Asian win to capture the title and the Mubarak, who also won in 2007, $3,500 apiece for third and Bowling Federation (ABF) Tour $10,000 top prize, 505-473. is the lone two-time champion fourth place, respectively. season, was held at the Qatar Sheikh Talal Al-Mohammad in the Emir Cup history. In his round of 16 match Bowling Center, a 32-laner in Al-Sabah, President of the Asian Louw, who won the 9th against two-time PBA Player of Doha. SPORT 7 MARCH 2017 TUESDAY 25 Muir leads British medal Golf: Top-ranked Johnson harvest as Spanovic excels Belgrade silver behind Pole Sylvester Reuters Bednarek and Lorraine Ugen wins WGC Mexico crown finished as the women's long aura Muir led an impres- jump runner-up. sive final day for Britain Shelayna Oskan-Clarke Mexico City L at the European indoor snatched the women's 800 AFP athletics championships with metres silver and Britain also her second gold medal of the finished as the women's 4x400 orld number three-day event after winning relay runners-up behind one Dustin the 3,000-metre race on Poland, who topped the over- Johnson held Sunday. all medal standings with seven off Spanish The day's action was also lit golds, one silver and four rookie Jon up by Serbia's Ivana Spanovic, bronzes. WRahm and England's Tommy who delighted the home crowd The British team finished Fleetwood over Sunday's final by retaining the women's long second with five golds, four sil- holes to win the World Golf jump title with 7.24 metres, vers and one bronze. Championships Mexico Cham- shattering her personal best by But for all of British and pionship by one stroke. 17 centimetres. Only two Polish exploits, Spanovic stole The reigning US Open cham- women have jumped farther the show in Belgrade's impos- pion became only the fifth player indoors, both in the 1980s - East ing Kombank Arena. to capture his first event after Dustin Johnson poses with German Heike Drechsler and Having entered as the moving atop the world rankings, the winner's trophy following Soviet Galina Chistyakova. strong favourite, the 2016 out- matching a feat done by Welsh- the final round of the WGC Muir, who clinched the door European champion and man Ian Woosnam, Australia's - Mexico Championship golf 1,500m gold on Saturday, set a Olympic bronze medallist Adam Scott, Fiji's Vijay Singh and tournament at Club de Golf new championship record of showed some nerves in her first American David Duval.