SPORT Tuesday 5 December 2017 PAGE | 34 PAGE | 36-37 PAGE | 40 Heynckes takes Ashes: Anderson stars Woods fires final- Bayern back to as England strike round 68 but Fowler basics for PSG back in Adelaide wins the trophy Qatar’s Fares bags silver at Worlds California position at the Rio 2016 Olym- QNA/Reuters pic Games. Al Khayareen informed that the Qatari mis- tar Qatari weightlifter sion to 2017 World Fares Hassouna made Teenager Fares Championships in Anaheim the country proud wins the medal was headed by Sheikh Khalid after clinching the sil- bin Khalifa Al Thani and ver medal at the 2017 after managing to includes Fares and coach Ibra- SWorld Weightlifting Champi- lift 220kg in the him Hassouna. onships in Anaheim, California jerk during the He underlined that the on Sunday. remarkable achievements of Fares, aged 19, won the 94kg category the Qatari sports in general and medal after he managed to lift final at the 2017 weightlifting in particular are 220kg in the jerk during the accomplished with the strong 94kg category final. Apart from World support provided by Qatar winning the silver medal in his Weightlifting Olympic Committee (QOC) category, the Qatari weightlifter under the chairmanship of H E secured fourth overall position Championships in Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al amid strong competition. Anaheim Thani. In a statement to Qatar In addition, Qatar Weight- News Agency (QNA), Executive lifting Federation (QWF), headed Manager of Qatar Weightlifting by Mohammed Yousuf Al Mana;s Federation Mubarak Zayed Al all out support also played key Khayareen said that the victory role in the success, he added. Qatar’s Fares Hassouna (left) poses with other medal winners after the finals of 2017 World achieved is the first for Fares at Championships in Japan, add- Al Khayareen said QWF Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim, California on Sunday. the senior level, which came ing to his 2016 Asian was giving best training to its after he won the World Junior Championship title and seventh athletes by holding local and foreign training camps, and, kgs to clinch third. Mendez was kilograms behind the sending the weightlifters for all only granted citizenship by Lithuanian. regional, continental and inter- Chile this year. The 29-year-old Moradi national championships which He could have also taken jumped from 220kg to 233kg is giving them valuable Rostami’s clean and jerk world on his fifth lift to break the experience. record had he not failed with clean and jerk world record of Meanwhile, Chile’s Arley his final attempt at 221kg. 232kg set in 2000 by Poland’s Mendez returned from more “My finger got stuck on the Szymon Kolecki, and better by than four years of international bar, a technical problem,” said four kilograms his own world competitive exile to defeat Mendez. record for the total, which he Iran’s Olympic champion Kian- “Next year the records will improved to 417kg. oush Rostami in the men’s 85 come. I prepared well and I “I wanted to surprise every- kilogram class at weightlifting’s knew I would win here.” body and I did,” said Moradi. “I World Championships, while Rostami, who injured his am proud to make every Iranian Sohrab Moradi broke two world left knee last week, missed all across the world very happy,” he records in the 94kg class. three clean and jerk attempts said. Mendez, who never and failed to register a total. In the women’s 75 kilogram returned home after compet- Moradi, who won gold in class, Spain’s Lydia Valentin, a ing for his native Cuba in the Rio last year, broke two world medallist at the past three Pan American Junior Champi- records in winning the 94 kil- Olympic Games, was the clear onships in Santiago in 2013, ogram class, to take an easy win winner on 258kg from Ecua- posted a total of 378kg to win over Lithuania’s Aurimas Didz- dor’s Neisi Dajomes on 240kg Qatar’s Fares Hassouna competes during the finals of 94kg category of the 2017 World gold ahead of Poland’s Krzysz- balis by 29 kilograms. with France’s Gaelle Ketchanke Weightlifting Championships in Anaheim, California on Sunday. Fares won the silver medal tof Zwarycz (359kg). Italy’s Iran’s Seyedayoob Mousav- a further three kilograms in the competition. Antonino Pizzolato lifted 358 ijahari was in third place, three behind. 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Jugurtha Hamroun also to Doha, will be held from Jan- Alami. who are yet to lose a match, came good against Al Khor and uary 1 to 6 at the Khalifa “We are proud to host on a will look for nothing less than that makes the race at the top of International Tennis & Squash yearly basis some of the best a victory when they are hosted shield, lifted by Lekhwiya last out injured. Al Ahli, coached by the table hotter. Complex. players who have always by Al Sailiya, who must be season. Spaniard Joaquin Caparros, will The competition in the bot- Former world No. 1 Novak looked forward to starting their eager to snap a two-match los- Last week, The Red Knights take the field with a winning tom half is also tough. Djokovic (pictured) is leading season in Qatar. We are look- ing streak. widened the gap with Al Rayyan mentality, having beaten Al Tenth-placed Qatar SC run into a star cast which includes ing forward to seeing the fans The Peregrines had lost to Al to three points after the latter Sailiya in the last round. Al Gharafa, who had also won in Dominic Thiem, Jo-Wilfried troop out in large numbers to Khor and Al Ahli in Week 9 and played out a 1-1 draw with Umm Al Sadd too cannot afford to Week 10, while basement side Tsonga, Tomas Berdych, Rich- experience this amazing week 10 respectively. Salal. drop points if they are to be in Al Arabi take on eighth-placed ard Gasquet and Fernando of tennis, he added. ,” Tourna- Al Duhail will also be keen The Lions will be keen to put title contention. The Wolves, on Al Khor. Verdasco as well as Pablo Car- ment Director Karim Alami, to keep their unbeaten record in behind that disappointment 24 points and four behind Al Debutants Al Markhiya, 11th reno Busta, to the event. says of the upcoming event. tact after the first phase. when they face Al Ahli. Duhail, play Al Kharaitiyat at the on six points, also badly need “The Qatar ExxonMobil Information about ticket That will give them a shot However, they will miss the Al Khor Stadium, the latter’s some points to stay off the rele- Open has grown to become one sales and for the tournament in the arm in their pursuit of services of star Moroccan striker home ground. gation zone as they meet Umm of the major cornerstone in the can be obtained from www. retaining the prestigious league Abderrazaq Hamdallah, who is Al Sadd will continue to miss Salal. Qatar sports calendar,” said qatartennis.org. 34 SPORT TUESDAY 5 DECEMBER 2017 The gulf between Europe’s haves and have-nots! Paris 2005. PSV won the European of that happening, and it is is AFP Cup in 1988, while Celtic lifted hard to envisage a better out- the trophy in 1967. come than the system currently he Champions League The current Celtic have not in place. group stage, which lost in 67 domestic matches, a Indeed, the changes imple- Treaches its conclusion this British record, with Brendan mented in time for next season, week, has once again largely Rodgers undefeated on home guaranteeing four group-stage served to emphasise the gulf soil since becoming manager 18 spots for clubs from Spain, Ger- between Europe’s haves and months ago. many, England and Italy, are have-nots. But Rodgers has also over- really a step closer to a closed As a reminder, here are just seen the club’s heaviest league for the elite.