Cairo (WAM)
Salem Ghaleb, the swimmer of our nationwide crew, has concluded the participation of the delegation of the United Arab Emirates in the first Arab championship of drinking water online games for age teams, held in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, profitable the bronze medal in the 100 meters butterflies.
With this medal, Ghaleb elevated our team’s equilibrium in the event to 3 medals, just after Meera Al-Shehhi, our national staff swimmer, managed to acquire two “silver and bronze” medals in the past times. The team will return tomorrow evening, soon after the end of its participation in the championship swimming competitions, even though the drinking water polo and diving competitions will go on, which will close on 14 September. Abdullah Al-Wahaibi, President of the Organization Steering Committee of the Swimming Federation, head of the UAE delegation to the match, expressed pleasure with the participation in the event of a team of junior workforce champions, in particular since some of them participated in for the first time an exterior tournament, and this participation saw the achievement of new figures for some swimmers in a variety of competitions.
Al-Wahaibi praised Salem Ghaleb’s effort in the tournament as he was taking part with an age team older than his age, but he managed to contend and be powerful right until he concluded his initiatives by receiving a colored medal at the conclude of his participation in the tournament.
Interestingly, our national group participated in the tournament with 8 gamers, which includes Salem Ghaleb, Saeed Faraj, Omar Al-Hattawi, Hussein Al-Sayegh, Abdullah Al-Balushi, Hamad Al-Ali, as properly as swimmers Mira Al-Shehhi , Sarah Okasha and coaches Marwan Al-Hattawi, Talal Al-Ali.
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