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ARAB TIMES, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015
SPORTS
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Fourth Amir International Shooting Grand Prix
All the winners pose with officials after the awarding ceremony.
Amir’s Shooting GP concludes
Kuwaiti shooter Adel dedicate ‘gold’ medal to the country
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 29:
The fourth HH the Amir of
Kuwait
International
Shooting Grand Prix concluded Thursday at Sheikh
Sabah Al-Ahmad Olympics
Complex.
Iman Al Samah prepares to shoot.
With the participation of 59
countries, the event proved to be a
success as usual, during which
stiff competition was observed
among 526 male and female
shooters.
The closing ceremony went well
amidst fanfare and the organizers
distributed four medals to the winners of the 50-meter rifle prone for
junior women and women, as well
as double trap for junior men and
men.
Kuwaiti shooter Afrah Adel stole
the show on the third day of the
competition when she dedicated her
first gold medal, which she won in
the Skeet category, to the country.
Kazakhstan later displaced Serbia to
top the medal list.
Arabs grabbed five medals of var-
Iraqi officials with some of the shooters.
ious colors notable among which
were the gold medal won by Adel,
who pushed Qatari shooter Sarah
Mohammad to second place and
Polish Aleksandra Jarmolinska —
the 2008 European Junior Champion
— to third place.
Portuguese Antonietta Boniva —
2014 World Tournament Champion
and 2010 silver medalist — won
gold medal in 10 meters by scoring
201.6 points ahead of Lithuanian
A winner celebrates with her coach
Yikatrina Zedanova who scored
193.1 points and Tunisian Olfa
Charni with 173.5 points.
The medal list in descending order
is as follows: Kazakhstan, Serbia,
Malaysia,
Uzbekistan,
Italy,
Hungary, Kuwait, United Arab
Emirates (UAE), Croatia, Bulgaria,
Qatar, Latvia, Mongolia, Bosnia,
Malta, Lithuania, Iraq, Singapore,
Slovenia,
Albania,
Armenia,
Morocco, Poland and Tunisia.
Tunisia’s Alfa Sherini celebrates on
the podium.
Afra Adel Abdul Rahman
shooting champion.
Qatar’s Aisha Al Suwedi.
Tunisian shooters pose for a group photo.
Iman Al Samah with other shooters.
Iraqi shooter on the podium.
Officials in the VIP box stand up for the Kuwait National Anthem.
Kuwait’s Nawaf Al Rashidi
Bulgaria’s Antonitta Bunifa.
Ali Al Mutairi from Kuwait in action.
Bulgaria’s Antonitta Bunifa prepares to shoot.
Al Roomi with winners on the podium.
Skeet