Tokyo: Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan progressed to the semifinals of the Tokyo 2020 men’s Olympic beach volleyball tournament after a straight-set victory over Italy’s Paolo Nicolai and Daniele Lupo in the quarterfinals held at Shiokaze Park on Wednesday. Nicolai and Lupo could not hold on to the three-point lead they opened early into their match with Cherif and

Tokyo: Qatar’s Abderrahman Samba will gun for the gold medal in the final of Men’s 400m hurdles event at Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games to be staged on Tuesday. The world bronze medallist advanced to the final of 400m hurdles after clocking at time 47.47 in the semi-final held on Sunday. In today’s final, Samba will face a tough task

The Al Shaqab Racing-owned ALMAFJAR (FR) (Mister Ginoux / Al Dhabi) produced a fine front-running performance to take the Prix Arca – WATHBA Stallions Cup, a mile race for four-year-old and older Purebred Arabians at La Teste de Buch on Sunday, 1 August. Trained by in-form trainer Elizabeth Bernard, ALMAFJAR was ridden to success by apprentice jockey Gary Sanchez. Breaking quickly from

Tokyo: Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan qualified to the quarterfinals of the Tokyo 2020 men’s Olympic beach volleyball tournament. The Qatari duo defeated USA’s Nick Lucena and Phil Dalhausser 2-1 (14-21, 21-19, 15-11) in the round-of-16 at on Sunday. “Thank god we won this game!” Cherif exclaimed. “We were ready for a long game. We know each other really

Tokyo: H.E. President of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani dedicated the historic achievement of our weightlifter Fares Ibrahim, claiming Qatar’s first Olympic gold medal, to HH the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, HH the Father Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani and the Qatari people.   On this occasion, H.E. Sheikh Joaan said,

Tokyo: Qatar’s Fares Ibrahim made history winning the country’s first Olympic gold medal in weightlifting competitions on Saturday.   Fares Ibrahim put up 177kg in the snatch before sliding into the clean and jerk and setting an Olympic record in that lift with a weight of 225kg.   Venezuela’s Keydomar Vallenilla Sanchez took the silver medal while Georgia’s Anton Pliesnoi

Tokyo: Qatar’s two-time world champion Mutaz Barshim lived up to the high expectations and qualified for the final of Men’s High Jump event at Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games. In the qualifications held at the Olympic Stadium on Friday, Barshim cleared 2.28m to secure his spot in the finals to be staged on Sunday. A bronze medallist in 2012 and

Tokyo – Qatar’s hopes of winning an Olympic medal in Tokyo 2020 Olympics will rest on its athletics stars who will begin their campaign in the games on Friday.After winning the bronze medal in London 2012 Olympics and the silver medal in Rio 2016 Olymp…