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HANGZHOU: A gold medal in show jumping and a bronze in karate on Friday upped º£½ÇÖ±²¥â€™s medal tally to nine in the 19th Asian Games, being held in Hangzhou, China.
In the individual show jumping competition, Saudi rider Abdullah Al-Sharbatly won gold after completing the final round in 39.68 seconds.
Saudi athletes have so far collected four gold, two silver, and three bronze medals in Hangzhou 2022.
Al-Sharbatly ranked first ahead of his UAE contenders, who came in second and third.
With a spectacular performance in the first and second rounds of individual show jumping, he qualified for the final round without committing an error with times of 77.95 and 75.14 seconds. Al-Sharbatly’s Friday medal was his second gold in this edition of the Games.
Rider Abdulrahman Al-Rajhi ended his Asian participation by exiting the individual show jumping competition in the second round after registering a time of 76.06 seconds.
In karate, Green Falcons team member, Tarek Hamedi, took bronze in the over-84 kg weight category after defeating Nepal’s Shrestha Biplav in the third and fourth-place match with a score of 9-1.
It was Hamedi’s second Asian bronze medal after picking up his first in the Jakarta 2018 Asian Games.
Meanwhile, teammate Saud Al-Bashir missed the chance to win the bronze medal in the under-60 kg class after losing to Jordan’s Abdullah Hammad 2-5.
Weightlifter Njwd Al-Khrmy finished eighth in the 87 kg competition after lifting 67 kg in the snatch and 87 kg in the clean and jerk, with a total of 154 kg.
Lama Al-Madani and Abdullah Al-Ghanam went out of the Jiu-Jitsu competition with Al-Madani losing to her Thai contender 2-5 in the Round of 16 under-57 kg weight category, and Al-Ghanam going down 2-0 to his Uzbek competitor in the same round in the under-77 kg weight class.
The Green Falcons’ basketball team finished sixth in the competition after losing to Iran 60-92 on Friday.