Bahrain’s hopes to win medal dashed

Bahrain’s hopes of winning their maiden medal at the Fourth Islamic Solidarity Games, being held in Baku, were dashed after Maryam Hassani came fourth in the women’s Skeet event.
The only Bahraini shooter who made it into the final after coming second in the qualifying round with 68 points earlier yesterday was hoping to finish in the top three in the medals battle, but could only finish fourth.
Turkish shooter Banu Noor captured the competition’s gold medal, followed by NurlanaJafarova of host country’s Azerbaijan in second place and Izle Aydin, also of Turkey, rounded off the podium.
Shooting events continue today with the men’s skeet competition where the trio of Hasan Mohamed, Naser Khalaf and Tammar Al Wattlook to make up for the women’s unfortunate finish and grab one of the three medals for Bahrain.
Meanwhile, Bahrain will have high hopes today when the athletics events kick off at Baku Olympic Stadium, located near the Olympic Village, from 9.25am (Bahrain time).
Iman Isa and Hajer Al Amiri will start off Bahrain’s medal hunt today when they takes part in the women’s 100mheats, while Andrew Fisher fights it out in the men’s 100m qualifying races.
Abbas Abubaker and Ali Khamis will be line up for the men’s 400m heats, then Manal Elbahraouiand Marta Yota enter the women’s 800m heats.
Athletics events continue in the evening with the second session competitions as the men’s and women’s 100m semi-finals and final will take place, in addition to the men’s 400m semi-finals, while AwekeYimer and Linus Kiplagat will both take part in the men’s 5,000m final.
Bahrain’s progress was closely followed by Supreme Council for Youth and Sports deputy general secretary and Bahrain Olympic Committee (BOC) general secretary Abdulrahman Askar, who arrived in Baku yesterday to head the kingdom’s delegation.

Source: BNA