Abdullah Jassim wins the Asian Cycling Championship bronze

Yesterday, the cyclist of the national team, Abdullah Jassim, won the bronze medal in the individual race under 23 years old in the Asian Cycling Championship held in Thailand, after a strong competition with the cyclist of Uzbekistan. Although Abdullah Jassim suffered a bicycle failure in the first seven kilometers, he succeeded in returning and joining the competing group to the finish line, and to obtain his first Asian medal. The continental championship will conclude tomorrow with the general individual race for adults, in which the national team will participate with three riders, while Safia Al-Sayegh will participate today in the general individual race under 23 years.

The national team is participating in the tournament with riders: Saif Mayouf, Jaber Al Mansouri, Abdullah Jassim, and Abdullah Al Hammadi, in addition to the champion Safia Al Sayegh.

Abdullah Jassim participated in the individual time trial, and was close to getting the silver, had it not been for the fall he suffered in the last 150 meters, which caused him to be disrupted for more than a minute and lost the time of arrival, but he succeeded in compensating during his last race, yesterday, and getting He won the Asian medal in a race that witnessed the participation of 59 cyclists for a distance of 138 km.

The President of the Cycling Federation and Chairman of the National Teams Committee, Mansour Bouassiba, said in a press statement that Abdullah Jassim reaped the fruits of the great effort made by the national team and the camp, which lasted from last March until the date of participation in the Asian Championship. Bouassiba told “Emirates Today”: “The team is able to compete with any continental country, and succeeded in that with planning, fatigue and effort made by the team’s riders. It is difficult to continue for three months in an external European camp. Spending the month of Ramadan and Eid away from the family, and continuing training. The result was what we see now from all the stars of the national team, starting with Ahmed Al Mansouri and Abdullah Jassim, and waiting for the rest of the champions, and I wish them all success.

• Safia Al-Sayegh participates today in the U-23 year-old singles race.