Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Saudi Arabian teams returned home with a total of 47 medals after concluding their participation in the 15th Arab Games that was held in Algeria.
With this great number of medals, the Saudi teams have broken the previous record in the 2011 tournament in Doha. At that time the teams won 45 medals
The Saudi teams gained 9 medals on the last day of the Arab Games. Saudi Arabia participated with more than 180 male and female athletes in 17 games, 14 Olympic and 3 Paralympic.
Prince Fahd Bin Jalawi Bin Abdulaziz Bin Musaed, the head of the Saudi delegation, has crowned the Saudi Karate player Sanad Al-Sufyani, who snatched the gold medal from his Jordanian counterpart Mahmoud Sajjan in the +84 kg competitions in karate competitions in Algiers.
Another gold medal was won by the Saudi table tennis player Ali Al-Khadrawi, who defeated his Algerian counterpart Mahdi Bou Bouloussa in the final with a score of 1/3, in the men's (singles) table tennis competition.
Al-Khadrawi had previously defeated his Sudanese counterpart Mohamed Al-Hadi Adam 0/3 in the 8th round, in addition to defeating Qatari Mohamed Abdel-Wahhab, by 0/3, in the quarterfinals. He also beat Bahraini Rashid Sanad, in the semifinals 1/3.
The Saudi handball team won the silver medal in the competition after losing in the final of the tournament to the Qatari team with a score of 24-38.
As for the bronze medals, Manal Al-Zaid, Saudi Karate Team player, won the bronze in the competitions in the women’s individual kata. Shamsa Al-Musallam also won the bronze in the women’s karate kumite competition over 68 kg.
Player Faraj Al-Nashiri won a bronze medal in the kumite category (under 84 kg), while the Saudi Green Karate Team won a bronze medal in the "men's group kata" with the participation of Misfer Al-Asmari, Fadel Al-Ghamgham and Abdullah Al-Malki.
Moreover, Nujud Kharami, a player in the Saudi weightlifting team, won the bronze in the snatch in the +81 weight competition, after lifting 59 kg.
On Saturday, the closing ceremony of the tournament will be held at the 5 July 1962 Stadium in Algiers, at 10 p.m. (Saudi time).
