The UAE participates in the activities of the third Gulf Games, which starts today in the Sultanate of Oman and will continue until April 11, through 77 athletes and sports in eight different sports: football, handball, volleyball, athletics, pegs, sail, swimming, and paragliding.
The tournament is witnessing the participation of 330 athletes and sports from various Gulf countries.
The UAE has not lost this forum since its start for the first time in 2010 in the Kingdom of Bahrain, during which it succeeded in crowning five colored medals with a gold medal and four bronze medals, while the Emirati participation doubled its harvest in the Qatar 2015 version with a total of 10 colored medals, with a gold medal, three silver and six bronze medals.
The session opens today at the lake theater in the Crimea Natural Park, and the national team for air sports begins to participate in the event today, through the Plain Aviation Competition with the participation of five athletes: Rashid Ibrahim Al -Samahi, Muhammad Jaber Al -Mazmi, Tariq Muhammad Al -Obaidli, Abdullah Nasser Mustafa and Muhammad Abdullah Al Jasmi, as the team is playing six rounds distributed over two days by three rounds in the first day and the same on the second day.
The Emirates beach handball team also begins its tournament today with the meeting of Amman, to face the Saudi national team on the next day, while meeting with Bahrain next Monday.
The UAE teams began reaching Muscat represented by the sail and air sports teams, and the handball, and was preceded by the administrative mission on the first of April to check on the headquarters of delegations, see the organizational aspects, and to know the mechanisms of movement between different competitions and training.
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