In pictures, strength and excitement in the Abu Dhabi Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship ... and 22 medals for the UAE

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The Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship continued for the third day at the Jiu-Jitsu Arena in Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi. On its third day, the tournament witnessed the start of the qualifying and final competitions for the professional category in the blue and purple belts.

The World Championship is being held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.

The third day's competitions were attended by Major General Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al Raisi, Inspector General of the Ministry of Interior, Naama Al Mansouri, a member of the Federal National Council, Mohammed Salem Al Dhaheri, Vice President of the Jiu-Jitsu Federation, Youssef Abdullah Al Batran, a member of the Jiu-Jitsu Federation Council, and many other personalities.

The competitions began at ten in the morning with qualifying fights for the blue and purple belt category for women and men of different weight classes.

The participating players scored high levels of performance on the competition carpet.

Emirates Stars continued the global march of excellence with 18,320 points.

After a busy day during which the UAE champions stood in front of the strongest global players, jiu-jitsu players from various state clubs demonstrated the high levels of experience they enjoyed and the high fitness they were able to maintain despite the challenges of the lockdown period, as the UAE players continued their training, which enabled them to return to the rug of global competitions. With great power and winning medals.

On the first day of the professional category, the UAE champions in the blue and purple belt won 22 colored medals, to come first with 18,320 points in the country rankings, Brazil came second with 9,560 points, and Russia came third with 2560 points.

Youssef Al-Batran said in a press statement: “Today we are pleased with the launch of the professional competitions in the blue and purple belts, which is the category that we consider the most important reservoir for the brown and black belt stars.

Given the high-level performance shown by the players, we can confidently look forward to the brown and black belt competitions on Friday, to culminate with them the activities of the Abu Dhabi World Professional Jiu-Jitsu Championship, and conclude a new line in the process of successes of Jiu-Jitsu in the UAE. "

He added: “While everyone looks at our ability to successfully organize this championship, we consider this success a continuation of the approach of our country that has mastered challenges and transformed them into opportunities. We did not view the challenges of the pandemic as an obstacle to the path of achievement, but rather as an opportunity to demonstrate our ability to innovate and succeed, as we were able to gather jiu-jitsu champions from Different parts of the world on one carpet, and at the same time we provided the ideal platform for the people of our country to rise to the world. "

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