With the participation of 90 knights from 35 countries, next May

Hamdan bin Mohammed leads the Emirates Knights at the World Cup in Italy

  • Hamdan bin Mohammed raises the UAE flag the moment he was declared champion of the World Cup in France 2014. Archives

  • Emirates Knights are ready for the challenge in the World Cup of Endurance.

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The Organizing Committee of the World Endurance Championship announced the list of countries participating in the tournament scheduled to be held on May 22nd in San Rossore Park in Pisa, Italy, noting that the knight, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, will lead the UAE national team in the event that It will witness the participation of 90 knights and knights from 35 countries from five continents.

"The final list of countries and knights participating in the 2021 World Endurance Championship revealed the participation of a large number of world champions and former European champions, which heralds strong competition that may make it the strongest tournament in recent years," she said in a press release.

She added: “The tournament will witness the participation of the 2014 world endurance champion, His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, as the strongest candidate to compete for the title, along with the Spanish defending champion Jaume Ponte Dachs and the world and European champion Maria Alvarez, while the list of participants includes the champion of Italy and Europe Costanza To Alicia ».

And she continued: “The Bahrain team is led by one of the candidates to compete in the title, the knight, His Highness Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa, and the tournament also witnesses the participation of the Iraqi national team for the first time in the world championship, while the 1999 world motorcycle champion of Spain, Alex Crivelli, will participate in the tournament. Each of: Melissa Pesovi, Patricia Cianferoni, Giuseppe Ducchi, Umberto Fava, Martina Jagliani, Costanza Lalicia, Camilla Malta, Daniele Cirioli, as five of them will be selected to represent Italy in the team competition.

She explained that the list of countries participating in the World Endurance Championship includes, in addition to the national team,: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Iraq, Ireland. , Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Romania, Russian Equestrian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Hungary, Uruguay, United States.

On the other hand, Britain apologized for not participating in the World Endurance Championship due to restrictions imposed on travel procedures as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, in addition to fears of health dangers that may threaten horses in light of the outbreak of "herpes", an infectious virus in Europe. British equestrian on his official website about his not participating officially in the tournament, so that the British team would be the first country to withdraw from participation in the World Cup.

The San Russoor Park in Pisa, which will host the tournament, bears great memories for the UAE knights, as the junior team crowned the world title in the last world tournament hosted by Pisa in the World Youth and Junior Cup in 2019, and the UAE riders monopolized the top five at that time, after the knight Saeed Al Muhairi entered history. From the broadest of its doors, by winning the gold medal in the individual category in the second successive edition, and the UAE national team won the gold medal and the full mark in the teams category, after the team consisting of the hero Saeed Salem Ateeq Al Muhairi, Shaheen Yahya Al Mazroui (the runner-up), and Saif Ahmed Al Mazrouei, third-placed, achieved the best time of 14.18.45 hours for the three musketeers in the race that was sponsored by Meydan and "Azizi" for real estate development under the supervision of the International Federation. Spain came in second place, while the Italian team ranked third.

Hamdan bin Mohammed .. A march full of global achievements in endurance races

His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has a proven track record in endurance races, as His Highness entered the local and international endurance championships, thanks to his high abilities and practice, and was able to win the World Endurance Championship which was held in Normandy, France in 2014, and won the European Championship for Endurance. In 2005, he was twice crowned champion of the World Cup of Military Ability in Bahrain 2012 and the Emirates 2014, in addition to achieving His Highness the title of "Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Endurance Cup" twice in a row.

Last year, His Highness achieved a new achievement in winning the title of the second edition of the "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup of Endurance", which was held in Al-Ula Governorate in Saudi Arabia.

Ahmed bin Mohammed .. won the big title

His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the youngest knight in the world to win the World Cup of Power when he won on September 16, 2002 the World Championship title for a distance of 160 km, with the participation of 150 knights and knights in the Jerez region of Spain, to record the history of His Highness despite the participation among the giants who are older than him And experience, to become a brilliant name among the stars of global endurance racing.

• Britain apologized for not participating in the World Endurance Championship due to restrictions imposed on travel procedures.

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