Farsi gets second place
Salem Malhouf dedicates the UAE to the World Cup of Endurance
The moment the knights Salem Malhouf and Mansour Al Farsi reached the finish line.
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The Emirates Knights achieved a new achievement to be added to the country's sport record after knight Salem Hamad Saeed Malhouf Al Ketbi won first place and gold medal in the World Cup of Endurance, which was hosted by the city of Pisa in the Tuscany region, Italy yesterday, and came in the prescription center, his colleague in the knight team Mansour Saeed Mohammed Persian.
The Emirates Knights dominated the first and second places after entering the finish line with the champion Salem Al Ketbi, who rode on horseback «Hala», recording a time of 7.24.24 hours, followed by the knight Mansour Saeed Al Farsi on horseback «Berman Aya» recording a time of 7.24. 25 hours, while Chilean knight Bonnie Viada ranked third, on boarding «AS Ambrago», with a time of 7.31.26 hours.
The race distance was 160 km distributed in six stages with the participation of 74 riders representing 32 countries, and the championship was held under the supervision of the International Equestrian Federation and sponsored by Longines.
The competition was confined to most of the stages of the race between the strongest candidate teams, namely the Emirates, Bahrain and Spain, and our jockeys succeeded in maintaining the lead from the start to the finish line, where the knight Salem Hamad Malhouf Al Ketbi finished third in the first and second stages, and second place in the third and fourth stages. And the fifth, while the knight Mansour Saeed Al-Farsi managed to progress in the positions, where he scored the sixteenth place in the first stage, then jumped to the eighth place in the second phase, and then advanced to the seventh place in the third stage, to continue to advance to the top and reserve his position within the Golden Triangle after achieving Third place in the fourth and fifth stages.
The race was attended by the country's ambassador to Italy Omar Obaid Al Shamsi, the Secretary-General of the Emirates Equestrian Federation Dr. Ghanem Al Hajri, the managing director of the Emirates Knights team mission, the General Director of the Dubai Equestrian Club, Major General Muhammad Issa Al-Azb, and a crowd of fans of endurance and endurance sports.
The list of Emirati knights participating in the World Cup included Sheikh Hamad bin Dalmouk Al Maktoum, the knight Abdullah Ghanem Al Marri, and the knight Salem Saeed Al Owaisi, along with the champion Salem Al Ketbi and the runner-up Mansour Al Farsi.
The champions' coronation ceremony will take place today in the San Russoor Park, which hosted the race competitions, to mobilize the UAE mission to travel home after the closing ceremony to the homeland after achieving global achievement.
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