The youngest player of the national team records his first participation in the adult tournaments
The 18-year-old "Nawad" competes with the track giants at the "Tokyo Paralympic"
Part of Ahmed Nawad's participation at the beginning of this year in "Fazza International".
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The youngest player of the national team for People of Determination, Ahmed Nawad (18 years old), aspires to compete with the giants of track racing for wheelchairs on the international scene, and to record remarkable achievements in the 100 and 800 meters races, in his first participation in the history of the Paralympic Games for adults, when he raises the company of 11 of his colleagues The national team will represent the UAE at the “Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games” held in Japan from August 24 to September 5.
Clubs told "Emirates Today", "The ambitions are great in Tokyo to reach the final rounds in the 100 and 800 meters races, despite the expected strength of competition and the participation of world champions, especially since it is the same category in which I will be with my colleague and role model in the team and the world record holder for a distance of 800 meters. Mohamed Al-Qayed, alongside Tunisian short-distance Paralympic champion Walid Katila, in the 100m race.
He added, "My success in qualifying for the (Tokyo 2020) cycle in the 100 and 800 meters races represents a translation of global achievements to be credited to Al Ain Club, the Zayed Higher Organization for People of Determination, and the UAE Paralympic Committee, which has provided me since I entered track racing in 2016 when I was 13 years old, All means of support to develop performance and reap achievements, and raise the flag of the state in major international forums, especially that my recent numbers, whether qualifying from them, or even those I recently achieved in the world championships in which I competed, the last of which was the World Cup in Peru, placed me among the list of world classifiers, It is not far from the Paralympic records.
He explained: “During Dubai’s hosting of the 2019 World Championships, I succeeded in extracting a qualifying record for a distance of 100 meters, before continuing to improve this time during my external participation, including the World Cup in Peru, last June, to rise through it in the world rankings, and I also succeeded in recording 1 minute, 43 seconds and 35 milliseconds in the 800m race, which was also enough to qualify at this distance to participate in the Tokyo Paralympics.”
He continued, "My numbers have continued to improve in the external camps that the team has set up over the past two months, and my ambitions in the current session are to record the best times on my personal level, to fight against the adults and reach the finals, in friction experiences at the highest level."
He concluded: "I have achieved great wishes during my sports career, starting with being in the World Cup tournaments, and now in the Paralympic tournaments.
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