Australia,‘Rocketman’ bag gold in Hong Kong
Women bowling tournament held for colleges ‘No new records broken’
The Department of Sports Activities in the Deanship of Student Affairs at Kuwait University organized a women bowling tournament for colleges, in collaboration with the Capital Training Center for Bowling. About 25 students from different colleges participated in the tournament, which was held on Wednesday, April 12.
Asma Yousef from the College of Social Sciences took first place, followed by Layla Nabeel from College of Applied Medicine in second place, and Fatima Shaker from the College of Social Sciences in third place.
Head of Department of Sports Activities Fatima Bo Hamad, Head of Sports Section Ruboo’ Al-Fahad and the Sports Superintendent Ghada Al-Halwaji were present at the event.
In her statement, Head of Department of Sports Activities Fatima Bo Hamad highlighted the role played by the department in spreading awareness about sports and culture
Photo from the event. by holding competitions and championships among students of various colleges in order to widen the circle of sports practice.
She affirmed that such competitions are aimed at developing leadership role by involving students in organizing and practicing sports activities, cementing relations among students from different colleges, developing their skills and talents, and teaching them different ways they can invest their free time productively. HONG KONG, April 13, (AFP): Australia fell just short of a men’s and women’s team pursuit double on Thursday as Malaysia’s ‘Pocket Rocketman’ Azizulhasni Awang won an emotional maiden world track cycling title in Hong Kong.
Australia beat New Zealand handily in the men’s team pursuit final, before their women’s squad were denied by the United States despite a furious fightback in which the Aussies briefly snatched the lead.
Hong Kong’s former Olympic bronze medallist Sarah Lee ignited home support when she stormed into the women’s sprint semifinals, while Awang also raised the roof with his victory in the keirin.
Awang choked back tears after he ended his long wait for a first rainbow jersey with a storming last-lap surge to finish ahead of Colombia’s Fabian Puerta and Czech rider Tomas Babek. on the sprint to the finish line,” Teklinski told AFP. “They didn’t suppose I would attack early.”
He added: “This is the most happiest day in my life. I think maybe tomorrow it will come to me that I’m world champion.”
Australia’s men’s pursuit team had raised expectations of a new world record with their Wednesday qualifying time of 3min 50.577sec, a shade off Britain’s 3:50.265 at last year’s Olympics.
But in the event, there was no new record as the defending champions and Olympic silver-medallists clocked 3:51.503, beating New Zealand by nearly 2.5sec.
“After we had done the time in qualifying and we were so close to (the world record), to say it wasn’t on our mind at certain stages would be a lie,” said Australia’s Cameron Meyer, who claimed his seventh world title.
“But we did talk about the procedure of wanting to win the world title first. If you break the world record and that (win) comes along with it then that’s the bonus.
“That was my advice to the younger guys: ‘Let’s win the world title’.”
Italy took the bronze medal when in the final kilometre, they overhauled a new-look British team to win by a healthy 1.631sec.
In the women’s race for gold the USA, the title-holders and Olympic silver-medallists, held off a determined Australian team to win by 0.417sec.
New Zealand won the bronze-medal race against an Italian team which led until the final 500 metres but fell apart to finish nearly five seconds adrift.
Adrian Teklinski of Poland reacts after winning gold in the Men’s Scratch Race Final at the Hong Kong Velodrome during the 2017 Track Cycling
World Championships in Hong Kong on April 13. (AFP)