GULF NEWS:

GULF NEWS:
All set for final day of competition
By Yasir Abbasher, Senior Reporter
Published: September 12, 2009, 22:40


Abu Dhabi: The final matches of the men's five-a-side football event will bring the curtains down on the 13th Armed Forces Officers Club (AFOC) Ramadan Games tonight.

A total of 2,800 contestants (men and women) from 66 countries participated in 13 disciplines during the course of the games including football, volleyball, bowling, judo, karate, jiu-jitsu, wrestling, PlayStation, shooting, fencing, chess and boxing.

The semifinal round, played late yesterday, pitted Al Sayyaad against National Archives Centre and Ground Forces against Al Rabea of Algeria.

The title match apart, the match to decide the third-placed team will also be held tonight.

The winners of the men's football competition will be presented a trophy, individual gold medals and a cash prize of Dh150,000.


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The second-placed team will also get a trophy, silver medals and a cash prize of Dh120,000. The third-placed team will get a trophy, bronze medals and Dh75,000 while the fourth-placed team will get a consolation prize of Dh50,000.

In Jiu-Jitsu, UAE entrants put up a splendid fight, clinching 14 medals out of 24 to emerge champions in the event.

Contestants from the UAE won four gold medals. Mohammad Al Qubaisi won gold in the 65-kg weight class, Khalifa Al Qubaisi in the 74-kg cate-gory. Faisal Al Kutbi took gold in both the under-92-kg and the open weight classes.

Mahdi Al Qubaisi won silver for the UAE in the 83-kg weight class, losing out to Dmitry Testos of Greece. The gold in the above-92kg class went To Egypt's Tariq Mattar, who defeated Amin Tawati of Sweden in the final bout, leaving the bronze for the UAE's Yahya Mansour and Mohammad Al Minhali, who got the second bronze after placing fourth in the event.