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Oman\u2019s experienced shooter, Hamed al Khatri, is gearing up for the second consecutive presence at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the 50 m rifle 3 positions competitions which is scheduled on Monday at Asaka Shotting Ranse.<\/p>\n
The 36 year old Omani did the sultanate proud last year when he became the champion of the Arab\u2019s shooting Championship in Egypt in January 2020. He will compete beside 38 top shooters from different part of the world.\u00a0 The competition qualification will start at 6:30 am (Oman time) and eight shooters will advance to the finals which will begin at 11:50 am (Oman time). All the shooters will get 120 shot and distributed into 40 shots each for Kneeling, Prone and standing within a duration of one hour and 45 minutes. The existing record of al Khatri is 1176 point and he is holding the Arab record.<\/p>\n
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Training program<\/strong><\/p>\n Sultan al Rushaidi, the head coach of the national shooting team, said that the preparatory program for shooter Hamed began since few weeks ago. \u201cAfter obtaining the Olympic invitation card for the Sultanate\u2019s shooter, we had started a continuous daily training at International Shooting Range in Ghala. We focused in different mental and physical training areas,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n The national experienced head coach affirmed that Olympic Games which occurred every four hours differ from any other regional and international events and championships. \u201cThe competition in any discipline in Olympics is tough as many of the world ranking champions will take part. However, Shooter Hamed al Khatri is classified as one of the top domestic, GCC and Arab shooters. He has accumulated technical experience from the previous national, GCC, Arab , Asian and Olympics participation. Also, we hope the weather condition will be suitable for the shooters to perform well in the competitions. Wind, clouds and fog will not ease the assignment for the shooters to focus on the target goal. Our target is to break new record and show top performance that reflect development of Oman\u2019s shooting,\u201d the nationa coach ended.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lessons to learn<\/strong><\/p>\n Oman\u2019s talented swimmer, Issa al Adawi, ended his debut in the 32nd Summer Olympic Games \u2013 2020 Tokyo as he positioned in sixth place with a time of 51.81s in the preliminary heat action of Men\u2019s 100m freestyle competitions on Tuesday at the Tokyo Aquatics Center. The national swimmer was assigned in heat three. After completion of the nine heats, Adawi placed in the 53rd position among the 70 competitors. The fastest qualifier among 16 swimmer into the semis was the Italy’s Thomas Ceccon who registered a time of 47.71s. The cutoff of the final qualifier was 48.44s and came by Great Britain’s Jacob Whittle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Commenting post the preliminary heat action of Men\u2019s 100m freestyle competitions, swimmer Issa al Adawi said:\u201d My target was to register my personal best and focus was to finish within mid of 50s. However, small technical details during the swimming competition may change a lot in the final timing. Taking many lessons from this debut in Olympic and working hard to develop the weakness areas is the focus now. I can break my best personal (51.69s) in the forthcoming championships and events including the Open swimming championship for Universities in October ,\u201d he ended<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Major championships<\/strong><\/p>\n The national head coach, Aiman al Kulaibi said that the swimmer Issa has good technical skills and needs more experience besides taking part in major championships and swimming top events. \u201cThis Olympic participation is a good start for Issa. Strengthening some technical aspects and overcoming negative areas are two top points to consider in the coming period. Continuity of Issa\u2019s preparatory program in Chukyou University will assist him to develop more and we hope to accomplish the desired outcomes from the long preparatory camp in Japan,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Omani swimming referee in Tokyo 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Abdulmoneim al Alawi, FINA open water referee, assigned to officiate the open water swimming competitions (swimming marathon) at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. He is the first Arab and Asian Chief referee to manage the competition at Tokyo 2020 Olympics.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Commenting on his selection for the second successive time after debut in 2016 Rio Olympics ,\u201d I had officiated in Rio Olympics as Assistant Chief referee. For Tokyo 2020 Olympics, I have been selected as Chief referee for the open water swimming competitions which will start on August 4 and 5.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I am very proud of this Olympic participation. Assigning an Omani referee to run these competitions is a significant \u00a0indicator and evidence of the success of the Omani referee. I have started officiating swimming events since 1986 and managed selected as umpire for more than 150 international, regional, Gulf and Arab championships and events. I obtained the international referee badge in 1995,\u201d he ended.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shooter Hamed al Khatri gear up for his second consecutive presence at Olympic Games Continuous preparations for shooter Hamed to shape him for the top assignment; coach Sultan says Abdulmoneim named as FINA Chief referee for Tokyo 2020 Olympics Oman\u2019s experienced shooter, Hamed al Khatri, is gearing up for the second consecutive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-38","9":"description-off"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooc.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooc.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooc.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooc.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooc.om\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ooc.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooc.om\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ooc.om\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooc.om\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ooc.om\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}