Qetaifan Island Triathlon 2024

Triathlon championships continue in Qetaifan Island, Lusail

  This season's triathlon championship competitions culminated in at the Lusail Triathlon Championship in Qetaifan Island with a record participation of nearly one hundred and sixty male and female competitors in all three categories as follows: the first category for senior speed, the second category for youth super sprint, and the third category for youth and junior aquathlon, where crowds of participants flocked to the race start from the early morning until the start of the swimming stage from the beach of Qetaifan Island South.

The tournament was wonderful and great, as the weather was cool and beautiful, which created a great competitive atmosphere among the competitors, who began the competition with a swimming stage that reached 750 meters, then moved to the cycling stage that reached 20 kilometers, and concluded with a running stage of a distance of 5 kilometers.

The results of the tournament were expected after Al-Namsi and Al-Kuwari maintained first and second places in the previous Katara Championship. In the Sprint category, Muhammad Al-Namsi was able to maintain the title after achieving first place for the age group (20-29) and topping the podium after winning the gold medal with a total time of fifty-eight. One minute and fifty-four seconds. Qatari champion Tamim Jamal Al-Kuwari came in second place for the same category with a total time of one hour, six minutes and eighteen seconds. Qatari champion Fares Al-Muhannadi came third with a time of one hour, nine minutes and forty-five seconds.

In the classification of the category (30-39), veteran Aziz Haddaghi was able to achieve first place and be crowned with gold after finishing the championship with a time of one hour, five minutes and thirty-eight seconds, while player Bernard McCullough came in second place, five seconds behind the first-place holder, and Irishman Barry Eggen came third. With a time of one hour and eleven minutes.

In the team competitions, the support team, which included (Leon Coffey, Abdullah Bumatrak, Elias Al-Awali), achieved first place with a time of 58 minutes and 16 seconds, and the second support team came with a difference of 30 seconds in second place, which was represented by the trio (Stewart Report, Mohsen Arhaili, and Abdul Qader Al-Awaini) and came in place. The third team was Al-Ghariya, which was represented by the trio (Abdulaziz Al-Jaber, Saud Zayed and Fahd Al-Hababi), with a time of one hour, 11 minutes and 53 seconds.