Al Rayyan breaks Al Sadd’s grip on club championships to win the Hope-category athletics festival

Al Rayyan Sports Club’s Hope-category athletes broke Al Sadd Sports Club’s grip on domestic championships, prevailing over Qatar’s clubs at the third athletics festival for the Hope category, hosted by Al Arabi Club on its outdoor pitch at four o’clock in the afternoon of Wednesday 2/3/2011, attended by Mr Adel Mohamed Al Baker, the federation’s Secretary-General, Al Arabi’s Secretary-General, board members of both the Qatar Athletics Federation and Al Arabi, and a large crowd of fans of the sport and the athletes’ families. The festival featured 8 events: a 30m dash, a 30m hurdles dash, a relay, a “formula” event, a standing long jump, a hopscotch jump, a forward ball throw, and a foam javelin throw. The clubs each fielded 10 athletes per event, and Al Rayyan’s athletes came out on top with 57 points, while the previous edition’s champions Al Sadd finished second with 50 points, and Al Ahli’s athletes took third with 49 points. At the end of the festival, the federation’s Secretary-General and Al Arabi’s Secretary-General crowned the athletes and clubs finishing in the top three places, attended by the festival’s technical supervisors, Mr Yacoub Yousef Abdullah, board member, and Mr Yousef Ahmed Mohamed, the federation’s treasurer. The following are the clubs’ results at the third Hope-category athletics festival:

Club rankings at the third Hope-category athletics festival

2010-2011 sporting season