The Athletics Federation, headed by HE Major General Dahlan Al Hamad, held a wonderful and distinguished celebration filled with much love and generosity at the Pearl of the Orient restaurant, during which the achievement of our great champion Mutaz Barshim was celebrated on the occasion of his winning the silver medal in the high jump competition at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and the celebration carried great joy for the family of the mother of sports in Qatar at the achievement of the first silver at Olympic level and the third at the level of Olympic medals, after the Barcelona 92 medal through champion Mohamed Sulaiman, and the bronze of the London 2012 Olympic Games through champion Mutaz Barshim, for Barshim to write a new history for Qatari athletics with the silver medal in Rio, with aspirations to embrace gold at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
A smile on everyone’s lips
And although the celebration embodied the joy of one family in the house of the mother of sports, which celebrated its son, the owner of the achievement in the present and the future, happiness overwhelmed everyone at the achievement, to the point that the joy went around every Qatari sporting household, given the great value of the achievement on the Olympic path for a country whose title is sport and whose approach is achieving sporting glories to remain a legacy for the generations, and so joy filled the Qatari athletics family, which celebrated Qatari glory in its own way .
A word from the heart to the heart
And the celebration saw a full turnout from the Qatari athletics family, represented in all its segments, administrators, technical staff, athletes and coaches at all levels of the mother of sports, alongside the family attendance of Captain Essa Barshim, father of champion Mutaz, and HE Major General Dahlan Jumaan Al Hamad, president of the Qatar and Asian federations and vice-president of the International Athletics Federation, gave a speech in which he expressed his great joy at champion Mutaz and what he achieved of an achievement that delighted all Arab and Asian athletes given that he is the icon of the high jump on the yellow continent, whose ship is steered by Qatari thinking represented by HE Major General Dahlan Al Hamad, and Al Hamad said in his speech ” my words come from the heart to the heart as a father and as one of the officials steering the helm of Qatari athletics, to celebrate this great achievement, which began in 2012 in London and the Rio 2016 Olympics and will continue to Tokyo 2020 and beyond, and it deserves that we celebrate it”
Sublime directives and will
And HE Major General Dahlan Al Hamad, in closing his speech, was gracious enough to honour our world champion on behalf of the Qatar Athletics Federation family amid stormy applause from the large crowd present, then moved on to another crowning in which he announced an honour from the Asian Athletics Association for champion Mutaz with the Asian federation’s shield, then another honour from the Asian Athletics Association with a medal from the federation for breaking the Asian record in the high jump competition, as a champion the size of an entire continent
Honouring coach Stanley
And HE Major General Dahlan Al Hamad was gracious enough to honour coach Stanislav Szczyrba, high jump coach of our champion Mutaz, at the celebration for his great role and effort with our champion, which was crowned with the silver achievement, with hopes for gold achievements to come at international events in the years leading up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
