Our talented champion Ashraf Al Seify qualified for the hammer throw final in the athletics competition at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Al Seify succeeded in qualifying after recording a distance of 73.47m, joining a list of 11 other athletes who achieved the qualifying marks, with the participants split into two groups, six athletes from each qualifying to compete on Thursday for the coloured medals in the hammer throw.
The qualifying round for both groups was marked by below-average performances, affected by the high temperatures, with the athletes recording low marks far from expectations, which everyone attributed to the harsh weather during the morning session.
For his part, Ashraf Al Seify expressed his satisfaction at reaching the Olympic hammer final, acknowledging that the recorded mark was well below his personal best and promising to give his best in tomorrow’s final, and noting that all the athletes suffered from the heat and were greatly affected by it, in addition to having to wake up early to move from the village to the venue to begin warm-up and check-in procedures.
It is worth noting that champion Al Seify holds the youth world record and is champion of the 2013 Barcelona and 2015 USA World Championships, and is currently among the elite of young throwing champions with his notable hammer throw mark of 85.57m.
Al Seify enjoys full support and backing from the administrative and technical staff of the national teams, alongside high-level, professional training under his expert world-class coach Alexey Malyukov, under whom Al Seify’s talent flourished and quickly achieved a major technical and numerical breakthrough, earning appreciation and admiration, and Al Seify’s chances look good against the world’s champions despite this being his first Olympic participation.
