220 shooters participate in Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Shooting Academy

KUWAIT: President of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations Eng Duaij Al-Otaibi attended the closing ceremony of Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Shooting Academy season and distributed medals and prizes to the winners of the tournament in which over 220 shooters participated.

Al-Otaibi gave medals and cups to first place winners, as Abdelrahman Al-Nimran won the skeet event, Abdelaziz Al-Daihani won the trap, while Mushari Shaheen won the 10 meter air rifle, and Fahad Nouri won the 10 meter air pistol. Shammah Al-Rashiti won the women’s 10m event, Alkawthar Abdelhussain won the 10m air pistol, while Obaid Abdelwahab won first place in the Olympic archery.

Meanwhile, Eng Duaij Al-Otaibi said that Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Shooting Academy season for 2016 comes as a follow up to “shooter 2000” project which was launched in 1998 with the backing of Information Minister, State Minister for Youth Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud Al-Sabah in addition to Kuwait Shooting Sport Club board members at the time and continued with boards that followed, as the academy became more developed and experienced with the best coaches in the world.

He said the continued efforts of officials who are supervising Sheikh Saad Academy, had a good effect by graduating a large number of shooters who formed the basic supply line for national teams and boosted the national team with those who proceeded them.

Al-Otaibi said Kuwait has the skilled and promising youth in the sport of shooting, as it is gaining the interest of Kuwait youth and outstanding shooters from both genders are being attracted through the tournaments. They are trained at the Olympic shooting under the supervision of national teams trainers so that they can be ready to participate in the upcoming tournaments in the 2016/2017 season.

By Abdellatif Sharaa