Damascus-SANA
Syrian weightlifter Maan Asaad qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, according to the list of players classification issued by the International Weightlifting Federation today, which included 26 players. Our player Asaad ranked second in Asia after the Iranian Ali Daoudi.
President of the Weightlifting Federation Hassanein Al-Sheikh said in a statement to SANA’s sports representative that the player is one of the distinguished players and has achieved remarkable results that enabled him to reach advanced positions in the classification of the International Federation of the game, adding that he starred in many tournaments, the last of which was the Asian Championship that took place last April In the Uzbek capital Tashkent, during which he won three silver medals for the weight of over 109 kg by snatching, netting and total.
Qais Asaad, the coach of the player, Maan Asaad, expected his player to compete strongly in the upcoming Olympics for the first four places due to his outstanding skill level and remarkable results in international tournaments.
The player Asaad joined his teammates from Syria, who are the table tennis player Hend Zaza, after winning the gold in the West Asian Championship, and Majd Al-Din Ghazal in athletics by coming in sixth place according to the world rankings, and the jockey Ahmed Hamsho, through which Syria topped the general ranking of the countries of the seventh group within the International Federation groups. Equestrian, which includes the Arab countries and South Africa.
A number of special sports players have also qualified for Paralympic Tokyo 2021. They are Ali Asaad after achieving the international qualification standards for the throwing ballistic classification, Alaa Abdel Salam after achieving the international qualification standards for the F53 classification of Petanque as well, and Muhammad Khaled Al-Mohammed with the silver medal for throwing the ball in the World Championships.