Tokyo-Sana
Syria's triathlon player, Muhammad Maso, finished his competitions in the Tokyo Olympics today by achieving 47th place out of 53 competitors in the overall total with a time of 1 hour 54 minutes and 12 seconds.
Norway's Christian Blumenfeldt finished first with a time of one hour 45 minutes and four seconds, 11 seconds ahead of his closest competitor, Britain's Alex Yee, who won the silver medal, while the bronze medal went to New Zealand's Hayden Wild.
In the 1500m swim, Maso finished 31st with a time of 18.07 minutes, in cycling for 40 km, he came in 49th place with a time of 1.16.59 hours, and in the 10 km running race, he finished the competition in 47th place with a time of 1.54.12 hours.
In a statement to SANA, Maso indicated that this is the best result for him since he started playing the game, and it is the first time he has competed with the best players in the world, and it is his first participation in the Olympics and the second for Syria after Omar Tayara's participation in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
In turn, the President of the Game Association, Nasser Al-Sayed, explained that this race is one of the difficult races with the presence of the elite of the world champions in the game, pointing out that Maso was able to complete the race with his competitors despite the withdrawal of more than one player and put the ranking of the Game Federation in 47th place with this achieved result.
Masu participated in the Olympics at the invitation of the Tri-Asian Committee on the game, after reaching the 149th place in the world and 11th Asian.
Maso with the national team achieved ninth place in the Mediterranean Beach Games in Spain 2018, sixth place in the Asian Games in Indonesia 2018, eleventh place in the Asian Cup in Kazakhstan 2019, seventh place in the Asian Cup in Kyrgyzstan 2019 and third place in the Mediterranean Beach Games In Greece 2019 and ninth place in the African Cup in Senegal 2019.
The Syrian table tennis player, Hend Zaza, lost to Austrian player Liu Jia at dawn last Saturday in four games without a response in the tournament.
Mohammed Al-Khater