DOHA (Qatar): Saeed Hamad Abusharib will go into the second day of the Trap event of the Amir Cup 2020 Shooting & Archery Championship on Saturday having notched a perfect score in one of the three rounds on Friday.
Abusharib, missed two clay pigeons each in the first two rounds but had a perfect 25 in the third round to finish on top with a score of 71 at the end of three rounds at the Losail Shooting Complex.
The event is the first shooting competition taking place in Qatar since March and will serve as a good build up for the Tokyo Games bound shooters including Mohamed Al Rumaihi, the only Qatari to qualify for the 2021 Games.
At the end of the Friday rounds, Al Rumaihi was in the joint second along with three others.
The final two rounds of the qualification campaign will continue on Saturday followed by the final medal rounds.
Closing following the leader are: Mohammed Ali Khajaim (69), Mohammed Ahmed Al Rumaih (69), Rashid Hamad Al Athba (69), Masoud Hamad Al Athba (68), Khalid Al Mohannadi (68), Hamad Ali Al Athbi (66), Khalifa Ali Al Attiyah (65), Rashid Talib Masoud (65) and Ali Ahmad Al Kuwari (64).
Qatar has got just one quota for shooting for the Tokyo games while a few of them are in the running including Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah, who is bidding to qualify for his seventh Olympic Games.
Rashid Hamad, who represented Qatar at the 2008 Games in Beijing and the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, is one shooter, is also in the race qualify for the Games.
In the women’s section, Al Dana Al Mubarak, who won a gold medal for Qatar in the Islamic Solidarity Games and represented the country at the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia, is one of the women’s shooters who will be also be good showing in the events leading to the Olympi 300 quota places are entitled to the shooters coming from their respective NOCs, based on the results at designated ISSF supervised Championships subjected to the ISSF rules from September 1, 2018 to June 6, 2021.
Hosts Japan has been guaranteed 12 quota places with one in each of the individual events.
Four quota places (top two teams per NOC) will be awarded to the shooters competing in each of the mixed team events (rifle, pistol, and trap).
The highest-ranked shooter, who has not qualified yet or whose NOC does not have a berth in any of the twelve individual events, will obtain a direct Olympic quota place through the World Rankings. The remaining twenty-four quota places are available to the eligible NOCs under the Tripartite Commission Invitation, with two in each of the individual event, to attain a maximum number of 360.
In the junior section, Ibrahim Mohamed Al Tamimi (59) leads after three rounds followed by Mohammed Alkharraz (53), Abdulrahman Al Naemi (52), Ahmad Majed Al Khulaifi (49), Fahad Masoud Al Marri (49), Abdulaziz Abdulmuhsin Alkharraz, (40), Abdulaziz Sultan Al Hemaidi (37), Salman Mohamed Masoud, (30) and Abdulaziz Abdulrahman Al Dehaimi (20),
In the women’s section, Noora.Essa Al Ali leads having knocked down 66 targets followed by Noora.Saad Al Mohannadi (63) and Kholoud Hassan Al Khalaf (60).
The final two rounds and the final medal round, of both women and junior men, will be held on Saturday along with the men’s final round.
