The officials and those in charge of the junior and youth teams in the Bahrain Cycling Federation, which recently participated in the first Gulf Youth Games, confirmed that most of this group of exceptional talents, skilled riders and those who have the ability to compete highly, have reached the podiums and confirmed their exemplary presence and honor for Bahraini sports. In this Gulf sports forum, they are in fact the ripe fruit that the Football Association has reaped during the last period from the cycle of activities, programs and competitions of the “Khalid bin Hamad League for the Gold Generation” initiative.
The group of talents that have proven their feet in the game and promise goodness and more victories and achievements in the coming participations were able to achieve 4 bronze medals during their participation in the first Gulf Youth Games, which was hosted by the sister country of the United Arab Emirates during the period from last April 16 to May 2 of this year, amid participation About 3,500 male and female athletes competed in 24 games, including cycling, under the slogan “Our Gulf is One… Our Youth is Promising.” The nucleus of the “Khalid bin Hamad League for the Gold Generation” initiative had this distinction, which officials in the federation are proud of and stress its importance.
The first result was a bronze in a team time trial race for youth, which was held for a distance of 40 kilometers, after the Bahraini nationals came in third place with a total time of 53.17 minutes, ahead of the Emirati team that ranked first with a time of 50.12 minutes and the Saudi team that ranked second with a time of 51.48 minutes. As for the second result, it was a bronze. The 42-kilometre general individual race for youth, where the Bahraini cyclist Mahdi Hassan Jawad was able to finish the race in third place with a time of 1:41:13 hours, ahead of the Emirati Mohammed Al-Yousef, who took first place with a time of 1:40:34 hours, and the Saudi Mohammed Majrashi, who came in second place with a time of 1:41:12 hours.
The members of the Bahraini cycling team continued their harvest in the tournament by taking third place and a team bronze for the overall youth individual race for a distance of 70 kilometers. The Bahraini team occupied third place with a total time of 5:17.25 hours, and cyclist Mahdi Hassan Jawad crowned the efforts of the Bahraini cycling participation by snatching a bronze medal in the individual time trial for a distance of 20. kilometres, raising the yield to four bronze medals. Officials at the Bahrain Cycling Federation stress the importance of following up and strengthening the programs of the “Khalid bin Hamad League for the Gold Generation” initiative in order to reap more technical gains.
