Al Mourtajez looked unstoppable in winning the Qatar Arabian World Cup, winning by an imperious four-and-a-half lengths to not only repeat his 2015 feat, but also to stay in line for the Doha Triple Crown.
Al Shaqab’s Karar second in Qatar Prix de la Foret; Speedy Boarding wins Qatar Prix de l’Opera Longines in a photo finish
The lots have been picked, the draw is over, the stage is set for the ‘greatest horse race in the world’, the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
Maolie, a two-year-old filly from the Mandore Stud Farm in south-west France, fetched the highest bid of 260,000 euros at the Arabian Purebred Auction
A packed to the brim crowd, as many as 13 world leading performances, four meet records and a record-equalling feat in women’s pole vault marked the season-opening Diamond League, the first of the 14-meeting series at the Qatar Sports Club here yesterday.
It’s that time of the year again, as it has been for the last six years.
Which are the events that often corner the biggest applause and loudest cheers in track and field competitions?
The last time Doha hosted the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, in 2008, Qatar’s medals tally was seven (three gold, four silver).
The opening day of the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was all about Mutaz Essa Barshim, one of the most popular and known sporting icons in the country.
No, Mutaz Barshim couldn’t better his Asian Indoor mark of 2.41m. Nor did he overhaul his season’s best of 2.36, set in Malmo, Sweden, last month.
Some three hundred athletes, 36 different nationalities, as many as 12 defending champions from the last edition, and the world’s largest multi-purpose indoor hall—the three-day Asian Indoor Athletics Championships couldn’t have asked for a stronger field and a better setting.
Coming into the 2016 Commercial Bank Qatar Masters, Branden Grace had won six European Tour titles, but never before had he managed to defend one. Nor had anyone done it in the $2.5 million European Tour event’s 18-year history.
