6 medals for Arab states

Egyptian team at the Olympic Games London – Salim Karam Arabs won four medals on Monday in various competitions in the Olympic Games hosted in London. The medal winning nations were Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait across four different sports. Saudi Arabia won bronze in equestrian jumping after scoring 14 points. The team was composed of Ramzy al-Duhami, Prince Abdullah Bin Miteb, Kamal Bahamdan and Abdullah Sharbatly. Britain and Holland competed for first place, each with eight points and the British team decisively won the round. This is the third medal in Saudi’s history at the Olympics, after  runner Hadi Suaan achieved a silver in the 400-meter hurdles and Khaled al-Eid achieved bronze in show jumping at Sydney 2000. Kuwaiti Fehaid Aldeehani won the bronze medal in men’s trap shooting which included a tight competition with Australian  Michael Diamond before defeating him in a decisive round. Aldeehani said ‘this medal is the first for Kuwait in the London Olympics.” It is the second in Kuwait’s history after he also won bronze at Sydney in 2000. He nearly won a second bronze in trap shooting  but he was defeated by the Russian Vasily in the last round. Egyptian wrestler Karam Gaber succeeded in getting the silver medal in the 84 kg category o the Greco-Roman wrestling competitions after being defeated in the final by the Russian  Alan Jugev by one point. The Egyptain reached the final by defeating Poland’s Damian Janney Kawasaki. Karam’s silver medal makes him the first in Egyptian history to win two medals in the Olympics after winning gold in Athens in 2004. This silver was the second medal for Egypt after Aladdin Abu al-Qasim won silver in the men’s individual foil. Tunisian runner Habiba Gharibi won the silver medal in  the women’s 3,000 meters steeplechase at the London Olympics after achieving her best personal time of 9:08.37. She described her performance in an interview “I dedicate my victory to the Tunisian people. I have trained hard for this race and exerted a lot of effort. The atmosphere was very competitive and I was expecting to get a medal and I am very happy to break my personal record. Those who exert their utmost, are rewarded at the end." Habiba’s medal is the second victory for Tunisia at the current Olympic Games after swimmer Oussama Mellouli won the bronze medal in the men’s 1,500 meter freestyle on Saturday.