Ali Darwish

Ali Darwish

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Full name	Ali Sayed Darwisch
Date of birth	April 10, 1977
date of death	January 2, 2001
nation	United Arab Emirates
discipline	Road cycling
Societies)
	al-Nasr Sports Club, Dubai

Ali Sayed Darwisch (born April 10, 1977 , † January 2, 2001 in Dubai ) was a cyclist from the United Arab Emirates . He was one of the most successful road drivers in his country in the 1990s.

At the age of 17, Ali Darwisch started in 1994 in the Tour of Tunisia and the Tour de Emirates . In 1995 he won a bronze medal in road racing at the Asian Junior Championships . In 1996 he started as the only representative of his country at the Olympic Games in Atlanta in the road race, which he could not finish.

Between 1994 and 1998 Darwisch won several gold and silver medals at the Gulf Cycling Championships (GCC) as well as several national titles. In 1999 he was 14th in the road race of the Asian Cycling Championships . At the Pan-Arab Games in Amman in 1999 , he won a silver medal and was sixth in the individual time trial at the Asian Cycling Championships.

In 1998 Darwish had a serious accident in Cairo during the tour of Egypt ; his subsequent recovery took six months. On January 2, 2001, he was involved in a car accident while training on the road in Dubai and died of the consequences at the age of 23.

Darwish was a police officer and studied at the Dubai Higher Technical College .

Web links

• Ali Darwisch in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Ali Darwisch in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Cyclist Ali Darwish killed in a traffic accident. gulfnews.com, January 4, 2001, accessed January 17, 2014 .