Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (Saudi Arabia)

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Saudi Arabia joined with four athletes at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in China Beijing on.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was Osamah Alshanqitih , who also won both medals for his team. He won the triple jump (class F12) and silver in the long jump (class F12).

Medals

Each with a recovered gold and silver medals the Saudi Arabian team finished 48th in the medals table .

Medalist

gold

Men

• Osamah Al-Shanqiti : Athletics , Triple Jump , Class F12

silver

Men

• Osamah Al-Shanqiti : Athletics , Long Jump , Class F12

Participants by sport

athletics

Men

• Saeed Alkhaldi
  • 200 m , class T46
    • Preroll 1 (of 3): 23.50 s, 6th place, not qualified for the final
• Faiz Alshehri
  • 6th place - 100 m , class T46
    • Preroll 2 (of 3): 11.25 s, 3rd place; Finale: 11.36 s
• Osamah Al-Shanqiti
  • 1st place - triple jump , class F12
    • 14.33 m / 14.79 m / 14.49 m / 14.74 m / 15.05 m / 15.37 m
  • 2nd place - long jump , class F12
    • 6.94 m / x / 6.77 m / 6.98 m / 7.05 m / 7.06 m

Powerlifting (bench press)

Men

• Hussain Alnoweser
  • 6th place - 195.0 kg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
2. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )