HUGE PARTICIPATION IN ASIAN AND WEST ASIAN TRIATHLON

Under the patronage of HRH Prince Feisal Al Hussein, President of the Jordan Olympic Committee, the West Asian and Asian Triathlon Championships have finished in Aqaba following a hugely successful event at Ayla, Aqaba.

The event welcomed 170 leading triathletes from 38 countries.

Michael Lore, of Canada, took the elite title while Denmark’s Alexandra Mayer took the women’s elite crown.

Egypt’s Basma Al Salamuni took the U23 women’s category while the men’s went to Syria’s Mohammad Al Sabbag. Sameera Al Baitar, of Bahrain, took the West Asian women’s category while Syria’s Mohammad Khuri took men’s.

There was success for the host nation, with Yazeed Khurma winning the men’s Duathlon, and Muna Jaber taking the women’s.