Gold Medals For UAE’s Alkaabi, Alblooshi At Fazza Para Athletics GP 2025

The hosts UAE continued to excel at the ongoing 16^th Fazza Para Athletics Grand Pris – Dubai 2025 claiming two more gold besides other medals on the second day of competitions here.

Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games bronze medallist Thekra Alkaabi hurled the wooden club to a distance of 20.06 metres for the gold medal in women’s club throw F32 final. She was followed by compatriot Shamma Almaazmi who managed a distance 10.36 at the recently-renovated Dubai Club for People of Determination stadium.

Yahya Alblooshi, a trainee at the Althiqah Club for Handicapped, clinched the second gold for the host on the day clocking a timing of 11.65 seconds in the men’s 100 m T45/46 final.

Though his timing was far away from his personal best of 7.31 but he was happy to have improved his timing from his gold medal show at the Sharjah International Open Para Athletics Meeting 2025 held last week.

Among other UAE winners of the day were: Maryam Alzeyoudi, the Kobe 2024 world champion, settled for the silver medal after her effort of 7.12 metres in the women’s shot put F40/44 final.

Paralympic stars shine in Dubai

Among other top names, nine-time Paralympic champion Xiaoyan Wen raced to women’s 100m women T37/38 gold finishing in 13.38 seconds.

Paris 2024 Paralympic champion from Belgium Maxime Carabin opened the season with a gold in men’s 400m T52/53 final racing in 53.91 seconds even as Saudi Arabia’s hero Abdulrahman Alqurashi finished on top in men’s 400m T53 race with a timing of 53.31 seconds.

Hug’s compatriot Patricia Eachus, a former European Championship bronze medallist, finished the women’s 400 m wheelchair T54 race in 57.17 seconds.

In men’s wheelchair javelin final F34, Iran’s two-time Paralympic champion Saeid Afrooz sent warning to all his rivals in a year of World Championships, by taking the gold with an effort of 37.67 metres.

Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the season-opening Grand Prix is competed by around 400 para-athletes from 52 nations between February 10 to 13, 2025.

The event is also the season opener in the Grand Prix calendar of the World Para Athletics, the world body for the sport.

All the action from the Dubai 2025 World Para Athletics Grand Prix are live on https://www.youtube.com/@dcduae