Saudi Arabia and Beijing Summer Olympic Games of 2008

[Arabian Wanderer]

Something I saw in a group on facebook. thought I would share it with everyone who is interested in following KSA in the Olympics... go go go KSAAA

Saudi Arabia and Beijing Summer Olympic Games of 2008

• 10 Saudis participating in 5 sports. (All men).
• 4 in the Equestrian events (Ramzy AL DUHAMI, Faisal AL SHALAN, Adnan ALBAITONY and Kamal BAHAMDAN. All of them taking part in the Individual Jumping events and the Team Jumping events)
• 3 in the Athletics events (Ali Ahmad S ALAMRI in the Men’s 3000m Steeplechase event, Yahya Hassan I HABEEB in the Men’s 100m event and Mohammed Othman H SHAWEEN in the Men’s 1500m event)
• 1 in the Shooting events (Saied AL-MUTAIRI in the Men’s Skeet event)
• 1 in the Swimming events (Bader Abdulrahman ALMUHANA in the Men’s 100m Butterfly event)
• 1 in the Weightlifting events (Ali Hussein ALDHILAB in the Men’s 69kg event)

A brief History of Saudi Arabia’s participation in the Summer Olympics:

• Saudi Arabia debuted at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich 1972, where its team numbered 17.
• Since then, Saudi Arabia has taken part in all the Summer Olympic Games except in Moscow 1980. These were Montreal 1976, Los Angeles 1984, Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, Athens 2004
• Saudi Arabia has missed only the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics, it was the first country to announce it would boycott the 1980 Games in response to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan; the declaration came two weeks before Jimmy
  Carter announced the U.S. boycott.
• The smallest team that was sent had only nine members, which took part in Barcelona Games of 1992.
• At the following games in Atlanta, there were 35 members in the Saudi Team, the largest ever.
• Saudi has only one 2 medals, both at the 2000 Sydney Games. Hadi Souan Somayli won the country’s first medal, silver, in the men’s 400m hurdles. Khaled Al Eid later won bronze in equestrian’s individual jumping competition.

Next follows a chronological table of the events that the Saudi Olympic Team is participating in. After the table is a brief description of the events.

Date	Time	Sport	Event	Round	Heat	Result
Mon 11th	12.30	Weightlifting	Men’s 69kg	Group C		Advances to Group B
Mon 11th	19.15	Equestrian	Jumping Training
Tue 12th	10.00	Weightlifting	Men’s 69kg	Group B		Advances to Group A
Tue 12th	19.00	Weightlifting	Men’s 69kg	Group A
Thu 14th	8.00	Equestrian	1st Horse Inspection
Thu 14th	19.54	Swimming	Men’s 100m Butterfly		2	Advances to Semi-finals
Fri 15th	9.00	Shooting	Men’s Skeet	Qualification Day 1		Continues Qualification Day 2
Fri 15th	9.45	Athletics	Men’s 100m	Round 1	1-7	Advances to Round 2
Fri 15th	10.34	Athletics	Men’s 100m	Round 1	8	Advances to Round 2
Fri 15th	10.41	Athletics	Men’s 100m	Round 1	9,10	Advances to Round 2
Fri 15th	18.33	Swimming	Men’s 100m Butterfly	Semi-finals 1,2		Advances to Final
Fri 15th	19.15	Equestrian	Jumping Team	Qualifier		Decide order for Round 1
Fri 15th	19.15	Equestrian	Jumping Individual	1st Qualifier		Advance to Round A
Fri 15th	19.19	Athletics	1500m	Round 1	1-3	Advances to Semi-finals
Fri 15th	19.45	Athletics	Men’s 100m	Round 2	1,2	Advances to Semi-finals
Fri 15th	19.59	Athletics	Men’s 100m	Round 2	3-5	Advances to Semi-finals
Date	Time	Sport	Event	Round	Heat	Result
Sat 16th	9.00	Shooting	Men’s Skeet	Qualification Day 2		Advances to Finals
Sat 16th	9.20	Athletics	Men’s 3000m Steeplechase	Round 1	1-3	Advances to Finals
Sat 16th	10.10	Swimming	Men’s 100m Butterfly	Final
Sat 16th	15.00	Shooting	Men’s Skeet	Final
Sat 16th	20.05	Athletics	Men’s 100m	Semi-final 1		Advances to Final
Sat 16th	20.13	Athletics	Men’s 100m	Semi-final 2		Advances to Final
Sat 16th	22.30	Athletics	Men’s 100m	Final
Sun 17th	19.15	Equestrian	Jumping Team	Round 1		Advance to Round 2
Sun 17th	19.15	Equestrian	Jumping Individual	2nd Qualifier		Advance to Round A
Sun 17th	21.55	Athletics	Men’s 1500m	Semi-finals 1,2		Advances to Final
Mon 18th	19.15	Equestrian	Jumping Team	Round 2
Mon 18th	19.15	Equestrian	Jumping Individual	3rd Qualifier		Advance to Round A
Mon 18th	21.10	Athletics	Men’s 3000m Steeplechase	Final
Tue 19th	22.50	Athletics	Men’s 1500m	Final
Wed 20th	19.15	Equestrian	2nd Horse Inspection
Thu 21st	19.15	Equestrian	Jumping Individual	Round A		Advance to Round B
Thu 21st	22.10	Equestrian	Jumping Individual	Final (Round B)

Weightlifting

Ali ALDHILAB will compete in Group C on Monday the 11^th at 12.30. If he succeeds, he will advance to Group B on Tuesday the 12^th at 10.00. And if he succeeds in that Group, he will advance to the Final at 19.00 on the same day.

Swimming

Bader ALMUHANA will compete in the Men’s 100m Butterfly on Thursday the 14^th at 19.54. There are 9 heats, and he will be swimming in lane 1 of the second heat. If he succeeds, he will advance to one of the two semi-finals on Friday
the 15^th at 11.19 and 11.24. If he succeeds in the semi-finals,
he will progress to the finals on Saturday the 16^th at 10.10.
However, his chances are slim. Of the 66 swimmers taking part in this
event, he was ranked 63^rd in terms of qualifying time.

Shooting

Skeet shooting is one of the three major types of competitive shotgun shooting at targets (the others are trap shooting and sporting clays). In Olympic Skeet, there is a random delay of between 0 to 3 seconds after the shooter has called for the
target. Also, the shooter must hold his gun so that the gun butt is
at mid-torso level until the target appears.

Saied AL-MUTAIRI will compete on Day 1 of the event at 9.00 on Friday the 15^th August, and on Day 2 of the event at 9.00 on Saturday the 16^th. His combined score from the two days will determine whether he advances to the Finals
on Saturday the 16^th at 15.00. Again, his chances are slim.
There are 41 competitors, taking part in 6 squads of 6 and 1 squad of
5. He will be number 4 in Squad 2, wearing bib number 1425. In qualifying,
the highest score of the 41 competitors was 125, the lowest was 116,
Saied scored 117 along with 3 others, which brings him in at 37^th
out of 41.

Athletics, Men’s 100m

Yahya HABEEB will take part in the Men’s 100m event on Friday the 15^th August. In the first round, there are 10 heats, the heats start at 9.45 and continue every 7 minutes. Should he succeed in the first round, he will pass on to
the second round which has 5 heats. The second round is on the same
day as the first round, and the first heat of the second round is at
19.45 and again every seven minutes thereafter. After the second round,
he will progress to one of the two semi-finals on Saturday 16^th
at 20.05 and 20.13 respectively. If he is successful there, he will
then go on to the final on the same day at 22.30. At this point,
I have no information about his qualifying time or his starting position.

Athletics, Men’s 1500m

Mohammed Shaween will take part in the Men’s 1500m event on Friday the 15^th August. In the first round, there are 3heats, the heats start at 19.10 and continue every 9 minutes. Should he succeed in the first round, he will progress
to one of the two semi-finals on Sunday 17^th at 21.55 and
22.05 respectively. If he is successful there, he will then go on to
the final on Tuesday the 19th at 22.50. At this point, I have no information
about his qualifying time or his starting position.

Athletics, Men’s 3000m Steeplechase

Ali ALAMRI will take part in the Men’s 3000m Steeplechase event on Saturday the 16^th August. In the first round, there are 3heats, the heats start at 9.20 and continue every 14 minutes. Should he succeed in the first round, he will then
go on to the final on Monday the 18th at 21.10. At this point, I have


no information about his qualifying time or his starting position.

Equestrian, Jumping Individual and Jumping Team

This is quite a complicated event. All four Saudis will compete together in this individually and as a team. Ramzy AL DUHAMI, Faisal AL SHALAN, Adnan ALBAITONY and Kamal BAHAMDAN will have Jumping Training on Monday the 11^th at 19.15. They
will also have two Horse Inspections, both at 19.15 on Thursday the
14^th and Wednesday the 20^th.

Friday 15^th, 19.15: This will be the 1^st Qualifying round for the Individual competition, but it will also decide the starting order of Round 1 of the Team competition.

Sunday 17^th, 19.15: This will be the 2^nd Qualifying round for the Individual competition, as well as Round 1 of the Team competition.

Monday 18^th, 19.15: This will be the 3^rd Qualifying round for the Individual competition, as well as Round 2 of the Team competition, which is also the final of the Team competition.

Thursday 21^st, 19.15: This will be Round A of the Individual competition.

Thursday 21^st, 22.10: This will be Round B and the Final for the Individual competition.

Final note

I hope that you have found this document informative and useful. I started by creating it to help me follow the Saudi Teams progress in the Games, and I decided to formalise it and pass it on. So, if you’re like me, and you want to support our country,
I hope this will help you. If I have made any mistakes, or you would
like to make any comments, please feel free to email me at the following
address: [e-mail]

Thank you

Mazin Ali Mughram Al-Ghamdi

I would like to thank Mazin for putting so much effort in preparing the info on KSA in the Olympics.

Arabian Wanderer

[Ali A. Bashiti]

I watched the equestrian events yesterday... all did miserably except for one whose name I don't recall...

[Ali A. Bashiti]

thanks a lot arabian... I actually got this same document from a friend last night... amazing how fast things spread across the internet... thanks again