Podium finish for Oman at 3rd World Tent Pegging Cup Championship

ABU DHABI: Oman National Tent Pegging Team has bagged the third place in the 3rd World Tent Pegging Cup Championship organised in Abu Dhabi, with the participation of eleven teams. Egypt maintained the first place followed by the national team of South Africa.
The final day has seen tough competition among the participating teams in the singles and teams level.
The total points for the participating teams in the singles and teams events amounted to 336 points with 84 points for each horse rider.
The competition included two rounds, the first round is of 6cms and the second 4cms. The first round was for cutting two lemons and pegging a tent with a sword.
The second round was for pegging two rings and a tent with a sword in two legs the first for 6cms and the second for 4cms.
The competition concluded with a round for the teams (sword and arrow) in two rounds, the first for the arrow 4cms and the second for sword 6cms.
The results of the third and final day of the 3rd World Tent Pegging Cup Championship went to the South African team who took the first place and the Gold with Egypt taking the second place and silver medal, Oman secured a third place and bronze medal.
In the singles competitions of third day, the first place and gold medal went to Mahmoud Zagzoug of Egypt with 84 points. The second place and silver medal went to South Africa’s Norman Jim M. with 80 points, and in third place and bronze medal went to Mohamed Ali Shibaili of Sudan with 78 points.
Regarding the overall results of the three days of competition, the first place and gold medal went to Egypt with 533 points, the second place and silver medal went to South Africa with 522 points and the third place was secured by Oman with 470 points, the fourth place went to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with 464.5 points, Sudan took the fifth place with 451 points, followed by India in the sixth place with 442 points, the seventh spot was occupied by Pakistan with 423 points, the ninth place for Jordan with 410 points, tenth place went to the UAE with a total of 394.5 points and the eleventh place went to Norway with a maximum of 302.5 points.
The overall results for the singles are as follows; Mahmoud Zagzoug, Egypt, 148 points, Nasser Hussain, Pakistan, 147.5 points, the third place Ghali Safi, Egypt, 139 points.
ONA