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- Country of residence: Palestine
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The Palestinian
national team player, Muhammad Atallah, won the third place in the Asian
Triathlon Championship, which was organized in Aqaba.
The champion, Atallah, participated
in the “sprint” race for the category over 30 years, after achieving a new time
in the championship in all stages of the race for all age groups, in which more
than forty players participated for a distance of 5 km running, 20 km cycling,
and 2.5 km running. .
A member of the federation and the
official of the technical committee, Rashid Al-Masry, said that Atallah’s
participation comes within the federation’s plan to continuously follow up the
team’s members, indicating that his coronation with the bronze medal came under
difficult circumstances, and a lack of material and logistical capabilities, as
he underwent a continuous training program for two months before his
participation in the tournament under Supervised by Coach Hassan Musa.
It is noteworthy that 200 male and
female competitors from the champions of Asian and European countries have
participated in the championship, from: Japan, Jordan, Bahrain, Palestine,
Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Poland, the Czech Republic,
Russia, America, Canada, Slovakia, and others. Asian countries.
Triathlon is a game consisting of 3
sports, "swimming, cycling, and running", all of which are Olympic
games, and players in this sport swim for a distance of 1.5 km, then ride
bicycles and walk them for a distance of 40 km, then jog and run for a distance
of 10 km, where the person wins Upon completion of races within 1 hour and 50
minutes.
The triathlon is timed in five
consecutive sections, the first time from the start of the swim to the start of
the first transition i.e. swimming time, from the start of the first transition
to the end of the first transition (T1 time), then the third time from the
start of cycling to the end of the cycling leg (cycling time ), the fourth time
from the start of the second transition to the end of the second transition (T2
time), finally from the start of the race to the end of the race, at which time
the triathlon is completed.
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