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- Club secured first place with 11 medals, including 9 golds
Riyadh: The Mike Tyson Boxing Club swept the field at the Central Region Open Championship last week, securing 11 medals including nine golds.
The event, hosted by the Saudi Boxing Association in Riyadh, ran from Aug. 21-24, and featured 217 boxers from 12 clubs.
Ahmed Iyad Kashiri won the gold medal in the 80 kg weight class for the youth category, while Abdulrahman Amr Faris secured gold in the 75 kg weight class.
Hamza Hisham Hassan won the gold medal in the 67 kg weight class, while Rayan Abdulrahman Awaji secured gold in the 63.5 kg weight class.
The club continued its impressive performance with Shaaban Saleh Al-Qaidani winning the gold medal in the 57 kg weight class and Mohammed Ghazi Al-Wahadi securing the same prize in the 54 kg weight class.
In the junior category, Sultan Khalid Al-Mohammed took gold in the 57 kg weight class, while Suleiman Mohammed Al-Salahi earned the silver medal in the 52 kg weight class, missing out on gold to Ayham Mohammed Hamadan. Abdulrahman Mahyoub Al-Alii secured the bronze medal in the 48 kg weight class.
Yazid Bandar Al-Zahrani, meanwhile, secured the gold medal in the 46 kg weight class.
These achievements reflect the excellence of the club’s athletes, cementing its status as one of the best-performing and most important boxing clubs in the Kingdom.