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Mirzaei go down fighting against Iran's Serajian in quarters

YAZD, March 03: Qatari fencers illustrate pleasing performance at the FIE Cadet and Junior Fencing World Cup in Iran which concluded on Sunday, 4 March 2007.

The three-day event witnessed fencers competing in all three disciplines, epee, foil and sabre at Shahid Sadoughi Stadium in the Ancient, Historical and Archeological Yazd city.

In the foil individual competition on the opening day, Qatar's Abdulaziz Al Amoudi and Mohammad Ahmed Basahl won their first round matches 15-11 and 15-8 respectively.

Basahl finished sixth overall, while Al-Amoudi, Abdullah Ebrahimi and Mohamed Altiri managed 8, 9 and 14 positions.

In epee individual competition, Qatar's Mohammed Ali Mirzaei took sixth place after showing a great performance registering victories against Ban Mohammad Mashhad of Iran 15-11 and Tehran Rasulov of Azerbaijan 15-6.

Mirzaei lost in quarters 15-5 against Abdollah Serajian of Iran.

On the final day sabre individual competition, Qatar's Nasr Al-Saadi managed to take 17th position overall.

Qatar's delegating contingent included Khalid Suweid Johar – head delegate, Ahmed Sultan Al-Obaidly – official, Zamel Khulaiwi Al-Shammari – official, Alexandru Nilca – coach, Ashraf Musaed Ibrahim – coach and Mohammed Hassan Al-Sabahi – coach.

The 13-member fencers squad comprised Khalid Al-Hamadi, Hamad Saad Mubarak, Abdulaziz Abdullah Al-Amodi, Abdullah Hussein Ebrahimi, Mohammed Ahmed Basahal, Mohammed Abdulsalam Mohammed, Jamaan Abdullah Jamaan, Mohammed Ali Mirzaei, Ali Ibrahim Sayyari, Ahmed Fathi Mubarak, Ahmed Abdeldayem ElSaddig, Nasr Awad Al-Saadi and Abdullah Ali Barzegar.