Saud Habib

Saud Habib
Personal information
Full name Saud Habib
Nationality  Kuwait
Born (1979-01-04) 4 January 1979
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Height 175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Skeet (SK125)
Club Kuwait City Shooting Club[1]
Coached by Petr Málek[1]

Saud Habib (Arabic: سعود حبيب‎; born January 4, 1979 in Kuwait City) is a Kuwaiti sport shooter.[2] He represented his nation Kuwait in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2016), and also won a bronze medal in men's skeet shooting at the 2000 ISSF World Cup meet in New Delhi, India. Habib is also a member of the Kuwait City Shooting Club, where he trains full-time under Czech-born coach and 2000 Olympic silver medalist Petr Málek.[1]

Career

Habib made his Olympic debut for Kuwait in shooting at the 2000 Summer Olympics. There, he tallied 117 clay pigeons out of a possible 125 to share a thirty-fifth place tie with three other shooters in the men's skeet.[3][4]

Sixteen years after his Olympic debut, Habib qualified for his second Kuwaiti team, as a 37-year-old and a member of the Independent Olympic Participants, at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Despite his defeat 12–13 to United Arab Emirates' Saif bin Futtais in the gold medal match, he consoled himself with a minimum qualifying score of 121 and the first of four available slots at the 2016 Asian Olympic Qualifying Tournament in New Delhi, India.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ISSF Profile – Saud Habib". ISSF. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Saud Habib". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's Skeet" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 73–75. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Three for the Arabs". Al-Ahram Weekly. 4 October 2000. Archived from the original on 4 April 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "UAE's Saif Bin Futtais secures the Skeet Men Gold in the closing event of the Asia Olympic Qualifying Competition". ISSF. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.


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