5 medals for Saudi Arabia on Day 1 of Jiu-Jitsu Thailand Open Grand Prix 2022

Saudi Arabia’s national team have kicked off their participation in the Jiu-Jitsu Thailand Open Grand Prix 2022 by winning one gold and four silver medals on Friday.

The female and male teams from the Kingdom had the distinction of reaching five finals in five different weights on Day 1 of the tournament in Bangkok.

The medals came from Abdulmalik Al-Murdhi, who won a gold in the -62 weight category, while Abdulaziz Al-Haidari won silver in the -56kg division. Badie Idris won two silver medals (U18 Jiu-Jitsu -73kg and U18 Jiu-Jitsu -73kg), while in the women’s competition, Lina Al-Hakeem won the silver in the +70kg division.

Hamad Al-Saad, the director of the national teams, said that the successes were a result of the early and extensive preparation for the tournament by the Saudi Jiu-Jitsu Federation, and echoed the team’s silver at the 2021 Jiu-Jitsu World Championship in the UAE last November, and gold at the 2022 Asian Jiu-Jitsu Championship in Bahrain in March.