Emirati fencer Majed Al Mansoori, 21, reaches foil quarter-finals at Asian Games

Majed Al Mansoori won two pool matches and his round of 16 bout to reach the men's foil individual fencing event on Monday at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

UAE's Majed Al Mansoori, left, lunges at Japan's Yuki Ota, right, in the men's fencing foil quarter-finals on Monday at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. Roslan Rahman / AFP / September 22Show more

Emirati fencer Majed Al Mansoori, 21, made it to the quarter-finals of the men’s foil individual fencing pursuit on Monday at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

Al Mansoori won two of his four pool matches, defeating Kazakhstan’s Bidarev Yuriy 5-3 and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Hazzazi, also 5-3 to qualify for the round of 16, losing to South Korea’s Heo Jun, the eventual silver medalist, and Hong Kong’s Cheung Siu Lun.

In the round of 16 he made it past Filipino Perez Nathaniel with a 15-11 triumph to reach the quarters, where he fell 15-3 to 28-year-old Japanese Ota Yuki.

In track cycling, the UAE’s Yousif Mirza won the men’s 15-kilometre scratch race, one of the six events that compose the omnium cycling pursuit.

Mirza beat Kazakhstan’s Artyom Zakharov, in second, and South Korea’s Cho Ho-sung, in third. He also finished sixth in the 4-kilometre individual pursuit and eighth in the elimination race.

The latter three races of the omnium event will conclude on Tuesday.

In other track cycling, Ahmed Al Mansoori came fourth in the men’s sprint qualifying early in the day, before he was beaten in the round of 16 by Japan’s Tomoyuki Kawabata. He was eliminated in his repechage heat, finishing behind Taiwan’s Kuo Lung Liao and Hong Kong’s Ching Yin Mow.

In swimming, Mohammed Al Ghafri finished seventh in his men’s 50-metre backstroke heat with a time of 27.59 seconds and the UAE handball team also rounded out group play, falling to Oman 28-18.

In addition to Mirza’s finale to the omnium event on Tuesday, the UAE bowling team will be in action Mohamed Al Muhairi will compete in the men’s swimming 50-metre freestyle.

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