Saud Habib

Saud Habib
Personal information
Full nameSaud Habib
Nationality Kuwait
Born (1979-01-04) 4 January 1979 (age 45)
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
EventSkeet (SK125)
ClubKuwait City Shooting Club[1]
Coached byPetr Málek[1]
Medal record
Men's shooting
Representing  Kuwait
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Kuwait City Skeet team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Kuwait City Skeet
Silver medal – second place 2015 Kuwait City Skeet team
Silver medal – second place 2019 Doha Skeet team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Doha Skeet
Asian Shotgun Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Al-Ain Skeet team
Gold medal – first place 2016 Abu Dhabi Skeet team
Gold medal – first place 2018 Kuwait City Skeet team
Silver medal – second place 2016 Abu Dhabi Skeet
Silver medal – second place 2024 Kuwait City Skeet team

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. ^ a b c "ISSF Profile – Saud Habib". ISSF. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Saud Habib". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. 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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