Prince Misha'l Bin Majed, Governor of Jeddah, presented awards to the winners of the 7th Jeddah Mobily Marathon at Al-Bir charitable organization headquarters here Wednesday evening. The 7th Jeddah Marathon, with 6,000 contestants and more than 2,000 observers, will be remembered as the city's first international marathon as many athletes from abroad participated in the event. At the awards ceremony, Prince Misha'l expressed his appreciation for the cooperation and efforts of all the sponsors and organizers of the charity marathon. He said that Jeddah was proud to lend its name to a charity marathon and that the committee was happy to organize a sports activity in which the people of the city could participate. “The number of participants showed that we have succeeded and we will continue on this path,” he added. Abdullah Bakhashab, president of the marathon organizing committee, thanked all those who supported, contributed or came to watch the marathon. “The participation of more than 6,000 athletes underlined the difficulty in organizing such an event. We have learned a lot and we will do our level best in organizing next year's marathon. We will review the reports and attempt to solve the problems which happened this year so that the 2011 marathon will be a major public sports and social event,” he said. Prince Misha'l presented the key of a car to Asfa Girma from Ethiopia, the winner of the 15-km race and Ibrahim Issa Mohammad Abdullah winner of the 5-km race, and he distributed SR250,000 in prize money and gold medals to the first 15 winners of the 15-km marathon. – SG WINNERS 3-km marathon for the disabled u Ali Ibrahim Al-Haqvie in the physical disability category. u Hatim Matar Mafrah Al-Matayri in the sight-impaired category. u Hamd Mohammed Ahmed Hazazi in the mental disability category. u Fahd Saad Mohamed Al-Janadi in the autistic disability category. 5-km marathon u Ibrahim Issa Mohammed Abdullah (first); Mubarak Ibrahim Abdel Hafiz Jabarti (second) and Ibrahim Nur Hussein Adam (third). 15-km marathon u Asfa Girma from Ethiopia (first); Mukhlad Muheel Falhan Al-Ataibi from Saudi Arabia (second) and Tadees Lema from Bahrain (third). __
