KUWAIT: Kuwait juniors handball national team bagged the bronze medal and third place of the First Arab Championship for those born in 2006 that was held in Tunis earlier last week.

Kuwait beat Algeria 29-24 in the match of third place decider, as Kuwait goalkeeper Abbas Al-Qallaf was selected best player of the match. Tunis meanwhile won the tournament by beating Saudi Arabia’s team in the final match 28-24. Head of Kuwait delegation lauded the heroic performance of Kuwait’s team which brought them the bronze medal. He said “despite the limited preparation time which was of local training and two friendly matches with Bahrain and Saudi Arabia comparing with other teams that were prepared by having training camps held in Europe”.