Royal Endurance Team Secure Triple Victory In Sweden
Bahrain Squad Sweeps Three Rides In Sweden
Bahrain's Royal Endurance Team won three of the rides at the Kristinehamnsritten endurance meeting in Kristinehamn, Sweden, on 30 August 2026, with Khalifa Jamal Alsendi, Loay Tareq Ahmed and Nayef Mubarak Sabt each taking victory across the meeting's international categories. The results came amid wide participation from riders representing Denmark, Finland, Norway, South Africa and hosts Sweden, alongside a 22-strong Royal Endurance Team contingent entered across the meeting's various categories.
Kristinehamnsritten is a Concours d'Endurance International (CEI) meeting approved by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI), and all of the Royal Endurance Team's entries competed under that international designation. Khalifa Jamal Alsendi rode Be Goode to victory in the 160-kilometre race, a five-stage contest run over alternating 40-kilometre and 30-kilometre legs before a closing 20-kilometre stage, in a time of eight hours 46 minutes and 28 seconds.
Alsendi finished just over a half-minute clear of fellow Royal Endurance Team rider Mohamed Abdulsamad Al Bastaki on Gengo Folie, who completed the 160-kilometre race in eight hours 47 minutes and nine seconds, a gap of 41 seconds between the two riders. Norway's Olaug Espeli Carstensen completed the podium on Litlemos Malika in nine hours 22 minutes and 45 seconds, more than 36 minutes behind Alsendi's winning time. The finish gave the Royal Endurance Team the top two placings in the meeting's longest and most demanding CEI category.
Ahmed And Sabt Complete The Sweep
Loay Tareq Ahmed produced the second Royal Endurance Team victory of the meeting, guiding Jm Lirevoltulm through the four-stage 120-kilometre ride, which opened with a 40-kilometre leg before two 30-kilometre stages and a closing 20-kilometre stage, in six hours 44 minutes and 17 seconds. Royal Endurance Team rider Mohamed Abdulrahman Alsaad, aboard Sw Izquiulm, finished second in the same race just six seconds behind Ahmed, the closest margin recorded across any of the meeting's three international categories, with Sweden's Sabina Rapp completing the podium on Lillysza in eight hours seven minutes and 47 seconds.
The third Royal Endurance Team win of the day came in the 120-kilometre juniors' race, where Nayef Mubarak Sabt rode Jm Jersika to victory over the event's four stages of 40, 30, 30 and 20 kilometres, finishing in seven hours 12 minutes and 20 seconds. The result completed a clean sweep of the meeting's showcase categories for the Bahrain squad, with all three winning rides run under the same FEI-approved sanctioning that governed the rest of the Kristinehamnsritten programme across its various stages and distances.
Twenty-Two Riders Fielded By Bahrain
The Royal Endurance Team's 22-rider entry at Kristinehamnsritten reflected the scale of Bahrain's presence at the meeting, with riders spread across every category on offer alongside competitors from Denmark, Finland, Norway, South Africa and Sweden. Beyond the three outright wins, Royal Endurance Team riders Mohamed Abdulsamad Al Bastaki and Mohamed Abdulrahman Alsaad both finished second in their respective races, giving the squad podium finishes in every one of the meeting's headline international rides.
Kristinehamnsritten is held annually in the Swedish municipality of Kristinehamn and forms part of the wider calendar of CEI fixtures recognised by the FEI. The meeting's international scope, drawing entries from five countries beyond Sweden itself, underlined the scale of the result for a Royal Endurance Team squad that left the meeting with victories in the 160-kilometre, 120-kilometre and 120-kilometre juniors' races, along with two further runner-up finishes across the same categories and a combined riding total of 22 entrants across the full programme.
Across the three international categories, five different Royal Endurance Team riders featured on the podium (Khalifa Jamal Alsendi and Mohamed Abdulsamad Al Bastaki in the 160-kilometre race, Loay Tareq Ahmed and Mohamed Abdulrahman Alsaad in the 120-kilometre ride, and Nayef Mubarak Sabt in the 120-kilometre juniors' event). Each of the three winning rides was completed over multi-stage courses combining 40-kilometre, 30-kilometre and 20-kilometre legs, with the 160-kilometre contest alone stretching to eight hours and 46 minutes for the leading rider, underlining the distances covered by the Bahrain squad across a single day of competition in Sweden.
The 160-kilometre race carried the meeting's longest course and its most demanding stage structure, splitting the distance into five separate legs rather than the four-stage format used for both 120-kilometre events. That extra stage, and the additional 40-kilometre distance it carried, meant Alsendi and Be Goode were on course for close to two hours longer than either of the day's other two Royal Endurance Team winners, a gap reflected in the finishing times recorded across the three international categories.