Saudi Gazette Report

RIYADH — SandClash 2020, a two-day licensed CrossFit competition and fitness festival, is scheduled to begin at Granada Mall, Riyadh, on Saturday (Feb. 21).

Sponsored by the Saudi Sports for All Federation (SFA), the festival is designed to challenge athletes, “celebrate the dynamic fitness community, and promote an active and healthy lifestyle.”

The event promises a weekend of competition, entertainment, classes, seminars, and vendors from around the world.

Due to SandClash’s popularity in its pilot year in 2019, the 2020 finals have been expanded to include 40 men and 30 women as individual competitors while team entries have been expanded to 20 male and 10 female teams of three members each.

The competition’s registration was open to all GCC and MENA athletes, with substantial prizes on offer! The cash prizes include SR15,000 for first place across men’s and women’s categories, with SR10,000 and SR5,000 allocated to second and third place winners.

Similarly, the team prizes are scaled to match the individual competitions with three tiers of prize money to be won!

SandClash’s online qualifiers served to determine finalists who were completed via video submission and received scoring based on each entry.

The video submissions for the online qualifiers were tightly controlled with no edited material accepted, and detailed requirements including timestamps and full perspective views of equipment and athletes, and shot from an angle that allowed clear viewing of the movement standards.

The SFA also sponsored SandClash 2019 with President Prince Khaled Bin Alwaleed presenting the SandClash winner awards.