Mubarak Shannan of Qatar, shows off his bronze he won in tennis at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku yesterday. Qatar finished with 12 medals at the 11-day event.
Qatar finished with 12 medals at the Islamic Solidarity Games which concluded in Baku yesterday.
On the final day, Qatar's tennis player Mubarak Shannan bagged the bronze medal.
Qatar thus finished the 11-day competition in the 16th place with two gold, three silver and seven bronze.
Turkmenistan took the 15th spot in the medals standings while Nigeria followed Qatar.
Hosts Azerbaijan topped the medals table after a relentess 11-day long battle with neighbours Turkey.
Oddly enough, the Azeri team came up empty handed in terms of gold medals on the final day of action, the only time that had happened during the Games.
But on the back of a superb Sunday which culminated in football gold, Azerbaijan were all but assured of top spot.
Turkey edged closer by bagging both tennis singles titles and adding one from the wushu martial arts, but that still left them four golds adrift at 75-71.
The Turks had the consolation of ending up with the highest overall - gold, silver and bronze - medal haul with 195 to 162.
Iran had a strong finish to the Games, lifting eight of the last 11 golds, six of those coming in wushu and they consolidated third place in the medals list with 39 golds and 98 in total.
They were simply unstoppable in the wushu sanda events, underlining their supremacy by winning all of their bouts and storming to six of seven gold medals available.
Azerbaijan had to settle for three silvers at the Baku Sports Hall after losing all of their finals to the implacable Iranians.
The only gold to escape the Iranian stranglehold came in the 48kg division, in which there was no Iranian fighter.
