KUWAIT: Kuwaiti athlete Nasser Borjaib competed in the climbing World Cup in Seoul last weekend, a first milestone for Kuwait. Nasser competed in speed climbing where he broke the Arab record again with a time of 6.5 seconds.

According to Nasser, Kuwait has no speed wall for him to train and with no facilities, only three weeks of training in the whole year, and online coaching with speed climbing coach Albert Ok. He says he still ‘held his ground’ with the world’s top competitors.

“Given what minimal time he had to train on a full wall, what he accomplished in such a short amount of time is what many athletes would have taken years to do,” coach Albert Ok said. “This was a big step towards a bigger journey to the highest stages of speed climbing and sports. He held his own and proved that with nothing you can show something.”