AlUla Falcon Cup in Saudi Arabia comes to an end

Saturday, January 6, 2024

Following nine days of exciting aerial feat and hotly-discussed beauty competitions comprising seamlessly presented birds of prey, the first-ever AlUla Falcon Cup came to a conclusion. The introductory contest witnessed some of the finest and most rewarded falconers, who contested for a stake of a record-breaking reward sum of US$16 million. 

Collaboration concerning the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) and the Saudi Falcons Club (SFC), the AlUla Falcon Cup is an exhilarating new version to AlUla’s continuous timetable of actions and traditional sports competitions.

Over 2,000 exclusive falcons, from six of the most well-known and desirable sub-species, participated in a diversity of everyday contests, with the flying of each ultra-fast bird skilfully traced making use of high-tech laser and camera arrangements that assessed their swiftness to within a fraction of a second.

The AlUla Falcon Cup witnessed the knowledge of foremost falconry race panel of judges, including Rajeh Al-Juhani from Saudi Arabia and Italy’s Francesco Drico, to identify and score the performance of each specific bird. The know-hows made use by the judges guaranteed a perfect photo-finish evaluation of the outcomes of each contest.

Held from December 28th to January 5th, this occasion was categorized into four groups to provide to the falconers from KSA along with global contestants. 

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