(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) This year 7350 individuals had sweated it out to win the contest which required participants to lose a minimum of two kilos to succeed.
Dubai will dish out nearly 40kg of gold coins worth about Dh6 million to winners of its unique weight-loss contest that rewards those who cut down the flab with gold Khaleej Times has learnt.
Corresponding to the number of winners the volume of souvenir gold that will be rewarded to obese adults and kids who shed the flab in the campaign this time has also more than doubled compared to what was given away in the first edition of the contest last year.
Dubai Municipality Club’s Manager Waleed Al Shaibani who coordinated the “Your Child in Gold” campaign that ran from July 15 to September 15 said the municipality would distribute the much-awaited gold bullions to the fat fighters in December.
He attributed the delay in holding the prize distribution ceremony to the preparations needed to arrange more gold for more people.
He said a whopping 7350 individuals had sweated it out to win the contest which required participants to lose a minimum of two kilos to succeed.
“This is much more than the number of winners we had last year” said Al Shaibani.
The contest tilted “Your Weight in Gold” in 2013 saw the municipality giving away almost 17kg of 999.9 fine gold bullions worth over Dh2.6 million to fat busters.
This year the winners include more than 200 children below 13 years said Dr Najiba Al Shezawi medical-in-charge of the initiative. All of them and their family members who reduced weight would win two grams of gold for each kilo they shed instead of the one gram gold reward given to individual participants.
Officials said the top winners who lost the most amount of weight would be announced at a grand function to be held at Zabeel Park in December. Last year Syrian architect Ahmad Ibrahim Al Shiekh had shed 26kg from 146.7kg to emerge as the mega winner.
It is learnt that the mega winner this time has broken that record. “Yes we have people who have lost more than 26kg some lost even almost 30kg” said Al Shaibani. -sajilakhaleejtimes.com