Dubai: Okubo wins UAE’s first electric scooter race

Anish Shetty came in second place, while Swiss Matthias Neiro from the Blondie Supercar Team was third

Japanese Hikari Okubo from the Fade Fit team won the first place in the first edition of the Dubai Electric Scooter Cup in Dubai Design District on Saturday.

Anish Shetty from the Booze Racing Team came in second place, while Swiss Matthias Neiro from the Blondie Supercar Team was third.

As a culmination of the Year of Sustainability in the UAE, the Dubai Electric Scooter Cup united the world’s best riders from the United States of America, Britain, India, South Africa, Estonia, Japan, Spain, the Republic of Ireland, Switzerland, and Italy, to race on the fastest electric scooter around the streets of Dubai.

Sheikh Mansour bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Sports Council, crowned the winners.