2014 Arab Junior Athletics Championships

The 2014 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the sixteenth edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place between 23–26 April in Cairo, Egypt. It was the fifth time that the Egyptian capital hosted the event. A total of 44 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 22 for women.[1]

16th Arab Junior Athletics Championships
Dates23–26 April
Host cityCairo, Egypt
Events44

The host nation Egypt comfortably topped the medal table with seventeen gold medals and 47 in total. Bahrain was the next most successful country with 14 golds among its 28 medals. Algeria was a distant third with 19 medals, but only three gold.

The competition saw successful runs by Kenyan-born athletes for Bahrain, including the reigning senior Asian steeplechase champion Ruth Jebet and Asian runner-up in the 400 m, Ali Khamis Abbas,[2][3] who won a 400 m hurdles and flat double in Cairo. Three other athletes achieved double at the tournament: Salwa Eid Naser won the women's 200 metres and 400 metres, her Bahraini compatriot Makonine Dissa Djissa won the women's middle-distance double, and Egypt's Esraa Mohamed Samir won the women's horizontal jumps.[4]

Medal summary

Men
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Meshaal Khalifa (KUW)10.61  Mahmoud Hammoudi (ALG)10.62  Sayed Khalfan (OMN)10.96
200 metres  Abbas Abubacar (BHR)21.56  Mahmoud Hammoudi (ALG)21.77  Meshaal Khalifa (KUW)21.82
400 metres  Ali Khamis Abbas (BHR)46.15  Abbas Abubacar (BHR)46.42  Mohamed Mustafa Kamel (EGY)48.28
800 metres  Ali Abdi (BHR)1:50.57  Fathi Ahmad Adam (SUD)1:50.63  Mustafa Atouan (IRQ)1:50.90
1500 metres  Muhieddine Abdi (DJI)3:54.89  Youssef Boulekdam (ALG)3:57.83  Abdelhak Assaadi (ALG)3:58.21
5000 metres  Ramadhan Fawzi Mohamed  (DJI)14:29.61  Abdi Ibrahim Abdou (BHR)14:29.84  Derara Disalaven (BHR)14:31.77
10,000 metres  Abdi Ibrahim Abdou (BHR)29:54.32  Adan Arbah (DJI)30:45.48  Mustafa Shaghmim (EGY)31:41.52
100 m hurdles  Mahdi Abdallah Al-Othmani (KSA)15.11  Omar Tarik Salaheddine (EGY)15.17  Ahmed Ali (IRQ)15.41
400 m hurdles  Ali Khamis Abbas (BHR)51.42  Sid Ali Khadim (ALG)52.91  Idriss Adel Essefifani (KSA)53.23
3000 m steeplechase  Evans Royo (BHR)8:54.09  Ali Saoudi (ALG)9:24.00  Saddam Hussein Mohamed (YEM)9:32.08
4 × 100 m relay  Oman (OMN)41.5  Saudi Arabia (KSA)41.6  Egypt (EGY)42.1
4 × 400 m relay  Bahrain (BHR)3:15.05  Sudan (SUD)3:16.17  Egypt (EGY)3:18.29
10 km walk  Islam Abdel-Tawwab (EGY)43:19.91  Mahmoud Majd Mahmoud (EGY)44:12.65  Abdessamiaâ Saïdani (ALG)44:28.95
High jump  Ali Alouan Hassan  (IRQ)1.99 m  Mohamed Yasser Mohamed (EGY)1.99 m  Rashed Khamis Mubarak (BHR)1.99 m
Pole vault  Hussein Assim Al-Hazzam (KSA)5.32 m CR  Ali Mohsen (IRQ)4.60 m  Abderrahmane Hamdy Ibrahim (EGY)4.30 m
Long jump  Mustafa Mohamed Ezzouri (KSA)7.30 m  Mohamed Tarik Essayed (EGY)7.05 m  Mubarak Adel Guemir (KUW)7.02 m
Triple jump  Khalid Sayed Essebiî (KUW)15.31 m  Bassem Mohamed Yahia (EGY)14.41 m  Shaker Mahmoud (IRQ)14.35 m
Shot put  Mustafa Amrou Ahmed (EGY)21.79 m  Ahmed Sharif Adel (EGY)19.63 m  Mustafa Kadhim Daher (IRQ)16.68 m
Discus throw  Mustafa Kadhem (IRQ)59.52 m CR  Ahmed Sharif Adel (EGY)55.45 m  Youssef Mohamed Farouk (EGY)52.66m
Hammer throw  Ahmed Tariq Ismail (EGY)71.02 m  Hussein Thamer Abdelwahed (IRQ)61.76 m  Karim Sobhi Abdelkarim (EGY)61.61 m
Javelin throw  Majed Muhsen Albadri (EGY)69.44 m  Muhieddine El-Taghdi (LBA)66.87 m  Ali Aissa Abdelghani (KSA)66.19 m
Decathlon  Mustafa Mohamed Ramadhan (EGY)6747 pts  Ahmed Badiaa Ahmed (EGY)5582 pts  Moâtaz Iskandar (OMN)5557 pts

Women
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Basant Mohamed Awad (EGY)12.13  Hajar Saad Al-Amri (BHR)12.37  Echrak Rahmouni (ALG)12.44
200 metres  Salwa Eid Naser (BHR)24.61  Basant Mohamed Awad (EGY)25.21  Hajar Saad Al-Amri (BHR)25.52
400 metres  Salwa Eid Naser (BHR)55.72  Dahiah Haddar (ALG)56.30  Azza Ahmed Essayed (EGY)1:01.48
800 metres  Makonine Dissa Djissa (BHR)2:10.66  Ribitu Bouatiou Idao (BHR)2:11.67  Sabrina Hassine (ALG)2:15.00
1500 metres  Makonine Dissa Djissa (BHR)4:21.54  Ribitu Bouatiou Idao (BHR)4:22.44  Sabrina Hassine (ALG)4:27.30
3000 metres  Ruth Jebet (BHR)9:24.40  Jamila Kadou (BHR)9:54.11  Zainab Hashem (IRQ)11:20.57
5000 metres  Fatouma Jouarou (BHR)16:51.00  Shouba Aman (BHR)16:51.50  Zainab Hashem (IRQ)19:46.59
100 metres hurdles  Lina Amrou Gaber (EGY)14.15 CR  Dahiah Haddar (ALG)14.50  Hamida Zitouna (ALG)14.78
400 m hurdles  Dahieh Haddar (ALG)59.16  Noureen Hassan Mahmoud (EGY)1:02.78  Hadir Rahim (IRQ)1:07.57
3000 m steeplechase  Ruth Jebet (BHR)9:55.38  Rosemary Yomakato (BHR)10:15.31  Hajar Sokhal (ALG)11:07.61
4 × 100 m relay  Algeria (ALG)48.29  Egypt (EGY)48.81  Bahrain (BHR)49.86
4 × 400 m relay  Algeria (ALG)3:52.97  Egypt (EGY)4:01.11  Lebanon (LIB)4:29.72
10 km walk  Amira Zinhom (EGY)53:54.00  May Ahmed Mohamed (EGY)58:09.60  Sandy Karam (LIB)59:02.21
High jump  Reham Hamdy Kamal (EGY)1.70 m  Yousra Arar (ALG)1.63 m  Yara Ashraf Adly (EGY)1.60 m
Pole vault  Maryam Yasser Mohamed (EGY)3.00 m  Sherine Sharif Mahmoud (EGY)2.60 m  Zahra Jamal Sakran (IRQ)2.60 m
Long jump  Esraa Mohamed Samir (EGY)5.86 m  Salma Gamal Ahmed (EGY)5.45 m  Lidia Sahraoui (ALG)5.39 m
Triple jump  Esraa Mohamed Samir (EGY)12.26 m  Salma Gamal Ahmed (EGY)11.93 m  Shahd Kassem (IRQ)10.90 m
Shot put  Hebat-Allah Mustafa Mohamed (EGY)14.74 m CR  Nora Salem Jassem (BHR)13.94 m  Amira Khalid Mahmoud (EGY)12.54 m
Discus throw  Amira Khalid Mahmoud (EGY)44.81 m  Nora Salem Jassem (BHR)43.70 m  Fatma Khalid El-Adly (EGY)41.35 m
Javelin throw  Saba Bassem Essehili (EGY)45.37 m  Salma Mohsen Shamseddine (EGY)39.24 m  Heba Al-Assimi (OMN)33.32 m
Hammer throw  Esraa Mohamed Mustfa (EGY)59.46 m CR  Nada Ayman Abu Alfutouh (EGY)54.40 m  Safa Ahmed Shehab (IRQ)36.49 m
Heptathlon  Houda Mohamed Atef (EGY)4421 pts  Rawan Barouiz Bahader (EGY)3447 pts  Heba Al-Assimi (OMN)3258 pts

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Egypt (EGY)17191147
2 Bahrain (BHR)1410428
3 Algeria (ALG)38819
4 Saudi Arabia (KSA)3126
5 Iraq (IRQ)221014
6 Djibouti (DJI)2103
7 Kuwait (KUW)2024
8 Oman (OMN)1045
9 Sudan (SUD)0202
10 Libya (LBA)0101
11 Lebanon (LIB)0022
12 Yemen (YEM)0011
Totals (12 nations)444444132
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References
  1. Arab Junior Athletics Championship: Algeria ranks third. Algeria Press Service (2014-04-28). Retrieved on 2016-07-04.
  2. Chinese sprinters take 100m titles at Asian Championships. IAAF (2013-07-04). Retrieved on 2016-07-04.
  3. Two championship records while China's hurdles legacy continues at the Asian Championships. IAAF (2013-07-06). Retrieved on 2013-12-28.
  4. 2014 Arab Junior Championships Results Archived 2015-04-04 at the Wayback Machine (in Arabic). Arab Athletics Federation. Retrieved on 2016-07-04.
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