Qatar’s junior national athletics team leaves us tomorrow for Canada to take part in the World Athletics Championships, to be held from 19 – 25 July 2010. The delegation will be led by HE Abdullah Ahmed Al Zaini – president of the Qatar Athletics Federation – with Mr Khalifa Yousef Abdulmalik as team manager, Mr Mohammed Ahmed Suleiman as team administrator, and coaches Stanislav Sherba, Jame Mahmoud Aden, Ramil Janiyev and O Hax, along with masseur Sergei Peshkin, while the junior team will be represented by ( 5 ) athletes who achieved the qualifying standards set by the IAAF, namely Mutaz Essa Barshim and Khalid Saeed Al Siyari in the high jump, Hamza Derouiche in the 800m, Mohammed Al Karni in the 1500m, Mohammed Ahmed Al Manai in the decathlon, and Saif Sabah Khalifa in the 110m . hurdles. The athletes are expected to achieve good results, particularly jumper Barshim, who broke the Asian Championships record in Vietnam with a mark of 2.31 m, given that the jumper who won the gold medal in the high jump at the previous World Junior Championships cleared the bar at a height of 2.26 m, and Mohammed Al Karni and his teammates are also expected to secure strong positions at the championship .
