Our champions claimed 10 coloured medals, including 7 golds, two silvers and a bronze, as follows: runner Femi Ogunode — two golds (100m, 200m); Mohammed Al Garni — two golds (1500m, 5000m); Abdalelah Haroun — 400m gold; Musaab Abdulrahman — 800m gold; the 4x400m relay gold for the quartet of Femi, Musaab, Haroun and Al Nour; Ashraf Al Seifi — hammer throw silver; Hashim Salah — 3000m steeplechase silver; Mutaz Barshim — high jump bronze.
A record.. 18 countries on the medal table
For the first time, 18 countries won coloured medals at the Asian continental championship out of the 45 nations that took part in the great event of the mother of sport: China, Qatar, India, Japan, Bahrain, the UAE, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Tajikistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Iran, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan.
Honour roll
Qatar’s honour roll for the 21st Asian Athletics Championships, which concluded yesterday in the Chinese city of Wuhan, comprises (15) champions, led by our Olympic champion Mutaz Barshim, the high jump star, and including our fastest man in Asia, Femi Ogunode, winner of the 200m and 100m golds, and his teammate Samuel Francis in the 100m; promising champion Abdalelah Haroun in the 400m and 4x400m; outstanding runner Musaab Abdulrahman and Jamal Hayran in the 800m; Mohammed Al Garni, winner of the 1500m and 5000m golds; Hashim Salah Abbas, winner of the 3000m steeplechase silver; and Mohammed Al Nour in the 4x400m. The list also included Ashraf Al Seifi, world youth hammer throw champion and winner of the event’s silver; Ahmed Deeb Al Mughanni, the discus champion; jumper Rashid Al Mannai in the triple jump; and Mohammed Al Mannai in the decathlon. The coaching staff comprised head coach, Germany’s Joachim Kruger, Jama Aden, coach for the middle and short distances, Stanislav Sczyrba, high jump coach, Georgi Richard and Markov, triple jump coaches, Alex Malkov, hammer throw coach, and Ali Fadaq, high jump coach, while the delegation was headed by assistant secretary general Mohammed Suleiman, alongside Khalifa Abdulmalik as team director and Khalid Rashid Al Marri and Yasser Al Sayadi as team officials.
