Major General Dahlan Al Hamad, president of the Qatar and Asian federations and IAAF vice president, received a stream of congratulations from numerous sporting figures at continental and regional federations. Foremost among them were congratulations from Dr Sadiq Ahmed Ibrahim, secretary general of the East Africa federation, which includes Ethiopia, Djibouti, Kenya, Sudan, Burundi, Somalia and Uganda; Lieutenant General Yahya Ibrahim, president of the Sudanese Athletics Federation; Kenya’s Kiplagat, president of the Kenyan Athletics Federation; and Senegal’s Amadou Diack, secretary general and president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation. Other congratulations came from the federations of South Africa, Burundi, Cameroon and Egypt, and a number of other African countries, whose representatives expressed their sincere feelings towards the successes led by the sons of Qatar around the world in every sport. For his part, Dahlan Al Hamad thanked them for their sincere feelings and wished them success in developing athletics on the African continent. The federations of China, Japan and South Korea also offered congratulations to Al Hamad on winning the presidency of the Asian Athletics Association, with all three present at the general assembly of the African Athletics Confederation.
