Al Rayyan succeeded in returning to the podium in the open category after 11 years, winning the Federation Shield title in athletics and beating previous champions Al Sadd by a comfortable margin. Assistant secretary general Mohammed Suleiman crowned the Al Rayyan champions and handed the trophy to the club’s head coach, Abul Hamd, while board member Abdulrahman Al Nubi presented the second-place trophy to Al Sadd, and Abdulhakim Al Omari presented the third-place trophy to Qatar SC, which recovered its competitive form. In the final standings, Al Rayyan finished first with 136 points, Al Sadd second with 127 points, Qatar SC third with 104 points, Al Gharafa fourth with 102, Al Khor fifth with 57 points, Al Arabi sixth with 52 points, Al Ahli seventh with 45 points, Al Jaish eighth with 32 points, and Al Wakrah ninth and last with 31 points
The championship undoubtedly featured many stars from our national team and Gulf national teams, particularly from Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain, which raised the overall standard and increased competition between the teams, earning the Federation Shield the nickname of a mini-Gulf championship
Among the notable results:
Al Sadd finished first in the 4x100m relay with 41.23 seconds, Al Gharafa were second in 41.70 seconds and Qatar SC third in 42.01 seconds
In the 400m hurdles, Al Rayyan’s Khalid Mohammed Al Shahrani finished first in 52.73 seconds
In the discus throw, Al Sadd’s Ahmed Deeb Al Moghanni finished first with 55.37m, Al Sadd’s Rashid Al Dosari was second with 54.72m, and Al Gharafa’s Ahmed Ghuloom finished third with 45.88m
In the pole vault, Al Rayyan’s Fahad Badr Saoud, a Kuwaiti champion, finished first with 4.60m, Al Sadd’s Rashid Saqr was second with 4.50m, and Al Gharafa’s Ali Makki finished third with 4.20m
In the triple jump, Al Rayyan’s Mohammed Salman, the Bahraini champion, finished first with 15.24m. In the 200m, Al Gharafa and national team star Femi Ogunode finished first with 21.33 seconds. In the 3000m steeplechase, Al Rayyan’s Abubakar Ali Kamal, known as Coco, finished first in 8:52.12. In the hammer throw, our international champion Ashraf Amjad Al Saifi finished first with 69.40m. In the long jump, Qatar SC and Kuwait champion Saleh Haddad finished first with 7.58m
