Qatar’s junior national team to compete at Asian Championships in Vietnam

Qatar’s national junior athletics team leaves us today for Vietnam to take part in the Asian Athletics Championships, to be held in Hanoi from 1-4/7/2010. The delegation comprises Mr Yacoub Yousef Abdullah – head of delegation, Mr Abdullah Khamis Al Hamad – team manager, and three coaches, Jame Adam, Stanislav Sherba and Ramil Janiyev, and masseur Mikhail Branikov, and Qatar’s national junior team will be represented by nine athletes, as follows

Qatar’s junior team are expected to win several medals, including in the high jump, where our champion Barshim will compete after setting a new Arab junior record of 2.27 m in Sweden two weeks ago, along with runner Mohammed Al Karni in the 5000m and Hamza Derouiche in the 800m, who qualified for the Youth Olympics at the championship recently held in Singapore. The other athletes are also expected to secure strong positions at the championship, having been prepared at training camps in Sweden, Germany and Portugal.