Qatar’s national athletics team continued to add to its achievements at the Arab Junior Athletics Championship held in the Syrian city of Aleppo, where our champion Mohammed Al Karni won the gold medal in the 1500m, outperforming everyone with a brilliant display that allowed him to steal the show and achieve a major success for Qatar.
Qatar’s junior national team also achieved fourth place in the relay, which is considered an achievement given the experience of the other teams and their mastery of the sport
With the gold medal won by Mohammed Al Karni, Qatar’s victorious delegation returns to Doha today with three golds, a silver and three bronzes, a major achievement by any measure for our country and one that promises a bright future for our young champions in the sport of athletics.
Our team had earlier drawn attention and stolen the spotlight at the Arab Junior Championship in Tunisia, where Abdulrahman Al Shahrani won silver in the hammer throw with 59.26 metres
and the gold medal in the junior javelin throw, won by Mohammed Qaida with a Qatari record of 69.95 metres
and the bronze medal in the junior girls’ long jump through Rima Ellen Thomas with 5.70 metres
and another bronze in the 100m by our champion Eid Al Kuwari with a personal best of 11.03 seconds
and the gold medal in the junior high jump through our champion Khalid Al Sayari with 2.14 metres, a new Qatari record
