Qatar’s youth team in Kuwait: five gold, five silver, three bronze and an Arab high jump record

Qatar’s youth national athletics team finished second in the GCC Athletics Championship, held on the Kaifan track in Kuwait from 7 to 9 April with all GCC countries taking part, where

Qatar’s athletes won five gold medals, claimed by Saif Sabah Khairallah in the 110m hurdles with a time of 14.71 seconds. The second gold went to Ismail Qasim in the shot put with a distance of 16.56m, the third gold was won by javelin thrower Mohammed Qaida with a throw of 59.10m, and the fourth went to promising champion Mutaz Essa Barshim in the high jump, setting a new Qatari, Gulf and Arab youth record of 2.21m, while the fifth gold went to runner Mohammed Al Karni in the 1500m.

The five silver medals went to Mohammed Al Managi in the long jump with a distance of 6.92m, the second silver to Abubaker Omar Al Haj with a time of 48.88 seconds, while Badr Hashem Khamis took the third silver in the pole vault with a height of 4.50m. Mohammed Al Karni won the fourth silver in the 5000m,

 while the fifth silver was earned by Hamza Deriouch in the 800m. The three bronze medals went to Muadh Abdulrahman Balla in the 3000m steeplechase and Muadh Hussein Al Masri in the decathlon, while the third bronze went to Qatar’s 4x400m relay team .

 Host nation Kuwait finished first in the championship with 7 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze medals. Bahrain came third with 5 gold medals and 2 silver, while Saudi Arabia finished fourth with 4 gold, 6 silver and 10 bronze medals. The UAE won only two bronze medals, while Oman failed to win any medals.

Al Baker heads the delegation

Qatar’s delegation was headed by Mr Adel Mohammed Al Baker, the federation’s secretary general and a member and delegate of the GCC athletics organising committee. The delegation also included Mr Issa Abdullah Al Harami, the assistant secretary general and a member of the organising committee’s technical committee, as team manager, and Mohammed Taher as administrator, while the technical staff comprised coaches Andreas Shradia, Game Adan, Andreas Elias, Ramil Geniev, Carlos Cavalheiro and Stanislav Sherba, alongside Iskandar Filfol as medical treatment specialist and Victor Demchenko as masseur,

It is worth noting that the GCC athletics organising committee and technical committee held their meetings on the sidelines of the championship, and a number of championship staff and former organising committee members were honoured, among them Khalifa
Abdulmalik, the federation’s executive director and a former technical committee member, and Mr Abdulhakeem Al Omari, chairman of the officials committee at the Qatar Athletics Federation.

The following are the final results for Qatar’s youth national athletics team

Full results attached