Qatar’s men’s national athletics team players achieved two more victories on the second day of the West Asian Athletics Championship currently being held in Aleppo, Syria, winning two gold medals and two silver medals, with runner Thamer Kamal Ali winning the gold medal in the 3000m steeplechase with a time of 8:36.00 minutes, followed by teammate Zakaria Kamil in second place, taking the silver medal, while the second gold medal went to Qatari jumper Rashed Al Manai with a height of 2.25 m, and his teammate Mutaz Essa took the silver medal with a height of 2.21 m. In the women’s results, Rima Thomas placed fourth in the triple jump and fifth in the long jump .
It is worth noting that Qatar and Iran are competing for first place in the men’s championship, with each having won (4) gold medals and (3) silver medals, but Iran leads Qatar on bronze medals by a margin of one. Third place is currently held by Bahrain with (2) gold medals and (2) bronze medals, fourth place by Kuwait with (1) gold, (2) silver and (4) bronze medals, and fifth place by Saudi Arabia with (1) gold and (2) silver medals. Tomorrow will be the championship’s closing day, and the Qatari delegation hopes its athletes will secure first place in the men’s championship .
