Qatar’s youth national team claimed three gold medals on the first day of the GCC Youth Athletics Championship, currently being held in Kuwait from 7 to 9 April. Saif Sabah Khairallah deservedly won the first, in the 110m hurdles, clocking 14.71 seconds. The second gold went to Ismail Qasim in the shot put with a distance of 16.56m, while the third gold was claimed by javelin thrower Mohammed Qaida with a throw of 59.10m. The three silver medals went to Mohammed Al Managi in the long jump, recording a distance of 6.92m; the second silver went 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. The Qatari athletics delegation is headed by Mr Adel Mohammed Al Baker, the federation’s secretary general and the GCC athletics organising committee’s delegate, with Mr Issa Al Harami, the assistant secretary general, serving as team manager and Mohammed Taher as team administrator. The technical and medical staff comprise coaches Andreas Shradia, Game Adan, Andreas Elias, Ramil Geniev, Carlos Cavalheiro and Stanislav Sherba, along with physiotherapist Iskandar Filfol and masseur Andrei Paul Bakan.
