Our national athletics team’s champions continued their run of excellence and medal-winning at the 19th Arab Championships for men and women, held amid thrilling, tough competition at Khalifa Sports City Stadium, featuring the best Arab male and female champions. Our champions won three coloured medals on day two, raising their tally to six medals, with the haul coming courtesy of Abdalelah Haroun’s 400m gold, Femi’s 100m gold, and Ashraf Al Saifi’s hammer throw silver.
Haroun’s gold
Abdalelah Haroun won 400m gold after covering the race in a time of 44.68, with Egypt’s Anas Abdel Salam finishing second in 45.61, and Bahrain’s Abbas Abu Bakr finishing third in 46.19.
Femi’s gold
Our gold champion Femi won 100m gold, covering the race in a time of 10.04.
Hammer throw silver
Our champion Ashraf Al Saifi won silver in the hammer throw, finishing second with a mark of 73.68m, while Egypt’s Mostafa Mohamed Hisham won gold with 74.81m, and Egypt’s Alaa Eldin Abdel Hakim took bronze with 72.26m.
Day three
Our national athletics team’s champions are competing in several events on day three of the 19th Arab Championships, which is seeing record participation and strong competition. Mohammed Al Manai is competing in the decathlon, Khalid Al Shahrani and Jamal Abdel Nasser in the 400m hurdles semi-final, while Rashed Al Manai chases triple jump gold amid strong, tough competition, and promising champion Mohammed Qaida looks to reach the Arab podium in the javelin throw, especially as he will face strong competition from Egypt’s Ihab El Sayed, who has monopolised javelin gold at Arab championships.
Our gold sprinters Femi and Samuel Francis are also competing in the 200m semi-final, our outstanding sprinters Musaab Abdulrahman Balla and Jamal Hairan in the 800m semi-final, and Qatar’s stars Femi, Samuel, Tosin and Eid Al Kuwari in the 4x100m relay.
