1979 Arab Athletics Championships

The 1979 Arab Athletics Championships was the second edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries. It took place in Baghdad, Iraq from 23–26 October. As of 2015, it remains the only senior international athletics competition to have been held in the country.

Following the men-only inaugural tournament, the second edition marked the introduction of a women's programme. A total of 32 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 10 for women. The men's decathlon became the combined track and field event to be contested at the championships, and the men's hammer throw was also added to the schedule. Women athletes, entered by four nations, competed in short track running events, as well as two jumping and three throwing field events.^[1] This represented the first major gathering of Arab women at an athletics championships – the Pan Arab Games did not admit women in the sport until six years later.^[2]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Nabil Nahri (SYR)	10.97	(IRQ)	10.99	(IRQ)	11.06
200 metres	(IRQ)	21.14	Nabil Nahri (SYR)	21.45	(QAT)	21.82
400 metres	(LBA)	47.82	(LBA)	47.96	(IRQ)	47.99
800 metres	Mohamed Alouini (TUN)	1:51.71	(KUW)	1:53.98	(LBA)	1:54.28
1500 metres	(KUW)	3:58.4	(QAT)	3:58.5	(TUN)	3:59.0
5000 metres	(IRQ)	14:40.0	(TUN)	14:41.9	(QAT)	14:42.9
10,000 metres	(IRQ)	31:41.02	(IRQ)	32:00.37	(QAT)	32:43.08
110 metres hurdles	Abdul Jabbar Rahima (IRQ)	14.83	(IRQ)	14.86	(KUW)	15.51
400 metres hurdles	Hussein Kadhum (IRQ)	51.16	Abdul Jabbar Rahima (IRQ)	51.76	(LBA)	53.59
3000 metres steeplechase	(IRQ)	9:00.87	(SYR)	9:07.45	(TUN)	9:09.32
4 × 100 m relay	Iraq (IRQ)	41.27	Syria (SYR)	41.90	Kuwait (KUW)	42.40
4 × 400 m relay	Iraq (IRQ)	3:12.48	Libya (LBA)	3:14.24	Syria (SYR)	3:18.16
Marathon	(LBA)	2:34:44	(IRQ)	2:38:48	(BHR)	2:46:25
High jump	(IRQ)	2.03 m	Ghazi Marzouk (KSA)	2.03 m	(QAT)	2.00 m
Pole vault	(ALG)	4.40 m	(IRQ)	4.30 m	(KSA)	4.20 m
Long jump	(IRQ)	7.25 m	(SYR)	7.09 m	(LBA)	6.98 m
Triple jump	(IRQ)	15.98 m	(IRQ)	15.82 m	(TUN)	14.94 m
Shot put	(KUW)	16.82 m	(LBA)	16.46 m	(IRQ)	15.15 m
Discus throw	(TUN)	51.46 m	Adnan Houry (SYR)	49.08 m	(IRQ)	47.40 m
Hammer throw	(TUN)	52.43 m	(KUW)	45.44 m	(IRQ)	44.62 m
Javelin throw	(TUN)	71.50 m	(TUN)	70.76 m	(KSA)	65.30 m
Decathlon	(LIB)	6576 pts	(IRQ)	6417 pts	(TUN)	6228 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(IRQ)	12.85	(LIB)	13.23	(SYR)	13.60
200 metres	Sarra Touibi (TUN)	25.78	(IRQ)	26.25	(LIB)	26.77
400 metres	Sarra Touibi (TUN)	57.48	(IRQ)	59.78	(SYR)	59.94
800 metres	(TUN)	2:11.24	(SYR)	2:16.62	(IRQ)	2:29.22
100 metres hurdles	(IRQ)	15.96	(SYR)	16.56	Not awarded
High jump	(TUN)	1.74 m	(SYR)	1.58 m	Zeina Mina (LIB)	1.40 m
Long jump	(TUN)	5.51 m	(IRQ)	5.43 m	(SYR)	5.09 m
Shot put	(TUN)	11.70 m	(IRQ)	11.60 m	(SYR)	8.90 m
Discus throw	(TUN)	46.80 m	(SYR)	34.42 m	(IRQ)	26.52 m
Javelin throw	(TUN)	37.30 m	(IRQ)	35.80 m	(SYR)	34.98 m

Medal table[]

Overall[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iraq (IRQ)	13	13	7	33
2	Tunisia (TUN)	12	2	4	18
3	Libya (LBA)	2	3	3	8
4	Kuwait (KUW)	2	2	2	6
5	Syria (SYR)	1	9	6	16
6	Lebanon (LIB)	1	1	2	4
7	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	0	1
8	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	4	5
9	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	1	2	3
10	Bahrain (BHR)	0	0	1	1
11	Palestine (PLE)	0	0	0	0
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	0	0	0
Totals (12 nations)		32	32	31	95

Men[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iraq (IRQ)	11	8	5	24
2	Tunisia (TUN)	4	2	4	10
3	Libya (LBA)	2	3	3	8
4	Kuwait (KUW)	2	2	2	6
5	Syria (SYR)	1	5	1	7
6	Algeria (ALG)	1	0	0	1
	Lebanon (LIB)	1	0	0	1
8	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	4	5
9	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	1	2	3
10	Bahrain (BHR)	0	0	1	1
11	Palestine (PLE)	0	0	0	0
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	0	0	0
Totals (12 nations)		22	22	22	66

Women[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Tunisia (TUN)	8	0	0	8
2	Iraq (IRQ)	2	5	2	9
3	Syria (SYR)	0	4	5	9
4	Lebanon (LIB)	0	1	2	3
Totals (4 nations)		10	10	9	29

References[]

Results

• Al Batal Al Arabi (N°:2). Arab Athletics Union. Retrieved on 2015-02-14.