1981 Arab Athletics Championships

3rd Arab Athletics Championships
3rd Arab Athletics Championships
Dates	21–24 August
Host city	Tunis, Tunisia
Events	39
	← 1979 Baghdad 1983 Amman → ;

The 1981 Arab Athletics Championships was the third edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries. It took place in Tunis, Tunisia from 21–24 August. It was the first occasion that the tournament was hosted in Africa. A total of 39 athletics events were contested, 23 for men and 16 for women. The men's 20 kilometres walk was held for the first time – being the first Arab walking championship race since the 1965 Pan Arab Games. The women's programme, following its debut in 1979 with ten events, was greatly expanded. Relays, hurdles, heptathlon and distance events were all opened up to women athletes.^[1]^[2]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Omar Ghizlat (MAR)	10.59	Rashid Al Jirbi (UAE)	10.62	(MAR)	10.74
200 metres	Hassan El Kashief (SUD)	21.44	Rashid Al Jirbi (UAE)	21.66	(IRQ)	21.89
400 metres	Hassan El Kashief (SUD)	45.35	Amar Brahmia (ALG)	46.91	(UAE)	47.49
800 metres	Omer Khalifa (SUD)	1:48.44	Amar Brahmia (ALG)	1:48.97	Faouzi Lahbi (MAR)	1:49.25
1500 metres	Omer Khalifa (SUD)	3:39.88	Mehdi Aidet (ALG)	3:40.02	Saïd Aouita (MAR)	3:59.28
5000 metres	Rachid Habchaoui (ALG)	13:54.47	(ALG)	13:56.41	Féthi Baccouche (TUN)	13:57.70
10,000 metres	Rachid Habchaoui (ALG)	28:56.8	Ahmed Musa Jouda (SUD)	28:59.0	(ALG)	29:31.9
110 metres hurdles	(ALG)	14.45	(MAR)	14.50	(IRQ)	14.62
400 metres hurdles	Ahmed Hamada Jassim (BHR)	51.83	(KUW)	52.09	(MAR)	52.52
3000 metres steeplechase	Lahcene Babaci (ALG)	8:32.32	Féthi Baccouche (TUN)	8:32.34	Abderrazak Bounour (ALG)	8:51.27
4×100 m relay	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	41.30	Iraq (IRQ)	41.46	Qatar (QAT)	41.59
4×400 m relay	Algeria (ALG)	3:10.62	Morocco (MAR)	3:12.36	Bahrain (BHR)	3:15.45
Marathon	(QAT)	2:49:13	(TUN)	2:50:52	(QAT)	2:55:56
20 km walk	Benamar Kachkouche (ALG)	1:41:32	Abdelwahab Ferguène (ALG)	1:41:40	(LBA)	2:08:06
High jump	(KSA)	2.06 m	(IRQ)	2.00 m	Ghazi Saleh Marzouk (KSA)	2.00 m
Pole vault	(ALG)	4.60 m	(TUN)	4.50 m	(ALG)	4.30 m
Long jump	(IRQ)	7.25 m	(IRQ)	7.20 m	(KUW)	6.94 m
Triple jump	(IRQ)	15.61 m	(IRQ)	15.55 m
Shot put	(KUW)	17.25 m	(MAR)	16.52 m	(IRQ)	16.41 m
Discus throw	(TUN)	51.46 m	Adnan Houry (SYR)	49.08 m	(IRQ)	47.40 m
Hammer throw	Hakim Toumi (ALG)	52.43 m	(ALG)	45.44 m	(TUN)	52.43 m
Javelin throw	(TUN)	71.50 m	(IRQ)	71.46 m	(TUN)	66.66 m
Decathlon	Ahmed Mahour Bacha (ALG)	7495 pts	(ALG)	7366 pts	(TUN)	6882 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Nawal El Moutawakel (MAR)	11.86	(MAR)	12.27	(IRQ)	12.70
200 metres	Nawal El Moutawakel (MAR)	24.30	(MAR)	25.26	(IRQ)	25.90
400 metres	(ALG)	59.12	Sarra Touibi (TUN)	59.32	(TUN)	1:01.11
800 metres	(MAR)	2:10.80	(TUN)	2:11.27	(TUN)	2:13.80
1500 metres	Hassania Darami (MAR)	4:26.95	(TUN)	4:32.71	Dalila Méhira (ALG)	4:33.54
3000 metres	Hassania Darami (MAR)	9:33.71	(TUN)	10:04.22	Dalila Méhira (ALG)	10:09.72
100 metres hurdles	(MAR)	15.07	(TUN)	16.08	(TUN)	16.41
400 metres hurdles	(TUN)	1:04.95	(TUN)	1:06.39	Only two finishers
4×100 m relay	Morocco (MAR)	47.89	Tunisia (TUN)	49.81	Jordan (JOR)	56.54
4×400 m relay	Morocco (MAR)	3:51.28	Tunisia (TUN)	3:55.83	Only two finishers ^[nb]
High jump	(TUN)	1.74 m	(MAR)	1.66 m	(SYR)	1.63 m
Long jump	(ALG)	5.82 m	(TUN)	5.75 m	(TUN)	5.37 m
Shot put	(MAR)	12.21 m	(MAR)	12.11 m	(ALG)	11.57 m
Discus throw	Zoubida Laayouni (MAR)	49.88 m	(TUN)	47.70 m	(ALG)	44.42 m
Javelin throw	(MAR)	47.18 m	(ALG)	44.02 m	(ALG)	42.88 m
Heptathlon	(ALG)	5128 pts	(MAR)	5125 pts	(TUN)	4675 pts

^nb A third team, from South Yemen, was disqualified in the women's race 4×400 m relay.

Medal table[]

Overall[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco (MAR)	12	9	4	25
2	Algeria (ALG)	12	8	8	28
3	Tunisia (TUN)	4	13	10	27
4	Sudan (SUD)	4	1	0	5
5	Iraq (IRQ)	2	5	5	12
6	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	2	0	1	3
7	Kuwait (KUW)	1	1	2	4
8	Qatar (QAT)	1	0	2	3
9	Bahrain (BHR)	1	0	1	2
10	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	2	1	3
11	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	1	1
	Libya (LBA)	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
14	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	0	0
	Palestine (PLE)	0	0	0	0
	South Yemen (YMD)	0	0	0	0
Totals (16 nations)		39	39	37	115

Men[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Algeria (ALG)	9	7	3	19
2	Sudan (SUD)	4	1	0	5
3	Iraq (IRQ)	2	5	3	10
4	Tunisia (TUN)	2	3	5	10
5	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	2	0	1	3
6	Morocco (MAR)	1	4	4	9
7	Kuwait (KUW)	1	1	2	4
8	Qatar (QAT)	1	0	2	3
9	Bahrain (BHR)	1	0	1	2
10	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	2	1	3
11	Libya (LBA)	0	0	1	1
12	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	0	0
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	0	0
	Palestine (PLE)	0	0	0	0
	South Yemen (YMD)	0	0	0	0
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	0	0
Totals (16 nations)		23	23	23	69

Women[]


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco (MAR)	11	5	0	16
2	Algeria (ALG)	3	1	5	9
3	Tunisia (TUN)	2	10	5	17
4	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	2	2
5	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	1	1
5	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
7	South Yemen (YMD)	0	0	0	0
Totals (7 nations)		16	16	14	46

References[]

^ Pan Arab Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-14.
^ Pan Arab Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-18.

Results

Al Batal Al Arabi (N°:7). Arab Athletics Union. Retrieved on 2015-02-14.

[GBR-1] Pan Arab Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-14.

[2] Pan Arab Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-18.

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