1984 Arab Junior Athletics Championships

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1st Arab Junior Athletics Championships
Dates21–23 July
Host cityCasablanca, Morocco
Events38

The 1984 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the inaugural edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place in Casablanca, Morocco from 21–23 July.[1] A total of 38 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 16 for women.[2] The competition was scheduled to be held in the years between the biennial Arab Athletics Championships for senior athletes.[3]

The junior programme featured two unusual variations in a 30 km road race and a 15 km road walk. No other junior championship has featured these distances. Similar to the European Athletics Junior Championships, the steeplechase was contested over a distance of 2000 m, as opposed to the usual 3000 m at senior events.[2] The establishment of the Arab Junior Championships pre-dated both the Asian Junior Athletics Championships and the African Junior Athletics Championships, as well as the World Junior Championships in Athletics, making it the first competition of its type for the countries involved.[4][5][6]

The hosts, Morocco, topped the table with eleven gold medals, nine of them from the women's section. Algeria was second, with eight gold medals, and Tunisia rounded out the top three with seven golds. Several athletes achieved individual doubles. Mustapha Kamel Selmi completed a men's sprint double and was later a 1988 Olympian. Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama won a long-distance double and would go on to win many senior medals in senior Asian competition. Fadhel Khayati won both men's hurdles events and went on to represent Tunisia at the 1992 Olympics. On the women's side, Yasmina Azzizi established herself with a heptathlon/100 metres hurdles double; she dominated the former event at regional level later in the decade. Middle-distance doubles were achieved in both the men's and women's sides, but the winners and , were not successful at senior level.[2]

The event was part of a flourish of athletics championships in the mid-1980s in Casablanca, Morocco's largest city. The 1983 Maghreb Athletics Championships and Mediterranean Games were held there the previous year,[7][8] and the came the year after.[9]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Mustapha Kamel Selmi (ALG) 10.68   (TUN) 10.78   (MAR) 10.86
200 metres  Mustapha Kamel Selmi (ALG) 21.81   (IRQ) 21.89   (TUN) 22.34
400 metres   (IRQ) 47.88   (IRQ) 48.52   (MAR) 49.34
800 metres   (ALG) 1:49.51  Mustapha Lachaal (MAR) 1:49.93   (IRQ) 1:50.29
1500 metres   (ALG) 3:49.28   (ALG) 3:50.03  Mustapha Lachaal (MAR) 3:50.64
5000 metres   (ALG) 15:21.29   (MAR) 15:25.47   (MAR) 15:28.21
110 m hurdles  Fadhel Khayati (TUN) 14.88   (IRQ) 14.93   (KUW) 15.19
400 m hurdles  Fadhel Khayati (TUN) 51.61   (KUW) 53.25   (IRQ) 53.72
2000 metres steeplechase  Mohammed al-Dosari (KSA) 5:47.33   (MAR) 5:47.34   (MAR) 5:54.30
4×100 m relay  Tunisia (TUN) 42.36  Morocco (MAR) 42.52  Algeria (ALG) 42.76
4×400 m relay  Iraq (IRQ) 3:10.18  Morocco (MAR) 3:15.46  Algeria (ALG) 3:15.46
30 km road race  Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama (QAT) 1:42:00  El Kharrat (MAR) 1:45:02  Salah Qoqaiche (MAR) 1:45:17
15 km walk   (ALG) 1:17:38   (TUN) 1:18:02   (MAR) 1:18:53
High jump   (KUW) 2.10 m   (KUW) 2.07 m   (MAR) 2.04 m
Pole vault   (TUN) 4.40 m   (MAR) 4.40 m   (TUN) 4.30 m
Long jump   (MAR) 7.59w m   (IRQ) 7.52 m   (IRQ) 7.46 m
Triple jump   (LBY) 15.58 m   (IRQ) 15.46 m   (MAR) 15.42 m
Shot put   (IRQ) 15.05 m  Khalid Salman Al-Khalidi (KSA) 13.70 m   (MAR) 13.47 m
Discus throw   (TUN) 45.72 m   (IRQ) 42.38 m   (MAR) 41.20 m
Hammer throw  Waleed Al-Bekheet (KUW) 54.10 m   (KUW) 53.22 m  Mohamed Khaldi (MAR) 50.70 m
Javelin throw  Ghanem Mabrouk Zaid Johar (KUW) 69.56 m   (KSA) 58.50 m   (MAR) 58.40 m
Decathlon   (MAR) 6201 pts   (ALG) 6066 pts   (KSA) 6034 pts

Women[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Méryem Oumezdi (MAR) 12.49   (IRQ) 12.64   (MAR) 12.66
200 metres   (TUN) 25.97   (MAR) 26.21   (IRQ) 26.21
400 metres   (IRQ) 57.34   (MAR) 58.92   (ALG) 59.19
800 metres   (IRQ) 2:10.29   (TUN) 2:10.30   (MAR) 2:10.40
1500 metres   (TUN) 4:30.39   (MAR) 4:36.59   (ALG) 4:37.90
3000 metres   (MAR) 9:55.82   (ALG) 10:23.00   (MAR) 10:36.59
100 m hurdles  Yasmina Azzizi (ALG) 15.19   (MAR) 15.54   (TUN) 15.83
400 m hurdles   (MAR) 64.24   (MAR) 65.25   (IRQ) 80.55
4×100 m relay  Morocco (MAR) 48.38  Tunisia (TUN) 49.52  Iraq (IRQ) 49.78
4×400 m relay  Morocco (MAR) 3:58.84  Tunisia (TUN) 4:03.40  Iraq (IRQ) 4:07.28
High jump   (MAR) 1.53 m   (MAR) 1.53 m   (TUN) 1.45 m
Long jump   (MAR) 5.80 m   (TUN) 5.44w m   (IRQ) 5.41 m
Shot put   (ALG) 11.51 m   (MAR) 10.64 m  Chihab (MAR) 10.16 m
Discus throw   (MAR) 41.72 m   (TUN) 41.64 m  Chihab (MAR) 29.12 m
Javelin throw   (MAR) 38.80 m   (ALG) 32.26 m   (MAR) 30.32 m
Heptathlon  Yasmina Azzizi (ALG) 3269 pts   (MAR) 3127 pts   (MAR) 3122 pts

Medal table[]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Morocco (MAR)11152046
2 Algeria (ALG)94417
3 Tunisia (TUN)77418
4 Iraq (IRQ)57820
5 Kuwait (KUW)3317
6 Saudi Arabia (KSA)1214
7 Libya (LBY)1001
 Qatar (QAT)1001
Totals (8 nations)383838114


References[]

  1. ^ QUARANTE ANS D'HISTOIRE DE L'ATHLETISME ALGERIEN. Algeriathle. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  2. ^ a b c Pan Arab Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  3. ^ Arab Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  4. ^ African Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  5. ^ Asian Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  6. ^ World Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  7. ^ Mediterranean Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-21.
  8. ^ Maghreb Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-20.
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