1989 Arab Athletics Championships

The 1989 Arab Athletics Championships was the sixth edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries. It took place in Cairo, Egypt from 2–5 October. A total of 43 athletics events were contested, 24 for men and 19 for women. It was the first time that the Egyptian capital had hosted the event, bringing the championship to the largest Arab nation.^[1]

Due to technological restrictions, track events were timed to the tenth of a second, while road events were timed into hundredths. Women's full long-distance running events were added to the programme in the form of the 10,000 metres and the marathon (an Olympic women's 10,000 m had been introduced the previous year). The marathon was not the only new road event here, as a women's 10 km race walk was also initiated.^[1] It was the first Arab women's walk championship, as same event only started at the Pan Arab Games in 1992.^[2]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(BHR)	10.2	Abdullah Salem Al Khalidi (OMN)	10.3	(QAT)	10.4
200 metres	(BHR)	20.7	Abdullah Salem Al Khalidi (OMN)	21.0	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT)	21.0
400 metres	Mohammed Al-Malki (OMN)	45.56	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT)	46.61	Abdelali Kasbane (MAR)	46.67
800 metres	Ahmed Belkessam (ALG)	1:52.8	Rachid El Basir (MAR)	1:53.1	(ALG)	1:53.2
1500 metres	Mustapha Lachaal (MAR)	3:41.0	Abdelaziz Sahere (MAR)	3:41.5	Mahmoud Kalboussi (TUN)	3:41.7
5000 metres	Brahim Boutayeb (MAR)	14:05.7	Khalid Skah (MAR)	14:07.	(TUN)	14:10.7
10,000 metres	Brahim Boutayeb (MAR)	29:42.5	Hammou Boutayeb (MAR)	29:43.7	(TUN)	29:57.3
110 metres hurdles	Noureddine Tadjine (ALG)	13.7	(KUW)	14.0	(BHR)	14.0
400 metres hurdles	Ahmed Abdel Halim Ghanem (EGY)	50.3	(MAR)	50.8	(MAR)	50.8
3000 metres steeplechase	Azzedine Brahmi (ALG)	8:54.4	Hassan Ouhrouch (MAR)	8:54.4	Mohamed Suleiman (QAT)	8:54.4
4 × 100 m relay	Algeria (ALG)	40.8	Egypt (EGY)	41.2	Bahrain (BHR)	41.3
4 × 400 m relay	Morocco (MAR)	3:08.8	Oman (OMN)	3:09.5	Algeria (ALG)	3:09.6
Marathon	(ALG)	2:21:57	(SYR)	2:32:12	(IRQ)	2:35:32
20 km walk	Mohamed Bouhalla (ALG)	1:48:42	Abdelouaheb Ferguène (ALG)	1:51:52	(EGY)	1:56:53
50 km walk	(ALG)	4:58:32	(MAR)	5:10:15	(ALG)	5:31:14
High jump	Othmane Belfaa (ALG)	2.16 m	(QAT)	2.16 m	(ALG)	2.06 m
Pole vault	(QAT)	4.80 m	(QAT)	4.80 m	Choukri Abahnini (TUN)	4.70 m
Long jump	(EGY)	7.59 m	(EGY)	7.44 m	(QAT)	7.36 m
Triple jump	Marzouk Abdallah Al-Yoha (KUW)	16.68 m	(ALG)	16.03 m	(KUW)	15.41 m
Shot put	Ahmed Mohamed Ashoush (EGY)	18.29 m	(IRQ)	17.47 m	(KSA)	17.16 m
Discus throw	Mohamed Naguib Hamed (EGY)	55.44 m	Hassan Ahmed Hamad (EGY)	53.59 m	(KSA)	49.76 m
Hammer throw	Hakim Toumi (ALG)	69.64 m	Waleed Al-Bekheet (KUW)	67.80 m	Hassan Chahine (MAR)	67.30 m
Javelin throw	(KUW)	70.02 m	(SYR)	62.54 m	(KSA)	58.44 m
Decathlon	(MAR)	7215 pts	Mourad Mahour Bacha (ALG)	7168 pts	(KUW)	6701 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Yasmina Azzizi (ALG)	11.8	Méryem Oumezdi (MAR)	11.9	(EGY)	12.0
200 metres	(EGY)	23.8	(EGY)	24.5	(MAR)	24.8
400 metres	(IRQ)	54.7	(EGY)	54.8	(TUN)	56.2
800 metres	Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG)	2:08.19	Fatima Maama (MAR)	2:10.5	(MAR)	2:15.3
1500 metres	Fatima Aouam (MAR)	4:21.9	Fatima Maama (MAR)	4:26.9	Mebarka Hadj Abdellah (ALG)	4:30.4
3000 metres	Fatima Aouam (MAR)	9:23.9	Mebarka Hadj Abdellah (ALG)	9:26.8	(MAR)	9:41.8
10,000 metres	(MAR)	34:55.6	(MAR)	35:32.7	Mebarka Hadj Abdellah  (ALG)	36:23.6
100 metres hurdles	Yasmina Azzizi (ALG)	13.4	Nezha Bidouane (MAR)	14.0	(MAR)	14.0
400 metres hurdles	(IRQ)	58.8	(TUN)	59.0	Nezha Bidouane (MAR)	60.3
4 × 100 m relay	Morocco (MAR)	47.0	Egypt (EGY)	47.3	Algeria (ALG)	47.7
4 × 400 m relay	Morocco (MAR)	3:44.3	Egypt (EGY)	3:51.5	Tunisia (TUN)	3:54.9
Marathon	(MAR)	4:23:01	(TUN)	4:28:48	Only two finishers
10 km walk	(EGY)	1:03:13	(MAR)	1:06:30	(ALG)	1:09:43
High jump	Yasmina Azzizi (ALG)	1.73 m	(ALG)	1.67 m	(MAR)	1.67 m
Long jump	(TUN)	5.62 m	Yasmina Azzizi (ALG)	5.61 m	(EGY)	5.60 m
Shot put	Hanan Ahmed Khaled (EGY)	15.00 m	(ALG)	14.08 m	(TUN)	13.75 m
Discus throw	Hanan Ahmed Khaled (EGY)	53.46 m	Zoubida Laayouni (MAR)	52.12 m	(TUN)	47.08 m
Javelin throw	Yasmina Azzizi (ALG)	51.08 m	(TUN)	47.40 m	(MAR)	47.24 m
Heptathlon	(ALG)	5553 pts	(EGY)	4478 pts	(TUN)	4421 pts

Medal table[]

Overall[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Algeria (ALG)	15	7	8	30
2	Morocco (MAR)	11	14	10	35
3	Egypt (EGY)	8	8	3	19
4	Kuwait (KUW)	2	2	2	6
5	Iraq (IRQ)	2	1	1	4
6	Bahrain (BHR)	2	0	2	4
7	Tunisia (TUN)	1	3	9	13
8	Qatar (QAT)	1	3	4	8
9	Oman (OMN)	1	3	0	4
10	Syria (SYR)	0	2	0	2
11	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	3	3
12	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	0	0
	Palestine (PLE)	0	0	0	0
	Sudan (SUD)	0	0	0	0
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	0	0	0
	Yemen (YEM)	0	0	0	0
Totals (16 nations)		43	43	42	128

Men[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Algeria (ALG)	9	3	4	16
2	Morocco (MAR)	5	7	3	15
3	Egypt (EGY)	4	3	1	8
4	Kuwait (KUW)	2	2	2	6
5	Bahrain (BHR)	2	0	2	4
6	Qatar (QAT)	1	3	4	8
7	Oman (OMN)	1	3	0	4
8	Syria (SYR)	0	2	0	2
9	Iraq (IRQ)	0	1	1	2
10	Tunisia (TUN)	0	0	4	4
11	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	3	3
12	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	0	0
	Palestine (PLE)	0	0	0	0
	Sudan (SUD)	0	0	0	0
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	0	0	0
	Yemen (YEM)	0	0	0	0
Totals (16 nations)		24	24	24	72

Women[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco (MAR)	6	7	7	20
2	Algeria (ALG)	6	4	4	14
3	Egypt (EGY)	4	5	2	11
4	Iraq (IRQ)	2	0	0	2
5	Tunisia (TUN)	1	3	5	9
6	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	0	0
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	0	0
Totals (7 nations)		19	19	18	56

References[]

Results

• Al Batal Al Arabi (N°:28). Arab Athletics Union. Retrieved on 2015-02-14.