1999 Arab Athletics Championships

The 1999 Arab Athletics Championships was the eleventh edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries. It took place in Beirut, Lebanon from 21–24 October. A total of 41 events were contested, 22 for men and 19 for women. The men's and women's racewalk events were not held due to lack or participation, as was the women's heptathlon.^[1] Only Egypt, Lebanon and Syria participated in the women's events.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Jamal Al-Saffar (KSA)	10.33	Saad Muftah Mubarak (QAT)	10.45	Hamoud Al-Dalhami (OMN)	10.47
200 metres	Hamoud Al-Dalhami (OMN)	20.94	Salem Al-Yami (KSA)	21.28	Mohamed Al-Houti (OMN)	21.47
400 metres	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah (QAT)	46.15	Salaheddine Safi Bakar (QAT)	46.57	(EGY)	47.33
800 metres	(KSA)	1:50.47	Abdulrahman Suleiman (QAT)	1:50.13	(KSA)	1:51.18
1500 metres	(SOM)	3:49.27	Abubaker Ali Kamal (QAT)	3:49.66	(KSA)	3:50.72
5000 metres	Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin (QAT)	14:21.73	Saad Al-Asmari (KSA)	14:24.10	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama (QAT)	14:33.24
10,000 metres	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama (QAT)	31:10.68	Mukhlid Al-Otaibi (KSA)	31:10.76	Kamal Kohil (ALG)	31:17.49
110 metres hurdles	Mubarak Khasif (QAT)	14.16	(QAT)	14.27	(EGY)	14.48
400 metres hurdles	Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily (KSA)	49.14	Zahr-Edin Al Najem (SYR)	40.66	(KUW)	51.06
3000 metres steeplechase	Saad Al-Asmari (KSA)	8:22.28	Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin (QAT)	8:22.54	(KSA)	8:59.70
4×100 m relay	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	39.45	Qatar (QAT)	39.61	Oman (OMN)	40.35
4×400 m relay	Qatar (QAT)	3:06.63	Kuwait (KUW)	3:07.64	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	3:08.47
Half marathon	(LIB)	1:10:37	(SYR)	1:15:47	(LIB)	1:17:43
High jump	Jean-Claude Rabbath (LIB)	2.20 m	(QAT)	2.13 m	(KSA)	2.13 m
Pole vault	(QAT)	4.85 m	(EGY)	4.20 m	(OMN)	4.10 m
Long jump	Hatem Mersal (EGY)	8.15 m	Hussein Al-Sabee (KSA)	7.81 m	(KUW)	7.49 m
Triple jump	(QAT)	16.35 m	Salem Al-Ahmedi (KSA)	16.06 m	(KSA)	16.02 m
Shot put	Bilal Saad Mubarak (QAT)	18.71 m	(KSA)	18.29 m	Ahmad Hassan Gholoum (KUW)	17.91 m
Discus throw	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari (QAT)	56.93 m	(UAE)	56.26 m	(KSA)	56.02 m
Hammer throw	(KUW)	61.97 m	(EGY)	61.43 m	(KUW)	57.10 m
Javelin throw	Ali Saleh Al-Jadani  (KSA)	70.11 m	(SYR)	69.34 m	(KUW)	67.92 m
Decathlon	Ahmad Hassan Moussa (QAT)	7482 pts	(EGY)	7007pts	(SYR)	6742 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(EGY)	12.57	Lina Bejjani (LIB)	12.76	(EGY)	13.12
200 metres	(EGY)	25.69	(LIB)	26.21	(SYR)	26.68
400 metres	(LIB)	56.99	(SYR)	58.90	(EGY)	59.05
800 metres	(SYR)	2:15.67	(SYR)	2:22.00	(LIB)	2:22.28
1500 metres (hand-timed)	(SYR)	4:45.1	(LIB)	4:57.3	(SYR)	5:01.1
5000 metres	(SYR)	17:37.85	(SYR)	18:51.98	(LIB)	19:30.58
10,000 metres	(SYR)	38:29.03	(SYR)	39:16.69	(LIB)	42:33.65
100 metres hurdles	(EGY)	14.97	(EGY)	15.12	(SYR)	15.86
400 metres hurdles	(LIB)	61.65	(EGY)	61.85	(SYR)	64.23
4×100 m relay	Egypt (EGY)	50.19	Lebanon (LIB)	51.16	Syria (SYR)	53.50
4×400 m relay	Egypt (EGY)	4:04.85	Syria (SYR)	4:07.90	Lebanon (LIB)	4:44.27
Half marathon	(SYR)	1:31:46	(SYR)	1:43:50	(LIB)	1:44:00
High jump	(EGY)	1.69 m	(SYR)	1.69 m	(LIB)	1.63 m
Long jump	(EGY)	5.90 m	(EGY)	5.49 m	(SYR)	5.39 m
Triple jump	(EGY)	12.13 m	(EGY)	12.08 m	(SYR)	11.01 m
Shot put	Wafaa Ismail Baghdadi (EGY)	15.26 m	(EGY)	12.27 m	(SYR)	10.20 m
Discus throw	(LIB)	40.04 m	Marwa Hussein (EGY)	37.43 m	Wafaa Ismail Baghdadi (EGY)	34.59 m
Hammer throw	Marwa Hussein (EGY)	56.60 m	(LIB)	32.22 m	Wafaa Ismail Baghdadi (EGY)	29.47 m
Javelin throw	(EGY)	45.84 m	(SYR)	43.73 m	(SYR)	34.69 m

Medal table[]

Overall[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt (EGY)	12	9	6	27
2	Qatar (QAT)	10	8	1	19
3	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	6	6	7	19
4	Syria (SYR)	5	11	10	26
5	Lebanon (LIB)	5	5	7	17
6	Kuwait (KUW)	1	1	5	7
7	Oman (OMN)	1	0	4	5
8	Somalia (SOM)	1	0	0	1
9	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	1	0	1
10	Algeria (ALG)	0	0	1	1
11	Sudan (SUD)	0	0	0	0
Totals (11 nations)		41	41	41	123

Men[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Qatar (QAT)	10	8	1	19
2	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	6	6	7	19
3	Lebanon (LIB)	2	0	1	3
4	Egypt (EGY)	1	3	2	6
5	Kuwait (KUW)	1	1	5	7
6	Oman (OMN)	1	0	4	5
7	Somalia (SOM)	1	0	0	1
8	Syria (SYR)	0	3	1	4
9	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	1	0	1
10	Algeria (ALG)	0	0	1	1
11	Sudan (SUD)	0	0	0	0
Totals (11 nations)		22	22	22	66

Women[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt (EGY)	11	6	4	21
2	Syria (SYR)	5	8	9	22
3	Lebanon (LIB)	3	5	6	14
Totals (3 nations)		19	19	19	57

References[]

Results

• Al Batal Al Arabi(N°:49). Arab Athletics Union. Retrieved on 2013-11-12.