2009 Arab Athletics Championships

The 2009 Arab Athletics Championships was the sixteenth edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries which took place in Damascus, Syria from 6–9 October.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (Event was hand-timed)	Aziz Ouhadi (MAR)	9.9h	(BHR)	10.0h	Barakat Al-Harthi (OMN)	10.1h
200 metres	Omar Juma Al-Salfa (UAE)	20.84	(MAR)	20.86	Hamed Al-Bishi (KSA)	20.92
400 metres	Rabah Yousif (SUD)	45.15	Mohamed Khouaja (LBA)	45.35	Yousef Masrahi (KSA)	45.93
800 metres	Belal Mansoor Ali (BHR)	1:45.92	Mohammad Al-Azemi (KUW)	1:46.91	(MAR)	1:46.99
1500 metres	Amine Laâlou (MAR)	3:39.89	Imad Touil (ALG)	3:40.86	Belal Mansoor Ali (BHR)	3:40.89
5000 metres	James Kwalia (QAT)	14:04.22	Hasan Mahboob (BHR)	14:05.23	Alemu Bekele (BHR)	14:06.62
10,000 metres	Hasan Mahboob (BHR)	28:16.01	Nicholas Kemboi (QAT)	28:22.24	Hussain Jamaan Alhamdah (KSA)	29:04.57
110 metres hurdles	Othmane Hadj Lazib (ALG)	13.79	Ahmed Khader Al-Moualed (KSA)	13.92	Aymen Ben Ahmed (TUN)	14.03
400 metres hurdles	(KSA)	49.43	(KSA)	49.56	Mubarak Al-Nubi (QAT)	51.74
3000 metres steeplechase	Tareq Mubarak Taher (BHR)	8:39.47	Chakir Boujattaoui (MAR)	8:40.36	Rabia Makhloufi (ALG)	8:48.95
Half marathon	Nicholas Kemboi (QAT)	1:07:09	Ali Mabrouk El Zaidi (LBA)	1:07:14	(MAR)	1:07:18
20 km walk	Hassanine Sebei (TUN)	1:29:56	(ALG)	1:31:16	(ALG)	1:31:30
4 × 100 m relay	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Yahya Al-Ghahes Ahmed Khader Al-Moualed	40.09	United Arab Emirates (UAE) Omar Jouma Al-Salfa	40.19	Oman (OMN) Barakat Al-Harthi Ahmed Mohamed Al-Merjabi	40.37
4 × 400 m relay	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Yousef Masrahi Hamed Al-Bishi	3:06.90	United Arab Emirates (UAE) Omar Juma Al-Salfa	3:09.78	Sudan (SUD) Awadelkarim Makki Hussein Ismail Ahmed Ismail Rabah Yousif	3:10.09
High jump	Karim Lotfy (EGY)	2.16 m	Majd Eddin Ghazal (SYR)	2.16 m	(KSA)	2,00 m
Pole vault	(KUW)	5.25 m NR CR	(KUW)	5.15 m	(ALG)	5.00 m
Long jump	Issam Nima (ALG)	8.10 m	Yahya Berrabah (MAR)	8.09 m	Ahmed Faiz Bin Marzouq (KSA)	7.82 m
Triple jump	(BHR)	16.30 m	Mohamed Abdullah Darwish (UAE)	16.15 m	(ALG)	16.12 m
Shot put	Sultan Al-Hebshi (KSA)	19.12 m	(KUW)	18.81 m	Yasser Ibrahim Farag (EGY)	18.29 m
Discus throw	Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly (EGY)	61.73 m	Haider Naser Abdulshaheed (IRQ)	59.54 m	Yasser Ibrahim Farag (EGY)	59.31 m
Hammer throw	Ali Al-Zinkawi (KUW)	76.46 m	Mohsen El Anany (EGY)	74.31 m	(KUW)	69.20 m
Javelin throw	Ihab El-Sayed (EGY)	75.49 m	(IRQ)	74.16 m NR	Ali Saleh Al-Jadani (KSA)	69.44 m
Decathlon	Mohammed J.M. Al-Qaree (KSA)	7642 pts NR	Mourad Souissi (ALG)	7413 pts	Ali Hazer (LIB)	6287 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(SYR)	11.93 NR	(MAR)	11.94	Dana Hussain (IRQ)	11.99 NR
200 metres	(SYR)	24.25	Gulustan Mahmood (IRQ)	24.49 NR	(MAR)	25.05
400 metres	Gulustan Mahmood (IRQ)	53.65 NR	(MAR)	55.53	(TUN)	57.89
800 metres	Halima Hachlaf (MAR)	2:07.17	Seltana Aït Hammou (MAR)	2:07.38	Mimi Belete (BHR)	2:09.25
1500 metres	Siham Hilali (MAR)	4:12.62	Btissam Lakhouad (MAR)	4:15.24	Mimi Belete (BHR)	4:16.76
5000 metres	Tejitu Daba (BHR)	16:27.66	Shitaye Eshete (BHR)	16:29.74	Bouchra Chaâbi (MAR)	16:30.33
10,000 metres	Tejitu Daba (BHR)	35:42.64	(BHR)	35:53.94	Kenza Dahmani (ALG)	42:02.60
100 metres hurdles	Fatmata Fofanah (BHR)	13.51	Fadoua Al-Boza (SYR)	14.28	Lamiae Lhabze (MAR)	14.39
400 metres hurdles	Hayat Lambarki (MAR)	57.27	Lamiae Lhabze (MAR)	57.86	(SUD)	63.31
3000 metres steeplechase	Hanane Ouhaddou (MAR)	9:57.81	Durka Mana (SUD)	10:14.85	(ALG)	11:26.68
Half marathon	Kenza Dahmani (ALG)	1:16:36	Samira Raif (MAR)	1:24:23	(SYR)   (ALG)	1:44:48
10 km walk	Chaima Trabelsi (TUN)	49:09.7	Olfa Lafi (TUN)	49:45.6	(SYR)	50:24.5
4 × 100 m relay	Iraq (IRQ) Alaa Hikmet Kassem Dana Hussain Gulustan Mahmood	47.22 NR	Morocco (MAR) Lamiae Lhabze Hayat Lambarki	47.98	Bahrain (BHR) Amer Fatmata Fofanah	48.77 NR
4 × 400 m relay	Morocco (MAR) Lamiae Lhabze Hayat Lambarki Halima Hachlaf	3:40.58	Iraq (IRQ) Gulustan Mahmood Dana Hussain Alaa Hikmet Kassem	3:47.39	Tunisia (TUN) Safa Issaoui	3:51.90
High jump	(MAR)	1.65 m	(SYR)   (ALG)	1.60 m	Not awarded
Pole vault	(EGY)	3.80 m NR	Nisrine Dinar (MAR)	3.80 m	(SYR)   (SYR)	2.90 m NR
Long jump	Yamilé Aldama (SUD)	5.95 m	(EGY)	5.90 m	(MAR)	5.80 m
Triple jump	Yamilé Aldama (SUD)	13.84 m	(MAR)	13.38 m	Fadwa Al-Bouza (SYR)	13.01 m NR
Shot put	(TUN)	14.89 m	(EGY)	14.12 m	Zouina Bouzebra (ALG)	12.70 m
Discus throw	Hiba Omar (SYR)	43.67 m	(TUN)	43.47 m	(JOR)	28.51 m
Hammer throw	Marwa Hussein (EGY)	60.48 m	Hayat El Ghazi (MAR)	53.76 m	(MAR)	52.98 m
Javelin throw	(EGY)	56.09 m NR	(ALG)	44.71 m	(TUN)	41.98 m
Heptathlon	(EGY)	4081 pts	(IRQ)	4026 pts NR	(SYR)	3895 pts

Medal table[]

Overall[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco (MAR)	8	13	7	28
2	Bahrain (BHR)	7	4	5	16
3	Egypt (EGY)	7	3	2	12
4	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	5	2	6	13
5	Algeria (ALG)	3	5	8	16
6	Syria (SYR)	3	3	6	12
7	Tunisia (TUN)	3	2	4	9
8	Sudan (SUD)	3	1	2	6
9	Iraq (IRQ)	2	5	1	8
10	Kuwait (KUW)	2	3	1	6
11	Qatar (QAT)	2	1	1	4
12	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	1	3	0	4
13	Libya (LBA)	0	2	0	2
14	Oman (OMN)	0	0	2	2
15	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	1	1
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	1	1
17	Yemen (YEM)	0	0	0	0
Totals (17 nations)		46	47	47	140

Men[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	5	2	6	13
2	Bahrain (BHR)	4	2	2	8
3	Egypt (EGY)	3	1	2	6
4	Algeria (ALG)	2	3	4	9
5	Morocco (MAR)	2	3	2	7
6	Kuwait (KUW)	2	3	1	6
7	Qatar (QAT)	2	1	1	4
8	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	1	3	0	4
9	Sudan (SUD)	1	0	1	2
	Tunisia (TUN)	1	0	1	2
11	Iraq (IRQ)	0	2	0	2
	Libya (LBA)	0	2	0	2
13	Syria (SYR)	0	1	0	1
14	Oman (OMN)	0	0	2	2
15	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	1	1
16	Yemen (YEM)	0	0	0	0
Totals (16 nations)		23	23	23	69

Women[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco (MAR)	6	10	5	21
2	Egypt (EGY)	4	2	0	6
3	Syria (SYR)	3	2	6	11
4	Bahrain (BHR)	3	2	3	8
5	Iraq (IRQ)	2	3	1	6
6	Tunisia (TUN)	2	2	3	7
7	Sudan (SUD)	2	1	1	4
8	Algeria (ALG)	1	2	4	7
9	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	1	1
10	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	0	0
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	0	0
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	0	0
Totals (12 nations)		23	24	24	71

References[]

• Arab Championships, Damascus (Syria) 06-9/10. Africa Athle (October 2009). Retrieved on 2013-11-02.