2010 Arab Junior Athletics Championships

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14th Arab Junior Athletics Championships
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The host stadium
Dates5–8 May
Host cityCairo, Egypt
VenueCairo Military Academy Stadium
Events44

The 2010 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the fourteenth edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place between 5–8 May at Cairo Military Academy Stadium in Cairo, Egypt. It was the fourth time that the event was held in the Egyptian capital. A total of 44 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 22 for women.

The host nation Egypt comfortably topped the medal table with sixteen gold medals in a haul of 40. Morocco has the next highest medal count with 18, though only three of them gold. Tunisia and Bahrain shared the honour of second highest number of gold medals at five, with Tunisia taking the runner-up spot with its tally of 12 medals. A total of fourteen nations reached the medal table (this included a rare medal for Yemen).[1]

Among the participants was Mutaz Essa Barshim, who won the high jump in an Arab junior record and would win an Olympic medal just two years later.[2] Moroccan-born athlete Mohamad Al-Garni won the men's 800 metres and 1500 metres – events which he also won at the 2010 Asian Junior Athletics Championships that same year.

Gulustan Mahmood, who later won medals for Iraq at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships (annulled due to doping). In Cairo she won the 400 metres and was 200 metres runner-up[3][4] Another future Asian champion scored a double at the competition – Ethiopian-born Tejitu Daba won the long-distance double for Bahrain. was another to win two golds, taking a short sprint double, and she also won the 4 × 100 metres relay with Egypt.[1]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   (IRQ) 10.72   (QAT) 10.89   (KUW) 10.93
200 metres   (BHR) 21.42   (IRQ) 21.52   (EGY) 21.55
400 metres  Awad El Karim Makki (SUD) 46.98   (EGY) 47.19   (IRQ) 47.23
800 metres  Mohamad Al-Garni (QAT) 1:47.98   (MAR) 1:48.13   (EGY) 1:49.00
1500 metres  Mohamad Al-Garni (QAT) 3:39.74 CR   (MAR) 3:43.23   (MAR) 3:43.46
5000 metres   (MAR) 14:29.24   (SUD) 14:31.60   (SUD) 14:32.59
10,000 metres   (BHR) 31:55.50   (SUD) 32:03.96   (YEM) 33:09.39
110 m hurdles   (KSA) 14.08   (QAT) 14.22   (IRQ) 14.45
400 m hurdles   (KUW) 51.85  Zied Azizi (TUN) 51.90   (KSA) 52.98
3000 m steeplechase   (MAR) 9:19.59   (BHR) 9:20.20   (EGY) 9:20.51
4 × 100 m relay  Iraq (IRQ) 40.9  Saudi Arabia (KSA) 41.0  Bahrain (BHR) 41.6
4 × 400 m relay  Sudan (SUD) 3:11.48  Iraq (IRQ) 3:12.66  Egypt (EGY) 3:16.66
10 km walk   (EGY) 45:29.6   (TUN) 46:10.9   (IRQ) 46:18.3
High jump  Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) 2.23 m CR   (KSA) 2.14 m   (QAT) 2.08 m
Pole vault   (TUN) 4.70 m   (QAT) 4.70 m   (KUW) 4.50 m
Long jump   (TUN) 7.43 m   (KSA) 7.21 m   (KUW) 7.10 m
Triple jump   (EGY) 15.53 m   (KUW) 15.42 m   (EGY) 15.08 m
Shot put   (EGY) 18.56 m   (EGY) 17.74 m   (SYR) 17.52 m
Discus throw  Essa Al-Zenkawi (KUW) 57.30 m   (SYR) 57.14 m   (EGY) 48.03 m
Hammer throw   (EGY) 75.51 m   (EGY) 65.30 m   (KUW) 59.43 m
Javelin throw   (EGY) 67.99 m   (EGY) 64.96 m   (SYR) 64.50 m
Decathlon   (QAT) 7216 pts CR   (EGY) 6259 pts   (IRQ) 6133 pts

Women[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   (EGY) 12.20   (LIB) 12.40   (TUN) 12.49
200 metres   (EGY) 24.60  Gulustan Mahmood (IRQ) 24.67   (MAR) 25.54
400 metres  Gulustan Mahmood (IRQ) 54.35   (MAR) 57.04   (SUD) 58.33
800 metres   (SUD) 2:08.51 CR   (BHR) 2:09.06   (MAR) 2:10.42
1500 metres   (BHR) 4:18.26 CR   (UAE) 4:24.26   (MAR) 4:24.69
3000 metres  Tejitu Daba (BHR) 9:14.07 CR  Alia Saeed Mohammed (UAE) 9:27.46   (MAR) 10:00.24
5000 metres  Tejitu Daba (BHR) 16:49.04   (MAR) 17:54.58   (MAR) 17:56.00
100 m hurdles   (EGY) 14.68   (EGY) 15.36   (MAR) 15.90
400 m hurdles   (TUN) 60.58   (EGY) 62.30   (SUD) 62.60
3000 m steeplechase   (TUN) 11:20.07   (TUN) 11:25.58   (JOR) 11:25.85
4 × 100 m relay  Egypt (EGY) 48.47  Morocco (MAR) 49.34  Tunisia (TUN) 50.46
4 × 400 m relay  Sudan (SUD) 3:50.02  Morocco (MAR) 3:51.92  Tunisia (TUN) 3:56.24
10 km walk   (SYR) 50:32.00   (TUN) 53:34.06   (EGY) 53:37.02
High jump   (EGY) 1.76 m CR   (MAR) 1.63 m   (BHR) 1.56 m
Pole vault   (EGY) 3.40 m =CR   (SYR) 2.90 m   (EGY) 2.80 m
Long jump   (EGY) 5.89 m   (EGY) 5.69 m   (MAR) 5.56 m
Triple jump   (MAR) 12.67 m   (EGY) 12.44 m   (EGY) 12.27 m
Shot put   (EGY) 12.83 m   (EGY) 12.12 m   (TUN) 11.46 m
Discus throw   (TUN) 44.12 m   (EGY) 42.12 m   (EGY) 39.01 m
Javelin throw   (EGY) 39.15 m   (EGY) 39.06 m   (SYR) 32.81 m
Hammer throw   (EGY) 56.57 m CR   (EGY) 55.39 m   (SYR) 40.93 m
Heptathlon   (EGY) 4492 pts   (EGY) 4414 pts   (JOR) 4272 pts

Medal table[]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Egypt (EGY)16141040
2 Tunisia (TUN)53412
3 Bahrain (BHR)5229
4 Qatar (QAT)4318
5 Sudan (SUD)4239
6 Morocco (MAR)37818
7 Iraq (IRQ)33410
8 Kuwait (KUW)2147
9 Syria (SYR)1348
10 Saudi Arabia (KSA)1315
11 United Arab Emirates (UAE)0202
12 Lebanon (LIB)0101
13 Jordan (JOR)0022
14 Yemen (YEM)0011
Totals (14 nations)444444132

References[]

  1. ^ a b 14th Arab Junior Championship from 5-8/5/2010 the Military Academy Stadium. TunisAthle (archived). Retrieved on 2016-07-04.
  2. ^ Mutaz Essa Barshim. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2016-07-04.
  3. ^ Silver for India in relay. The Hindu (2012-03-09). Retrieved on 2012-03-31.
  4. ^ Su Bingtian takes Asian 100m title in Kobe - Asian champs, Day 2 . IAAF (2011-07-09). Retrieved on 2016-07-04.
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