2013 Arab Athletics Championships

The 2013 Arab Athletics Championships was the eighteenth edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries that took place in Doha, Qatar from 21–24 May 2013.

Syria was excluded from the event because of the ongoing civil war and Libya did not send a team. Morocco topped the medals table with eleven gold medals in its total of 22, which it won mainly in the women's section of the competition. Algeria placed second with eight golds among its 19 medals. Bahrain had the greatest medal count overall with 22, and ranked third as it only claimed five golds. Egypt, Qatar and Tunisia each took four gold medals at the competition.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Samuel Francis (QAT)	10.31	Aziz Ouhadi (MAR)	10.38	Barakat Al-Harthi (OMN)	10.45
200 metres	Aziz Ouhadi (MAR)	20.46	Fahhad Mohammed Al Subaie  (KSA)	20.55	(EGY)	20.81
400 metres	Yousef Masrahi (KSA)	44.72	Ismail Al-Sabiani (KSA)	46.08	Ali Khamis Abbas (BHR)	46.25
800 metres	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT)	1:45.90	Abraham Kipchirchir Rotich (BHR)	1:46.52	Abdulaziz Ladan Mohammed (KSA)	1:46.70
1500 metres	Ayanleh Souleiman (DJI)	3:39.44	Benson Seurei (BHR)	3:40.07	Seddik Mikou (MAR)	3:40.81
5000 metres	Albert Rop (BHR)	13:52.54	Zelalem Bacha (BHR)	13:57.17	Mumin Gala (DJI)	14:08.62
10,000 metres	Alemu Bekele (BHR)	29:43.45	Isaac Korir Kedikou (BHR)	29:48.59	Mumin Gala (DJI)	29:54.20
Half marathon	(MAR)	1:07:02	Billisuma Shugi (BHR)	1:08:22	Methkal Abu Drais (JOR)	1:09:57
110 metres hurdles	(ALG)	13.63 CR	Abdulaziz Al Mandil (KUW)	13.72	Othman Hadj Laâzib (ALG)	13.94
400 metres hurdles	Miloud Rahmani (ALG)	50.52	Mohamed Sghaier (TUN)	50.94	(QAT)	51.12
3000 metres steeplechase	Abdelmajid Touil (ALG)	8:57.09	Tareq Mubarak Taher (BHR)	8:59.50	Hamid Ezzine (MAR)	9:1.69
4 × 100 metres relay	Oman (OMN) Barakat Al-Harthi Abdullah Al-Sooli Ahmed Mohamed Al-Merjabi	39.83	Iraq (IRQ)	41.35	Bahrain (BHR)	41.72
4×400 metres relay	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Yousef Masrahi Mohammed Al-Salhi	3:06.23	Qatar (QAT) Jamal Hairane Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla	3:09.55	Algeria (ALG) Miloud Rahmani	3:11.02
20 km walk	Hassanine Sebei (TUN)	1:30:30	Mohamed Ameur (ALG)	1:41:30	(ALG)	1:52:22
High jump	Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT)	2.30 m	Ali Mohd Younes Idriss (SUD)	2.24 m	(KSA)	2.18 m
Pole vault	Mouhcine Cheaouri (MAR)	5.00 m	Hussein Assem Al-Hizam (KSA)	4.90 m	(TUN)	4.80 m
Long jump	Hussein Al-Sabee (KSA)	7.99 m	Mohamed Fathalla Difallah (EGY)	7.85 m	Ahmed Faiz (KSA)	7.82 m
Triple jump	Issam Nima (ALG)	17.01 m (w)	Rashid Al-Mannai (QAT)	16.40 m	(BHR)	16.17 m
Shot put	(KUW)	19.37 m	Yasser Ibrahim Farag (EGY)	18.84 m	Sultan Al-Hebshi (KSA)	18.77 m
Discus throw	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari (QAT)	61.91 m	(QAT)	60.46 m	Musab Ibrahim Al-Momani  (JOR)	60.13 m
Hammer throw	Ali Al-Zinkawi (KUW)	74.28 m	Ashraf Amgad Elseify (QAT)	73.17 m	(EGY)	72.92 m
Javelin throw	Ihab El-Sayed (EGY)	79.17 m	(QAT)	71.05 m	(KUW)	68.16 m
Decathlon	Mourad Souissi (ALG)	7317 pts	(KSA)	7093 pts	(EGY)	6939 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(ALG)	11.95	Dana Hussain (IRQ)	12.11	(MAR)	12.15
200 metres	Dana Hussain (IRQ)	23.83	(ALG)	23.91	Gretta Taslakian (LIB)	24.21
400 metres	Gretta Taslakian (LIB)	53.63	Nawal El Jack (SUD)	54.45	(MAR)	54.86
800 metres	Genzeb Shumi (BHR)	2:09.30	Amina Bakhit (SUD)	2:09.77	(SUD)	2:10.79
1500 metres	Rababe Arafi (MAR)	4:53.92	Mimi Belete (BHR)	4:55.19	Betlhem Desalegn (UAE)	4:55.23
5000 metres	Betlhem Desalegn (UAE)	15:48.59 CR	Tejitu Daba (BHR)	15:53.17	Shitaye Eshete (BHR)	15:54.95
10,000 metres	Shitaye Eshete (BHR)	34:25.82	Kenza Dahmani (ALG)	35:13.86	Kareema Saleh Jasim (BHR)	35:50.95
Half marathon	Lishan Dula (BHR)	1:21:53	Kenza Dahmani (ALG)	1:22:17	Aster Tesfaye (BHR)	1:25:95
100 metres hurdles	(MAR)	13.62	(EGY)	14.44	Buthaina Al-Yaqoubi (OMN)	14.55
400 metres hurdles	Hayat Lambarki (MAR)	57.59	Lamiae Lhabze (MAR)	59.83	(SUD)	1:2.26
3000 metres steeplechase	Salima El Ouali Alami (MAR)	9:47.33 CR	Ruth Chebet (BHR)	9:52.47	Amina Bettiche (ALG)	9:54.49
4 × 100 metres relay	Morocco (MAR) Hayat Lambarki Lamiae Lhabze	46.59	Tunisia (TUN)	48.22	Oman (OMN) Shinoona Salah Al-Habsi Buthaina Al-Yaqoubi	48.42
4×400 metres relay	Morocco (MAR) Lamiae Lhabze Rabab Arafi Hayat Lambarki	3:42.10	Sudan (SUD) Nawal El Jack	3:45.30	Iraq (IRQ) Dana Hussain	4:02.62
10 km walk	Olfa Lafi (TUN)	50:34	Bariza Ghezelani (ALG)	57:41	(ALG)	1:01:34
High jump	Rhizlane Siba (MAR)	1.76 m	(EGY)	1.73 m	(BHR)	1.65 m
Pole vault	Syrine Balti (TUN)	4.10 m CR	Nisrine Dinar (MAR)	3.90 m	Dora Mahfoudhi (TUN)	3.60 m
Long jump	(MAR)	6.05 m	(MAR)	5.93 m	(EGY)	5.91 m
Triple jump	Baya Rahouli (ALG)	14.29 m	(MAR)	13.63 m	(MAR)	13.23 m
Shot put	(EGY)	14.05 m	Noora Salem Jasim (BHR)	13.80 m	(EGY)	13.35 m
Discus throw	(EGY)	49.44 m	(EGY)	48.31 m	(QAT)	33.89 m
Hammer throw	(TUN)	60.96 m	Zouina Bouzebra (ALG)	58.04 m	(EGY)	56.77 m
Javelin throw	(EGY)	47.49 m	(EGY)	41.68 m	(IRQ)	37.15 m
Heptathlon	Yasmina Omrani (ALG)	5573 pts	(TUN)	5395 pts	(EGY)	4779 pts

Medal tables[]

Men[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Algeria (ALG)	5	1	3	9
2	Qatar (QAT)	4	5	1	10
3	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	3	4	4	11
4	Morocco (MAR)	3	1	2	6
5	Brunei (BRN)	2	6	3	11
6	Kuwait (KUW)	2	1	1	4
7	Egypt (EGY)	1	2	3	6
8	Tunisia (TUN)	1	1	1	3
9	Djibouti (DJI)	1	0	2	3
10	Oman (OMA)	1	0	1	2
11	Iraq (IRQ)	0	1	0	1
	Sudan (SUD)	0	1	0	1
13	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	2	2
Totals (13 nations)		23	23	23	69

Women[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco (MAR)	8	4	3	15
2	Algeria (ALG)	3	5	2	10
3	Brunei (BRN)	3	4	4	11
	Egypt (EGY)	3	4	4	11
5	Tunisia (TUN)	3	2	1	6
6	Iraq (IRQ)	1	1	2	4
7	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	1	0	1	2
8	Sudan (SUD)	0	3	2	5
9	Oman (OMA)	0	0	2	2
10	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	1	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 nations)		22	23	23	68

Total[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco (MAR)	11	5	5	21
2	Algeria (ALG)	8	6	5	19
3	Brunei (BRN)	5	10	7	22
4	Egypt (EGY)	4	6	7	17
5	Qatar (QAT)	4	5	2	11
6	Tunisia (TUN)	4	3	2	9
7	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	3	4	4	11
8	Kuwait (KUW)	2	1	1	4
9	Iraq (IRQ)	1	2	2	5
10	Oman (OMA)	1	0	3	4
11	Djibouti (DJI)	1	0	2	3
12	Lebanon (LIB)	1	0	1	2
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	1	0	1	2
14	Sudan (SUD)	0	4	2	6
15	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	2	2
16	Palestine (PLE)	0	0	0	0
	Yemen (YEM)	0	0	0	0
Totals (17 nations)		46	46	46	138

References[]

• 18th Arab Championships, Doha (Qatar) 21-24/05/2013. Africa Athle (2013-05-21). Retrieved on 2013-10-07.
• "Gulf-Times", 22, 23 and 24 Mary 2013 «PDF archive listing»
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