2016 Arab Junior Athletics Championships

The 2016 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the seventeenth edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place between 5–8 May at the Lalla-Setti Athletics Stadium in Tlemcen, Algeria. It was the first time that Algeria hosted the event. A total of 44 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 22 for women.

Around 800 athletes from 20 countries were expected to appear at the competition,^[1] though only 232 athletes from 15 nations ultimately did so.^[2]

Bahrain took the most gold medals with 16 while Tunisia won the next highest with 9. The host nation Algeria took the most medals with a total of 39, seven of them gold.^[3]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(TUN)	10.52	(OMN)	10.62	(BHR)	10.76
200 metres	(BHR)	21.44	Amine Bouanani (ALG)	21.60	Taha Hussein Yacine (IRQ)	21.77
400 metres	(BHR)	46.95	Taha Hussein Yacine (IRQ)	47.14	(KSA)	48.38
800 metres	(TUN)	1:50.62	(SUD)	1:51.31	(IRQ)	1:51.97
1500 metres	(TUN)	3:53.09	(TUN)	3:53.17	(DJI)	3:55.72
5000 metres	(DJI)	14:26.11	(DJI)	14:30.11	(SUD)	14:38.39
10,000 metres	(DJI)	30:07.47	(BHR)	30:32.18	(ALG)	31:15.04
100 m hurdles	Amine Bouanani (ALG)	13.96	(IRQ)	14.12	(IRQ)	14.21
400 m hurdles	(KSA)	52.11	Mohamed Amine Touati (TUN)	52.97	(IRQ)	53.05
3000 m steeplechase	(TUN)	9:10.03	(ALG)	9:11.27	(TUN)	9:15.82
4 × 100 m relay	Oman (OMN)	41.59	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	42.30	Iraq (IRQ)	42.33
4 × 400 m relay	Algeria (ALG)	3:13.35	Sudan (SUD)	3:13.36	Egypt (EGY)	3:13.89
10 km walk	(TUN)	45:48.08	(IRQ)	47:17.76	(ALG)	47:58.48
High jump	(IRQ)	2.05 m	(ALG)  Mohamed Hamdi (QAT)	2.00 m	Not awarded
Pole vault	(IRQ)	4.90 m	(ALG)	4.30 m	(KSA)	4.20 m
Long jump	Yasser Mohamed Tahar Triki (ALG)	7.43 m	(ALG)	7.19 m	(LBA)	7.02 m
Triple jump	Yasser Mohamed Tahar Triki (ALG)	16.01 m CR	(LBA)	14.90 m	(TUN)	14.57 m
Shot put	(QAT)	17.00 m	(ALG)	16.24 m	(TUN)	15.08 m
Discus throw	(QAT)	60.13 m CR	(KSA)	50.32 m	(KSA)	44.72m
Hammer throw	(IRQ)	66.00 m	(TUN)	60.84 m	(IRQ)	58.93 m
Javelin throw	(TUN)	61.37 m	(IRQ)	57.71 m	(KSA)	57.57 m
Decathlon	(ALG)	6052 pts	(TUN)	5982 pts	(ALG)	5783 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(BHR)	11.66 CR	(BHR)	11.68	(OMN)	12.17
200 metres	(BHR)	23.21 CR	(BHR)	23.91	(ALG)	25.67
400 metres	(BHR)	55.44	(TUN)	59.74	(ALG)	1:01.82
800 metres	(BHR)	2:10.77	(TUN)	2:12.67	(ALG)	2:16.52
1500 metres	(BHR)	4:16.24 CR	(TUN)	4:33.81	(SUD)	4:34.81
3000 metres	(BHR)	9:20.46	(BHR)	9:24.30	(ALG)	11:7.40
5000 metres	(BHR)	16:57.46	(BHR)	17:00.42	(ALG)	19:36.68
100 m hurdles	Aminat Yusuf Jamal (BHR)	14.53	(ALG)	14.66	(OMN)	15.01
400 m hurdles	Aminat Yusuf Jamal (BHR)	58.25 CR	(ALG)	1:03.25	(ALG)	1:04.05
3000 m steeplechase	(BHR)	10:02.68	(TUN)	10:46.91	(ALG)	12:32.79
4 × 100 m relay	Bahrain (BHR)	46.60 CR	Algeria (ALG)	48.72	Iraq (IRQ)	1:00.53
4 × 400 m relay	Bahrain (BHR)	3:46.90	Algeria (ALG)	3:58.11	Tunisia (TUN)	4:07.37
10 km walk	(TUN)	52:38	(ALG)	53:10	(ALG)	54:48
High jump	(ALG)   (IRQ)	1.63 m	Not awarded		(IRQ)	1.53 m
Pole vault	(EGY)	3.00 m	(EGY)	2.60 m	(IRQ)	2.60 m
Long jump	(TUN)	5.60 m	(ALG)	5.54 m	(ALG)	5.45 m
Triple jump	(TUN)	12.46 m	(ALG)	12.18 m	(IRQ)	11.38 m
Shot put	(QAT)	11.97 m	(ALG)	11.70 m	(ALG)	9.99 m
Discus throw	(LBA)	51.58 m CR	(UAE)	39.37 m	(ALG)	37.17 m
Javelin throw	(QAT)	36.11 m	(ALG)	29.44 m	(ALG)	28.38 m
Hammer throw	(LBA)	50.92 m	(TUN)	43.48 m	(ALG)	42.80 m
Heptathlon	(ALG)	4060 pts	(ALG)	3613 pts	(OMN)	1739 pts

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bahrain (BHR)	14	5	1	20
2	Tunisia (TUN)	9	9	4	22
3	Algeria (ALG)	7	16	16	39
4	Iraq (IRQ)	4	4	10	18
5	Qatar (QAT)	4	1	0	5
6	Djibouti (DJI)	2	1	1	4
	Libya (LBA)	2	1	1	4
8	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	1	2	4	7
9	Oman (OMN)	1	1	3	5
10	Egypt (EGY)	1	1	1	3
11	Sudan (SUD)	0	2	2	4
12	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	1	0	1
Totals (12 nations)		45	44	43	132

References[]

Results

• 17th Arab Junior Championships Results (in Arabic). riyadapress. Retrieved on 2016-07-04.