2017 Arab Youth Athletics Championships

The 2017 Arab Youth Athletics Championships was the sixth edition of the international athletics competition for under-18 athletes from Arab countries. Organised by the Arab Athletic Federation, it took place in Radès, Tunisia from 2–4 November. A total of forty events were contested, of which 20 by male and 20 by female athletes.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(ALG)	10.60	(KSA)	10.83	(KSA)	10.85
200 metres	(ALG)	21.39	(KSA)	21.77	(KSA)	22.11
400 metres	(KSA)	49.25	(TUN)	49.66	(TUN)	49.72
800 metres	(MAR)	1:53.96	(ALG)	1:54.08	(MAR)	1:54.87
1500 metres	(MAR)	3:56.68	(MAR)	3:57.18	(TUN)	3:57.78
3000 metres	(JOR)	8:34.77	(MAR)	8:37.54	(TUN)	8:44.39
110 metres hurdles (wind: -3.6 m/s)	(KUW)	14.28	(ALG)	14.41	(MAR)	14.58
400 metres hurdles	(MAR)	53.33	(KSA)	54.68	(TUN)	54.99
2000 metres steeplechase	(MAR)	5:56.62	(ALG)	5:57.77	(TUN)	6:05.73
1000 metres medley relay	Algeria (ALG)	1:56.13	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	1:56.37	Tunisia (TUN)	1:57.14
10000 metres track walk	(TUN)	47:40.39	(TUN)	47:57.96	(MAR)	48:11.21
High jump	(MAR)	1.94 m	(KSA)	1.94 m	(ALG)	1.92 m
Pole vault	(KSA)	4.20 m	(ALG)	4.00 m	(TUN)	3.70 m
Long jump	(TUN)	6.80 m	(MAR)	6.79 m	(KUW)	6.74 m
Triple jump	(KSA)	14.05 m	(TUN)	14.03 m	(MAR)	13.81 m
Shot put	(KSA)	16.96 m	(KUW)	15.84 m	(MAR)	14.79 m
Discus throw	(IRQ)	50.57 m	(TUN)	49.50 m	(KUW)	46.98 m
Hammer throw	(TUN)	60.58 m	(KUW)	58.28 m	(OMN)	57.76 m
Javelin throw	(KSA)	55.68 m	(KUW)	55.14 m	(TUN)	54.64 m
Decathlon	(IRQ)	5686 pts	(KSA)	5457 pts	(ALG)	5437 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Loubna Benhadja (ALG)	12.79	(ALG)	12.93	(IRQ)	13.11
200 metres	(JOR)	25.13	(MAR)	25.68	(TUN)	25.80
400 metres	(JOR)	56.72	(TUN)	57.30	(MAR)	59.58
800 metres	(MAR)	2:22:36	(TUN)	2:22.43	(ALG)	2:23:34
1500 metres	(MAR)	4:51.87	(ALG)	4:55.13	(TUN)	5:03.81
3000 metres	(MAR)	10:32.56	(TUN)	11:00.19	Only two finishers
100 metres hurdles (wind: -2.9 m/s)	(ALG)	14.27	(TUN)	15.01	(MAR)	15.02
400 metres hurdles	(MAR)	1:01.50	Loubna Benhadja (ALG)	1:02.35	(TUN)	1:05.26
2000 metres steeplechase	(TUN)	6:55.82	(MAR)	6:58.79	(ALG)	7:29.41
1000 metres medley relay	Algeria (ALG)	2:19.13	Tunisia (TUN)	2:21.58	Morocco (MAR)	2:23.92
5000 metres track walk	(TUN)	24:19.55	(TUN)	25:15.37	(ALG)	26:00.31
High jump	(IRQ)	1.59 m	(LIB)	1.59 m	(JOR)	1.54 m
Pole vault	No Participants
Long jump	(ALG)	5.67 m	(LIB)	5.35 m	(JOR)	5.30 m
Triple jump	(TUN)	11.76 m	(TUN)	11.42 m	(ALG)	10.71 m
Shot put	(MAR)	13.81 m	(ALG)	13.35 m	(ALG)	12.20 m
Discus throw	(TUN)	36.60 m	(MAR)	35.82 m	(ALG)	35.30 m
Hammer throw	(IRQ)	48.66 m	(MAR)	47.84 m	(TUN)	47.49 m
Javelin throw	(TUN)	41.88 m	(TUN)	31.25 m	(MAR)	30.83 m
Heptathlon	(ALG)	4260 pts	(TUN)	3992 pts	(ALG)	3946 pts

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Tunisia)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco	10	7	9	26
2	Tunisia*	8	13	12	33
3	Algeria	8	8	9	25
4	Saudi Arabia	5	6	2	13
5	Iraq	4	0	1	5
6	Jordan	3	0	2	5
7	Kuwait	1	3	2	6
8	Lebanon	0	2	0	2
9	Oman	0	0	1	1
10	Sudan	0	0	0	0
	Yemen	0	0	0	0
Totals (11 nations)		39	39	38	116

Participation[]

References[]

Results

• Arab u18 championships, Rades (Tunisia) 2-4/11/2017. Africathle. Retrieved 2019-07-09.