1986 Arab Junior Athletics Championships

1986 Arab Junior Athletics Championships
Host city Cairo, Egypt
Events 39


The 1986 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the second edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place in Cairo, Egypt. A total of 39 athletics events were contested, 23 for men and 16 for women. Algeria, a regional power in the sport, did not send a team.[1]

Tunisia topped the medal table with twelve gold medals, most of them from the women's section. Morocco and Saudi Arabia each won seven gold medals and were closely followed by Egypt, which took six.[1] Four top world-level athletes emerged at this competition, all of them Moroccan. In the men's 5000 metres, Brahim Boutayeb beat his compatriot Khalid Skah to the title – both went on to win gold medals in the 10,000 metres at the Olympics.[2] In the women's 3000 metres, Zahra Ouaziz was only third in Cairo but as a senior she won two medals at the World Championships in Athletics.[3] Nezha Bidouane was the Arab junior women's champion in the 100 metres hurdles and the runner-up in the 400 metres hurdles and later was a two-time world champion in the latter event.[4]

The most successful was Tunisia's Selma Khardani won the women's 800, 1500 and 3000 m titles. She won senior honours at national level, but not internationally.[5] Hanan Ahmed Khaled was the second most successful athlete at the competition, winning the shot put and discus throw events, and also a javelin throw bronze medal; she became one of Egypt's most successful sportswomen, with four gold medals at the African Championships in Athletics to her name.[6]

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Mohammed Husawi (KSA) 10.78  Mohammed Al-Beshi (KSA) 10.85  Mohamed El Kandoussi (MAR) 10.92
200 metres  Mohammed Al-Beshi (KSA) 21.79  Mohammed Husawi (KSA) 21.91  Mohamed El Kandoussi (MAR) 22.04
400 metres  Sultan Saad (KSA) 49.16  Yacoub Ishak (KUW) 49.19  Slim Ben Brahim (TUN) 49.41
800 metres  Brahim El-Ghazali (MAR) 1:54.21  Omar Ibrahim Mohamed (EGY) 1:54.77  Shawki Abdullah (QAT) 1:55.23
1500 metres  Brahim El-Ghazali (MAR) 3:51.59  Mohammed Khamis (QAT) 3:51.72  Abdelmalek Amanallah (MAR) 3:53.77
5000 metres  Brahim Boutayeb (MAR) 14:13.75  Khalid Skah (MAR) 15:01.85  Noureddine Kamoun (TUN) 15:07.35
110 m hurdles  Khalid Salem Hassan (BHR) 14.85  Ziad Enazi Abdulrazak (KUW) 15.04  Adnan Ali (KUW) 15.67
400 m hurdles  Khalid Salem Hassan (BHR) 52.84  Saleh Zayed (BHR) 54.93  Hassan El Fergui (MAR) 55.25
2000 metres steeplechase  Abdelmalek Amanallah (MAR) 5:49.29  Tawfik Boukroma (TUN) 5:51.82  Habib Boujlel (TUN) 5:57.20
4×100 m relay  Saudi Arabia (KSA) 42.22  Bahrain (BHR) 42.99  Morocco (MAR) 43.97
4×400 m relay  Egypt (EGY) 3:20.88  Oman (OMN) 3:23.16  Tunisia (TUN) 3:24.69
30 km road race  Saleh Alawi (QAT) 2:01:44  Mohammed Sarsour (JOR) 2:04:22  Othman Ali (QAT) 2:10:52
15 km walk  Ahmed Abdel Hamid (EGY) 1:25:12  Salah Abdallah (EGY) 1:29:54  Walid Okasha (PLE) 1:35:13
High jump  Wahid Ahmed Abu Agala (EGY) 1.96 m  Mashal Douihi (KUW) 1.93 m  Omran Al-Maarouf (PLE) 1.90 m
Pole vault  Nasser Al-Wahibi (KSA) 4.30 m  Walid Zaid (QAT) 4.00 m  Mashal Abdullah (KUW) 4.00 m
Long jump  Talal Al-Sowailem (KUW) 6.76 m  Youssef Sayed Mohamed Awad (EGY) 6.67 m Only two finishers
Triple jump  Larbi Fezzani (TUN) 14.34 m  Youssef Sayed Mohamed Awad (EGY) 14.28 m  Hassan Ghazala (MAR) 14.15 m
Shot put  Khalid Salman Al-Khalidi (KSA) 15.65 m  Hussain Ali Al-Saeed (KUW) 15.08 m  Mahmoud Saeed Jala (KUW) 14.83 m
Discus throw  Mahmoud Mustafa (KUW) 41.04 m  Badr Abdulwahid (KUW) 40.68 m  Sherif Mohamed Abderrahim (EGY) 40.22 m
Hammer throw  Abdul Hakim Ali (QAT) 59.64 m  Badr Ali Al-Rashoud (KUW) 54.08 m  Riyad Rashid (BHR) 49.40 m
Javelin throw  Abdul Azim Al-Ewat (KSA) 59.30 m  Hussain Abbas (KUW) 56.44 m  Saeed Hamed (OMN) 56.42 m
Decathlon  Anis Driss (TUN) 5830 pts  Mashal Douihi (KUW) 5499 pts  Ahmed Hosni Abu Zid (EGY) 5229 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Méryem Oumezdi (MAR) 12.23  Lamia Makni (TUN) 12.42  Ilham Saïdi (MAR) 13.01
200 metres  Lamia Makni (TUN) 25.15  Méryem Oumezdi (MAR) 25.69  Intisar Othman (JOR) 26.79
400 metres  Lamia Makni (TUN) 57.06  Hend Kebaoui (TUN) 59.41  Intisar Othman (JOR) 60.29
800 metres  Selma Khardani (TUN) 2:18.00  Nadia Belattar (MAR) 2:21.27  Rahma Zouggar (MAR) 2:22.67
1500 metres  Selma Khardani (TUN) 4:39.08  Bouchra Belmoudden (MAR) 4:45.59  Nadia Belattar (MAR) 4:49.78
3000 metres  Selma Khardani (TUN) 10:35.39  Amin Ismail (JOR) 10:51.10  Zahra Ouaziz (MAR) 11:02.22
100 m hurdles  Nezha Bidouane (MAR) 15.20  Selma Triki (TUN) 16.67  Ilham Saïdi (MAR) 18.25
400 m hurdles  Hend Kebaoui (TUN) 64.35  Nezha Bidouane (MAR) 65.50  Samia Sassi (TUN) 67.36
4×100 m relay  Tunisia (TUN) 49.32  Morocco (MAR) 50.39  Egypt (EGY) 52.14
4×400 m relay  Tunisia (TUN) 4:01.68  Morocco (MAR) 4:11.76  Jordan (JOR) 4:16.78
High jump  Touria Aboudi (MAR) 1.58 m  Ilham Touati (MAR) 1.56 m  Rym Fatma Guizani (TUN) 1.54 m
Long jump  Nagwa Abd El Hay Riad (EGY) 5.52 m  Basma Fkih (TUN) 5.41 m  Hend Kebaoui (TUN) 5.36 m
Shot put  Hanan Ahmed Khaled (EGY) 11.74 m  Nadia Messadi (TUN) 10.06 m  Méryem Benamar (MAR) 9.87 m
Discus throw  Hanan Ahmed Khaled (EGY) 38.72 m  Nevin Idris (EGY) 28.70 m  Abir Mahmoud (PLE) 19.18 m
Javelin throw  Nadia Messadi (TUN) 30.04 m  Azza El Omari (EGY) 28.98 m  Hanan Ahmed Khaled (EGY) 26.96 m
Heptathlon  Nadia Messadi (TUN) 2608 pts  Hédia Zalila (TUN) 2510 pts  Ilham Touati (MAR) 2478 pts

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pan Arab Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  2. ↑ Athletics Men's 10,000 metres Medalists. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  3. ↑ Zahra Ouaziz. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  4. ↑ Nezha Bidouane. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  5. ↑ Tunisian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  6. ↑ African Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.