1998 Arab Junior Athletics Championships

8th Arab Junior Athletics Championships
Host city Damascus, Syria
Events 41


The 1998 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the eighth edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place in Damascus, Syria – the second time the city hosted the tournament, and a fifth hosting for Syria. Damascus also hosted the senior Arab women's championships that year. A total of 41 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 19 for women. Morocco, a regional power in the sport, did not send a team to the meeting.[1]

The women's 10,000 metres was dropped from the programme; the 3000 metres was restored to partner the new 5000 metres race, in line with the changes at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Due to technical limitations, performances in track races were timed to the tenth of a second, rather than the international standard to one hundredth of a second.[1]

Tunisia topped the medal table with thirteen gold medals – all but one of them from the women's competition. Runners-up Qatar took nine gold medals but success was limited to the men's events. Algeria placed third with eight gold medals.[1]

In the men's competition, Fawzi Al-Shammari completed a 200/400 m sprint double – a feat he would repeat at the 2003 Asian Athletics Championships. The long jump champion Hussein Al-Sabee was a global finalist the following year and had won three consecutive Asian titles five years later. Qatari gold medallists Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari (discus) and Ahmad Hassan Moussa (decathlon) would also become Asian champions.[2]

On the women's side Atawef Hamrouni took a 100/200 m sprint double and won senior Arab sprint titles later in her career. The 5000 m champion Souad Aït Salem was the most prominent female athlete to emerge – she would win Arab, African and Mediterranean long-distance titles in the following years.[1] High jump winner Sarah Bouaoudia won that title and the heptathlon title at the 2004 Pan Arab Games.[3][4]

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Khalid Yousef Al-Obaidli (QAT) 10.3 =CR  Saad Faraj Al-Shahwani (QAT) 10.5  Akram Bensmira (ALG) 10.6
200 metres  Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW) 21.0 =CR  Akram Bensmira (ALG) 21.5  Saad Faraj Al-Shahwani (QAT) 21.7
400 metres  Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW) 45.7 CR  Hamdan Al-Bishi (KSA) 46.2  Amin Gomaa Badawi (EGY) 47.4
800 metres  Abdu Ibrahim Yousef (QAT) 1:52.5  Othman Mohammed Othman (KSA) 1:52.7  Mohammed Khalif Al-Azemi (KUW) 1:53.1
1500 metres  Youcef Jabab (ALG) 3:55.7  Nacer Zein (ALG) 3:55.8  Abu Bakr Rahman (QAT) 3:56.4
5000 metres  Abdulaziz Rahman (SUD) 15:03.2  Abdulrahman Hussain (QAT) 15:05.3  Ahmed Aïssaoui (TUN) 15:10.4
10,000 metres  Abdulaziz Abdulrahman (YEM) 31:24.9  Abdulaziz Rahman (SUD) 31:25.5  Ahmed Aïssaoui (TUN) 31:36.9
110 m hurdles  Badr Saeed Al-Shoumari (KSA) 14.4  Bassem Sami Francis (EGY) 15.0  Nassim Meziane Ibrahimi (QAT) 15.0
400 m hurdles  Issa Hassan (QAT) 51.5  Hani Mourhej (SYR) 51.6  Tahar Ghozali (ALG) 52.1
3000 metres steeplechase  Saeed Moursi (QAT) 9:16.8  Faisal Rabi Al-Nahdi (KSA) 9:21.0  Mouhrez Manaa (TUN) 9:25.9
4×100 m relay  Qatar (QAT) 40.1 CR  Saudi Arabia (KSA) 41.5  Kuwait (KUW) 41.6
4×400 m relay  Kuwait (KUW) 3:14.1  Algeria (ALG) 3:14.7  Saudi Arabia (KSA) 3:15.1
10,000 m walk  Yasser Aboud (SYR) 45:40  Sofiène Azouzi (TUN) 47:10  Issa Barsham (QAT) 48:48
High jump  Mustafa Abdel Jalil Hassanine (EGY) 2.10 m  Omar Al-Fadak (QAT) 2.04 m  Ahmed Salmain (QAT) 2.01 m
Pole vault  Béchir Zaghouani (TUN) 5.00 m  Walid Abu Nasser (EGY) 4.20 m  Mohammed Bakfalouri (SYR) 4.10 m
Long jump  Hussein Al-Sabee (KSA) 7.41 m  Hawari Ali (QAT) 7.23 m  Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Walid (QAT) 7.23 m
Triple jump  Mohammed Hamdi Awadh (QAT) 15.97 m CR  Ibrahim Mohamedin (QAT) 15.87 m  Mohammed Adam Mohammed (KSA) 15.40 m
Shot put  Ahmed Hassan Gholoum (KUW) 16.25 m CR  Mohamed Abdelatif Abu Nasr (EGY) 16.16 m  Ibrahim Moussa (QAT) 16.01 m
Discus throw  Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari (QAT) 50.65 m CR  Waeel Moursi (QAT) 49.43 m  Walid Boudaoui (ALG) 46.57 m
Hammer throw  Nabil Amroune (ALG) 59.12 m  Saber Souid (TUN) 58.09 m  Ahmed Rida Mohamed Abdallah (EGY) 56.30 m
Javelin throw  Ahmed Hamdan (QAT) 65.47 m  Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Khalifa (QAT) 61.44 m  Ali Sawi (EGY) 57.16 m
Decathlon  Ahmad Hassan Moussa (QAT) 6767 pts CR  Amine Hafed (ALG) 6268 pts  Mustafa Taha Hussein (EGY) 6177 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Awatef Hamrouni (TUN) 12.2  Sarah Arrous (ALG) 12.4  Hamida Hassan (ALG) 12.6
200 metres  Awatef Hamrouni (TUN) 24.7 CR  Houria Moussa (ALG) 25.2  Sarah Arrous (ALG) 25.4
400 metres  Awatef Ben Hassine (TUN) 57.9  Manel Mohsni (TUN) 58.7  Diala Al-Chabi (LIB) 59.7
800 metres  Khadija Touati (ALG) 2:12.7  Abok Choli (SUD) 2:15.9  Ahlam Al-Wardi (SYR) 2:18.1
1500 metres  Khadija Touati (ALG) 4:49.2  Abok Choli (SUD) 4:50.0  Souad Aït Salem (ALG) 4:52.9
3000 metres  Hana Chaouach (TUN) 9:58.1  Walida Suleiman (TUN) 10:09.8  Fouzia Zoutat (ALG) 10:15.8
5000 metres  Souad Aït Salem (ALG) 17:32.1 CR  Hana Chaouach (TUN) 17:42.4  Walida Suleiman (TUN) 18:08.2
100 m hurdles  Naïma Bentahar (ALG) 14.2 CR  Imène Chokeiri (TUN) 14.8  Maha Mohamed Mohamed (EGY) 15.7
400 m hurdles  Imène Chatbri (TUN) 64.0  Maha Mohamed Mohamed (EGY) 68.2  Wallada Kharboutli (SYR) 71.1
4×100 m relay  Algeria (ALG) 49.0  Syria (SYR) 52.7  Jordan (JOR) 54.7
4×400 m relay  Tunisia (TUN) 3:53.2 CR  Syria (SYR) 4:13.0  Jordan (JOR) 4:32.7
5000 m walk  Rania Hammami (TUN) 26:11.4  Faiza Azouzi (ALG) 26:22.3  Dounia Mimouni (ALG) 26:47.6
High jump  Sarah Bouaoudia (ALG) 1.64 m  Sameh Drid (TUN) 1.61 m  Rim Abdullah (SYR) 1.61 m
Long jump  Monia Jelassi (TUN) 5.57 m  Sarah Bouaoudia (ALG) 5.53 m  Hamida Benhocine (ALG) 5.27 m
Triple jump  Monia Jelassi (TUN) 12.65 m  Ilhem Ben Salah (TUN) 12.24 m  Ghada Ismail Mustafa (EGY) 11.72 m
Shot put  Amira Naji Semlawi (EGY) 13.01 m CR  Afef Ben Khaled (TUN) 11.58 m  Salwa Dhouibi (TUN) 11.27 m
Discus throw  Nasrine Dahman (TUN) 40.98 m  Darine Hajabi (TUN) 38.37 m  Amira Naji Semlawi (EGY) 31.34 m
Javelin throw  Salwa Dhouibi (TUN) 41.39 m  Muna Mustafa Youssef (EGY) 40.44 m  Nesrine Mohamed Mohieddin (EGY) 39.53 m
Heptathlon  Manel Bani (TUN) 4197 pts  Hani Jamal Es Sayed (EGY) 4108 pts  Wahiba Fahim (ALG) 3212 pts

References

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  2. Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-25.
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