2002 Arab Junior Athletics Championships

10th Arab Junior Athletics Championships Cairo, Egypt 43 2000 Damascus 2004 Damascus The 2002 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the tenth edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place in Cairo, Egypt – the city hosted the tournament once before in 1986. A total of 43 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 21 for women. After an absence in 2000, regional powers Morocco, Algeria and Qatar all returned to the tournament.Pan Arab Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22. Morocco topped the table with twelve gold medals, followed by Egypt which won eight titles. Tunisia and Saudi Arabia each won six medals, with Tunisia mainly having success in women's events and Saudi Arabia winning only men's medals. A women's pole vault was added to the programme, leaving just the steeplechase as the remaining event contested by men but not women. Junior implements were used in the throws events for the first time. Morocco's Yassine Bensghir completed a men's middle-distance double and was the World Junior Champion that same year. Ismail Ahmed Ismail was third to him in the 800 metres, but went on to much greater success as a senior, winning Sudan's first Olympic medal in 2008.Ismail Ahmed Ismail. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-02-25. The sprints saw the rise of Yahya Habeeb and Yahya Al-Ghahes of Saudi Arabia (both future Asian champions). The men's throws saw the emergence of a new generation of athletes who would dominate regionally: Sultan Al-Hebshi and Ali Al-Zinkawi later won Asian titles in their disciplines,Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-25. while the Egyptian trio of Yasser Ibrahim Farag, Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly and Mohsen Mohamed Anani later won gold medals at the African Championships in Athletics in the shot put, discus and hammer throw, respectively.African Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-25. In women's events, sprint medallists Muna Jabir Adam and Gretta Taslakian each later became continental medallists in their specialities. Mariem Alaoui Selsouli was a medallist in both long-distance events and later won medals at the IAAF World Indoor Championships. Medal summary Men 100 metresMustafa Taha Hussein EGY 10.62Yahya Habeeb KSA 10.63Yahya Al-Ghahes KSA 10.68200 metresAhmed Fayaz Al-Dosari KSA 21.32Musbah Mubarak OMN 21.97Yahya Al-Ghahes KSA 22.02400 metresAbdelatif El Ghazaoui MAR 46.88Nagmeldin Ali Abubakr SUD 47.81Ibrahim Al-Hamaidi KSA 47.84800 metresYassine Bensghir MAR 1:48.23Mohamed Batani MAR 1:48.63Ismail Ahmed Ismail SUD 1:49.551500 metresYassine Bensghir MAR 3:53.10Mohamed Batani MAR 3:54.23Peter Roko Ashak SUD 3:54.755000 metresEssam Gteib MAR 14:10.94Ahmed Abdallah SUD 14:16.09Abdelhalim Zahraoui MAR 14:29.5510,000 metresEssam Gteib MAR 30:39.43Hamza Hamed SUD 30:59.64Ahmed Abdallah SUD 31:47.51110 m hurdlesNassim Meziane Ibrahimi QAT 14.41Badr Al-Bouainain KSA 14.51Mohammed Rashid Al-Othman KUW 14.62400 m hurdlesIbrahim Al-Hamaidi KSA 51.46Idris Abdulaziz Al-Husawi KSA 52.26Badr El Amine MAR 52.603000 metres steeplechaseArkangelo Roko SUD 8:50.68Mohamed Ezaldeen Teerab SUD 8:57.09Hussain Hamed Kouri QAT 9:08.694 × 100 m relayKSA 40.35OMN 41.39EGY 41.614 × 400 m relayKSA 3:11.99SUD 3:12.30MAR 3:15.3410,000 m walkMabrouk Saleh Mohammed QAT 46:39.6Mohamed Abdel Tawab EGY 47:52.9Houcine Soubai TUN 48:05.6High jumpSkander Jaghmoum TUN 2.06 mJamal Fakhri Al-Qasim KSA 2.03 mSaeed Ali Abbas UAE 2.03 mPole vaultAli Maki Hassan Al-Sabbagh KUW 4.70 mHamed Ali Al-Shehabi QATMohamed Karbib MAR 4.60 mNot awardedLong jumpIbrahim Faisal Al-Asak KUW 7.46 mAhmed Sayed Kheirallah EGY 7.27 mAhmed Fayaz Al-Dosari KSA 7.19 mTriple jumpAzmi Mohammed Sulaiman QAT 15.31 mMohammed Mujahid Al-Yassin KSA 15.20 mIdir Fellah ALG 15.01 mShot putSultan Al-Hebshi KSA 19.48 m CRYasser Ibrahim Farag EGY 19.23 mAmin Al-Aradi KSA 18.78 mDiscus throwOmar Ahmed El Ghazaly EGY 57.37 m CRSultan Al-Dawoodi KSA 56.47 mYasser Ibrahim Farag EGY 53.09 mHammer throwAli Al-Zinkawi KUW 75.89 m CRMohsen Mohamed Anani EGY 70.04 mMohamed El Gamal EGY 57.17 mJavelin throwEl Sayed Wahid Abd El Wahab EGY 67.90 mHussein Mohamed EGY 57.63 mMarwan Hamza TUN 56.26 mDecathlonMohammed Rida Al-Matroud KSA 6557 ptsIssa Mufarah Mabrouk KSA 6180 ptsIbrahim Mahmoud QAT 5949 pts Women 100 metresFerdaous Essiter MAR 12.32Malika Ali Bacha ALG 12.65Munira Romdhane Al-Saleh SYR 1980 12.68200 metresFerdaous Essiter MAR 24.88wMunira Romdhane Al-Saleh SYR 1980 25.43wMuna Jabir Adam SUD 25.95w400 metresMuna Jabir Adam SUD 56.34Gretta Taslakian LIB 56.83Hanane Sakhia MAR 58.15800 metresYousra Jemmali TUN 2:09.88 CRNawal Baïbi MAR 2:11.27Amal Zétouani MAR 2:11.271500 metresYousra Jemmali TUN 4:28.99 CRAmel Tlili TUN 4:30.48Nawal Baïbi MAR 4:31.913000 metresSafa Aïssaoui TUN 9:35.99 CRHind Roko Musa SUD 9:39.69Mariem Alaoui Selsouli MAR 9:41.905000 metresHind Roko Musa SUD 18:04.97Safa Aïssaoui TUN 18:05.54Mariem Alaoui Selsouli MAR 18:09.93100 m hurdlesSamira Harrouche ALG 14.54Houria El Mohandis MAR 14.61Lamia El Habez MAR 14.99400 m hurdlesHouria El Mohandis MAR 62.10Samira Harrouche ALG 64.79Maha Mohamed Goha EGY 65.764 × 100 m relayMAR 49.31SYR 1980 50.05ALG 50.434 × 400 m relayTUN 3:52.66 CRMAR 3:54.40SUD 3:55.605000 m walkShaymaa Hamada EGY 26:51.2Iman Din EGY 28:41.6Samah Razak PLE 31:32.9High jumpMonia Wadjini MAR 1.73 m CRHénane Saade ALG 1.66 mSarah Bouaoudia ALGAmira Khaled Abu El Ata EGY 1.60 mPole vaultNesrine Ahmed Imam EGY 3.40 mAsma Kari TUNMaha Mohamed Abdel Khalek EGY 3.00 mNot awardedLong jumpSaoussan Ouahbi MAR 5.96 m CRSarah Bouaoudia ALG 5.83 mNanassi Zaki Saddik EGY 5.67 mTriple jumpLatifa Ezziraoui MAR 12.60 mMuna Khalifa Kamel EGY 12.39 mNajwa Mathlouthi TUN 12.10 mShot putAmal Abdel Sabour Mohamed EGY 14.20 m CRFaten Gafsi TUN 13.48 mGhada Ghezal TUN 12.26 mDiscus throwFaten Gafsi TUN 47.00 m CRAmina El Moudden MAR 46.87 mShaymaa Ibrahim EGY 39.89 mHammer throwIman Mohamed El Ashri EGY 48.64 m CRKarima Mouhoubi ALG 47.18 mYasmin Moneim EGY 42.50 mJavelin throwHanaa Ramadan Omar EGY 47.21 m CRSafar Mohamed El Mekkawi EGY 40.14 mGhofrane Shamak SYR 1980 39.66 mHeptathlonSoraya Mahdioui ALG 4555 pts CRShirin Salama EGY 4141 ptsHasnia Dardiri TUN 4086 pts Medal table 12 7 9 8 10 8 6 7 5 6 4 5 3 6 5 3 1 2 3 0 1 2 5 3 0 2 2 SYR 1980 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 References Category:Arab Junior Athletics Championships Category:International athletics competitions hosted by Egypt Category:Sports competitions in Cairo Arab Junior Athletics Championships Arab Junior Athletics Championships Category:2000s in Cairo Category:2002 in youth sport Category:Athletics in Cairo