1977 Arab Athletics Championships

1st Arab Athletics Championships Damascus, Syria 12 22 1979 Baghdad The 1977 Arab Athletics Championships was the inaugural edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries. It took place in Damascus, Syria, coming one year after the city had hosted the 1976 Pan Arab Games. The absence of Egypt, Algeria and Morocco—the three foremost Arab nations in the sport—meant the level of competition was lower than that seen at the games. Iraq was the dominant nation, winning half the gold medals, and Tunisia was a clear second place with five golds. The hosts, Syria, placed third with a medal haul of twelve. Eight of the twelve participating nations reached the medal table. A total of 22 athletics events were contested, all by men. The schedule mirrored that of the recent Pan Arab Games, with the exception of the hammer throw and decathlon, which were not held here. Women athletes were not included at the competition until the following edition in 1979.Pan Arab Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-14. Iraq's Falah Naji Jarallah was the most successful athlete of the games, having taken a middle-distance running double in the 800 metres and 1500 metres. He was the only athlete to win two individual titles in Damascus. Iraq athletes won all the track events bar the long-distance races, where Tunisia's Mansour Guettaya and Abdelkader Zaddem were dominant, and the steeplechase (won by Syria's Samir Mustapha). Four Arab champions also won an individual silver as well: Guettaya (1500 m and 5000 m), Abbas Al-Aibi (400 m and 800 m), Heitham Nadim (100 m and 200 m) and Hussein Dawood (horizontal jumps). The establishment of the competition brought an increase in regional competition, particularly for African Arab nations as the African Championships in Athletics was not established until two years later.African Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-19. For such nations, the Maghreb Athletics Championships, first held in 1967, served as a partial precursor to the broader Arab Championships.Maghreb Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-19. Medal summary 100 metresHeitham Nadim IRQ 196310.97Hedi Essaleh IRQ 196310.99Farhan Salmeen QAT11.06200 metresFarhan Abdesada IRQ 196321.56Heitham Nadim IRQ 196321.69Othman Essabi LBA 197721.70400 metresAbbas Al-Aibi IRQ 196346.83Mohamed Abdeljabbar IRQ 196347.62Mehdi Ahmed Salah LBA 197747.92800 metresFalah Naji Jarallah IRQ 19631:48.51Abbas Al-Aibi IRQ 19631:49.27Salem Mohamed Salem LBA 19771:49.611500 metresFalah Naji Jarallah IRQ 19633:48.71Mansour Guettaya TUN3:40.01Mohamed Néji Henchiri TUN3:40.055000 metresMansour Guettaya TUN14:27.42Ali Gammoudi TUN14:28.78Mofleh Saad Messaoud QAT15:14.3210,000 metresAbdelkader Zaddem TUN30:28.51Houcine Makni TUN30:30.25Mofleh Saad Messaoud QAT31:42.99110 metres hurdlesFahan Sultan Nasir IRQ 196314.64Abdul Jabbar Rahima IRQ 196314.78Matar Achour KUW15.42400 metres hurdlesTalib Faisal Al-Saffar IRQ 196350.72Mohamed Najm IRQ 196352.86Kamil El Abbassi KSA53.733000 metres steeplechaseSamir Mustapha SYR 19729:28.88Sabir Hantoush IRQ 19639:41.32Abdelkarim Jomâa SYR 19729:56.164 × 100 m relayIRQ 196341.07KUW41.50KSA42.174 × 400 m relayIRQ 19633:09.76KSA3:12.39LBA 19773:15.1MarathonShakbawi Al-Bashi KSA2:36:44Akl Hamdane SYR 19722:39:58Nader El Outaïbi KSA2:46:15High jumpHussein Ali Hussein IRQ 19632.00 mDib Essaleh SYR 19721.95 mKamel Chaïeb TUN1.90 mPole vaultRihan Ali Rihan Obeid KSA4.40 mAbdallah Awadh KSA4.00 mAlaa Eddine Salanky SYR 19723.80 mLong jumpYoussef Khemiri TUN7.31 mHussein Dawood IRQ 19637.22 mKhaled Methanni TUN7.21 mTriple jumpHussein Dawood IRQ 196314.98 mTaoufik Talmined SYR 197214.82 mNader Jarrah SYR 197214.57 mShot putMohammed Al-Zinkawi KUW16.82 mArmous Al-Majiri LBA 197716.46 mAdnan Houry SYR 197215.15 mDiscus throwAbderrazak Ben Hassine TUN48.12 mAdnan Houry SYR 197245.22 mMohammed Al-Zinkawi KUW43.14 mHammer throwYoussef Ben Abid TUN53.30 mKadhem Ali Alouane TUN46.24 mKhaled Ghalloum KUW43.96 mJavelin throwAbdel Rahman El Houry SYR 197269.40 mTarek Chaabani TUN69.14 mAli Memmi TUN68.38 mDecathlonElie Sfeir LIB6453 ptsZakaria Younes SYR 19726295 ptsFoued Touir SYR 19726017 pts Medal table 11 9 0 IRQ 1963 5 4 4 2 5 5 SYR 1972 2 2 3 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 1 4 LBA 1977 0 0 3 References Results Al Batal Al Arabi (N°:1). Arab Athletics Union. Retrieved on 2015-02-14. 1977 Athletics Championships Category:1977 in the sport of athletics Category:1977 in Syrian sport Category:International athletics competitions hosted by Syria Category:20th century in Damascus Category:Sport in Damascus