Arab U23 Athletics Championships

The Arab U23 Athletics Championships (French: Championnats Arabes des Espoirs) is an international athletics competition between U23 athletes (under-23) from Arabic countries.

If was first held in 2023, building upon the long-running senior Arab Athletics Championships (created 1977), its corresponding Arab Junior Championships (begun in 1984), and the Arab Youth Championships (created 2004).^[1]^[2]^[3]

Editions

Ed.	Year	City	Country	Dates	No. of events	No. of nations	No. of athletes
1st	2023	Radès	Tunisia	19-23 May	43	14	181
2nd	2024	Ismailia	Egypt	5-9 July

2023 medallists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m	Nasser Mahmoud Mohammed Saudi Arabia	10.19	Ali Anwar Ali al-Balushi [de] Oman	10.48	Saif al Rammahi Iraq	10.58
200m	Abdulaziz Abdui Atafi Saudi Arabia	21.10	Ali Anwar Ali al-Balushi [de] Oman	21.35	Adem Abdelkader Benyache Algeria	21.39
400m	Rami Balti [de] Tunisia	47.21	Hamza Dair Morocco	47.24	Mouatez Abderrazek Sikiou Algeria	47.55
800m	Mohamed Ali Gouaned Algeria	1:47.16	Heithem Chenitef Algeria	1:47.74	Ahmed Mohamed Abdillahi Djibouti	1:48.00
1500m	Ayanleh Abdi Abdillahi Djibouti	3:49.39	Yazid Dalla Algeria	3:49.53	Oussema Alaoui Morocco	3:50.17
5000m	Taha Er Raouy Morocco	13:40.55	Said Ameri [de] Algeria	13:44.66	Mohammed Aataati Morocco	13:47.84
10,000m	Taha Er Raouy Morocco	30:41.37	Mohammed Aataati Morocco	30:41.50	Said Ameri [de] Algeria	30:44.44
10,000m Race Walk	Oussama Farhat Tunisia	40:28.64	Aymen Bensaha Algeria	41:39.22	Abdennour Ameur Algeria	41:57.18
110mH	Youssef Badwy Egypt	13.71	Bakr Ali Al-Jouma Saudi Arabia	14.11	Ayoub Bensabra Algeria	14.24
400mH	Saad Hinti Morocco	50.12	Elmehdi Dimmokrati Morocco	50.77	Mohamed Dahim Almouaoui Saudi Arabia	51.29
3000mSC	Salaheddine Ben Yazide [de] Morocco	8:34.44	Mohammed Msaad Morocco	8:35.22	Ebrahim Jridi Tunisia	8:37.73
4x100m	Saudi Arabia U23 Saudi Arabia Ali Abdullah al Tawfeeq Saad Mohamed Al-Bakheet Hassan Al-Absi Abdulaziz Abdui Atafi	40.93	IRAQ U23 Iraq Noureddine Adel Merzeh Mohamed Najeh Zinelabidin Ali Hamid Saif al Rammahi	41.40
4x400m	Algeria U23 Algeria Mouatez Abderrazek Sikiou Heithem Chenitef Adem Abdelkader Benyache Mohamed Ali Gouaned	3:07.46	Morocco U23 Morocco Yassine Hssine Elmehdi Dimmokrati Saad Hinti Hamza Dair	3:08.23	Qatar U23 Qatar Hussein Ibrahim Issaka [de] Ammar Abid Abdelmajid Abdul Majeed Mohamed Zakaria Ashrat Hussen Osman [de]	3:10.60
Decathlon	Badreddine Boudrah Algeria	6098	Ahmed Mahmoud Taher [de] Egypt	6957
Discus Throw	Gardam Abdelkader Morocco	48.41 m	Ahmed Hamdi Mahmoud Egypt	44.10 m
Hammer Throw	Basel Mohamed Ahmed Egypt	62.06 m	Mortadha Bousaien Tunisia	60.57 m	Mubeen Rashid Ibrahim al Kindi Oman	59.70 m
High Jump	Bilel Afer [de; fr] Algeria	2.09 m	Abderrahmane Djaber Algeria	2.06 m	Ahmed Abdullah Altarouti Alsafa Saudi Arabia	2.03 m
Javelin Throw	Mustafa Mahmoud Abdel Khaliq Egypt	77.85 m	Ahmed Sameh Mohamed Hussein Egypt	69.34 m	Abdulrahman al-Azemi [de] Kuwait	69.10 m
Long Jump	Adem Boualbani Algeria	7.36 m	Abdallah Jalel Kamar Iraq	7.03 m	Yassin Esam Elsayed Egypt	7.03 m
Pole Vault	Seif Heneida Qatar	5.30 m	Ameer Falih Abdulwahid Iraq	4.90 m	Amir Subeih Seihoud Iraq	4.85 m
Shot Put	Abdelrahman Mahmoud Brunei	19.90 m	Ali Mustafa al Mubarak Saudi Arabia	15.75 m
Triple Jump	Adem Boualbani Algeria	16.50 m	Abdallah Jalel Kamar Iraq	14.96 m	Yassin Esam Elsayed Egypt	14.83 m

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m	Maram Mahmoud Ahmed Egypt	11.97	Iman Mekrazi Morocco	12.22	Mayssa Mouawad Lebanon	12.27
200m	Salma Lehlali [de] Morocco	24.53	Iman Mekrazi Morocco	24.81	Maram Mahmoud Ahmed Egypt	24.83
400m	Salma Lehlali [de] Morocco	55.33	Malak Fartouni Algeria	57.72	Ines Belkacem Tunisia	59.60
800m	Sanae Hasnaoui Morocco	2:17.19	Lamyae Himi Morocco	2:17.68	Ghania Rezzik Algeria	2:17.83
1500m	Rihab Dhahri Tunisia	4:18.77	Meryeme Azrour Morocco	4:20.23	Ghania Rezzik Algeria	4:24.46
5000m	Khadija Ennasri Morocco	16:44.96	Habon Ahmed [de] Djibouti	16:50.63	Aicha Allabbaa Morocco	17:28.67
10,000m Race Walk	Melissa Touloum Algeria	49:00.73	Jamila Zegni Tunisia	49:11.12	Oumayma Hsouna Tunisia	50:12.35
100mH	Malak Ayman Rashwan Egypt	14.23	Kurdistan Jamal [de] Iraq	14.30	Dirin Khetiar Ali Iraq	15.44
400mH	Razki Doha Morocco	1:00.29	Nour Rahou Algeria	1:02.06	Kurdistan Jamal [de] Iraq	1:04.86
3000mSC	Khadija Ennasri Morocco	10:58.28	Rihab Dhahri Tunisia	10:59.02	Nassima Smail Algeria	11:09.15
4x100m	EGYPT U23 Egypt Salma Abdulhamid Hamed Malak Ayman Rashwan Rim Abderrezk Abdelmoneim Maram Mahmoud Ahmed	47.81	IRAQ U23 Iraq Kurdistan Jamal [de] Dirin Khetiar Ali Mamdouh Barae Diyeh Nizar Rafik	48.33
4x400m	Morocco U23 Morocco Razki Doha Sanae Hasnaoui Iman Mekrazi Salma Lehlali [de]	3:45.94
Discus Throw	Echaabia Belmaachi Morocco	46.24 m	Chaima Chouikh [de] Tunisia	44.79 m	Rana Khaled Mahmoud [de] Egypt	42.72 m
Hammer Throw	Rawan Barakat [de] Egypt	60.25 m	Senda Guerma Tunisia	55.87 m	Nada Soliman Abdelnaby Egypt	55.29 m
Heptathlon	Hania Abdallah Algeria	4081	Mariem Asmaali Tunisia	4171	Islam Kthiri Tunisia	4367
High Jump	Darina Hadil Rezik Algeria	1.74 m	Aiten Ahmed Yehia [de] Egypt	1.68 m	Assiya Elhafyan Morocco	1.68 m
Javelin Throw	Nisreen Lachhab Tunisia	40.41 m	Farah Tlik Tunisia	39.12 m
Long Jump	Reem Abdelrazeq Abdelmoneam Egypt	5.84 m	Wissal Harkas Algeria	5.79 m	Aya el Aglaoui Morocco	5.73 m
Pole Vault	Mariem Srasra Tunisia	3.20 m	Sanar Ridha Qatar	3.10 m	Zeina Yahia Ahmed Saad el-Din Egypt	NM
Shot Put	Zineb Zaroual Morocco	13.47 m	Chaima Chouikh [de] Tunisia	12.15 m	Echaabia Belmaachi Morocco	11.85 m
Triple Jump	Wissal Harkas Algeria	13.14 m	Aya el Aglaoui Morocco	12.51 m	Ghada Hamdani Tunisia	12.50 m

All-time medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco (MAR)	14	10	6	30
2	Egypt (EGY)	10	3	5	18
3	Algeria (ALG)	8	9	8	25
4	Tunisia (TUN)	5	8	5	18
5	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	3	2	2	7
6	Djibouti (DJI)	1	1	1	3
6	Qatar (QAT)	1	1	1	3
8	Brunei (BRN)	1	0	0	1
9	Iraq (IRQ)	0	6	4	10
10	Oman (OMA)	0	2	1	3
11	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	1	1
11	Lebanon (LBN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		43	42	35	120

References

^ "Aspire Academy Official Website - ASPIRE ACADEMY'S SEIF HEMEIDA WINS GOLD AT ARAB U23 ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN TUNISIA". www.aspire.qa. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
^ Balushi, Adil Al (2023-05-18). "Oman set for Arab U23 Athletics in Tunisia". Oman Observer. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
^ "Athletics - 1st Arab U23 Championship: Nearly 216 athletes from 17 countries expected in Tunis". tap.info.tn.

"2023 Arab U23 Athletics Championships results". World Athletics.

External links

Official website

[1] "Aspire Academy Official Website - ASPIRE ACADEMY'S SEIF HEMEIDA WINS GOLD AT ARAB U23 ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN TUNISIA". www.aspire.qa. Retrieved 2024-01-25.

[2] Balushi, Adil Al (2023-05-18). "Oman set for Arab U23 Athletics in Tunisia". Oman Observer. Retrieved 2024-01-25.

[3] "Athletics - 1st Arab U23 Championship: Nearly 216 athletes from 17 countries expected in Tunis". tap.info.tn.

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