1984 Arab Junior Athletics Championships

1st Arab Junior Athletics Championships
Host city Casablanca, Morocco
Date(s) 21–23 July
Events 38


The 1984 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the inaugural edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place in Casablanca, Morocco from 21–23 July.[1] A total of 38 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 16 for women.[2] The competition was scheduled to be held in the years between the biennial Arab Athletics Championships for senior athletes.[3]

The junior programme featured two unusual variations in a 30 km road race and a 15 km road walk. No other junior championship has featured these distances. Similar to the European Athletics Junior Championships, the steeplechase was contested over a distance of 2000 m, as opposed to the usual 3000 m at senior events.[2] The establishment of the Arab Junior Championships pre-dated both the Asian Junior Athletics Championships and the African Junior Athletics Championships, as well as the World Junior Championships in Athletics, making it the first competition of its type for the countries involved.[4][5][6]

The hosts, Morocco, topped the table with eleven gold medals, nine of them from the women's section. Algeria was second, with eight gold medals, and Tunisia rounded out the top three with seven golds. Several athletes achieved individual doubles. Mustapha Kamel Selmi completed a men's sprint double and was later a 1988 Olympian. Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama won a long-distance double and would go on to win many senior medals in senior Asian competition. Fadhel Khayati won both men's hurdles events and went on to represent Tunisia at the 1992 Olympics. On the women's side, Yasmina Azzizi established herself with a heptathlon/100 metres hurdles double; she dominated the former event at regional level later in the decade. Middle-distance doubles were achieved in both the men's and women's sides, but the winners Sabih Ayman and Mounir Allaoui, were not successful at senior level.[2]

The event was part of a flourish of athletics championships in the mid-1980s in Casablanca, Morocco's largest city. The 1983 Maghreb Athletics Championships and Mediterranean Games were held there the previous year,[7][8] and the 1985 Pan Arab Games came the year after.[9]

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Mustapha Kamel Selmi (ALG) 10.68  Mourad Meriah (TUN) 10.78  Mustapha Rahmouni (MAR) 10.86
200 metres  Mustapha Kamel Selmi (ALG) 21.81  Yousef Abderrahman (IRQ) 21.89  Mourad Meriah (TUN) 22.34
400 metres  Abbas Ali Laftat (IRQ) 47.88  Yousef Abderrahman (IRQ) 48.52  Hassan Adnane (MAR) 49.34
800 metres  Mounir Allaoui (ALG) 1:49.51  Mustapha Lachaal (MAR) 1:49.93  Khalif Fakhr (IRQ) 1:50.29
1500 metres  Mounir Allaoui (ALG) 3:49.28  Abdelhak Hénane (ALG) 3:50.03  Mustapha Lachaal (MAR) 3:50.64
5000 metres  Abdelhak Hénane (ALG) 15:21.29  Rédouane Sabouane (MAR) 15:25.47  Abdeslam Halal (MAR) 15:28.21
110 m hurdles  Fadhel Khayati (TUN) 14.88  Shabane Chabid (IRQ) 14.93  Rashid Abdullah (KUW) 15.19
400 m hurdles  Fadhel Khayati (TUN) 51.61  Fahd Al-Enazi (KUW) 53.25  Aissam Kathem (IRQ) 53.72
2000 metres steeplechase  Mohammed al-Dosari (KSA) 5:47.33  Yamine Alaoui (MAR) 5:47.34  Youssef Sossé Alaoui (MAR) 5:54.30
4×100 m relay  Tunisia (TUN) 42.36  Morocco (MAR) 42.52  Algeria (ALG) 42.76
4×400 m relay  Iraq (IRQ) 3:10.18  Morocco (MAR) 3:15.46  Algeria (ALG) 3:15.46
30 km road race  Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama (QAT) 1:42:00  El Kharrat (MAR) 1:45:02  Salah Qoqaiche (MAR) 1:45:17
15 km walk  Arezki Boumrar (ALG) 1:17:38  Choukri Saada (TUN) 1:18:02  Brahim Bouharrada (MAR) 1:18:53
High jump  Tareq Al-Farhan (KUW) 2.10 m  Fahd Mansour (KUW) 2.07 m  Hassan El Aïdi (MAR) 2.04 m
Pole vault  Adel Razag (TUN) 4.40 m  Youssef Qortobi (MAR) 4.40 m  Sofiène Lezri (TUN) 4.30 m
Long jump  Mustapha Benmrah (MAR) 7.59w m  Jaloul Mohammed Arafat (IRQ) 7.52 m  Shawat Mahdi (IRQ) 7.46 m
Triple jump  Fethi Khelid Aboud (LBA) 15.58 m  Mori Haj Mahdi (IRQ) 15.46 m  Mustapha Benmrah (MAR) 15.42 m
Shot put  Waji Khalid (IRQ) 15.05 m  Khalid Salman Al-Khalidi (KSA) 13.70 m  Khalid Fatihi (MAR) 13.47 m
Discus throw  Hichem Harakati (TUN) 45.72 m  Mounir Dimassi (IRQ) 42.38 m  Hamid Oujouhou (MAR) 41.20 m
Hammer throw  Waleed Al-Bekheet (KUW) 54.10 m  Saleh Al-Hidar (KUW) 53.22 m  Mohamed Khaldi (MAR) 50.70 m
Javelin throw  Ghanem Mabrouk Zaid Johar (KUW) 69.56 m  Aliwan Abduladim (KSA) 58.50 m  Boubker Ouiri (MAR) 58.40 m
Decathlon  Abdelhak Touhami (MAR) 6201 pts  Sami Si Mohamed (ALG) 6066 pts  Saad Fahd (KSA) 6034 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Méryem Oumezdi (MAR) 12.49  Shakr Azhar (IRQ) 12.64  Latifa Lahcen (MAR) 12.66
200 metres  Lamia Makni (TUN) 25.97  Latifa Lahcen (MAR) 26.21  Shakr Azhar (IRQ) 26.21
400 metres  Sabih Ayman (IRQ) 57.34  Rachida Asname (MAR) 58.92  Amal Boudjelti (ALG) 59.19
800 metres  Sabih Ayman (IRQ) 2:10.29  Sonia Meksi (TUN) 2:10.30  Rachida Asname (MAR) 2:10.40
1500 metres  Sonia Gharbi (TUN) 4:30.39  Zohra Koulou (MAR) 4:36.59  Samadia Belkebiche (ALG) 4:37.90
3000 metres  Zohra Koulou (MAR) 9:55.82  Amina Chaabane (ALG) 10:23.00  Malika Naghibi (MAR) 10:36.59
100 m hurdles  Yasmina Azzizi (ALG) 15.19  Aïcha Sari (MAR) 15.54  Selma Triki (TUN) 15.83
400 m hurdles  Aïcha Faycal (MAR) 64.24  Fatima Nejjam (MAR) 65.25  Iman Abdulamir (IRQ) 80.55
4×100 m relay  Morocco (MAR) 48.38  Tunisia (TUN) 49.52  Iraq (IRQ) 49.78
4×400 m relay  Morocco (MAR) 3:58.84  Tunisia (TUN) 4:03.40  Iraq (IRQ) 4:07.28
High jump  Nadia Idrissi (MAR) 1.53 m  Méryem Benamar (MAR) 1.53 m  Rym Fatma Guizani (TUN) 1.45 m
Long jump  Méryem Benamar (MAR) 5.80 m  Basma Fkih (TUN) 5.44w m  Jamila Najen (IRQ) 5.41 m
Shot put  Ghania Touil (ALG) 11.51 m  Zahia Méziane (MAR) 10.64 m  Chihab (MAR) 10.16 m
Discus throw  Zahia Méziane (MAR) 41.72 m  Nabila Mouelhi (TUN) 41.64 m  Chihab (MAR) 29.12 m
Javelin throw  Naïma Fouad (MAR) 38.80 m  Ghania Touil (ALG) 32.26 m  Nezha Dounia (MAR) 30.32 m
Heptathlon  Yasmina Azzizi (ALG) 3269 pts  Fatiha Meskaoui (MAR) 3127 pts  Amal Belouadi (MAR) 3122 pts

References

  1. ↑ QUARANTE ANS D'HISTOIRE DE L'ATHLETISME ALGERIEN. Algeriathle. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  2. 1 2 3 Pan Arab Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  3. ↑ Arab Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  4. ↑ African Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  5. ↑ Asian Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  6. ↑ World Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
  7. ↑ Mediterranean Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-21.
  8. ↑ Maghreb Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-20.
  9. ↑ Pan Arab Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-21.
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