2013 Arab Athletics Championships Explained

The 2013 Arab Athletics Championships was the eighteenth edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries that took place in Doha, Qatar from 21–24 May 2013.

Syria was excluded from the event because of the ongoing civil war and Libya did not send a team. Morocco topped the medals table with eleven gold medals in its total of 22, which it won mainly in the women's section of the competition. Algeria placed second with eight golds among its 19 medals. Bahrain had the greatest medal count overall with 22, and ranked third as it only claimed five golds. Egypt, Qatar and Tunisia each took four gold medals at the competition.

Medal summary

Men

100 metres (wind: -0.8 m/s)		10.31		10.38		10.45
200 metres		20.46		20.55		20.81
400 metres		44.72		46.08		46.25
800 metres		1:45.90		1:46.52		1:46.70
1500 metres		3:39.44		3:40.07		3:40.81
5000 metres		13:52.54		13:57.17		14:08.62
10,000 metres		29:43.45		29:48.59		29:54.20
Half marathon		1:07:02		1:08:22		1:09:57
110 metres hurdles		13.63 CR		13.72		13.94
400 metres hurdles		50.52		50.94		51.12
3000 metres steeplechase		8:57.09		8:59.50		9:1.69
4 × 100 metres relay	Fahad Khamis Said Al Jabri Barakat Al-Harthi Abdullah Al-Sooli Ahmed Mohamed Al-Merjabi	39.83	Dhafer Soadi Jassem Jassem Al-Ayman N Mohamed Taleb Mohamed Hassan Juma	41.35	Ahmad Mohamed Matar Ali Omar Abdulla Al Doseri Salman Dawood Albalooshi Faisal Jasim Mohamed	41.72
4×400 metres relay	Yousef Masrahi Mohammed Al-Salhi Mohamed Ali Al-Bishi Ismail M.H Alsabani	3:06.23	Hassan Aman Salmeen Jamal Abdul Nasser Jamal Hairane Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla	3:09.55	Sagyan Bohoda Khalid Benmehdi Milood Laraj Miloud Rahmani	3:11.02
20 km walk		1:30:30		1:41:30		1:52:22
High jump		2.30 m		2.24 m		2.18 m
Pole vault		5.00 m		4.90 m		4.80 m
Long jump		7.99 m		7.85 m		7.82 m
Triple jump		17.01 m (w)		16.40 m		16.17 m
Shot put		19.37 m		18.84 m		18.77 m
Discus throw		61.91 m		60.46 m		60.13 m
Hammer throw		74.28 m		73.17 m		72.92 m
Javelin throw		79.17 m		71.05 m		68.16 m
Decathlon		7317 pts		7093 pts		6939 pts

Women

100 metres		11.95		12.11		12.15
200 metres		23.83		23.91		24.21
400 metres		53.63		54.45		54.86
800 metres		2:09.30		2:09.77		2:10.79
1500 metres		4:53.92		4:55.19		4:55.23
5000 metres		15:48.59 CR		15:53.17		15:54.95
10,000 metres		34:25.82		35:13.86		35:50.95
Half marathon		1:21:53		1:22:17		1:25:95
100 metres hurdles		13.62		14.44		14.55
400 metres hurdles		57.59		59.83		1:2.26
3000 metres steeplechase		9:47.33 CR		9:52.47		9:54.49
4 × 100 metres relay	Jamaa Chnaik Hayat Lambarki Lamiae Lhabze Yamina Hjaji	46.59	Aya Lakhal Abir Barkaoui Rabaa Rezgui Selma Abdelhamid	48.22	Mazoon Al-Alaoui Shinoona Salah Al-Habsi Rasha Al-Lamki Buthaina Al-Yaqoubi	48.42
4×400 metres relay	Hasna Grioui Lamiae Lhabze Rabab Arafi Hayat Lambarki	3:42.10	Tasabih Mohamed El Sayed Alawia Maki Hajir Saeed Nawal El Jack	3:45.30	Hadeel Rahim Zina Hamid Shamam Samad Dana Hussain	4:02.62
10 km walk		50:34		57:41		1:01:34
High jump		1.76 m		1.73 m		1.65 m
Pole vault		4.10 m CR		3.90 m		3.60 m
Long jump		6.05 m		5.93 m		5.91 m
Triple jump		14.29 m		13.63 m		13.23 m
Shot put		14.05 m		13.80 m		13.35 m
Discus throw		49.44 m		48.31 m		33.89 m
Hammer throw		60.96 m		58.04 m		56.77 m
Javelin throw		47.49 m		41.68 m		37.15 m
Heptathlon		5573 pts		5395 pts		4779 pts

Medal tables

Total

References

• 18th Arab Championships, Doha (Qatar) 21-24/05/2013. Africa Athle (2013-05-21). Retrieved on 2013-10-07.
• "Gulf-Times", 22, 23 and 24 Mary 2013 «PDF archive listing»
• The curtain falls on the Arab Athletics Championship . Al Kas (24 May 2013). Retrieved on 2013-10-07.
• Morocco wins the Arab Athletics Championships . IAAF Regional Centre, Le Caire (25 May 2013). Retrieved on 2013-10-07.
• Results of the Arab Athletics Championships . Yahoo Maktoob sport, Le Caire (22 May 2013). Retrieved on 2013-10-07.