2007 Arab Youth Athletics Championships

The 2007 Arab Youth Athletics Championships was the second edition of the international athletics competition for under-18 athletes from Arab countries. Organised by the Arab Athletic Federation, it took place in the Syrian capital of Damascus from 27–29 June. A total of thirty-nine events were contested, of which 20 by male and 19 by female athletes, matching the programme of the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics bar the exclusion of a girls' steeplechase event.[1][2]

2nd Arab Youth Athletics Championships
Dates	27–29 June
Host city	Damascus, Syria
Level	Youth
Events	39
← 2004 Rabat 2009 Aleppo →

Four athletes achieved individual doubles at the tournament. On the boys' side, Saudi athlete Hamada Al-Bishi achieved a novel 100 metres/400 metre hurdles double, Sudan's Awad El Karim Makki took both 200 metres and 400 metres titles, and Ismail Al Saffar of Kuwait took both gold medals in the horizontal jumps. The sole girl to win two individual titles was Souheir Bouali of Algeria, who won both short sprints.[3] She went on to become a senior champion at the 2013 Arab Athletics Championships six years later.[4]

Morocco, which had dominated the inaugural edition in 2004, was absent from the competition. Egypt topped the medal table with eight golds among its haul of 21 medals. Sudan achieved the second highest tally of gold medals with six. The host nation Syria won the most overall medals with 22 and ranked joint-third on gold medals with five – a number also reached by both Algeria and Tunisia. Fourteen nations reached the medal table.[3]

Unlike some of the athletes of the previous edition, no medallists in Damascus reached the podium at the following World Youth Championships. Sudan's sprint champion Makki and boys' discus throw winner Hamid Mansour went on to win medals at the 2009 World Youth Championships, however.[5][6]

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Hamada Al-Bishi (KSA)	10.94	Abdelhadi Bouchagour (ALG)	11.02	Naji Daghar (LIB)	11.10
200 metres	Awad El Karim Makki (SUD)	22.14	Nour Selk (SUD)	22.15	Abdelhadi Bouchagour (ALG)	22.47
400 metres	Awad El Karim Makki (SUD)	48.55	Adel Al Nasser (KSA)	48.58	Hassan Fares Hmam (OMN)	49.33
800 metres	Marouane Chehibi (TUN)	1:54.62	Choul Nouaouiel (SUD)	1:55.65	Bilel Kefi (ALG)	1:58.07
1500 metres	Moufli Zayati (ALG)	4:04.02	Boubaker Esseddik Mcharraf (ALG)	4:06.99	Mdhafer Aboud (KSA)	4:12.08
3000 metres	Ali Abderrahim (YEM)	9:07.86	Mohamed Walid Jarallah (YEM)	9:09.79	Yazen Al Cheikh (JOR)	9:14.56
110 metres hurdles	Anouar Ouchana (SYR)	13.79	Jassem Al Sabagha (KUW)	14.64	Ahmed Mahmoud Mohamed (EGY)	14.72
400 metres hurdles	Hamada Al-Bishi (KSA)	52.57	Matoukel Younes (SUD)	52.64	Idriss Sassi (TUN)	53.54
2000 metres steeplechase	Mohamed Amin Mohsen (ALG)	5:57.70	Ali Aboud (KSA)	6:11.80	Mouaad Belli (QAT)	6:12.11
1000 metres medley relay	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Hamada Al-Bishi D. Sakii Adel Al Nasser Fares Cherahili	1:56.47	Sudan (SUD) Nour Selk Awad El Karim Makki Matoukel Younes Choul Nouaouiel	1:56.73	Iraq (IRQ) Majid Fathallah Hayder Hussein Aymen Jassem Cherif Arkane	1:56.78
10,000 m walk	Jebril Rahma Khan (QAT)	45:51.9	Abdallah Said (SYR)	50:18.5	Maher Zidane (SYR)	51:16.3
High jump	Mohamed Aboutaleb (EGY)	2.07 m	Selmane Manai (QAT)	2.04 m	Ibrahim Siar (KUW)	2.01 m
Pole vault	Doij Am Okbi (KSA)	4.71 m	Mohamed Mella Khalef (SYR)	4.50 m	Mohamed Ahmed Manai (QAT)	4.10 m
Long jump	Ismail Al Saffar (KUW)	7.13 m	Mohamed Mella Khalef (SYR)	6.62 m	Houssem Al Akel (SYR)	6.40 m
Triple jump	Ismail Al Saffar (KUW)	15.11 m	Ahmed Faraj (KSA)	14.52 m	Mohamed Al Amri (LBA)	14.38 m w
Shot put	Mohamed Abdelmonaam Hmam (EGY)	17.45 m	Hamid Mansour (SYR)	17.00 m	Moussaab Aicha (SYR)	15.88 m
Discus throw	Hamid Mansour (SYR)	59.53 m	Mechaal El Said (KUW)	49.68 m	Mohamed Mohamed Saad (EGY)	49.16 m
Hammer throw	Mohamed Alaa El Acheri (EGY)	71.80 m	Abdelhamid El Dachti (KUW)	64.60 m	Ameur Addi Ahmed (QAT)	59.19 m
Javelin throw	Moez Dhahri (TUN)	61.17 m	Samir Ahmed Mohamed (EGY)	59.33 m	Mohamed Anouar Hamed (SUD)	58.36 m
Octathlon	Ahmed Mokbali Abdallah (OMN)	5316 pts	Aymen Hemissi (TUN)	5178 pts	Ali Bouflit (ALG)	5128 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Souheir Bouali (ALG)	11.84	Amira Mohamed Fawzi (EGY)	12.56	Saoussen Dellagi (TUN)	12.85
200 metres	Souheir Bouali (ALG)	23.96	Saoussen Dellagi (TUN)	25.82	Emna Baccar (SUD)	26.03
400 metres	Emna Baccar (SUD)	57.75	Chaima Fouad Chiheb (EGY)	59.72	Bayan Issam (JOR)	60.72
800 metres	Safa Jemmali (TUN)	2:15.20	Alouia Klai (SUD)	2:16.24	Houcien Bayoudi (ALG)	2:23.53
1500 metres	Ahsna Jabril (SUD)	4:32.77	Amina Borklit (ALG)	4:48.69	Najoua Baccar (SYR)	5:16.63
3000 metres	Baraa Marouane (JOR)	11:05.99	Arouba Al Amou (SYR)	12:12.28	Samara Khazaal (IRQ)	12:17.76
100 metres hurdles	Fadoua Bouhat (SYR)	13.84	Selma Abou Al Hassen Edam (EGY)	13.92	Minas Slimane (SYR)	15.98
400 metres hurdles^[nb1]	Mounassek Yakoub (SUD)	64.1	Chaima Fouad Hicham (EGY)	67.7	Abir Al Habari (JOR)	71.7
1000 metres medley relay	Sudan (SUD) Mounassek Yakoub Safa Abdelhamid Emna Baccar Alouia Klai	2:18.59	Algeria (ALG) Zineb Ouzani Yousra Ranai Houcien Bayoudi Souhir Bouali	2:19.96	Syria (SYR) Minas Slimane Fadoua Boudhat Mariem Fadhel Soulefa Mohamed	2:28.26
5000 m walk	Olfa Hamdi (TUN)	26:30.8	Sarra Arrouk (SYR)	26:35.9	Jihed Mohamed Adel (EGY)	27:54.8
High jump	Rahma Miled (TUN)	1.55 m	Yousra Ranai (ALG)	1.52 m	Rihem Chayed (SYR)	1.49 m
Pole vault	Diana Al Tabaa Ahmed (EGY)	3.25 m	Rihem Chiha (SYR)	2.70 m	Zineb Ouzani (ALG)	2.50 m
Long jump	Hedir Jabrouni (EGY)	5.58 m	Marah Dalla (SYR)	5.37 m	Rahma Miled (TUN)	5.10 m
Triple jump	Fadoua Boudhat (SYR)	12.70 m	Fatma El Ahmadi (TUN)	11.80 m	Hedir Jabrouni (EGY)	11.45 m
Shot put	Oula Attia Mohamed (EGY)	13.00 m	Hiba Omar (SYR)	12.77 m	Bouzira Zoubaa (ALG)	11.54 m
Discus throw	Hiba Omar (SYR)	40.27 m	Besnet Ibrahim Mohamed (EGY)	31.42 m	Fatma Chaabane (EGY)	30.59 m
Hammer throw	Nihed Fehmi Kamel (EGY)	48.16 m	Rina Taha Ahmed (EGY)	47.19 m	Bouzira Zoubaa (ALG)	44.95 m
Javelin throw	Hiba Mahmoud Alaa (EGY)	40.99 m	Souad Mazzar (ALG)	36.53 m	Anouare Jarboua (SYR)	32.09 m
Heptathlon	Rania Chokri (JOR)	3588 pts	Hafidha Mokhtari (ALG)	3525 pts	Radhoua Fares Fethi (EGY)	2920 pts

• ^nb2 The girls' hurdles event was only timed to the tenth of a second, rather than the standard hundredths, due to technical limitations.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Syria)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt	8	7	6	21
2	Sudan	6	5	2	13
3	Syria*	5	9	8	22
4	Algeria	5	6	7	18
5	Tunisia	5	4	3	12
6	Saudi Arabia	4	3	1	8
7	Kuwait	2	3	1	6
8	Qatar	1	1	3	5
9	Yemen	1	1	0	2
10	Jordan	1	0	3	4
11	Oman	1	0	1	2
12	Iraq	0	0	2	2
13	Lebanon	0	0	1	1
	Libya	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		39	39	39	117

References

1. Pan Arab Youth Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-05-25.
2. World Youth Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-05-25.
3. Championnats Arabes Des Cadets - Damas 27, 28 et 29-06-2007 Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine. Tunis Athletisme. Retrieved on 2015-05-27.
4. 18th Arab Championships, Doha (Qatar) 21-24/05/2013. Africa Athle (2013-05-21). Retrieved on 2015-05-27.
5. Awadelkarim Makki. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-05-27.
6. Hamid Manssour. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-05-27.

Results

• Championnats Arabes Des Cadets - Damas 27, 28 et 29-06-2007. Tunis Athletisme. Retrieved on 2015-05-27.