2021 Arab Athletics Championships

The 2021 Arab Athletics Championships was the twenty second edition of the international athletics competition between Arab countries that took place from 16 to 20 June 2021 at Rades Athletic Stadium in Radès, close to Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. Around 400 athletes from 18 nations attended the event.^[1][2]

22nd Arab Athletics Championships
Dates	16–20 June 2021
Host city	Radès, Tunisia
Participation	~400 athletes from 16 nations
← 2019 Cairo 2023 Marrakesh →

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Femi Ogunode  Qatar	10.19	Tosin Ogunode  Qatar	10.41	Barakat Al-Harthi  Oman	10.43
200 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Femi Ogunode  Qatar	20.60	Taha Hussein Yaseen  Iraq	21.00	Noureddine Hadid  Lebanon	21.06
400 metres	Taha Hussein Yaseen  Iraq	46.29	Mohamed Ali Gouaned  Algeria	46.72	Mohamed Abdul Ridha Chunchun  Iraq	46.76
800 metres	Mohamed Ali Gouaned  Algeria	1:46.67	Oussama Nabil  Morocco	1:46.84	Elhassane Moujahid  Morocco	1:47.33
1500 metres	Sadik Mikhou  Bahrain	3:33.81 CR	Abdelatif Sadiki  Morocco	3:34.54	Anass Essayi  Morocco	3:35.59
5000 metres	Zouhair Awad  Bahrain	13:30.25	Sadik Mikhou  Bahrain	13:40.37	Soufiyan Bouqantar  Morocco	13:47.41
10,000 metres	Dawit Fikadu  Bahrain	29:35	Abdel Nasser Al-Mai  Bahrain	29:45	Mouhcine Outalha  Morocco	29:48
Half marathon	Hassan Toriss  Morocco	1:06:48	Othmane El Goumri  Morocco	1:08:09	Joshua Lemushen Nakeri  Bahrain	1:09:09
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Yaqoub Al-Youha  Kuwait	13.71	Amine Bouanani  Algeria	13.83	Mohamed Koussi  Morocco	14.09
400 metres hurdles	Abdelmalik Lahoulou  Algeria	49.45	Ashraf Hussen Osman  Qatar	49.49	Ismail Manyani  Morocco	50.40
3000 metres steeplechase	Mohamed Tindouft  Morocco	8:31.50	Hicham Bouchicha  Algeria	8:33.21	Yaser Bagharab  Qatar	8:34.17
4×100 metres relay	Saudi Arabia Abdullah Abkar Mohammed Mahmoud Hafiz Ibrahim Mohammed Dawood Abdullah Abd Alhadi Khalid Al-Housaoui	39.69	Oman Khalaf Ari Samir Mobarak Baraket Mohamed Obaid Al-Saadi Ali Anwar Ali Al-Balushi	39.95	Iraq Abbas Najim Khadher Aktham Younus Hussain Saif Al-Rammahi Mohamed Hassan Ali Juma	40.74
4×400 metres relay	Iraq Yasir Ali Al-Saadi Ihab Jabbar Hashim Mohamed Abderrid Taha Hussein Yaseen	3:11.27	Kuwait Omar Saleh Farag Mohamed Badr Al-Enezi Abdulaziz Saif Marzouk Ramidh Ebrahim	3:14.98	Saudi Arabia Ibrahim Mohammed Futayni Anbar Jamaan Alzahrani Muath Ali Al-Saad ?	3:16.29
20 km walk	Raouf Ben El Abhi  Tunisia	1:28:27	Islam Abdel Awab Abdul Khaliq  Egypt	1:28:50	Mohamed Ragab Saleh  Egypt	1:29:50
High jump	Faleh Abdulwahid  Iraq	2.19 m	Hamdi Al-Amin  Qatar	2.16 m	Hichem Bouhanoun [fr]  Algeria	2.05 m
Pole vault	Hussein Al-Hizam  Saudi Arabia	5.55 m CR	Ali Abdulkarim Al-Nasiri  Saudi Arabia	5.15 m	Muntaher Faleh Abdulwahib  Iraq Majdi Chahata  Tunisia	5.10 m
Long jump	Yasser Triki  Algeria	7.96 m	Mouhcine Khoua  Morocco	7.60 m	Mohamed Salameh  Syria	7.58 m
Triple jump	Yasser Triki  Algeria	17.26 m CR	Mohamed Hammadi  Morocco	16.25 m	Mohamed Salameh  Syria	16.10 m
Shot put	Abdelrahman Mahmoud  Bahrain	21.15 m AR, CR	Mohamed Magdi Hamza Khalif  Egypt	20.30 m	Ibrahim Al-Fadhli  Kuwait	17.71 m
Discus throw	Essa Al-Zenkawi  Kuwait	60.25 m	Moumen Bourekba  Algeria	58.44 m	Shehab Mohamed Abdalaziz  Egypt	58.05 m
Hammer throw	Eslam Moussad Seria  Egypt	71.96 m	Ashraf Amgad El-Seify  Qatar	71.30 m	Hassan Mohamed Mahmoud  Egypt	70.50 m
Javelin throw	Ihab Abdelrahman  Egypt	79.93 m	Maged Mohser El-Badry  Egypt	72.76 m	Younis Mohsen Saleh  Iraq	72.70 m
Decathlon	Larbi Bourrada  Algeria	7311 pts	Abd. El-Sajjad Saadoun Nasser  Iraq	7007 pts	Mustapha Mohamed  Egypt	2976 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +4.5 m/s)	Dana Hussain  Iraq[a] Bassant Hemida  Egypt	11.24 11.45	Aziza Sbaity  Lebanon	11.68	Hajar Edaou  Morocco	11.88
200 metres (wind: +2.2 m/s)	Dana Hussain  Iraq[a] Bassant Hemida  Egypt	22.51 23.08	Assia Raziki  Morocco	23.49	Aziza Sbaity  Lebanon	23.80
400 metres	Assia Raziki  Morocco	52.75	Iman Mansour Abdul Muttalib  Egypt[b]	53.34	Salma Lehlali  Morocco	55.23
800 metres	Soukaina Elhaji  Morocco	2:22.44	Amina Bakhit  Sudan	2:22.91	Manal Ebahraoui  Bahrain	2:24.53
1500 metres	Tigist Gashaw  Bahrain	4:18.33	Amina Bakhit  Sudan	4:20.15	Rahma Tahri  Morocco	4:20.85
5000 metres	Rahma Tahiri  Morocco	16:15.37	Tigist Gashaw  Bahrain	16:17.30	Riham Senani  Algeria	16.37.60
10,000 metres	Fatima Ezzahra Gardadi  Morocco	34:58.10	Hanane Qallouje  Morocco	34:59.06	Riham Senani  Algeria	35:16.49
Half marathon	Tejitu Daba  Bahrain	1:16:43	Ruqyah Al-Mukeem  Morocco	1:17:08	Hanane Qallouje  Morocco	1:19:44
100 metres hurdles (wind: -1.8 m/s)	Linha Ahmed  Egypt	14.08	Rahil Hamel  Algeria	14.36	Noura Ennadi  Morocco	14.42
400 metres hurdles	Noura Ennadi  Morocco	56.89	Loubna Benhadja  Algeria	57.39	Samira Messad  Algeria	58.20
3000 metres steeplechase	Marwa Bouzayani  Tunisia	9:48.05	Rihab Dhahri  Tunisia	10:10.15	Fatiha Sanchez  Algeria	10:18.95
4×100 metres relay	Morocco Yousra Lajdoud Salma Lehlali Sara El Hachimi Hajar Al-Dhaou	46.95	Tunisia Chayma Ayachi Abir Barkaoui Hiba Mansar Ines Belkacem	47.65	Iraq Bah Kourdesten Jamil Sa Roukaya Mamdouh Barae Avin Said	50.09
4×400 metres relay	Morocco Noura Ennadi Soukaina Hajji Lamiae Lhabze Assia Raziki	3:45.64	Tunisia Hallouma Jerfel Nourhane Hermi Marwa Boughanmi Marwa Bouzayani	3:56.79	Lebanon Christel El Saneh Mayssa Mouawad Joan Makary Aziza Sbaity	4:12.88
20 km walk	Chahinez Nasri  Tunisia	1:35:47	Nesrine Mejri  Tunisia	1:41:52	Souad Azzi  Algeria	1:45:07
High jump	Rhizlane Siba  Morocco	1.84 m CR	Yousra Araar  Algeria Aiten Ahmed Yehia  Egypt	1.71 m	Not awarded
Pole vault	Dorra Mahfoudhi  Tunisia	3.90 m	Meriem Srasra  Tunisia	2.80 m	Not awarded
Long jump	Esraa Owis  Egypt	6.39 m	Yousra Lajdoud  Morocco	6.29 m	Roumeissa Belabiod  Algeria	5.98 m
Triple jump	Esraa Owis  Egypt	13.06 m	Ghada Hamdani  Tunisia	12.68 m	Kawther Selmi  Algeria	12.46 m
Shot put	Nada Chroudi  Tunisia	15.12 m	Zainab Zeroual  Morocco	13.51 m	Salem Rijaj Essayah  Libya	11.57 m
Discus throw	Salem Rijaj Essayah  Libya	50.36 m	Chaima Chouayakh  Tunisia	49.62 m	Rawand Dhouibi  Tunisia	48.80 m
Hammer throw	Zouina Bouzebra  Algeria	65.20 m	Rawan Ayman Ibrahim Barakat  Egypt	62.23 m	Soukaina Zakkour  Morocco	59.15 m
Javelin throw	Nisreen Lachhab  Tunisia	39.69 m	Rola Sameh Raafat  Egypt	38.91 m	Asia Aziz Kader  Iraq	35.36 m
Heptathlon	Nada Chroudi  Tunisia	5498 pts	Hoda Hagras  Egypt	3464 pts	Salsabil El-Sayyar  Kuwait	2438 pts

Medal table

Key

  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco	10	9	12	31
2	Tunisia*	7	7	2	16
3	Algeria	6	7	8	21
4	Bahrain	6	3	2	11
5	Egypt	5	10	4	19
6	Iraq	5	2	6	13
7	Qatar	2	4	1	7
8	Kuwait	2	1	2	5
9	Saudi Arabia	2	1	1	4
10	Libya	1	0	1	2
11	Sudan	0	2	0	2
12	Oman	0	1	1	2
13	Lebanon	0	0	3	3
14	Syria	0	0	2	2
Totals (14 entries)		46	47	45	138

Notes

1. In February 2023, Hussain was given a 2.5 year ban from the sport, starting retroactively from 16 July 2021, due to testing positive for banned substances clenbuterol and stanozolol, disqualifying her results from the 2023 Arab Athletics Championships.^[3]
2. Also named as Eman Abdelmotaleb^[4]

References

1. 22nd Arab Athletics Championship: Tunisia on top with 3 gold and 1 silver. Agence Tunis Arfique Presse. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
2. Arab Athletics Championships: Algerians snatch five silver medals on 2nd day . APS (2021-06-18). Retrieved 2021-06-20.
3. "Iraq's London 2012 flag bearer suspended for unwitting doping abuse as coach banned for life". Inside The Games.
4. "Al Ahly Players Shine in Arab Athletics Championships". Retrieved 26 August 2023.

• Results. Retrieved on 2021-06-17.
• Results on Worldathletics