Athletics at the 2002 West Asian Games

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Athletics
at the 2002 West Asian Games
Athletics pictogram.svg
VenueKAAF Stadium
Date10–12 April 2002
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At the 2002 West Asian Games . the athletics events were held in Kuwait City, Kuwait in April 2002. It had a men's only programme containing seventeen track and field events. Several athletics events usually held at multi-sport events were excluded from the schedule: the steeplechase, 10,000 metres, javelin and discus throws, marathon and race walking events were all absent.

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All of the twelve countries present at the games sent athletes to compete in the athletics and eight of them reached the medal table. Qatar finished with the most medals, taking seven gold medals in a haul of sixteen. Saudi Arabia were the next best with five golds and fourteen overall, while the hosts Kuwait took third in the table through their four golds from eleven medals in total. These three countries dominated the events, with Jean-Claude Rabbath's gold for Lebanon and Ali Feizi's silver for Iran being the only top two placings among the rest of the nations.

Some of the best results came from the sprinting events: Salem Al-Yami won the 100 metres in a Saudi Arabian record time of 10.13 seconds, while Fawzi Al-Shammari did a 200/400 metres double, breaking the Kuwaiti national record with a run of 45.25 seconds in the latter. [1] Qatari athletes won six of the nine medals on offer in the middle- and long-distance running events. Qatar also won both of the throwing events, including Bilal Saad Mubarak's shot put victory in 19.10 metres. Saudi Arabia swept the hurdles through Mubarak Ata Mubarak and Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily with times of 13.60 and 49.04 seconds, respectively – a good standard for the region.

A number of West Asian Games champions went on to win at the 2002 Asian Games later that year: Fawzi Al-Shammari won the 400 m, Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily won the 400 m hurdles, Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin won the 3000 m steeplechase and Salem Al-Ahmedi won the triple jump. Further to this, West Asian silver medallists Jamal Al-Saffar and Mukhlid Al-Otaibi topped the podium at the Asian Games and Hussein Al-Sabee (third in the long jump here) was another Asian Games champion. [2] Many athletes were also medallists at the 2002 Asian Athletics Championships held in August later that year.

Medalists

EventGoldSilverBronze
100 m Salem Al-Yami
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
10.13
GR
Jamal Al-Saffar
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
10.19 Khalid Al-Obaidli
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
10.39
200 m Fawzi Al-Shammari
Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait
20.44
GR
Salem Al-Yami
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
20.81 Mohamed Al-Houti
Flag of Oman.svg  Oman
21.02
400 m Fawzi Al-Shammari
Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait
45.25
GR
Hamdan Al-Bishi
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
46.34 Mohammed Al-Muwalid
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
48.13
800 m Adam Abdu Adam
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
1:48.66
GR
Salem Amer Al-Badri
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
1:49.70 Jalil Gomehei
Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
1:49.81
1500 m Abubaker Ali Kamal
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
3:51.50
GR
Abdulrahman Suleiman
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
3:51.76 Faisal Al-Nahli
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
3:52.63
5000 m Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
13:57.25
GR
Mukhlid Al-Otaibi
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
13:57.58 Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
14:08.84
110 m hurdles Mubarak Ata Mubarak
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
13.60 Nasser Meziane
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
14.02 Mubarak Khasif
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
14.17
400 m hurdles Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
49.04
GR
Bader Al-Fulaij
Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait
49.58 Zahirudin Al-Najem
Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958-1971), Flag of Syria (1980-2024).svg  Syria
51.15
4 × 100 m relayFlag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
Salem Al-Yami
Jamal Al-Saffar
Khalifa Al-Saker
Mubarak Ata Mubarak
39.02
GR
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar 39.10Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait
Abdullah Sekin
Ibrahim Al-Asak
Saad Al-Zaferi
Husein Al-Youhah
41.10
4 × 400 m relayFlag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait
Fawzi Al-Shammari
Khaled Al-Johar
Bader Al-Fulaij
Basil Al-Fadhli
3:06.51
GR
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
Hadi Soua'an Al-Somaily
Hamdan Al-Bishi
Mohammed Al-Muwalid
Bilal Al-Houssaoui
3:06.57Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958-1971), Flag of Syria (1980-2024).svg  Syria 3:11.75
High jump Jean-Claude Rabbath
Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon
2.10
=GR
Omar Al-Masrahi
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
2.07 Salem Al-Anezi
Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait
2.07
Pole vault Fahad Al-Mershad
Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait
4.90
GR
Abdulla Ghanim Saeed
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
4.80 Pendar Shoghian
Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
4.50
Long jump Said Mansoor
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
7.61
GR
Al-Waleed Abdulla
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
7.57 Hussein Al-Sabee
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
7.55
Triple jump Salem Al-Ahmedi
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia
16.50 Khaled Al-Bakheet
Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait
16.36 Fayez Al-Kheirat
Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958-1971), Flag of Syria (1980-2024).svg  Syria
15.96
Shot put Bilal Saad Mubarak
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
19.10
GR
Ahmad Gholoum
Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait
18.04 Ali Rahmani
Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
17.58
Hammer throw Mohamed Faraj Al-Kaabi
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
66.34
GR
Ali Al-Zenkawi
Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait
66.01 Naser Al-Jarallah
Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait
64.54
Decathlon Ahmad Hassan Moussa
Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar
7262
GR
Ali Feizi
Flag of Iran.svg  Iran
6838 Khalifa Isa Abdullah
Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain
5682

Medal table

Mukhlid Al-Otaibi (pictured at the 2008 Olympics) won the 5000 metres silver medal for Saudi Arabia. Moukheld Al-Outaibi.jpg
Mukhlid Al-Otaibi (pictured at the 2008 Olympics) won the 5000 metres silver medal for Saudi Arabia.
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Qatar.svg  Qatar  (QAT)76316
2Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg  Saudi Arabia  (KSA)56314
3Flag of Kuwait.svg  Kuwait  (KUW)44311
4Flag of Lebanon.svg  Lebanon  (LIB)1001
5Flag of Iran.svg  Iran  (IRI)0134
6Flag of the United Arab Republic (1958-1971), Flag of Syria (1980-2024).svg  Syria  (SYR)0033
7Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain  (BRN)0011
Flag of Oman.svg  Oman  (OMA)0011
Totals (8 entries)17171751

References

  1. Big-time athletics comes to Sri Lanka – Asian Championships Preview. IAAF (2002-08-06). Retrieved on 2013-04-07.
  2. 2002 Asian Games Official Report, Pages 112–172 Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine . Asian Games. Retrieved on 2013-04-07.