Yasser is an Arabic male name meaning “to be of ease” or “of wealth”.
Souad Aït Salem, also known as Souad Aït Mahour-Bacha is an Algerian long-distance runner who specializes mainly in the half marathon and marathon. She won gold in the 10,000 metres at the 2000 African Championships in Athletics and the 2005 Mediterranean Games. Salem also won the gold in the half marathon at the 2007 All-Africa Games. She holds the Algerian records for every women's event between 3000 metres and the marathon distance.
Gamal Belal Salem is a Qatari runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase, training with the world record holder Saif Saaeed Shaheen under the Italian coach Renato Canova.
The 17th Asian Athletics Championships were held on the Amman International Stadium in Amman, Jordan between 25 July and 29 July 2007. It was moved in the last minute from original host country Lebanon due to the unrest in that country.
The 13th IAAF World Half Marathon Championships was held on 3 October 2004 in New Delhi, India. A total of 152 athletes, 91 men and 61 women, from 55 countries took part.
Barakat Mubarak Al-Harthi is an Omani sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.
Abdulrahman Suleiman is a Qatari middle-distance runner who specialises in both the 800 metres and 1500 metres. He was the 2002 Asian champion over 1500 m and represented Qatar at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Rashid Ahmed Al-Mannai is a Qatari track and field athlete who specialises in the high jump and triple jump.
Yaser Salem Salah Ali is an Emirati retired footballer who played as a forward for Emirati clubs Al Wahda and Baniyas. He earned 36 caps for the United Arab Emirates national team, scoring 16 goals. Ali scored 10 goals in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign and also appeared at the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup.
Yaser Safa Kasim Al-Kadefaje is an Iraqi footballer who plays as a midfielder for Margate.
At the 2005 West Asian Games, the athletics events were held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar. Contested over three days, from 7 to 9 December, it was the first time that women were allowed to compete in athletics events at the Games. A total of 28 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 5 by female athletes. The event was seen as a test event for the Athletics at the 2006 Asian Games, which Doha hosted the following year.
The 2013 Asian Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the biennial athletics competition between Asian nations. It was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Balewadi, Pune, India between 3–7 July. Around 522 athletes from 42 nations competed at the event. It was the first time since 1989 that India had hosted the championships.
Yaser Bamatraf is a Yemeni Taekwondo practitioner. He won the silver medal in the men's bantamweight category at the 2012 Asian Taekwondo Championships.
Abdullah Al-Qwabani is a male Yemeni long-distance runner. He competed in the 5000 metres event at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics in Beijing, China.
The 2019 Asian Athletics Championships was the 23rd edition of the Asian Athletics Championships. It was held from 21 to 24 April 2019 at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar. During the closing ceremony of the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar India, President of Asian Athletics Association (AAA) Dahlan Al Hamad officially handed over the AAA Flag to Qatar Olympic Committee Secretary-General and Qatar Athletics Federation President Thani Abdulrahman Al Kuwari. The event was at the Khalifa International Stadium and it served as the test event for the 2019 World Athletics Championships which were held at the same venue.
Yaser Mohammed Abdulrahman Hamed is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Egyptian side Al Zamalek. Born in Spain, he represents the Palestine national team.
Yemen has competed at the IAAF World Athletics Championships on fourteen occasions, and did not send a delegation for the 1991 and 2017 editions. Its competing country code is YEM. The IAAF treats the past participation of the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR) and South Yemen (PDRY) as part of a united Yemen's history. The country has not won any medals at the competition and as of 2017 no Yemeni athlete has progressed beyond the first round of an event.
Ahmed Abdullah Saad Al-Yaari is a Yemeni sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He represented Yemen at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He is the Yemeni record holder in the 200 and 400 metres dash.
