Arab U23 Athletics Championships

The Arab U23 Athletics Championships (French: Championnats Arabes des Espoirs) is an international athletics competition between U23 athletes (under-23) from Arabic countries.

It was first held in 2023, building upon the long-running senior Arab Athletics Championships (created 1977), its corresponding Arab Junior Championships (begun in 1984), and the Arab Youth Championships (created 2004).^[1][2][3]

Editions

Ed.	Year	City	Country	Dates	No. of events	No. of nations	No. of athletes
1st	2023	Radès	Tunisia	19-23 May	43	14	181
2nd	2024	Ismailia	Egypt	5-9 July

2023 medallists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m	Nasser Mahmoud Mohammed  Saudi Arabia	10.19	Ali Anwar Ali al-Balushi  Oman	10.48	Saif al Rammahi  Iraq	10.58
200m	Abdulaziz Abdui Atafi  Saudi Arabia	21.10	Ali Anwar Ali al-Balushi  Oman	21.35	Adem Abdelkader Benyache  Algeria	21.39
400m	Rami Balti [de]  Tunisia	47.21	Hamza Dair  Morocco	47.24	Mouatez Abderrazek Sikiou  Algeria	47.55
800m	Mohamed Ali Gouaned  Algeria	1:47.16	Heithem Chenitef  Algeria	1:47.74	Ahmed Mohamed Abdillahi  Djibouti	1:48.00
1500m	Ayanleh Abdi Abdillahi  Djibouti	3:49.39	Yazid Dalla  Algeria	3:49.53	Oussema Alaoui  Morocco	3:50.17
5000m	Taha Er Raouy  Morocco	13:40.55	Said Ameri [de]  Algeria	13:44.66	Mohammed Aataati  Morocco	13:47.84
10,000m	Taha Er Raouy  Morocco	30:41.37	Mohammed Aataati  Morocco	30:41.50	Said Ameri [de]  Algeria	30:44.44
10,000m Race Walk	Oussama Farhat  Tunisia	40:28.64	Aymen Bensaha  Algeria	41:39.22	Abdennour Ameur  Algeria	41:57.18
110mH	Youssef Badwy  Egypt	13.71	Bakr Ali Al-Jouma  Saudi Arabia	14.11	Ayoub Bensabra  Algeria	14.24
400mH	Saad Hinti  Morocco	50.12	Elmehdi Dimmokrati  Morocco	50.77	Mohamed Dahim Almouaoui  Saudi Arabia	51.29
3000mSC	Salaheddine Ben Yazide  Morocco	8:34.44	Mohammed Msaad  Morocco	8:35.22	Ebrahim Jridi  Tunisia	8:37.73
4x100m	Saudi Arabia U23  Saudi Arabia Ali Abdullah al Tawfeeq Saad Mohamed Al-Bakheet Hassan Al-Absi Abdulaziz Abdui Atafi	40.93	IRAQ U23  Iraq Noureddine Adel Merzeh Mohamed Najeh Zinelabidin Ali Hamid Saif al Rammahi	41.40
4x400m	Algeria U23  Algeria Mouatez Abderrazek Sikiou Heithem Chenitef Adem Abdelkader Benyache Mohamed Ali Gouaned	3:07.46	Morocco U23  Morocco Yassine Hssine Elmehdi Dimmokrati Saad Hinti Hamza Dair	3:08.23	Qatar U23  Qatar Hussein Ibrahim Issaka [de] Ammar Abid Abdelmajid Abdul Majeed Mohamed Zakaria Ashrat Hussen Osman	3:10.60
Decathlon	Badreddine Boudrah  Algeria	6098	Ahmed Mahmoud Taher [de]  Egypt	6957
Discus Throw	Gardam Abdelkader  Morocco	48.41 m	Ahmed Hamdi Mahmoud  Egypt	44.10 m
Hammer Throw	Basel Mohamed Ahmed  Egypt	62.06 m	Mortadha Bousaien  Tunisia	60.57 m	Mubeen Rashid Ibrahim al Kindi  Oman	59.70 m
High Jump	Bilel Afer [de; fr]  Algeria	2.09 m	Abderrahmane Djaber  Algeria	2.06 m	Ahmed Abdullah Altarouti Alsafa  Saudi Arabia	2.03 m
Javelin Throw	Mustafa Mahmoud Abdel Khaliq  Egypt	77.85 m	Ahmed Sameh Mohamed Hussein  Egypt	69.34 m	Abdulrahman al-Azemi [de]  Kuwait	69.10 m
Long Jump	Adem Boualbani  Algeria	7.36 m	Abdallah Jalel Kamar  Iraq	7.03 m	Yassin Esam Elsayed  Egypt	7.03 m
Pole Vault	Seif Heneida  Qatar	5.30 m	Ameer Falih Abdulwahid  Iraq	4.90 m	Amir Subeih Seihoud  Iraq	4.85 m
Shot Put	Abdelrahman Mahmoud  Brunei	19.90 m	Ali Mustafa al Mubarak  Saudi Arabia	15.75 m
Triple Jump	Adem Boualbani  Algeria	16.50 m	Abdallah Jalel Kamar  Iraq	14.96 m	Yassin Esam Elsayed  Egypt	14.83 m

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100m	Maram Mahmoud Ahmed  Egypt	11.97	Iman Mekrazi  Morocco	12.22	Mayssa Mouawad  Lebanon	12.27
200m	Salma Lehlali [de]  Morocco	24.53	Iman Mekrazi  Morocco	24.81	Maram Mahmoud Ahmed  Egypt	24.83
400m	Salma Lehlali [de]  Morocco	55.33	Malak Fartouni  Algeria	57.72	Ines Belkacem  Tunisia	59.60
800m	Sanae Hasnaoui  Morocco	2:17.19	Lamyae Himi  Morocco	2:17.68	Ghania Rezzik  Algeria	2:17.83
1500m	Rihab Dhahri  Tunisia	4:18.77	Meryeme Azrour  Morocco	4:20.23	Ghania Rezzik  Algeria	4:24.46
5000m	Khadija Ennasri  Morocco	16:44.96	Habon Ahmed [de]  Djibouti	16:50.63	Aicha Allabbaa  Morocco	17:28.67
10,000m Race Walk	Melissa Touloum  Algeria	49:00.73	Jamila Zegni  Tunisia	49:11.12	Oumayma Hsouna  Tunisia	50:12.35
100mH	Malak Ayman Rashwan  Egypt	14.23	Kurdistan Jamal [de]  Iraq	14.30	Dirin Khetiar Ali  Iraq	15.44
400mH	Razki Doha  Morocco	1:00.29	Nour Rahou  Algeria	1:02.06	Kurdistan Jamal [de]  Iraq	1:04.86
3000mSC	Khadija Ennasri  Morocco	10:58.28	Rihab Dhahri  Tunisia	10:59.02	Nassima Smail  Algeria	11:09.15
4x100m	EGYPT U23  Egypt Salma Abdulhamid Hamed Malak Ayman Rashwan Rim Abderrezk Abdelmoneim Maram Mahmoud Ahmed	47.81	IRAQ U23  Iraq Kurdistan Jamal [de] Dirin Khetiar Ali Mamdouh Barae Diyeh Nizar Rafik	48.33
4x400m	Morocco U23  Morocco Razki Doha Sanae Hasnaoui Iman Mekrazi Salma Lehlali [de]	3:45.94
Discus Throw	Echaabia Belmaachi  Morocco	46.24 m	Chaima Chouikh [de]  Tunisia	44.79 m	Rana Khaled Mahmoud [de]  Egypt	42.72 m
Hammer Throw	Rawan Barakat [de]  Egypt	60.25 m	Senda Guerma  Tunisia	55.87 m	Nada Soliman Abdelnaby  Egypt	55.29 m
Heptathlon	Hania Abdallah  Algeria	4081	Mariem Asmaali  Tunisia	4171	Islam Kthiri  Tunisia	4367
High Jump	Darina Hadil Rezik  Algeria	1.74 m	Aiten Ahmed Yehia [de]  Egypt	1.68 m	Assiya Elhafyan  Morocco	1.68 m
Javelin Throw	Nisreen Lachhab  Tunisia	40.41 m	Farah Tlik  Tunisia	39.12 m
Long Jump	Reem Abdelrazeq Abdelmoneam  Egypt	5.84 m	Wissal Harkas  Algeria	5.79 m	Aya el Aglaoui  Morocco	5.73 m
Pole Vault	Mariem Srasra  Tunisia	3.20 m	Sanar Ridha  Qatar	3.10 m	Zeina Yahia Ahmed Saad el-Din  Egypt	NM
Shot Put	Zineb Zaroual  Morocco	13.47 m	Chaima Chouikh [de]  Tunisia	12.15 m	Echaabia Belmaachi  Morocco	11.85 m
Triple Jump	Wissal Harkas  Algeria	13.14 m	Aya el Aglaoui  Morocco	12.51 m	Ghada Hamdani  Tunisia	12.50 m

All-time medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Morocco (MAR)	14	10	6	30
2	Egypt (EGY)	10	3	5	18
3	Algeria (ALG)	8	9	8	25
4	Tunisia (TUN)	5	8	5	18
5	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	3	2	2	7
6	Djibouti (DJI)	1	1	1	3
	Qatar (QAT)	1	1	1	3
8	Brunei (BRN)	1	0	0	1
9	Iraq (IRQ)	0	6	4	10
10	Oman (OMA)	0	2	1	3
11	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	1	1
	Lebanon (LBN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		43	42	35	120