# 2010 Arab Junior Athletics Championships

The 2010 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the fourteenth edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place between 5–8 May at Cairo Military Academy Stadium in Cairo, Egypt. It was the fourth time that the event was held in the Egyptian capital. A total of 44 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 22 for women.
The host nation Egypt comfortably topped the medal table with sixteen gold medals in a haul of 40. Morocco has the next highest medal count with 18, though only three of them gold. Tunisia and Bahrain shared the honour of second highest number of gold medals at five, with Tunisia taking the runner-up spot with its tally of 12 medals. A total of fourteen nations reached the medal table (this included a rare medal for Yemen).
Among the participants was Mutaz Essa Barshim, who won the high jump in an Arab junior record and would win an Olympic medal just two years later. Moroccan-born athlete Mohamad Al-Garni won the men's 800 metres and 1500 metres – events which he also won at the 2010 Asian Junior Athletics Championships that same year.
Gulustan Mahmood, who later won medals for Iraq at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships (annulled due to doping). In Cairo she won the 400 metres and was 200 metres runner-up Another future Asian champion scored a double at the competition – Ethiopian-born Tejitu Daba won the long-distance double for Bahrain. Asma Oussam Yusuf Mohamed was another to win two golds, taking a short sprint double, and she also won the 4 × 100 metres relay with Egypt.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Ayman Al Jassem (IRQ) | 10.72 | Eid Abdullah Alkuwari (QAT) | 10.89 | Khalifa Abdallah Al Qattan (KUW) | 10.93 |
| 200 metres | Mohamed Jassem Mohamed (BHR) | 21.42 | Mohamed Hassan (IRQ) | 21.52 | Mohamed Sayed Abulkhair (EGY) | 21.55 |
| 400 metres | Awad El Karim Makki (SUD) | 46.98 | Mohamed Sayed Abulkhair (EGY) | 47.19 | Mohamed Hassan (IRQ) | 47.23 |
| 800 metres | Mohamad Al-Garni (QAT) | 1:47.98 | Mohamed Bensghir (MAR) | 1:48.13 | Ahmed Abdelkarim Farag (EGY) | 1:49.00 |
| 1500 metres | Mohamad Al-Garni (QAT) | 3:39.74 CR | Mohamed Bensghir (MAR) | 3:43.23 | Abdelhedi Labaa (MAR) | 3:43.46 |
| 5000 metres | Hicham Sakine (MAR) | 14:29.24 | Abdelmuneim Yahya (SUD) | 14:31.60 | Adam Abdallah Haroun (SUD) | 14:32.59 |
| 10,000 metres | Edwin Kimurer (BHR) | 31:55.50 | Adam Abdallah Haroun (SUD) | 32:03.96 | Ali Jadasha (YEM) | 33:09.39 |
| 110 m hurdles | Nadir Ahmed Al-Khair (KSA) | 14.08 | Seif Sabah Khairallah (QAT) | 14.22 | Omar Samir (IRQ) | 14.45 |
| 400 m hurdles | Youssef Mohamed Karam (KUW) | 51.85 | Zied Azizi (TUN) | 51.90 | Ali Ayadh Al-Ghamdi (KSA) | 52.98 |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Abdallah Dacha (MAR) | 9:19.59 | Isaac Kemboi (BHR) | 9:20.20 | Abdelfattah Zaki Abdelhalim (EGY) | 9:20.51 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Iraq (IRQ) | 40.9 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 41.0 | Bahrain (BHR) | 41.6 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Sudan (SUD) | 3:11.48 | Iraq (IRQ) | 3:12.66 | Egypt (EGY) | 3:16.66 |
| 10 km walk | Ahmed Hamada Kamel (EGY) | 45:29.6 | Jaouher bel hadj rhouma (TUN) | 46:10.9 | Amir Razak Abid (IRQ) | 46:18.3 |
| High jump | Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) | 2.23 m CR | Nawaf Ahmed Al Yami (KSA) | 2.14 m | Khalid Saied Al Sairy (QAT) | 2.08 m |
| Pole vault | Sami Belrehaiem (TUN) | 4.70 m | Badr Hashim Khamis (QAT) | 4.70 m | Salah Farid El Shamaly (KUW) | 4.50 m |
| Long jump | Marouane Mansour (TUN) | 7.43 m | Hashem Nizar Al Sharaf (KSA) | 7.21 m | Faraj Salah Madid (KUW) | 7.10 m |
| Triple jump | Ahmed Salama Abdelhafidh (EGY) | 15.53 m | Abdallah Al Yuha (KUW) | 15.42 m | Mohamed Ahmed Sarhan (EGY) | 15.08 m |
| Shot put | Hishem Abdelhamid Abdelaziz (EGY) | 18.56 m | Khalid Ahmed Attia (EGY) | 17.74 m | Musab Aysha (SYR) | 17.52 m |
| Discus throw | Essa Al-Zenkawi (KUW) | 57.30 m | Hamid Mansoor (SYR) | 57.14 m | Abdelmeneim Mohamed El Sayed (EGY) | 48.03 m |
| Hammer throw | Alaa el-Din el-Ashry (EGY) | 75.51 m | Islam Ahmed Taha (EGY) | 65.30 m | Abdelhamid Al-Nasser (KUW) | 59.43 m |
| Javelin throw | Ahmed Samir Mohamed (EGY) | 67.99 m | Fadl Fayez Saeed (EGY) | 64.96 m | Mkarem Mahameed (SYR) | 64.50 m |
| Decathlon | Mohamed Ahmed Al Mannai (QAT) | 7216 pts CR | Ahmed Saber Ahmed (EGY) | 6259 pts | Bydar Dhia Hussein (IRQ) | 6133 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Asma Oussam Yusuf Mohamed (EGY) | 12.20 | Aziza Sebty (LIB) | 12.40 | Eya Lakhal (TUN) | 12.49 |
| 200 metres | Asma Oussam Yusuf Mohamed (EGY) | 24.60 | Gulustan Mahmood (IRQ) | 24.67 | Ilham Salmi (MAR) | 25.54 |
| 400 metres | Gulustan Mahmood (IRQ) | 54.35 | Ilham Salmi (MAR) | 57.04 | Amna Abkar (SUD) | 58.33 |
| 800 metres | Alawia Maki (SUD) | 2:08.51 CR | Jamila Shaoumi (BHR) | 2:09.06 | Manel Bahraoui (MAR) | 2:10.42 |
| 1500 metres | Jamila Shaoumi (BHR) | 4:18.26 CR | Mariem Abdallah Mubarak (UAE) | 4:24.26 | Hanane Falouj (MAR) | 4:24.69 |
| 3000 metres | Tejitu Daba (BHR) | 9:14.07 CR | Alia Saeed Mohammed (UAE) | 9:27.46 | Hayat Alaoui (MAR) | 10:00.24 |
| 5000 metres | Tejitu Daba (BHR) | 16:49.04 | Fatiha Asmid (MAR) | 17:54.58 | Hayat Alaoui (MAR) | 17:56.00 |
| 100 m hurdles | Selma Imam Abulhassan (EGY) | 14.68 | Olaa Sabri Sayed (EGY) | 15.36 | Ahlem Oussaid (MAR) | 15.90 |
| 400 m hurdles | Abir Barkaoui (TUN) | 60.58 | Shaima Hisham Fouad (EGY) | 62.30 | Tasabih Alsayed (SUD) | 62.60 |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Mabrouka Mansouri (TUN) | 11:20.07 | Marwa Nasri (TUN) | 11:25.58 | Olaa Khalifa (JOR) | 11:25.85 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Egypt (EGY) | 48.47 | Morocco (MAR) | 49.34 | Tunisia (TUN) | 50.46 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Sudan (SUD) | 3:50.02 | Morocco (MAR) | 3:51.92 | Tunisia (TUN) | 3:56.24 |
| 10 km walk | Oruba Al-Ammou (SYR) | 50:32.00 | Sabrine Sellimi (TUN) | 53:34.06 | Basant Ramadhan Hassan (EGY) | 53:37.02 |
| High jump | Basant Musaad Mohammad (EGY) | 1.76 m CR | Donia Mani (MAR) | 1.63 m | Maryam Al Ansari (BHR) | 1.56 m |
| Pole vault | Dina Ahmed Abdelmeneim (EGY) | 3.40 m =CR | Rihem Shiha (SYR) | 2.90 m | Marina Samer Helmy (EGY) | 2.80 m |
| Long jump | Yusra Yahya Mahmoud (EGY) | 5.89 m | Suhaila Helmi Aljabrouni (EGY) | 5.69 m | Jihad Bakhechi (MAR) | 5.56 m |
| Triple jump | Jihad Bakhechi (MAR) | 12.67 m | Suhaila Helmi Aljabrouni (EGY) | 12.44 m | Asmaa Mohammad Gharib (EGY) | 12.27 m |
| Shot put | Fadia Saad Ibrahim (EGY) | 12.83 m | Basant Mahmoud Mohamed (EGY) | 12.12 m | Rim Gaïeche (TUN) | 11.46 m |
| Discus throw | Rim Gaïeche (TUN) | 44.12 m | Dhuha Mohamed Atiya (EGY) | 42.12 m | Fadiya Saad Ibrahim (EGY) | 39.01 m |
| Javelin throw | Nuha Abul Futooh (EGY) | 39.15 m | Radhwa Hamdi Kamal (EGY) | 39.06 m | Hela Ghia (SYR) | 32.81 m |
| Hammer throw | Nihel Kamel Fahmy (EGY) | 56.57 m CR | Rana Ahmad Taha (EGY) | 55.39 m | Liza Saleh (SYR) | 40.93 m |
| Heptathlon | Radhwa Fathy Hares (EGY) | 4492 pts | Wediane Mokhtar Abdelhamid (EGY) | 4414 pts | Rania Shokri El-Kubaly (JOR) | 4272 pts |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Egypt (EGY) | 16 | 14 | 10 | 40 |
| 2 | Tunisia (TUN) | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 3 | Bahrain (BHR) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | Qatar (QAT) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 5 | Sudan (SUD) | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | Morocco (MAR) | 3 | 7 | 8 | 18 |
| 7 | Iraq (IRQ) | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 8 | Kuwait (KUW) | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 9 | Syria (SYR) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Lebanon (LIB) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Jordan (JOR) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | Yemen (YEM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 44 | 44 | 44 | 132 |