headercolor article_title birth_date
lightsteelblue omar juma al-salfa
 15 october 1989
omar juma al-salfa

omar jouma bilal al-salfa , , -lrb- born 15 october 1989 -rrb- is a track and field athlete from the united arab emirates who competes in sprinting events .
he was a gold medallist at the 2009 asian athletics championships and represented his country at the 2008 beijing olympics .
he made his first appearances at major competitions in 2007 : he took the bronze medal over 200 metres at the military world games in october and then came fourth at the pan arab games with a national record-breaking run of 20.94 seconds .
he turned to the indoor circuit at the start of the following season and came fourth at the 2008 asian indoor athletics championships with a national record of 6.81 seconds for the 60 metres .
he was selected for the 2008 iaaf world indoor championships and ran in the heats .
outdoors he set a national junior record of 10.53 seconds to take the 100 metres title at that year 's arab junior championships that , and also went on to win the 200 m gold medal .
at the 2008 asian junior athletics championships he took the gold in the 200 m .
he reached the 200 m final at the 2008 world junior championships in athletics and gained a place on the olympic team for the 2008 summer olympics , where he competed in the heats stage of the event .
he improved his 200 m record to 20.72 seconds with a win at the gulf championships in may 2009 .
he competed at the 2009 world championships in athletics and reached the quarter-finals on his debut appearance at the competition .
a fourth place finish over 60 m at the 2009 asian indoor games -lrb- with a personal best of 6.72 seconds -rrb- was followed by a bronze medal with the emirati team in the 4 × 400 metres relay .
al-salfa won his first major senior title at the 2009 asian athletics championships , just dipping ahead of shinji takahira of japan to win the asian 200 m title .
in 2010 he made his first appearance on the iaaf diamond league circuit running a wind-assisted 10.35 seconds in the 100 m at the qatar athletic super grand prix in doha .
he claimed the 200 m bronze medal behind nigerian-born femi ogunode and japan 's kenji fujimitsu at the 2010 asian games .
