History of Arab Medals in the World Championships in Athletics

Below are the Arab medals in the history of the World Championships in Athletics since the first edition in 1983 in Helsinki, according to the cycles, at the conclusion of the eighteenth edition of the World Championships in Athletics in Eugene, USA.


* Helsinki 1983: Moroccan Said Aouita bronze in the 1500m race


* Rome 1987: Somali Abdi Bell gold medal in the 1500m, Moroccan Said Aouita gold 5 thousand, Djibouti Ahmed Salah silver in the marathon


* Tokyo 1991: Algerian Noureddine Morsli gold medal in the 1500m, Algerian Hassiba Boumerka gold in the 1500m race, Moroccan Ibrahim Boutayeb bronze in the 5000m race, Moroccan Khaled Skah bronze in the 10,000m race, Djibouti Ahmed Salah silver in the marathon, Algeria’s Azzedine Brahmi bronze in the 3000m steeplechase


* Stuttgart 1993: Algerian Noureddine Morsli gold 1500m, Somalia's Abdi Bell bronze, 1500m, Algeria's Hassiba Boumerca bronze, 1500m


* Goteborg 1995: Algerian Noureddine Morsli gold medal in the 1500m race, Algerian Hassiba Boumerca gold in the 1500m race, the Syrian Ghada Shuaa gold in the heptathlon, Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj silver in the 1500m race, Moroccan Khaled Boulami silver in the 5th meter race, Moroccan Khaled Skah silver in the 10th race 1000m, Moroccan Zahra and Aziz bronze in the 5000m race, Saudi Saad Al-Shammari bronze in the


3000m steeplechase. Moroccan Salah Hesso bronze in 10,000m


* Seville 1999: Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj gold in 1500m, Moroccan Salah Hesso gold in 5,000m, Moroccan Nozha Bedouane silver in 400m hurdles, Moroccan Zahra and Aziz silver in 5,000m, Moroccan Ali El-Zein Bronze in the 3000m steeplechase, Algerian Jaber Saeed Al-Qarni, bronze in 800m, Syrian Ghada Shuaa, bronze in the heptathlon


* Edmonton 2001: Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj gold medal in the 1500m race, Moroccan Nozha Bedouane gold in the 400m hurdles, Moroccan Ali El-Zein silver in the 3000m steeplechase


* Paris 2003: Algerian Said Jaber Al-Qarni gold in the 800m, Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj gold in the 1500m race, Morocco’s Jawad Gharib gold in the marathon, Qatar’s Saif Saeed Shaheen gold in the 3000m steeplechase, Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj silver in the 5,000m


* Helsinki 2005: Bahrain’s Rashid Ramzy gold in the 800m, Bahrain’s Rashid Ramzy gold in the 1500m, and Qatar’s Saif Saeed Shaheen Gold in the 3000m steeplechase, Moroccan Jawad Gharib gold in the marathon, Moroccan Adel El Kaouch silver in the 1500m race, Moroccan Hasna Benhsi silver in the 800m race


* Osaka 2007: Bahrain's Maryam Youssef Jamal gold in the 1500m race, Bahrain's Rashid Ramzy silver in the 1500m race, Qatar's Mubarak Hassan Al-Shami silver in the marathon, Moroccan Hasna Benhasi silver in the 800m race, Tunisian Hatem Ghoula bronze in the 20km walk


* Berlin 2009: Bahraini Youssef Saad Kamel gold in the 1500m race, Bahrain’s Maryam Yousef Jamal gold in the 1500m race, Bahraini Youssef Saad Kamel bronze in the 800m race, Qatar’s James Koalia Shepkoroy bronze in the 5000m race


* Daegu 2011: Tunisia’s Habiba Laghribi gold in the 3000m steeplechase, Sudan Abu Bakr Kaki Silver 800m


* Moscow 2013: Qatar’s Moataz Barshim Silver High Jump, Djibouti Ain Allah Suleiman Bronze 800m


* Beijing 2015: Tunisia’s Habiba Laghribi Silver 3000m steeplechase, Egypt’s Ihab Abdel Rahman silver javelin throw, Moroccan Abdelati Eguidir, bronze in the 1500m, Bahrain's Eunice Kirwa, bronze in the marathon


* London 2017: Bahrain’s Rose Chelimo gold in the marathon, Qatar’s Moataz Barshim gold in the high jump, Morocco’s Sofiane El-Baqali silver in the 3,000m steeplechase, Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Nasser silver in the 400m, Qatar’s Abdulelah Haroun bronze in the 400m, the Syrian Majd Al-Din Ghazal bronze in the high jump


* Doha 2019: Qatar’s Moataz Barshim, gold in the high jump, Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Nasser gold in the 400m race, Algeria’s Tawfiq Makhloufi silver in the 1500m race, Bahrain’s Rose Chelimo silver in the marathon, Qatar’s Abdul Rahman Samba bronze in the 400m hurdles, Bahrain’s mixed relay team bronze Four times 400m, and Moroccan Sofiane El Bakkali bronze in the 3000m steeplechase.


* Eugene (2021) 2022: Qatar's Moataz Barshim, gold in the high jump, Moroccan Sofiane Bakkali gold in the 3000m steeplechase, Algerian Jamal Sajati silver in the 800m.

- Distribution by country - 


* Morocco: 31 medals (11 gold, 12 silver, 8 bronze)


* Bahrain: 13 medals (7 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze)


* Algeria: 11 medals (6 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze)


* Qatar: 10 medals (5 1 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze)


* Tunisia: 3 medals (one gold, one silver and one bronze)


* Syria: 3 medals (one gold and two bronze)


* Somalia: two medals (one gold and one bronze)


* Djibouti: three medals (two silver and one bronze)


* Sudan: one medal (silver)


* Egypt: 1 medal (silver)


* Saudi Arabia: 1 medal (bronze)


* Total: 79 medals (32 gold, 24 silver, 23 bronze)

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