The 2002 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the tenth edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place in Cairo, Egypt – the city hosted the tournament once before in 1986. A total of 43 athletics events were contested, 22 for men and 21 for women. After an absence in 2000, regional powers Morocco, Algeria and Qatar all returned to the tournament.Pan Arab Junior Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-22.
Morocco topped the table with twelve gold medals, followed by Egypt which won eight titles. Tunisia and Saudi Arabia each won six medals, with Tunisia mainly having success in women's events and Saudi Arabia winning only men's medals. A women's pole vault was added to the programme, leaving just the steeplechase as the remaining event contested by men but not women. Junior implements were used in the throws events for the first time.
Morocco's Yassine Bensghir completed a men's middle-distance double and was the World Junior Champion that same year. Ismail Ahmed Ismail was third to him in the 800 metres, but went on to much greater success as a senior, winning Sudan's first Olympic medal in 2008.Ismail Ahmed Ismail. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-02-25. The sprints saw the rise of Yahya Habeeb and Yahya Al-Ghahes of Saudi Arabia (both future Asian champions). The men's throws saw the emergence of a new generation of athletes who would dominate regionally: Sultan Al-Hebshi and Ali Al-Zinkawi later won Asian titles in their disciplines,Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-25. while the Egyptian trio of Yasser Ibrahim Farag, Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly and Mohsen Mohamed Anani later won gold medals at the African Championships in Athletics in the shot put, discus and hammer throw, respectively.African Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-02-25.
In women's events, sprint medallists Muna Jabir Adam and Gretta Taslakian each later became continental medallists in their specialities. Mariem Alaoui Selsouli was a medallist in both long-distance events and later won medals at the IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Medal summary
Men 100 metres 10.62 10.63 10.68200 metres 21.32 21.97 22.02400 metres 46.88 47.81 47.84800 metres 1:48.23 1:48.63 1:49.551500 metres 3:53.10 3:54.23 3:54.755000 metres 14:10.94 14:16.09 14:29.5510,000 metres 30:39.43 30:59.64 31:47.51110 m hurdles 14.41 14.51 14.62400 m hurdles 51.46 52.26 52.603000 metres steeplechase 8:50.68 8:57.09 9:08.694 × 100 m relay 40.35 41.39 41.614 × 400 m relay 3:11.99 3:12.30 3:15.3410,000 m walk 46:39.6 47:52.9 48:05.6High jump 2.06 m 2.03 m 2.03 mPole vault 4.70 m 4.60 mNot awardedLong jump 7.46 m 7.27 m 7.19 mTriple jump 15.31 m 15.20 m 15.01 mShot put 19.48 m CR 19.23 m 18.78 mDiscus throw 57.37 m CR 56.47 m 53.09 mHammer throw 75.89 m CR 70.04 m 57.17 mJavelin throw 67.90 m 57.63 m 56.26 mDecathlon 6557 pts 6180 pts 5949 pts
Women 100 metres 12.32 12.65 12.68200 metres 24.88w 25.43w 25.95w400 metres 56.34 56.83 58.15800 metres 2:09.88 CR 2:11.27 2:11.271500 metres 4:28.99 CR 4:30.48 4:31.913000 metres 9:35.99 CR 9:39.69 9:41.905000 metres 18:04.97 18:05.54 18:09.93100 m hurdles 14.54 14.61 14.99400 m hurdles 62.10 64.79 65.764 × 100 m relay 49.31 50.05 50.434 × 400 m relay 3:52.66 CR 3:54.40 3:55.605000 m walk 26:51.2 28:41.6 31:32.9High jump 1.73 m CR 1.66 m 1.60 mPole vault 3.40 m 3.00 mNot awardedLong jump 5.96 m CR 5.83 m 5.67 mTriple jump 12.60 m 12.39 m 12.10 mShot put 14.20 m CR 13.48 m 12.26 mDiscus throw 47.00 m CR 46.87 m 39.89 mHammer throw 48.64 m CR 47.18 m 42.50 mJavelin throw 47.21 m CR 40.14 m 39.66 mHeptathlon 4555 pts CR 4141 pts 4086 pts
Medal table
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