A four-member Bahrain team will be looking to strike gold in this year’s Arab Youth Athletics Championships this week in Ismailia, Egypt.
Around 400 under-20 athletes representing 17 nations will be competing in the four-day event.
Bahrain’s delegation is headed by Bahrain Athletics Association (BAA) president Mohammed bin Jalal, and it includes BAA secretary general Yusuf Ahmed and other administrative staff and national coaches.
Bahrain’s quartet of participants features Layla Kamal and Awtif Ahmed amongst the women, and Ahmed Sabry and Abdulghani Mahmood for the men.
Kamal will be contesting both the women’s 100m and 200m while Ahmed will be running in the women’s 200m and 400m. On the distaff, Sabry will be taking part in the men’s high jump, and Mahmood in the men’s 3,000m and 5,000m.
The Bahrainis will be going up against talented up-and-coming athletes representing countries such as hosts Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco, to name a few.
The track and field events are taking place from today at Ismailia’s Suez Canal Authority Stadium.
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