15th Arab Junior Athletics Championships
The host stadium
Dates	16–19 May
Host city	Amman, Jordan
Venue	Amman International Stadium
Events	42
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The 2012 Arab Junior Athletics Championships was the fifteenth edition of the international athletics competition for under-20 athletes from Arab countries. It took place between 16–19 May at Amman International Stadium in Amman, Jordan. It was the first time that Jordan hosted the event. A total of 42 athletics events were contested, 21 for men and 21 for women. The men's 10,000 metres and women's 5000 metres were dropped from the programme for this edition.

Egypt topped the medal table with nine gold medals, narrowly edging Tunisia which had eight golds and the same total of 23 overall. Saudi Arabia won eight gold medals and Algeria had the third highest tally at sixteen medals (six gold). The host nation Jordan did not win any events but managed three silvers and a bronze. A total of fifteen nations reached the medal table.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Yusef Alshaalani (KSA)	10.58	Eid Abdullah Alkawari (QAT)	10.62	Hasanain Hasan (IRQ)	10.70
200 metres	Hasanain Hasan (IRQ)	21.20	Ali Hasan AlJasem (QAT)	21.34	Eid Abdullah Alkawari (QAT)	21.47
400 metres	Saddam Suleiman (SUD)	46.93	Bandar Atieh Kaabi (KSA)	47.46	Mohammad Belbachir (ALG)	47.53
800 metres	Mohammad Belbachir (ALG)	1:49.47	Mohammad Ahmad Ismail (SUD)	1:50.29	Muayad Mohamed Ibrahim (QAT)	1:51.51
1500 metres	Abdullah Obaid Alsaleh (KSA)	3:47.58	Abdessalem El Ayouni (TUN)	3:52.63	Mohammad Amine El Ayachi (ALG)	3:58.08
5000 metres	Abdelmuneim Yahya  (SUD)	15:05.28	Mouloud Madoy (ALG)	15:18.38	Mustafa Shaghmim (EGY)	15:19.89
100 m hurdles	Mousa Alsebiani (KSA)	13.71 CR	Yaaqoub Alyouha (KUW)	13.72	Rami Gharsalli (TUN)	13.90
400 m hurdles	Ibrahim Bashir (KSA)	51.71	Mohamed Riadh Essayeh (TUN)	51.98	Mustsfa Ammad Obaid (IRQ)	52.15
3000 m steeplechase	Bilal Tabti  (ALG)	9:18.04	Salem Mohamed Salem (EGY)	9:19.47	Hashem Salah Abbas (QAT)	9:26.41
4 × 100 m relay	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	41.52	Iraq (IRQ)	41.77	Bahrain (BHR)	42.89
4 × 400 m relay	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	3:16.98	Iraq (IRQ)	3:18.29	Sudan (SUD)	3:21.94
10 km walk	Hussein Mohammad (QAT)	44:44.45	Hazem Ahmad (SYR)	45:13.06	Ashaali Hasan Jasem (UAE)	47:25.73
High jump	Muammar Barsham  (QAT)	2.14 m	Amro Sameer Kasi (EGY)	2.06 m	Sinan Adnan (IRQ)	2.06 m
Pole vault	Mohamed Romdhana (TUN)	4.70 m	Jaber Khalifa (QAT)	4.40 m	Badr Jasem (KUW)	4.20 m
Long jump	Muhannad Qasem Alabsi (KSA)	7.25 m	Abdelaziz Khalil (SYR)	7.18 m	Jasem Mohamed Mustafa (UAE)	6.99 m
Triple jump	Talal Zayed (KUW)	15.74 m	Jasem Al Saad (KUW)	14.80 m	Hussein Al Dananouni (LBA)	14.47 m
Shot put	Mohammad Omar Mousa (KSA)	18.35 m	Ahmad Amrou Mousa (EGY)	17.99 m	Saif Nouri (IRQ)	17.28 m
Discus throw	Mustafa Kadhem (IRQ)	52.14 m	Khaled Mohamed Deeb (QAT)	50.69 m	Osama Hasan Alghufaili (KSA)	49.10m
Hammer throw	Ashraf Amgad Elseify (QAT)	78.62 m CR	Hisham Lutfi Alsayed (EGY)	64.01 m	Mubarak Alhendal (KUW)	61.98 m
Javelin throw	Majed Muhsen Albadri (EGY)	63.19 m	Fadl Fayez Saeed (EGY)	62.07 m	Mkarem Mahameed (SYR)	59.97 m
Decathlon	Majed Al Zaid (KUW)	6223 pts	Kiwan Tawfeeq (IRQ)	5966 pts	Mohamed Romdhana (TUN)	5795 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Maha Almuallem (LIB)	12.11	Basant Mohamed Awad (EGY)	12.12	Jihan Laabidi (TUN)	12.46
200 metres	Basant Mohamed Awad (EGY)	24.95	Abir El Barkaoui (TUN)	25.02	Maha Almuallem (LIB)	25.75
400 metres	Abir El Barkaoui (TUN)	56.12	Naziman Amara (ALG)	57.90	Hajar Saeed (SUD)	57.96
800 metres	Hallouma Jerfal (TUN)	2:11.02	Tasabih Alsayed (SUD)	2:11.04	Nahida Albawwat (JOR)	2:26.33
1500 metres	Hallouma Jerfal (TUN)	4:47.20	Rasha Subhi Ayoub (JOR)	5:08.92	Intisar Alshoshan (LBA)	5:17.38
3000 metres	Darin Bin Amer (ALG)	10:06.63	Sujoud Alkhatba (JOR)	10:55.25	Zainab Hashem (IRQ)	12:00.62
100 m hurdles	Selma Abdelhamid (TUN)	14.43	Houjaira Achour (ALG)	15.04	Fatima Alzahraa Taatouq (ALG)	15.18
400 m hurdles	Tasabih Alsayed (SUD)	1:00.96	Dahieh Haddar (ALG)	1:02.34	Marwa Boumaiza (TUN)	1:02.90
3000 m steeplechase	Hajar Sakhal (ALG)	11:15.16	Refka Abdennebi (TUN)	11:25.29	Rebab El Fatnassi (TUN)	12:08.43
4 × 100 m relay	Algeria (ALG)	49.50	Egypt (EGY)	50.93	Iraq (IRQ)	52.20
4 × 400 m relay	Algeria (ALG)	3:57.10	Tunisia (TUN)	4:01.17	Sudan (SUD)	4:04.14
10 km walk	Chahinez Al Nasri (TUN)	47:30.28 CR	Tahani Ghezal (TUN)	49:09.71	Braiza Ghezlani (ALG)	50:18.22
High jump	Basant Musaad Mohammad (EGY)	1.70 m	Maryam Mohammad (BHR)	1.64 m	Liza Madoni (ALG)	1.64 m
Pole vault	Dora Mahfoudhi (TUN)	3.55 m CR	Diana Khasawneh (JOR)	2.90 m	Reem Mohamed Abdulmutajali (EGY)	2.80 m
Long jump	Suhaila Helmi Aljabrouni (EGY)	5.64 m	Rabaa Rezgui (TUN)	5.57 m	Kristal Alsanea (LIB)	5.24 m
Triple jump	Rabaa Rezgui (TUN)	13.01 m	Suhaila Helmi Aljabrouni (EGY)	12.65 m	Asmaa Mohammad Gharib (EGY)	12.47 m
Shot put	Fadia Saad Ibrahim (EGY)	14.48 m CR	Rahma Bouslama (TUN)	12.05 m	Asrar Ahmad El-Mannaï Larab (QAT)	11.60 m
Discus throw	Nuha Abdel Dayem Amin (EGY)	46.80 m	Fadiya Saad Ibrahim (EGY)	42.27 m	Inas Al Sayeh (LBA)	40.79 m
Javelin throw	Suhaila Mousa (EGY)	42.38 m	Nada Ayman Abu Alfutouh (EGY)	40.35 m	Rima bin Issa (ALG)	36.59 m
Hammer throw	Aya Ibrahim Mohammad (EGY)	52.70 m	Nada Ayman Abu Alfutouh (EGY)	52.02 m	Nabiha Gueddah (TUN)	50.38 m
Heptathlon	Aya Husam Tharwat (EGY)	4519 pts	Noor Alsoos (SYR)	4330 pts	Marwa Boumaiza (TUN)	4135 pts

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Egypt (EGY)	9	11	3	23
2	Tunisia (TUN)	8	8	7	23
3	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	8	1	1	10
4	Algeria (ALG)	6	4	6	16
5	Qatar (QAT)	3	4	4	11
6	Sudan (SUD)	3	2	3	8
7	Iraq (IRQ)	2	3	6	11
8	Kuwait (KUW)	2	2	2	6
9	Lebanon (LIB)	1	0	2	3
10	Jordan (JOR)	0	3	1	4
	Syria (SYR)	0	3	1	4
12	Bahrain (BHR)	0	1	1	2
13	Libya (LBA)	0	0	3	3
14	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	0	2	2
Totals (14 entries)		42	42	42	126