2019 DOHA DIAMOND LEAGUE FEATURES HUGE NUMBER OF ASPIRE ACADEMY STUDENT-ATHLETES AND GRADUATES

02 May 2019

Doha, 2 May 2019. Dozens of the world's finest athletes and a large number of Aspire Academy student-athletes and graduates are gathering on Friday, 3rd of May, in Doha’s Khalifa International Stadium, to help kick off the 2019 IAAF Diamond League, which gets underway for the tenth consecutive year in the Qatari capital, and with it the chase for a piece of the series’ US$8 million prize money purse.

Among the cast assembled, which includes six reigning world champions, eight reigning Olympic champions and winners of nine 2018 Diamond Trophies, are Caterine Ibarguen, the 2018 World Athlete of the Year, and world 5000m champion Hellen Obiri, whose star rose even higher just over a month ago at the World Cross Country Championships Aarhus 2019 where she battled to an impressive victory over the most difficult course in that event's history.

Please find the below schedule of current and graduate Aspire Academy student-athletes participating in the Doha Diamond League:

17:41 – 4 x 100m Boys

  • Hassan Zamzoum Alabsi
  • Mohamad Badr Al Ali

17:59 -  4x100m Mixed Relay

  • Nayef Al- Rashidi
  • Saeed Al Sahoti

18:16 – 100m National Team Boys

  • Mohammad Darm Al Raei
  • Khaled Zakariyah
  • Said Zamzoum Alabsi
  • Mohamad Badr Al Ali
  • Mohamad Abdulla Al Kuwari
  • Ahmad Al Mouhannadi
  • Hassan Zamzoum Alabsi

18:25 – 60m National Team Boys

  • Sultan Mubarak Al Noobi
  • Saeed Hamad Al Kaabi
  • Abdulrahman Badr Al Mohammad
  • Abdulaziz Hassan Al Abdulla

18:33 – 400m National Team Men

  • Bassem Hemaida

18:35 – Discus Throw

  • Moaaz Ibrahim

18:42 – 800m National Team

  • Ahmed Rahmatalla Habib
  • Mohamad Hassan Gomaa
  • Obaid Bashir Mohammad
  • Elhafiz Medani Mehadi
  • Hamza Himiti

19:15 – 800m Men

  • Abubakar Haydar

19:56 – 200m Men

  • Jaber Hilal Al Mamari
  • Owaab Barrow

20:19 – 1500m Men

  • Mouhannad Khamis

For full schedule and start lists of the competition: https://doha.diamondleague.com/programme-results-doha/

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