QATAR ATHLETICS TEAM THAT INCLUDES ASPIRE SA LINES UP AT U-20 WORLDS

17 Aug 2021

Nairobi.  Qatar athletes will line up along many other countries as attention turns to the postponed 2020 World Athletics U20 Championships which run from 17 to 22 August 2021 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Qatar team at the Championships includes Aspire Academy student-athletes and graduates as has been the case in the past.

Hailing from Aspire Academy and set to continue, Qatar’s impressive returns at the championships, this time round are 800m runner Elhafez Mahadi, 110m hurdler, Saeed Othman Zamzoun Al-Absi who will also be part of the  4 x 100m Relay team  and Nayef Al Rashidi (4 x 100m Relay).  There is also an athlete who was at Aspire Academy, Khalid Mahamat but trains with the Qatar Athletes Federation (QFA) with whom he has qualified for World Athletics U-20 Championships in for the 100m sprint.

The World Athletics U20 Championships scheduled to have started on 17 August will now begin one day later Wednesday 18 August due to the impact of Covid on teams travelling and logistics of moving vital equipment around the world have proven to be a challenge.

However, the full athletics programme is able to be accommodated across five days rather than five-and-a-half days with minimal impact on the athletes attending from more than 100 countries, said the message from the organisers.

The Qatari athletes schedule is as following:

Day 1 – 18th Aug

10:20 – 100m Heats – Mahamat Khalid

16:40 – 100m Semi-Final – Mahamat Khalid

Day 2 – 19th Aug

10:05 – 800m Heats – Elhafez Mahadi

17:50 – 100m Final – Mahamat Khalid

 Day 3 – 20th Aug

9:55 – 110mH Heats – Saeed Alabsi

15:30 – 110mH Semi-Final – Saeed Alabsi

 Day 4 – 21st Aug

12:40 – 4 x 100m Relay Heats

15:30 – 800m Semi-Final – Elhafez Mahadi

16:15 – 110mH Final – Saeed Alabsi

 Day 5 – 22nd Aug

15:30 – 800m Final – Elhafez Mahadi

16:45 – 4 x 100m Relay Final

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