The 2010

Arab Junior Athletics Championships The Arab Junior Athletics Championships is an biennial international athletics competition between athletes under the age of 20 ( juniors) from Arabic countries. It is organised by the Arab Athletic Association. If was first held in 1984 – seven ...

was the fourteenth edition of the international

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competition for under-20 athletes from

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. It took place between 5–8 May at

Cairo Military Academy Stadium The Cairo Military Academy Stadium ( ar, إستاد الكلية الحربية بالقاهرة ''Istād al-Kullīyah al-Ḥarbīyah bil-Qāhira'') is located in Cairo, Egypt and has a total capacity of 28,500. It was one of six stadiums used in ...

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, Egypt. It was the fourth time that the event was held in the Egyptian capital. A total of 44

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were contested, 22 for men and 22 for women. The host nation

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comfortably topped the medal table with sixteen

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s in a haul of 40. Morocco has the next highest medal count with 18, though only three of them gold. Tunisia and Bahrain shared the honour of second highest number of gold medals at five, with Tunisia taking the runner-up spot with its tally of 12 medals. A total of fourteen nations reached the medal table (this included a rare medal for Yemen).14th Arab Junior Championship from 5-8/5/2010 the Military Academy Stadium
TunisAthle (archived). Retrieved on 2016-07-04. Among the participants was

Mutaz Essa Barshim Mutaz Essa Barshim ( ar, معتز عيسى برشم, Muʿtazz ʿĪsā Baršim; born 24 June 1991) is a Qatari track and field athlete who competes in the high jump and is the current Olympic Champion (2020). He is also the current World Champio ...

, who won the high jump in an Arab junior record and would win an Olympic medal just two years later. Moroccan-born athlete

Mohamad Al-Garni Mohamad Al-Garni (born 2 July 1992) is a Moroccan-born Qatari middle-distance runner. He competed in the 1500 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2016 he refused to submit to a doping test A drug test is a technical analysi ...

won the men's

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and

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– events which he also won at the

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that same year. Gulustan Mahmood, who later won medals for Iraq at the

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(annulled due to doping). In Cairo she won the

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and was

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runner-upSu Bingtian takes Asian 100m title in Kobe - Asian champs, Day 2
IAAF (2011-07-09). Retrieved on 2016-07-04. Another future Asian champion scored a double at the competition – Ethiopian-born

Tejitu Daba Tejitu Daba Chalchissa (born 20 August 1991) is an Ethiopian-born long-distance runner who competes internationally for Bahrain. She competes mainly in cross country and track running events. She won the gold medal over 5000 metres at the 201 ...

won the long-distance double for Bahrain.

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was another to win two golds, taking a short sprint double, and she also won the

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with Egypt.

Medal summary

Men

Women

Medal table

References

;Results
14th Arab Junior Championship from 5-8/5/2010 the Military Academy Stadium
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