West Asian Athletics Championships are an
athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
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* Athletics (physical culture), competiti ...
event organised by the West Asian Athletics Championships Association and contested by 13 nations of Western Asia. The inaugural event took place in 2010 in Aleppo, Syria.
Editions
Participating nations
See also
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West Asian Games
The West Asian Games (also known as the WAG) was a multi-sport event held every four years among the athletes from West Asia.
The West Asian Games was first organised in Tehran, Iran and was considered as the first of its kind. The success of th ...
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Asian Athletics Championships
The Asian Athletics Championships is an event organized by the Asian Athletics Association.
History
The competition courted controversy with the IAAF when political in-fighting arose after Israel was excluded from participation in 1977. That e ...
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Maghreb Athletics Championships
References
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Athletics competitions in Asia
Recurring sporting events established in 2010
International athletics competitions
Athletics in the Arab world