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Athletics
at the 2005 West Asian Games
Athletics ; at the 2005 West Asian Games
Venue	Khalifa International Stadium
Date	7–9 December 2005
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At the 2005 West Asian Games, the athletics events were held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar.^[1] Contested over three days, from 7 to 9 December, it was the first time that women were allowed to compete in athletics events at the Games. A total of 28 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 5 by female athletes. The event was seen as a test event for the Athletics at the 2006 Asian Games, which Doha hosted the following year.^[2]^[3]

The competition featured some high level performances by a handful of elite athletes: former World Youth champions Belal Mansoor Ali and Yahya Al-Ghahes won the 1500 metres and 100 metres, respectively, while world silver medallist Mubarak Hassan Shami claimed the half marathon title. On the women's side, 2004 Olympian Ruqaya Al-Ghasra won the women's 100 m. In spite of this, many events featured only a small number of athletes and the overall standard of competition was relatively low.^[4]^[5]

Host nation Qatar topped the medal table with eleven gold medals, ten silver medals and six bronze medal. Their tally was greatly buoyed by the performances of former Kenya distance runners, including event winners Gamal Belal Salem, Majed Saeed Sultan and Musa Amer Obaid. Kuwait had the second highest number of golds with five, while Iran had the second greatest overall haul (13 medals; four golds). Of the nations competing at the games, only Lebanon and Yemen did not win medals in the athletics.

It was later revealed that 3000 metres steeplechase bronze medalist Mohammed Khassaf of Iraq and 200 metres and women's relay gold medallist Munira Saleh failed drugs test at the event and were banned.^[6]

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Yahya Al-Ghahes Saudi Arabia	10.39	Saad Al-Shahwani Qatar	10.53	Al-Waleed Abdulla Qatar	10.53
200 m	Humoud Al-Saad Kuwait	21.31	Khalil Al-Hanahneh Jordan	21.39	Hamed Kefah Al-Dosari Qatar	21.51
400 m	Fawzi Al-Shammari Kuwait	47.58	Mohammed Al-Rawahi Oman	48.32	Ali Shirook United Arab Emirates	49.14
800 m	Majed Saeed Sultan Qatar	1:46.86 GR	Belal Mansoor Ali Bahrain	1:47.07	Abdulrahman Suleiman Qatar	1:48.22
1500 m	Belal Mansoor Ali Bahrain	3:40.84 GR	Abubaker Ali Kamal Qatar	3:41.45	Nasser Shams Kareem Qatar	3:43.08
5000 m	Essa Ismail Rashed Qatar	13:33.07 GR	Gamal Belal Salem Qatar	13:35.12	Omid Mehrabi Iran	14:39.17
10000 m	Gamal Belal Salem Qatar	28:40.99 GR	Sultan Khamis Zaman Qatar	28:44.57	Omid Mehrabi Iran	31:34.57
110 m hurdles	Bader Al-Buainain Saudi Arabia	14.14 GR	Rouhollah Askari Iran	14.42	None awarded
400 m hurdles	Mubarak Al-Nubi Qatar	50.37	Bandar Sharahili Saudi Arabia	51.96	Mohammed Daak Saudi Arabia	52.11
3000 m steeplechase	Musa Amer Obaid Qatar	8:19.46 GR	Thamer Kamal Ali Qatar	8:33.03	Ali Al-Amri Saudi Arabia	8:59.44
4×100 m relay	Kuwait Mohammad Al-Anzi Humoud Al-Saad Eisa Al-Youhah Jarah Al-Khadher	40.48	Oman Fahad Al-Jabri Juma Al-Jabri Musabah Al-Masoudi Hamoud Al-Dalhami	40.73	Qatar Abdulla Al-Hamad Khalid Al-Obaidli Saad Al-Shahwani Al-Waleed Abdulla	40.85
4×400 m relay	Qatar Mubarak Al-Nubi Yaser Omar El-Haj Hamed Kefah Al-Dosari Majed Saeed Sultan	3:09.81	Saudi Arabia Younes Hawsawi Mohammed Daak Mohammed Shaween Bandar Sharahili	3:14.36	United Arab Emirates Jasim Al-Junaibi Khalid Faraj Saud Abdelkarim Ali Shirook	3:18.81
Half marathon	Mubarak Hassan Shami Qatar	1:02:21 GR	Ahmed Jumah Jaber Qatar	1:03:00	Noori Chkhior Iraq	1:12:06
20 km walk	Mabrook Saleh Mohamed Qatar	1:33:04 GR	Waleed Ahmed Al-Sabahy Qatar	1:34:15	Mohammad Jumaa Syria	1:35:11
High jump	Mohamed Abbas Darwish United Arab Emirates	2.16 GR	Jamel Fakhari Saudi Arabia	2.16	Hashem Al-Oqaibi Saudi Arabia	2.13
Pole vault	Abdulla Ghanim Saeed Qatar	5.00 GR	Eshagh Ghaffari Iran	5.00 =GR	Mohsen Rabbani Iran	4.80
Long jump	Saleh Al-Haddad Kuwait	7.50	Ibrahim Mohamedin Qatar	7.48	Khalil Al-Hanahneh Jordan	7.37
Triple jump	Mohammad Hazzory Syria	16.48 GR	Ibrahim Mohamedin Qatar	16.30	Alireza Habibi Iran	15.90
Shot put	Bilal Saad Mubarak Qatar	17.54	Mashari Suroor Kuwait	17.25	Saeed Al-Yami Saudi Arabia	16.58
Discus throw	Ehsan Haddadi Iran	63.63 GR	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari Qatar	60.11	Sultan Al-Dawoodi Saudi Arabia	57.93
Hammer throw	Ali Al-Zenkawi Kuwait	76.25 GR	Mohammad Al-Jawhar Kuwait	65.07	Mohamed Faraj Al-Kaabi Qatar	63.27
Javelin throw	Mohamed Al-Khulaifi Qatar	71.73 GR	Ayoub Arokhi Iran	70.29	Firas Al-Mahamid Syria	69.59
Decathlon	Ali Feizi Iran	6445	Hadi Sepehrzad Iran	5660	Saad Al-Bishi Saudi Arabia	4468

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Ruqaya Al-Ghasra Bahrain	12.28	Ghofrane Mohammad Syria	12.33	Dana Hussein Iraq	12.34
200 m	Ghofrane Mohammad Syria	24.66 GR	Basma Al-Eshosh Jordan	25.25	Dana Hussein Iraq	25.26
4×100 m relay	Iran Padideh Bolourizadeh Melani Artoun Zahra Nabizadeh Nafiseh Mataei	50.97 GR	Oman Huda Al-Kharusi Abeer Al-Jabri Umaima Al-Hinai Hanan Al-Harrasi	52.76	Kuwait Hanan Al-Khamis Reem Al-Awadhi Danah Haidar Danah Al-Nasrallah	1:00:78
High jump	Zahra Nabizadeh Iran	1.70 GR	Shifa Anabtawi Jordan	1.35	Rima Taha Jordan	1.30
Long jump	Rima Taha Jordan	5.82 GR	Fadwa Al-Bouza Syria	5.76	Padideh Bolourizadeh Iran	5.70

Medal table

Bahrain's Belal Mansoor Ali won 1500 m gold and 800 m silver medals.


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Qatar (QAT)	11	10	6	27
2	Kuwait (KUW)	5	2	1	8
3	Iran (IRI)	4	4	5	13
4	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	2	3	6	11
5	Syria (SYR)	2	2	2	6
6	Bahrain (BRN)	2	1	0	3
7	Jordan (JOR)	1	3	2	6
8	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	1	0	2	3
9	Oman (OMA)	0	3	0	3
10	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	3	3
Totals (10 entries)		28	28	27	83