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Asian Athletics Confederation awards Iraq the 2025 Asian Sports Leadership Pin (Daboos) Award
The Asian Athletics Confederation (AAC) awarded the Executive Director of the Iraqi Athletics Federation, Zaidoun Jawad Mohammed, the 2025 Asian Sports Leadership Pin (Daboos) Award today, Sunday.
The Iraqi Athletics Federation stated in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): that "The AAC awarded the Executive Director of the Iraqi Athletics Federation, Zaidoun Jawad Mohammed, the 2025 Asian Sports Leadership Pin Award, in recognition of his outstanding efforts and significant contributions to the development of athletics in Asia over the past 12 years."
"The honoring came during the Asian General Assembly (Congress) meeting, on the sidelines of the 26th Asian Athletics Championships, currently being held in the South Korean city of Gumi," noting that "the honoring is a new administrative achievement added to the record of the Iraqi Athletics Federation."
"During the ceremony, the Asian Federation praised the significant role played by Zaidoun Jawad in developing athletics in Asia, through his active participation in developing technical strategies and organizing tournaments, as well as his continuous support for athletes and refereeing and administrative staff in Iraq and across the continent."
For his part, the Executive Director of the Iraqi Athletics Federation, Zaidoun Jawad, according to the statement, expressed his pride in this recognition, stressing that "the award honors the efforts of the entire Iraqi and Asian team," and promised to continue to work to raise the flag of Iraq in athletics.
According to the statement "This Leadership Pin is the second honor in athletics, after Federation President Talib Faisal received the Creativity Pin in 2023 in recognition of his efforts and proposals to develop the game."
The statement continued, "The current Asian Championship is witnessing wide participation from elite Iraqi players, amid new hopes for Iraqi athletics achievements on the Asian map."
