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Qatar Tribune
3 days ago
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Qatar's Abakar and Hemeida star at ISTAF indoor meeting in Berlin
Tribune News Network Doha Qatar's athletes delivered a remarkable performance in the men's 400m hurdles event at the prestigious ISTAF 2025 meet in Berlin's Olympiastadion on Sunday securing two podium spots. Ismail Doudai Abakar surged to victory, crossing the finish line with a season-best time of 48.04 seconds while Bassem Hemeida captured the bronze medal, setting a new personal best of 48.38 seconds to book his place at the upcoming World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025. Germany's Emil Agyekum secured the silver medal by equalling his personal best with a time of 48.21 seconds. Abakar and Hemeida were both within the qualifying standard for the Worlds - 48.50 secs. Abakar had previously qualified for the World Championships after clocking a time of 48.49 seconds at the Meeting International de Marseille two weeks back. Apart from the one-lap hurdlers, Ammar Ismail Yahia Ibrahim will also represent Qatar at the Tokyo Worlds, after he qualified for the 400m as the reigning Asian Champion. Qatar's men's 4x400m relay team - Abderrahman Samba, Hemeida, Ashraf Hussen Osman and Ibrahim - will also be in action at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium, following their qualification with a national record time of 3:00.29 at the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou in March.
Qatar Tribune
01-06-2025
- Sport
- Qatar Tribune
Samba, Hemeida secure sensational 1-2 finish for Qatar at Asian athletics
Abderrahman Samba and Bassem Hemeida delivered a sensational 1-2 finish for Qatar in the men's 400m hurdles at the Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, on Saturday. Samba, the Asian record holder, clocked 48.00 seconds to take gold, while Hemeida surged late to claim silver in 49.44 seconds. Chung Wei Lin of Chinese Taipei earned bronze, just 0.203 seconds behind Hemeida. The duo repeated their gold-silver performance from last year's Asian Games in Hangzhou. Abubaker Haydar Abdalla added to Qatar's medal tally with a bronze in the men's 800m, clocking 1:45.20. Kuwait's Ebrahim Alzofairi won gold in 1:44.59, followed by Iran's Ali Amirian with silver in 1:44.97. Qatar ended the competition on a high, finishing joint fourth with Kazakhstan in the overall standings, winning six medals: three gold, one silver, and two bronze. Samba also led Qatar to victory in the men's 4x400m relay alongside Hemeida, Hatim Aitoulaghazi, and Ammar Ismail Ibrahim. Earlier, Ibrahim had clinched Qatar's first gold in Gumi in the men's 400m final. China topped the medal table with 32 medals (19 gold), followed by India (24 medals, 8 gold) and Japan (28 medals, 5 gold).
