06 Mar. 2016 – Five of our of Lebanese athletes are competing in Istanbul Indoor Meeting. Aziza SBEITY and Joy ABOUSEIMAN from Jamhour, Ramzi NAIM, Mohamad HANNOUF and Abed AL RAYYEs from the Champions.
Today, Ramzi, Abed and Aziza ran the 60 meters. Aziza SBEITY finished second in the final with 7.71 seconds with a bad start. She ran 7.67 seconds in Qatar two weeks ago and is representing Lebanon at the IAAF World Indoor Championship that will be held in Portland, United States, on the 17th of March.
Ramzi NAIM finished 1st in the final of the 60 meters in 7.04 seconds! He ran 7.09 in the semi-final. Abed AL RAYYES finished second behind NAIM with 7.20 seconds in the finals and 7.29 in the semi-finals. We should note that this is the first indoor participation for AL RAYYES.
“You can’t always run Personal bests. I am happy with my performance,” said Ramzi NAIM. The time between the semi-finals and finals was more than 3 hours but they did their best.
Tomorrow, Mohamad HANNOUF will be running the 800 meters, and will try to go under 2 minutes, and Joy ABOUSLEIMAN will be doing the Long Jump. Ramzi, Aziza and Abed will also run the 200 meters tomorrow.
Good luck!
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