28 Jul. 2016 – The Lebanese Athletics Federation organized the Lebanese Open Clubs Championship with the support of Sayfco Holding inSports City Beirut.
The first day of the championship ended with great results! Nourhane EL COUCH (Ansar) set a new Youth record in the high jump finishing 3rd overall with 1.54m! A great achievement by the young girl! Carine BITCHAKJIAN (Champville), who is the national record holder of 1.72m, decided to compete despite her back pain to help her club. she jumped 1.54m as well leaving the first place for Samantha SAIKALI (Champville) who came from the US to take part in this championship.
Samatha, who is only 20 years of age, jumped her personal best of 1.65m to take first place. Her brother, Christopher SAIKALI is an 18m shot put thrower and will be competing on Friday.
On the other hand, Nour HADID (Army) set a new personal record on the 100m with 10.69s! It is the first time he breaks the 10.70 barrier! Aziza SBEITY (CSJ) also did a good performance on the 100m, running the distance in a sub 12 seconds clocking 11.99!
We should also note that Christopher BOULOS (Maristes Jbeil) and Raphael SAMAHA (CSJ) came in second and third place respectively on the men’s 100m and repeated the same achievement of the Individual Championship! Christopher clocked 10.95 and Raphael finished in 11.17!
Mohamad HANNOUF (Champions) showed his supremacy on the 800m winning both the Lebanese Individual and Open Clubs championship. He set a new personal best of 1:54.43. Abdo HELOU (CSJ) ran a beautiful race and set a great performance of 1:55.83!
Finally, we would like to conclude with the amazing spirit of Corine FREIHA, the queen of day one, who won the 400m Hurdles in 1:12.32 and third in the 800m in 2:33.86, knowing that she wasn’t even training for this distance! She fought till the last meter of the race and that’s what everyone should do!
Congrats and good luck for day 2 and 3!
Here are the full results:
Men:
400m hurdles:
01. Ali Hazar
02. Daniel Basbous
03. Khodr Lakman
100m:
01. Nour El Din Hadid
02. Christophe Boulos
03. Raphael Samaha
High Jump:
01. Abdel Rahim Berjawi
02. Ali Dirani
03. Ali Kanaan
5000m:
01. Nader Jaber
02. Bilal Awada
03. Imad Jezzini
800m:
01. Mohamad Hannouf
02. Abdo Helo
03. Peter Khoury
Women:
400m hurdles:
01. Corine Freiha
02. Mayssa Mouawad
03. Ayand Daou
100m:
01. Aziza Sbeity
02. Lea Obeid
03. Joelle Feghali
800m:
01. Nadia Dagher
02. Farah Tayyar
03. Corine Freiha
High Jump:
01. Samantha Saikaly
02. Carine Betchakjian
03. Nourhan El Kouch
10000m:
01. Nadine Kalot
02. Joumana Alameh
03. Christelle Chbeib
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