Best 10 Lebanese Athletics Performance in 800m and 1500m Since 2010

24 Sep. 2016 – We’ve been writing about the best 10 performances in every event in track and field, but we decided to make it short by putting together the middle distance events.

It is very well known that most of the 800 meters runners also run the 1500 meters, especially in Lebanon.  But it is not always the case on the higher level. A quick example: the 800m world record holder David Rudisha from Kenya is specialized in the 800 meters, while Toufic Makhloufi from Algeria usually competes in both the 800 and 1500m.

The following tables show that in the men’s, the middle distance is dominated by the Army squad. Khaled Denaoui has the best performances in both the 800 and 1500 meters, but he recently didn’t show up very often, and in 2015, while Hassan Karakalla was performing really well on these distances, Khaled disappeared from competition due to unknown reasons.

Only Mohamad Hannouf (Champions) was able to enter the table in the 800 meters setting the 5th best performance! Hannouf ran amazingly this year and won the 800m titles in both the Lebanese Open and Individual Championships.

In the women’s, Saria Traboulsi (Inter-Lebanon) was dominant between 2012 and 2014, but unfortunately she had a very serious injury afterwards but she is coming back very soon!

Sara Joe Kortbawi (Champville) was only 0.85 second away from the World Juniors qualifications when she did her personal best on the 800 meters. She is undoubtedly one of the best young talents on this distance. She was able to make it in both the 800 and 1500 meters best performances.

Nadia Dagher (Champions) lives and trains in Germany. Recently, due to her dual Citizenship, she had to chose to compete for Lebanon in order for the federation to consider her performances as national records. She officially signed with Champions on the 7th of July 2015, and decided to compete for Lebanon. That’s why her early performance of 4:34 achieved few days before this date was not considered as a national record. She only ran few times the 800 and 1500 meters but we expect a lot from her knowing that she ran even faster in previous years.

Maria Pia Nehme (Inter-Lebanon) on the other hand is a long distance specialist who detained for a long time the records from 3000m to the Marathon. She used to run the 1500 meters but was never her favorite distance.

Best Lebanese Athletics Performances since 2010

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Best 10 Lebanese Athletics Performance in 200m Since 2010

Best 10 Lebanese Athletics Performance in 400m Since 2010

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