Algeria’s Souad Ait Salem sets national 5000m record (© IAAF)
Abdellatif Meftah and Souad Ait Salem were the men’s and women’s race winners of the Half Marathon, the final event of the athletics competitions at the 10th Pan-Arab Games which concluded yesterday (8 Oct) on the streets of Algiers, Algeria (8 Oct).
25 year-old Olympian Souad Ait Salem, the Algerian record holder for 5000m (15:15.04 - 2004), 10,000m (32:13.15 – 2004) and former African champion at the longer track distance took the women’s Half Marathon title in 1:16.32.
Compatriot Fouzia Zoutat, 24, made it a one-two for the Algerian nation with 1:17.23, so completing a very success Games for the hosts in the Athletics competitions which included four golds for Baya Rahouli (100m, 100mH, LJ and TJ).
Morocco’s Meftah Abdellatif, who has a best of 61:32 (2003), won the men’s race in 1:05.33 from Algeria’s 29 year-old Said Belhout who came second, just twelve seconds adrift.
The 11th edition of the Pan-Arab Games will take place in Libya in 2007.
IAAF
Selected Results – Final day
with thanks to Chafik Boukabes
Half Marathon
Men
1 - Meftah Abdellatif ( Mar) 1:05.33
2 - Belhout Said (Alg) 1:05.45
3 - Mohamed El Mustapha Riyad (Bah) 1:06.57
Women
1 - Souad Ait Salem (Alg) 1:16.32
2 - Fouzia Zoutat (Alg) 1:17.23
3 - Nadia El Djoufaini (Bah)1:18.08
