After long debates, the Lebanese Athletics Federation has made a decision about the Lebanese records book. To be fair to those who are born in the last months of the year, the records will now be considered by the date of the birth; each athlete will have two full years in a single category to break records, from the first day of his or her birth till the end of the two full years, which means that his or her last chance to break records will be one day before his or her birthday. This will be the new rule applied for Lebanese records from now on, it is already implemented by International Associations. However, a decision has not been made about whether it will also have a backwards effect on previous records made.
Abdallah Chahine, the new Hammer Thrower, who appeared out of the blue last year on the Lebanese field breaking the Lebanese Record twice by many meters, did it again this year in the United States where AB lives and trains. He broke the National Record once with a 55.98 meters throw then did it again on 23 April 2011 scoring 56.82 meters at the Triton Invitational. He improved his mark by 3 meters since August 2010 which is in less than a year!
We will have the chance to watch AB on the Lebanese Field again in Summer. Hopefully he will have another surprise for us..
2011…. On a personal note, this is my favorite number; it brings such optimism and energy to me. I wish all my fellow athletes the best in this New Year and new season. I am sure that with the right amount of dedication and effort, wonders will be made. As our fellow Lebanese hero Maxim Chaya said : "When you aim for the top, you don’t count the steps.” The running season started a few weeks ago in a meeting at AUB on the 24th of March with a cold, rainy weather. The next meeting was a Nike meeting also held at AUB, and finally a meeting organized by the Inter-Lebanon club that took place on the 16th of April at the Cite Sportive. Despite the bad weather on the 24th, Daniel Bassous (CSJ) ran an incredible 400m starting his season with a 52.3; his PB and SB of 2010 was 52.44s. Another athlete who started the season on an amazing note is Ansar’s Maha Al-Mouallem who was seen running and hitting hard in every meet. Maha clocked 12.5s at the AUB meeting, 12.3s at the Nike meeting, and an amazing 12.0s at the Inter-Lebanon meeting. Gretta has a new opponent this season, other than Aziza Sbeity who didn’t show up frequently this season yet, but will do soon. Gretta clocked an 11.8s at the Inter-Lebanon meeting, her best manual time for now. A new guest showed up on the block, Alina Popescu (Romania), who was once the World Youth Champion in triple jump with 13.91m. Alina ran 100m and did long jump at the Nike and Inter-Leb
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The French party that began on the opening night of the
31st European Indoor championships with Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida’s
victory in the Pentathlon continued on Saturday with two more national
records by the home team, capped with Renaud Lavillenie’s spectacular
6.03m clearance in the Pole Vault that made him the 3rd Pole Vaulter of all-time! The bar that danced and bounced didn't finally follow, so it allows him to eclipse Jean Galfione, the ex-record holder of 6.00m. Then the journey ended on Sunday 6 with a World Record for Teddy Tamgho who tripled twice 17.92m! It was unusual for the Italian Fabrizio Donato to stay in the second position in indoors with 17.70m! Donato set also a NR for Italy. Teddy who finished with no medals in the long jump, has put all his angry in the triple jump and improved by 1cm his previous WR. France aslo took gold in 4x400m with a NR and 400m with Lesli Djone.
While nine different countries struck gold on the final day, Russia
added three to end the weekend with 15 medals in all, just four ahead of
Fr
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The Lebanese Army team organized today (05.03.2011) a Race against the Hour at the Beyrouth Municipal Stadium. Where Hussein Awada, The marathon record holder and the second best lebansese athlete in 2010 after Jean-Claude Rabbath, just broke the Lebanese Record in this event running 18548,75 m. The previous record was held by Ali Awad (Army): 18048m in 1h. We should mention that the 3 other runners did also break the record but finally its signed by the best of them which is Hussein Awada.
The Lebanese Athletics Federation is organizing a conference about "Sports Nutrition and psychological preparation in athletics" presented by Mme Zeina Ghsoub Asswad and Miss Rana Najib, experts in sport's science. The event will take place in Baabda, at the Antonins High School College, in the Theater "P. Joseph Chidiac", on Saturday 5 March, at 11:00 AM. All the clubs, coaches and athletes of all ages are invited to this event.
Last week, in Bucharets - Romania, Mohammad Hannouf (inter-Lebanon) ran the 800m in 2:05.89. Yesterday 19 February, Hannouf ran again the 800m, but this time he improved his time by 3.55 seconds breaking Thomas Semaan record (but that is yet ratified by the FLA), with a beautiful time of 2:02.34! His personal best in 800m outdoor in 2010 was 2:04.92, a great improvement for Hannouf! This boy is not away from the 2 minutes barrier, he may break it very soon this year. What's next Hannouf?
Congrats Hannouf and good luck for the rest of the season!
n Indoor championships with Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida’s
victory in the Pentathlon continued on Saturday with two more national
records by the home team, capped with Renaud Lavillenie’s spectacular
6.03m clearance in the Pole Vault that made him the 3rd Pole Vaulter of all-time! The bar that danced and bounced didn't finally follow, so it allows him to eclipse Jean Galfione, the ex-record holder of 6.00m. Then the journey ended on Sunday 6 with a World Record for Teddy Tamgho who tripled twice 17.92m! It was unusual for the Italian Fabrizio Donato to stay in the second position in indoors with 17.70m! Donato set also a NR for Italy. Teddy who finished with no medals in the long jump, has put all his angry in the triple jump and improved by 1cm his previous WR. France aslo took gold in 4x400m with a NR and 400m with Lesli Djone.
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