Ashraf El Seify
Doha: Qatar will participate in the 32nd Summer Olympic Games 2020 to be held in the Japanese capital of Tokyo from July 23 to August 10.
A total of 15 athletes will represent Qatar in seven sports at Tokyo 2020 Olympics as Team Qatar will compete in a total of seven sports and 6 track and field disciplines.
Let us focus lights on the profiles of some of our top stars (men and women) by a series of reports prepared by our media delegation to 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games.
Hammer Throw
We will today begin with Team Qatar’s hammer thrower Ashraf El Seify who will be one of the Qatari athletics stars to participate in the upcoming 2020 Olympics Games.
El Seify qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games by virtue of his world ranking of 19.
Tokyo will be the 26-year-old Ashraf’s second Olympics. He was sixth on his Olympic debut in Rio 2016.
El Seify won the gold medal of 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships with a record-breaking throw of 85.57m and then again at 2014 IAAF World Junior Championships.
He also claimed the silver medals of 2015 and 2019 Asian Championships and the gold medal of 2018 Asian Games.
Women’s 100m
Our Qatari triple and long jumper, Bashayer Al Mnawari has been keeping up her amazing sport performance on the fields and tracks of the GCC athletics championships since 2008.
This year, Bashayer Almanwari will raise the scale of challenge in the women’s 100m hoping to lift her regional and continental career to a new level with a distinctive Olympic performance in Tokyo.
Most notably, the Qatari promising triple and long jumper has secured a lot of titles in her GCC sport career, she won the triple and long jump gold of the GCC Women Games consecutively in Bahrain 2013 and Qatar 2014.
Our rising star is a five-time gold medallist in the GCC Championships from 2015 to 2019.
Bashayer Almanwari has made an impressive performance in both Asian Games 2014 (Incheon, Korea ) and Gymnasiade 2015.
Men’s 1500m
Let’s now focus more lights on our middle-distance runner Musaab Adam who secured his spot Tokyo Olympics when he won the qualifying 1500m race held in Doha with a time of 3.32.41 minutes.
Men’s 100m
Qatar’s sprinter Femi Ogunode is one of our most prominent names to participate in 2020 Tokyo Olympics as he booked himself an Olympic spot in the men’s 100m during Wanda Doha Diamond League meeting in Doha last May.
In a 100m ‘B’ race, Ogunode, who ran an Asian record of 9.91s back in 2015, clocked 10 seconds to top the charts, dipping under the Tokyo Olympics standard of 10.05 sec.
Ogunode confirmed that he is ready for the Olympics by winning the gold medal of 100m event at 2021 Arab Athletics Championships last June.
Femi Ogunode added the 200m gold to his 100m title at the Arab Championships. He clocked 20.59 secs in the 200m.
Ogunode made history when he was selected by the Association of National Olympic Committees in 2015 as the best male athlete in Asia. He also claimed the gold medal of 100m and 200m events at 2014 Incheon Asian Games.
