Sultan Mubarak al-Dawoodi

Sultan Mubarak al-Dawoodi
nation	Saudi Arabia
birthday	16th March 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Qal'at Bishah , Saudi Arabia
size	192 cm
Weight	86 kg
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	65.52 m (June 18, 2016 in Biała Podlaska )
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 0 × 1 × U20 Asian Championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Asian Games bronze Doha 2006 60.82 m Junior Asian Championships silver Ipoh 2004 59.33 m
last change: December 25, 2018

Sultan Mubarak al-Dawoodi ( Arabic سلطان مبارك الداودي, DMG Sulṭān Mubārak ad-Dāwudī ; * March 16, 1985 in Qal'at Bishah ) is a Saudi Arabian athlete who specializes in discus throwing.

Athletic career

Sultan Mubarak al-Dawoodi gained his first international experience at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Debrecen , where he finished fifth with 57.78 m. In 2002 he took part in the Junior World Championships in Kingston and was eliminated there with 50.27 m in qualification. He then took part in the Asian Games in Busan for the first time and was seventh with 57.69 m. In the following year he reached sixth place at the Asian Championships in Manila with 57.36 m, won the bronze medal at the Arab Championships in Amman with 52.88 m and finished seventh at the Military World Games in Catania with 55.40 m. In 2004 he won the silver medal at the Junior Asian Championships in Ipoh with 59.33 m and qualified again for the Junior World Championships in Grosseto , where he was ninth with 57.67 m. He then won the silver medal at the Pan-Arab Games in Algiers with a throw of 56.66 m. In 2005 he won silver at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Mecca and finished fifth at the Asian Championships in Incheon with 56.62 m.

In 2006 he won the bronze medal at the Asian Games in Doha with 60.82 m behind the Iranian Ehsan Hadadi and Rashid Shafi al-Dosari from Qatar. In 2007 he qualified for the World Championships in Osaka and was eliminated there with 61.23 m in qualification. Then he was sixth at the Military World Games in Hyderabad and won the Pan-Arab Games in Cairo with 58.63 m. The following year he took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing and was eliminated with 56.29 m in qualification . On April 30, 2009, he tested positive for norandrosterone and was banned for two years for this violation of the doping regulations . In 2011 he reached the World Military Games in Rio de Janeiro with 58.15 m, as well as the Pan-Arab Games in Doha with 57.44 m. In 2012 he again took part in the Olympic Games in London , but again failed to qualify for the final with 59.54 m .

In 2013 he finished sixth at the Asian Championships in Pune with 60.05 m and failed in qualifying at the World Championships in Moscow with 55.94 m. He was then at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Palembang with 58.76 m fifth. The following year he was eighth in the 2014 Athletics Continental Cup in Marrakech and sixth in the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. He also finished fifth at the 2015 Asian Championships in Wuhan with 56.98 m and was eighth at the Military World Games in Mungyeon with 57.92 m. In 2016 he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro for the third time , but failed again in the qualification with 54.84 m . In 2017 he won the bronze medal at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku and finished the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar in seventh place with 57.96 m. He then finished second at the Arab Championships in Radès with a width of 58.98 m. In 2018 he took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the third time , where he finished seventh with 57.25 m.

In 2006 and 2012 al-Dawoodi became the Saudi champion in discus throwing.

Web links

• Sultan Mubarak al-Dawoodi in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Sultan Mubarak al-Dawoodi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF: Athletes currently ineligible to compete in Athletics following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation ( Memento of February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). 2009