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ARAB CHAMPIONSHIP COMPLETE PHOTO
GALLERY

í THE EGYPTIAN
federation, headed by Dr.
Adel Fahim, repeated the city of
Alexandria as seat for the 2023
edition of the Arab championship.
Alexandria, a populous city on the
edge of the Mediterranean sea,
is a tourist centre with excellent
hotels like the one that hosted
these Arab championships. With
a participation that broke records
(almost 800 athletes) and with
disciplines that reached almost
a hundred participants each, the
level of our sport in this part of
the world continues to grow, with
Junior classes filled with athletes
clearing the future for a whole
new generation of competitors.
In purely sporting terms,
we can highlight the winner in
Junior Bodybuilding aged 21 to
23 and weighing more than 75
kilos, Abdallo Ateya Allah from
Egypt, who beat a huge group of
41 competitors beforehand and
gives an idea of the vitality of this
division in the Arab countries.
The Omani Abdulmajeed
Mohamed was the winner in
the largest class in number of
participating athletes of the
championship, which gives reason
to think about the quality of this
competitor, who is also a Junior in
Men’s Physique up to 176 cm. The
representative of Bahrain Abdulla
Al Mansoor was also the winner of
another of the impressive classes,
namely senior Men’s Physique up
to 173 cm, with 83 participants.
The Tunisian Houssem Louhichi
had a hand-to-hand fight in
Men’s Physique up to 179 with the
Moroccan Abdelhamid Al Hatimi
that ended with the victory of the

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