Badminton at the 2004 Arab Games

Badminton at the 2004 Arab Games
Venue	Mokhtar-Aribi Hall
Location	El Biar, Algiers, Algeria
Dates	26 September – 4 October 2004

Badminton was contested at the 2004 Arab Games. The events were held at the Mokhtar-Aribi Hall in El Biar, Algiers, Algeria from 26 September to 4 October 2004.^[1]

Syria dominated the medal table for a second consecutive time, winning five golds, a silver and a bronze. The host team, Algeria finished second on the medal table, winning a gold, two silvers and a bronze.^[2][3]

Algeria won their first gold medal in badminton in the Games when men's doubles pair Karim Rezig and Zeradine Ammar defeated Tariq Mansour Elfawair and Rami Al-Sheikh in the final.^[4] Egypt also won their first gold in the Games when the women's team finished first in the women's team event.^[5]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Algeria)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Syria (SYR)	5	1	2	8
2	Algeria (ALG)*	1	2	1	4
3	Egypt (EGY)	1	0	5	6
4	Jordan (JOR)	0	3	2	5
5	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	2	2
Totals (5 entries)		7	6	12	25

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Syria Tareq Shalhoum	Jordan Tariq Mansour Elfawair	Syria Bassel Al-Durrah
			Egypt Kareem Shedeed
Men's doubles	Algeria Karim Rezig Ammar Zeradine	Jordan Tariq Mansour Elfawair Rami Al-Sheikh	Iraq Saleh Mehdi Wisam Salah
			Egypt Yehya Aldel Kader Tamar Raafat
Men's team	Syria Tareq Shalhoum Bassel Al-Durrah Nawras Abdul Wahid Hayel Kareem	Algeria Karim Rezig Ammar Zeradine Kamel Haroun Salim Belmahi	Jordan Tariq Mansour Elfawair Rami Al-Sheikh Omar Hani Bani Muntaser Elnabani
Women's singles	Syria Hadil Kareem	Jordan Razane Kaled Alkhalife	Syria Eva Katrib
			Egypt Hadia Hosny
Women's doubles	Syria Eva Katrib Hadil Kareem	Jordan Razane Kaled Alkhalife Rawan Ghazi	Egypt Dina Nagy Sandy Nagy
			Algeria Malika Menaceri Sara Naidji
Women's team	Egypt Alaa Youssef Sandy Nagy Hadia Hosny Dina Nagy	Syria Eva Katrib Hadil Kareem Bushra Muhawesh	Jordan Razane Kaled Alkhalife Rawan Ghazi Dina Abu Zaid Najwa Al-Turk
Mixed doubles	Syria Bassel Al-Durrah Eva Katrib	Algeria Ammar Zeradine Malika Menaceri	Egypt Kareem Shedeed Alaa Youssef
			Iraq Saleh Mehdi Etihad Kamel

Participating nations

A total of 6 nations competed in badminton at the 2004 Arab Games:

•  Algeria
•  Bahrain
•  Egypt
•  Iraq
•  Jordan
•  Syria

References

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