The University of Zakho Became the Athletics Champions in Sulaimaniya

Published Date: Monday, 29 April 2019, 00:00

Under the auspices of the Olympic Committee in the Kurdistan region and Kurdistan Federation of Athletics, an athletics tournament was organized in Sulaimaniya City. In the tournament, the player Salim Loqman- an employee at the University of Zakho won the first place in the running competition for a distance of (400 m) and won the second place in the competition for running (800 m). Likewise, Hajar O. Bashar- a student at the University of Zakho won the first place in the competition of running for a distance of 1500 m while Younis M. Saleh scored a new record in the event of throwing the spear after throwing the spear (66.34 m). It is worth mentioning that the tournament was held on 26th and 27th of April, 2019, at the stadium of the University of Sulaymaniyah.