There is still a day to go but Egypt will finish ahead of the rest in the Arab Games, reports Ghada Abdel-Kader Egypt is way out in front in the medal standings at the 12th 2011 Pan-Arab Games that runs in Qatar from 9 to 23 December. After 13 days, Egypt was the biggest collector of medals -- almost double its closest rival -- with 195 (75 gold, 65 silver and 55 bronze). Tunisia moved up to second place with103 medals (39 gold, 32 silver and 32 bronze). Host Qatar dropped from second to third place with 96 medals (32 gold, 30 silver and 34 bronze). Morocco stood in fourth with 28 gold, 18 silver and 47 bronze and Saudi Arabia fifth with 11 gold, 10 silver and 16 bronze. Egyptian Greco-Roman wrestler Karam Gaber, the 2004 gold medalist in the Athens Olympics, won a gold medal in the 84kg category after beating Algerian Massoud Zeghdane. In the 66kg category, Egyptian Ibrahim Abdel-Baqi won gold after defeating Iraqi Taha Al-Salehi. Egypt's world champion Mohamed Abdel-Fattah, better known as 'Bogi', took thebronze medal in the 96kg category. In squash, Egyptian team members Tarek Momen Karim won gold while Abdel-Gawad took silver in the men's individual event. Raneem El-Weleili grabbed a gold medal and Omneya Abdel-Qawi took silver in the women's individual. In tennis, the Egyptian men's team of Mohamed Safwat, Sherif Sabri, Karim Maamoun and Omar Hedayet won a gold medal while the Kuwaiti team took silver. In the round robin matches, Egypt beat Jordan 3-0, Lebanon 3-0, Tunisia 2-1 and Morocco 2-1. In the semi-final, Egypt beat the United Arab Emirates 2-1. In the final, Egypt defeated Kuwait 2-0. Egyptian tennis players Yasmine Ebada and Ola Abou-Zekri won a gold medal in the women's doubles. In the quarter-final, Egypt beat Libya 6-0. Also in the semi final Egypt beat Oman 6-1. In the final, Egypt beat Morocco 7-5. Egyptian weightlifters took over the competition with seven gold medals and two silver. Egypt's Nahla Ramadan snatched gold in the women's +75kg competition. In the women's 75kg competition, Egypt's Abeer Khalil took gold. In the men's 69kg, Egypt's Mohamed Abdel-Baki grabbed the gold medal. In the men's 62kg event, Egyptian Ahmed Saad took silver. In shooting, Ahmed Darwish, Amgad Hassan and Mohamed Hassan won the gold medal in the men's 50m rifle three positions teams. Mahmoud Ahmed took the silver medal in the men's 25m standard pistol. Shooters Hesham Ahmed, Mahmoud Ahmed and Amir Ibrahim captured a silver in the men's 25m rapid fire pistol team. Hesham Ahmed won a bronze medal in the men's 25m centre fire pistol. Nourhan Amer, Noha El-Essawi and Reham Mohamed won two bronze medals in the women's team 50m rifle three positions and in the women's 50m rifle prone. In artistic gymnastics, in men's parallel bars, Mohamed El-Saharti took bronze and Islam Shahin silver. Mohamed Serour in the men's vault and Islam Shahin in pommel horse captured bronze medals. Aya Mahgoub took a bronze medal in the women's beam, and a silver in uneven bars. Salama El-Said won two silver medals in the women's floor and beam. Egyptian boxers Mohamed Hassan won bronze in the men's bantam 56kg and Karem El-Ghanam took bronze in the men's 91 kg-heavy. In golf, the Egyptian team of Eissa Abou-Elela, Amr Abou-Elela, Mamdouh El-Sheikh and Suleiman El-Aasser snatched a silver medal in the men's team. Fencers Alaa Eldin captured a gold medal while Tarek Fouad settled for bronze in the men's individual foil. Mennat-Allah Ahmed took silver in the women's individual sabre. The Egyptian athletics team won two gold, nine silver and three silver medals. Shot putters Walaa El-Daqak won gold while Fadya El-Kasabi took silver in the women's shot put while Ihab Abdel-Rahman captured gold in the men's javelin. Egypt dominated archery with 12 gold medals, seven silver and 14 bronze. Amira Mansour grabbed three gold in the women's 50m, 30m and 70m individual competitions respectively, while Hadi El-Kholosi snatched gold in the men's 50m individual competition. In the women's 60m event, Nada Kamel claimed gold, while Aya Kamel secured silver and Hania Fouda took the bronze.
