Ruqaya Al Ghasra
Ruqaya Al Ghasra (Arabic رقية الغسرة Ruqaya al - Ghasara, DMG Ruqaya al - Ġasara, also Rakia Al- Gassra written; born September 6, 1982 Bani Jamra ) is a former Bahraini sprinter.
The athlete attracted special attention by wearing a long-sleeved shirts, long pants and a tight fitting hijab ( head covering ) in sporting competitions with which it according to Islamic rules so covered the so-called aura of their body that only hands and face were free.
Life
Al Ghasra began her athletic career as a basketball player in her school team, but came up with 19 years due to their quickness to athletics. After she was able to win some school championships, she brought a teacher 2000 national Bahrain Athletics Association, which later became a program of support for female youth athletes started little. Until then, women in this Gulf state could operate only in team sports, as the track and field clubs were not accessible for them. In the same year Al Ghasra reached a sixth place finish at the Arab Youth Championships in Damascus.
In the 13th Pan Arab Athletics Championships in Amman ( Jordan), won Al Ghasra 2003 gold in the 100 m ( 11.61 s ) and 200 - meter dash ( 24.09 seconds). For the first time in 2004 staged in Tehran hall Asia Championships, she won silver medals over 60 m (7.48 s ), 200 m ( 24.18 s ) and 400 m ( 55.29 s ). At the World Indoor Championships in Budapest in 2004 she divorced over 400 m during preprocessing, although it 's set a Bahraini record with 54.24.
Al Ghasra filled with 11.39 s was the first woman from an Arab country, the Olympic 100 -meter qualifying standard ( qualifying limit 11:40 sec) so it was not like some other participants from Islamic states rely on a wild card of the IOC. With 11.49 sec she left at the Olympic Games in Athens in the flow, where she missed the next round by 0.06 seconds.
2005, she filed at the third West Asian Games in Doha 12,28 s to victory in the inaugural Women's 100 - meter race. At 24, she won at the Asian Games 2006 in Qatar with 23.19 s the gold medal in the 200 - meter dash in front of the Uzbek Gozal Xubbiyeva and the Sri Lankerin Susanthika Jayasinghe, the Al Ghasra in the 100 -meter run, where, after a false start 11,40 s achieved, had migrated to the bronze medal. This Asian Games were the first in which Bahraini track and field athletes won a medal. However, while the naturalized, originally from Ethiopia a middle distance runner Maryam Yusuf Jamal was wearing the typical clothing for their sport, Al Ghasra as well as some athletes from other nations was dressed, as it corresponded to the cultural traditions of their homeland. Al Ghasra said after her victory in an interview, wearing clothes according to traditional rules they spur on and is not a disability.
Due to a hamstring, the Al Ghasra itself drew upon in July 2007 in the left thigh, she could not contest the World Championships in Osaka in August and the Asian Indoor Games in Macau in October. In the second hall Asia Championships in February 2008 in Doha, the convalescent Al Ghasra won the gold in the 60 m (7.40 s ) and 400 m ( 53.28 s ).
Although she was also qualified than 100 m, they announced before the Olympic Games in Beijing, will be limited to the 200-meter run in which they strove for a medal. Both in the run as well as in the quarterfinals she was with 22.81 s and 22.76 s first in the semi-finals but she divorced in sixth with 22.72 s.
At the opening ceremony for the first time attracted women as a flag carrier for Gulf States, except Al Ghasra the Iranian Homa Hosseini and Sheikha Maitha Almaktoum from the United Arab Emirates.
Al Ghasra wore in Beijing as a sportswear Hijjod the Australian designer Aheda Zanetti, who was known by her Islamic compliant swimsuit Burkini she had designed for her textile company Ahiida. The Hijjod is a dome- shaped hijab (the word is composed of the words for veils, hijab, and Hood, Hood), the hair and neck covered. Previously, she wore clothes of sporting goods manufacturer Nike. The pious Shiite wanted with their appearance to encourage their faith comrades to operate a competitive sport because women's sport was new in Bahrain and other Gulf countries. The President of the Bahrain Athletics Association ( BAA ) referred to them as " role model, especially for young girls ." The start of Muslim women with clothes after traditional Islamic custom in the Olympics is considered both as a step towards gender equality in Islamic countries, but on the other hand, perceived as a sign of re-Islamization.
At the 2009 World Championships Al Ghasra reached the semi-finals of 200 m, the quarter-finals over 100m. At the end of the year she resigned for health reasons. In July 2010, the World IAAF was known, however, that in her a epitestosterone infringement was detected at a training control a week before the World Championships in 2009, she received a two-year doping ban. The results of Berlin were canceled.
Your personal best times are at 11.12 s for 100 meters ( Milan, July 2, 2008 Arab record ) and 22.65 s for 200 meters ( Rome, July 11, 2008 Arab record ). Al Ghasra is 1,70 m tall and weighed about 65 kg competition times. She studied sports management.
Achievements
- 2004 Hall Asia Championships: Silver 60 m, 200 m, 400 m
- 2006 Asian Games: Gold 200m, Bronze 100 m
- 2008 Hall Asia Championships: Gold 60 m, 400 m