Hangzhou (China): Qatar’s Abderrahman Samba and Bassem Abdussalam won gold and silver medals in the 400m hurdles at the 19th Asian Games on Tuesday.
The Olympic Games final in Tokyo was Samba’s most recent 400m hurdles race, the 2019 world bronze medallist having injured his hamstring while warming up for the Doha event last May. That injury ruled him out for the whole of 2022.
Samba set his Asian 400m hurdles record of 46.98 in 2018 – a time that places him fifth on the world all-time list.
