Qatari runner Abu Bakr Abdullah clocked 1:45.53s to clinch the 800m gold medal on the final day of the 25th Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok Sunday and qualified for the World Athletics Championships 2023. India’s Krishan Kumar clocked 1:45.88s to finish second. Ebrahim al-Zofairi of Kuwait came third (1:46.11s). Qatar's Abdirahman Saeed finished fifth.