About Us

Gaby Issa-El-Khoury Ph.D. OLY 


Results, Statistics and Records

Lebanese record holder of the long jump since 1982 until his athlete Marc Habib bettered him in 2004. Still holds the Lebanese indoor record with 7m41.
Participated in the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 1984 for Lebanon in long jump.
Gaby is the head coach of the Blue Stars Sporting Club.
He earned the 3rd coach degree from the French Federation of Athletics (Fédération Française d’Athlétisme) and the 2nd level coaching education form the USA Track and Field Association.
He is a lecturer for the World Athletics coaching education system.
He is presently Associate Professor at the University of Balamand, Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, School of Architecture.

Laura Saliba  


Data Management

Laura graduated as a Computer Engineer from ESIB (Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Beyrouth), USJ (Université Saint-Joseph) and has completed an Advanced Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Belgium.
Laura tried almost every sport but decided to focus on track and field (athletics).
She runs the sprint events from the 100 to the 400m dash and hurdles.
But her favorite are the 200m and the 400m hurdles.
She is currently working at the Microsoft Engineering Center Paris.

Patrick Fargialla  


Database, programming and web related issues

Patrick graduated as an Electrical and Computer Engineer with specialization in Computer Engineering from ESIB (Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Beyrouth) at the USJ (Université Saint-Joseph).
He was a runner in the CAEJ (Club des Anciens Elèves de Jamhour) and still runs for the Blue Stars (new name of the CAEJ).
Patrick likes the long distance races and especially the road races.