Two meet records women steeple and hammer at Asian Champs, by Alfons Juck, EME News PUNE (IND, Jul 5): In the much anticipated men long jump at the 20th Asian Championships India’s Kumaravel Prem Kumar could manage a silver medal after the 20-year-old Indian leapt 792 (0.0) in his last round. Chinese Wang Jianan won with 795 (+1.4), bronze for another Chinese Tang Gongchen 789 (+2.1). Reigning Asian Games champion Sudha Singh had a powerful rival to tackle in the women’s 3000m steeplechase. Baharaini runner Ruth Chebet (16) ran a brilliant start to finish race to win the gold in a new championship (and national record) time of 9:40.84 while Sudha, having booked her Moscow berth already in last month’s Inter-State meet at Chennai, brought the second silver medal to India with a decent 9:56.27. Pak Kum-Hyang of DPR Korea clocked 10:09.80 for the bronze. Ayako Kimura of Japan (13.25, -0.5) and Anastassiya Soprunova of Kazakhstan (13.44) finished on the first two places in the hurdles race with Indian Hemasree Jaybal lucky third 14.01 PB. Favorites Hitomi Shimura of Japan and Anastassiya Pilipenko from Kazakhstan have been allowed ‘under protest’ as they have not acceded to starter’s decision on false start in two consecutive starts, and finished third and fourth respectively with the times of 13.67 and 13.68 secs. However the officials revised the race results after the race and Hemasree elevated to the bronze position. Indian national record-holder Siddhanth Thingalaya, the fastest qualifier from yesterday’s heats, was heavily disturbed after two re-calls from the starter and was fourth 13.89. Chinese Jiang Fan won in 13.61 (+0.1) over Abdulaziz Almandeel of Kuwait 13.78 and Japan’s Wataru Yazawa 13.88. Reigning Asian Games champion Tarek Mubark Taher from Bahrain, a 8:06 steeplechaser, displayed his class to win in style at 8:34.77 for a 1-2 with teammate Dejene Regassa (8:37.40). Tsyuoshi Takeda of Japan was third 8:48.48. Hammer Thrower Wang Zheng of China won with 72.78. In that process she also improved the Indian all-comers’ record. Belayneh Betlhem Desalegn outkicked the rivals in the women 1500 m in the last lap to win in 4:13.67 to give the United Arab Emirates its first gold in the championships. Pre-race favourite Mimi Belete from Bahrain made an attempt to catch-up with her, but eventually finished second in 4:14.04. Japan’s Ayako Jinnouchi snatched the bronze from the Indian Sini Markose 4:16.73 to 4:17.14. In the men’s race, Saudi Arabian Imed Hamed Mohamed Noor took the top spot clocking 3:39.51 in rain. Qatari Mohamad Al-Garni (3:40.75) and Bilal Mansour Ali from Bahrain in 3:40.96 finished behind him. After a fierce battle, last year’s runner-up Sajad Moradi from Iran finished fourth in 3:41.60. Anastasiya Juravleva gave Uzbekistan its first gold in women’s triple jump by leaping to 14.18 (+1.8) Teammate Aleksandra Kotlyarova (13.89, +0.8) and Irina Ektova of Kazakhstan (13.75, +1.8) were the other medal winners. Ivan Zaytsev of Uzbekistan won the javelin 79.76 over Sachith Madhuranga of Sri Lanka 79.62 NR. Japan clocked fast 39.10 in 4x100 m heats. From Murali Krishnan.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 11:10:02 +0000