Asian Athletics Association

18th Asian Athletics Championship 2009

China topped 18th Asian Athletics Championship medal tally
Guangzhou, 14 Nov 2009: China once again shown its supremacy in the continental athletics topping 18th Asian Athletics Championships medal tally winning 18 Gold medals. Japan team shown massive improvements in the medal tally winning 12 Gold medals and finished behind China. Total of 5 championship records were created during last 5 days of the championship where more than 530 athletes from 38 countries participated. Total 21 countries won one or more medals indicating popularity of athletics in Asia.

Day 5- Asian Athletics Championships

Guangzhou, 14 Nov 2009: Ehsan Hadidi, Asian record holder from Iran is back after disastrous 2008 due to injury and this time he hurled to 64.83m to win his third in a row continental title in the men’s discus throw. His teammate Mohammad Samimi came close to threaten Ehsan but could managed only 64.01m. Wu Tao, 2003 Asian champion from China took bronze medal in 59.27m.

Bai Xue, Berlin World Championship Marathon champion from China lived upto the expectations by winning women’s 10000m final with a timing of 34:11.14s. India ’s Kavita Raut finished second to win her second medal of the championship with a performance of 34:17.21s, a new personal best. Bronze medal went to another Chinese Wang Jia Li clocking 34:22.64s.

In the men’s 10000m Hasan Mehaboob Ali, Asian Games champion from Bahrain set a new championship record with a timing of 28:23.70s beating Qatari pair Kemboi Nicholas of who clocked 28:25.22s and Ahmadh Abdullah on the third place with 28:28.38s. Women's high jump final was won by Chinese Zheng Xing Juan clearing height of 1.93m. Nadiya Dusanova and Svetlana Radzivil both from Uzbekistan won silver and bronze medal clearing 1.90m and 1.87m respectively.

Women's 4x100m relay gold was won by Japanese team comprising Maki Wada, Chisato Fukushima, Mayumi Watanabe and Momoko Takahashi clcoking 43.93s. Thailand won silver medal in 44.55s while Korea took bronze with 45.46s.

Japan won another gold medal in the men's 4x100m relay with a performance of 39.01s beating host China ( 39.07s) and Chinese Taipai ( 39.57s).

In the men's Javelin Throw Yukifumi Maurakami of Japan threw 81.50m in the 4th round to win gold medal. Wang Qing Bo last attempt of 80.25m earned him silver medal while Qin Qiang of China could not improve on his opening throw of 80.08m and settled on the bronze medal.

In the thrilling race Chinese women 4x400m relay team won the gold medal beating defending champion India with a performance 3:31.08s. Indian team clocked 3:31.62s while Japan won bronze medal 3:31.95s.

Men's 4x400m relay, last event of the championship was won by Japan with a timing of 3:04.13s. China finished second in 3:06.60s while India took bronze with 3:06.83s

Day4 - Asian Athletics Championships-
Japanese athletes dominates day four proceedings
Guangzhou, 14 Nov 2009: Japan Satomi Kubokura of Japan successfully defended her title in the 400m hurdles with a timing of 56.62s beating her arch rival Noraseela Mohammad Khalid from Malaysia who once again failed to upstage Satomi in the continental championships. Noraseela clocked 57.15s to settle on the silver while Natalaya Asanova of Uzbekistan was distant third with 59.37s.

In the men's 400m hurdles another Japanese hurdler Kenji Narisako won the Asian title in the convincing manner clocking 49.22s. India's Joseph Abraham running in lane 8 gave tough fight to Kenji but had to settle on the silver medal with 49.96s , an improvement from Bronze in Amman 2007 to Silver in Guangzhou 2009. Al nobi Mubarak S of Qatar won the bronze medal in 50.19s.

Earlier in the morning session Mayumi Kawasaki set the tone for Japan by winning 20km walk gold medal clocking 1hr30min 12sec. Yang Yawei of China ( 1::34:11) and Svetlana Tolstaya of Kazakhstan ( 1::36:42) won silver and bronze medal respectively.

Japan domination continued in the form of another gold medal by Momoko Takahashi in the women 200m final with a performance of 23.53s. Vietnamese Vu Thi Huong won her second silver of the championship with a season best of 23.61s. Lan Jiang from China took bronze in 23.65s.

Omar Juma Al-Salfa of United Arab Emirates, 20 year old talented sprinter made strong dip at the finish of the 200m final which made the difference. He claimed first Gold medal of UAE in the sprint in the Asian Championship history. He clocked 21.07s beating Japanese pair Shinji Takahira
( 21.08s) and Hitoshi Saito ( 21.10s). It was disappointing note for men sprinters from Japan who failed to win title in the sprint events.

Roman Valiyev of Kazakhstan won men's triple jump title with a jump of 16.70m. Chinese Zhu Shujing's last attempt of 16.67m stopped Kazakh jumpers from making 1-2. Yevgeniy Ektov of Kazakhstan took bronze in 16.49m. Defending champion Renjith Maheshwary of India failed to finish in top 3 and settled on 4th place with 16.48m.

Hiromasa of Japan standing tall after 10 events of Decathlon

Hiromasa Tanaka kept Japan flag flying high in the most grueling event of the championship, Decathlon scoring 7515 points after two days and 10 events. Iranian Hadi Sepehrzad won first medal for Iran in Decathlon event of the Asian Championship in the form of Silver with a total tally of 7262 points. Zhu Heng Jun of China slipped to the third spot with total points of 7200.

Zhou Haiyan won her second gold medal of the championship by winning 800m in addition to the1500m won the 2nd day. Zhou ran tactical race by following early leaders from Kazakhstan and India and then surging ahead in the last 60m to win the title in 2:04.89s. Margarita Matsko of Kazakhstan finished on the second place in 2:05.31s. Truong Thanh Hang of Vietnam won bronze medal in 2:05.33s.

In the men's 800m final Sajad Moradi won first gold medal for Iran with a timing of 1:48.58s. Mohammad Alazemi of Kuwait won silver in 1:48.93s. Bronze medal went to Iraq's Adnan Al-Mntfage who clcoked 1:49.00s.

As expected Chinese women discus throwers made it 1-2 finish in the final of the Women's discus throw. Defending Asian champion and Beijing Olympic finalist Song Aimin hurled discus to 63.90m to win title. Her compatriot Ma Xue Jun won silver medal with a distance of 63.63m. India's Krishna Poonia managed 59.84m to win bronze medal.

Men's high jump was won by Srilankan Manjula Kumara Wijesekara clearing height of 2.23m beating Chinese Huang Haiqiang on the count back who also cleared same height of 2.23m. Vitaliy Tsykunov of Kazakhstan remained on the third place with 2.20m.

Day 3- Asian Athletics Championships
Guangzhou, 12 Nov 2009: Liu Xiang, former World record holder and 2004 Olympic Champion won the men's 110m hurdles here comfortably with 13.50 on the 3rd day of the Asian Athletics Championships, igniting the passion of home crowd.

Liu led all through with his teammate Shi Dongpeng running close behind him. Liu cleared the hurdles comfortably and finally cruised to easy win amid heavy rain and Shi took the silver in 13. 67, while South Korean Park Tae-Kyong finished third in 13.82. Liu's win ignited the passion of home crowd. Liu and Shi both waved the country's flag to the cheering home crowd to celebrate the victory. Liu then took off his jersey and threw it to the screaming crowd.

Altogether seven gold medals were decided in Thursday's events. Five of them were clinched by Chinese athletes and the other two went to Bahrain and Japan.

The morning session had the men's 20km walk, in which the title went to China's pre-event favorite Li Jianbo. The 23-year-old achieved the victory amidst the rain in 1:22:55, and his team-mate Chu Yafei was second by only one second. The bronze went to South Korea's Park Chil-Sung at 1:24:51.

Tarek Mubark of Bahrain defended his title in the men's 3,000m steeplechase. The winner of the event in the 2006 Doha Asian Games, established an early lead to clock eight minutes and 33.58 seconds in a rainy night.

Lin Xiangqian of China fought back from behind to take the silver in 8:34.13. Abubaker Ali Kamal of Qatar, bronze medallist of 800m and 1,500m at last Asian championships, finished third in 8:34.73.

In men's long jump, athletes from Saudi Arabia have been crowned at five straight Asian championships since 2000, but this time the domination was broken down by China's Li Jinzhe.

Li, 20, posted a mark of 8.16m, making him unbeatable in the final. The pre-event favorite Hussain Taher A Al Saba of Saudi Arabia recorded a below-par 7.96m, far from personal and seasonal best of 8.35m. Al Saba grabbed the silver and China's Yu Zhenwei was third.

"I perform normally today," said 30-year-old Al Saba. "I would probably clinch the gold medal if I'm going to participate in next year's Asian Games."

Unexpected results also came in women's pole vault final, where China's Li Caixia took an unexpected win while the bronze medalist at 2005 Asian championships, Malaysia's Roslinda Samsu, flopped on a surprise. Li, 22, chose the opening height of 3.80m and then cleared the following three heights on her first attempt. But She failed on the height of 4.45m, so the 4.30m finally turned out to be her winning jump. China's Wu Sha placed second with 4.15m and South Korea's Choi Yun-Hee the third with 4.00m.

The women's javelin final should have put on a very close tussle among the leading three athletes in Asia, China's Liu Chunhua, Li Lingwei and Japan's Yuki Ebihara, but Ebihara, bronze medalist at the 2006 Doha Asian Games, ranked only fourth in the final, as she posted a below-par mark of 47.03m, more than 13 meters shorter than her personal and season best of 60.84m.

China's Liu Chunhua bagged gold with an overwhelming 57.93m. Li placed second with 55.13m and South Korea's Kim Kyong-Ae got a bronze with 52.78m.

Japanese Tatsumi Yoshika claimed the third gold medal for her country as she won the women's 3,000 meters steeplechase final. Tatsumi, the pre-event favorite, clocked 10 minutes and 5.94 seconds to win the race amid heavy rain, beating Sudha Singh of India by 4.83 seconds. The bronze also went to India's Kiran Tiwari in 10:34.55.

By far, China, Japan and India ranked top three on the medals table. China has bagged 30 medals, while Japan garnered 10 and India 7 medals ( Xinhua)

Day 2- Asian Athletics Championship
Guangzhou, 11 Nov 2009: Sun Yawei of China won her maiden Asian title in the women's 100m hurdles in the closely contested final beating Japanese Asuka Terada by 0.01s with a timing of 13.19s. Eratwai Dedeh of Indonesia won the bronze with a timing of 13.32s.

In the women's 400m final Asami Tanno of Japan finally Liu Xiaosheng completed her full medal tally at the Asian Championship by winning eluded Gold medal with a timing of 53.32s. She had won Silver in Amman ( 2007) and Bronze in Incheon (2005). Chen Li ( 53.55s)of China and 2005 champion Manjeet Kaur ( 53.66s) of India finished second and third respectively.

Men's 400m was won Liu Xiaosheng of China with a performance of 46.55s. Yuzo Kanemaru of Japan 46.60s and Alsibyani Mohd. Ismail Alsibyani of Saudi Arebia 46.84s won silver and bronze medal respectively.

Yuliya Tarasova, Asian leader of the season from Uzbekistan won the grueling women's Heptathlon with a total points of 5840. Her (13.85s/1.76m/13.17m,24.25s/6.36m/35.62m/2:31.78s). Yuki Nakata of Japan finished on the second position scoring 5582 points while Mei Yiduo of China took bronze medal in 5460 points.

As expected Zhang Wenxiu ,Asian record holder from China won the women's Hammer throw with a 72.07m. She threw all 6 throws above 70m mark. Her teammate Hao Shuai finished distant second with a throw of 65.87m. Yuka Murofushi of Japan took bronze medal in 61.99m.

India continued their domination in the continental men's shot put with another convincing win by the young Om Prakash Singh with a 5th round throw of 19.87m beating Asian record holder Al-habishi Sultan from Saudi Arabia and Chinese Taipai Chang Ming Huang. Chang threw 19.34m to claim silver while Jun Zhang of China took bronze medal with a throw of 19.15m.

Liu Feiliang of China won men's pole vault clearing height of 5.60m. His teammate Yang Quan took silver medal with 5.45m and Japanese Daichi Sawano remained on the 3rd place with 5.45m before losing out to Yang on the countback.

Olga Rypakova of Kazakstan lived up to the pre event favorite with another commanding performance in the women's triple jump. Olga won the event with first round jump of 14.53m. Xu Ting Ting of China jumped to 14.11m to win silver medal while another Kazak jumper Irina Litvinenko took bronze medal with a jump of 13.99m.

In the women's 1500m Zhou Haiyan of China ran calculated race to win with a slowest race in the history of the championship with a timing of 4:32.74s. Liu Fang also from China grabbed silver medal in 4:33.35s while Truong Thanh Hang of Vientam took bronze medal in 4:33.46s.
Men's 1500m was hotly contested in spite of absence of Qatari runners, Shaween of Saudi Arabia won the race with a timing of 3:46.08s. Chaminda Wjiekon won first medal for Srilanka in the form of silver medal with a performance of 3:47.01s. India's Chatholi Hamza took bronze in 3:48.44s .

Chisato Fukushima of Japan became the fastest women of the 18th Asian Athletics Championship with a sensational performance of 11.27s to win women's 100m, much anticipated event of the day. Pre championship favorite Vu Thi Houng from Vietnam could not respond to the speed of Chisato and had to settle on silver with 11.50s. India's H. M. Jyothi revived the hope for Indian women sprint with a bronze medal effort with a new personal best timing of 11.60s.

Day two was ended with highly charged event, 100m men's final the most glamorous event of the championship. It was won by Zhang Peimeng of China with a performance of 10.28s beating Japanese Tsukuhara who could have been first Japanese to win title. Tsukuhara clocked 10.32s while Guo Fan of China took bronze in 10.37s.

18th Asian Athletics Championship begins; host China leads medal rush..
Guangzhou, 10 Nov 2009: Chinese young long distance runner Xue Fei
(16:05.19s) zoom past Tejitu Daba
(16:05.45s) of Bahrain at the finish line after covering more than 40m gap in the last 100m of the women 5000m final to win first Gold medal of the 18th Asian Athletics Championship. Inexperienced Tejitu lost the gold medal after leading the race till the finish line before looking back which cost her dearly and had to settle on the silver medal. India's Kavita Raut won the bronze medal with a timing of 16:05.90s, a new personal best .
Berlin World Championship bronze medalist Gong Lijiao had the easy way to win second gold medal for China in the women's Shot Put with a throw of 19.08m hurled in the first round. Liu Xiang Rong (17.55m) also from China grabbed sliver and Rajabi Leyla gave Iran its first medal of the championship with a throw of 16.71m to win bronze medal.
Finally after decade of struggle Marestella Torres of Philippines won her first continental title in the women's long jump with a jump of 6.51m. She beat host china's Chen Ya Ling ( 6.28m) and Japanese jumper Sachiko Masumi ( 6.28m). In the men's hammer throw Tajikistan's Nazarov Dishod won the title with a commanding distance of 76.92m beating defending champion Ali Zinkawi of Kuwait whose last attepmt of 73.45m was no match for Dishod. Ma Ling of China won the bronze in 70.08m.

Asian Coach of the year awards were given during the 2nd congress of the Association of Asian Athletics Coaches( AAAC) held at While Palace hotel in Guangzhou.

Mr. Shunji Karube ( Japan) , Mr. Shigenobu Murofushi
( Japan), Mr. Songli Liang ( China), Mr. Kuigang Ye ( China) were awarded for the year 2008 while Mr. Tarek Sabt ( Bahrain ) and Ms. Fengling Zhu ( China) won the award for the year 2009.

Association of Asian Athletics Coaches was founded in 2002 to educate and improve standards of coaching in Asia with the support of IAAF RDC Centre and Asian Athletics Association' s coaching commission. Till date AAAC has organised more than 5 annual seminars and awarded 11 coaches from 4 Asian countries.

Mr. Maurice Nicholas, Secretary of AAA and Mr. Eidy Alijani , Vice President of AAA gave away awards to the winners. AAAC announced the launch of their website on this occasion ( http://aaac.org.cn )

Left to Right ( Mr. Lamine Diack, IAAF President, Mr. Suresh Kalmadi MP, President of AAA, Mr. Maurice Nicholas, Secretary of AAA at Guangzhou during Asian Athletic Association congress

Guangzhou, 9 Nov 2009: Asian Athletic Association’s 18th general body meeting was held at Guangzhou (China) on 9th Nov 2009. The main item on the agenda was election of the office bearers for the term 2009-2013.

Mr. Suresh Kalmadi, MP from India was reelected unopposed for the third consecutive term. Mr. Kalmadi was first elected in 2000 at Jakarta since then he has introduced many development projects in Asian Athletics including Asian All Star meet, Asian Indoor Championship and Asian Grand Prix series.

Mr. Maurice Nicholas was nominated and elected as Secretary/Treasurer of Asian Athletics Association.

Asian Athletics Association 18th congress in Guangzhou 9th Nov 2009

The meeting was attended by Lamine Diack, President IAAF apart from the representatives of 45 countries. Mr. Diack appreciated the efforts of Asia by organising Global events, particularly appreciated India’s efforts of organising World Half Marathon at New Delhi in 2004 in a splendid manner and other competitions in Asia. He referred his commitment to make school athletics more popular and offered his full support to Asia in its endeavor to promote athletics in Asia.

Click here to view the newly elected council members for the term 2009-2013.

Guangzhou, 8 Nov 2009: 68th Asian Athletics Association council meeting was held at Phoenix Hotel in Guangzhou today. AAA Council took decision on the forthcoming events in Asia and other important matters.

Council also approved the calendar for 2010 season. This was the last council meeting for many members including Dr Luo Chaoyi (CHN), Mr Koji Sakurai (JPN), Mr K.V. Varghese (BRU) and Sheik Soud Hamed S. Al-Rawahi (OMA). Mr. Suresh Kalmadi MP thanked members for their support during the last term.

For the first time in the history of Asian Athletics, China will host biannual 18th Asian Athletics Championship. It will be held in Guangzhou from 10th to 14th November 2009 in collaboration with the Chinese Athletics Association and the Guangzhou Municipal Sport Bureau. About 800 athletes and 300 staff and referees from nearly 40 countries and regions will take part in the event.

The Malaysian Amateur Athletic Union ( MAAU) have named 22 athletes – 12 men and 10 women – for the 18th Asian Athletics Championship.

Men: Mohd Noor Imran Hadi (100m, 200m), Mohd Idris Zakaria (100m, 4x400m), Mohd Zaiful Zainal Abidin, Mohd Zafril Mohd Zuslaini (400m, 4x400m), P. Yuvaaraj (4x400m), M. Vadiveelan, Mohd Jironi Riduan (800m, 1,500m), Rayzam Shah Wan Sofian, Mohd Robani Hassan (110m hurdles), Lo Choon Sieng and Teoh Boon Lim (20km walk).

Women: Norjannah Hafizah Jamaluddin, Nurul Sarah Abdul Kadir (100m, 200m, 4x100m), Cynthia Manghing, Yee Yi Ling (4x100m), Siti Zubaidah Adabi (4x100m, long jump), K. Ganthimathi, (800m, 1,500m) and Tan Song Hwa (hammer).


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