3rd Asian All Star Athletics Meet 2010- New Delhi

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3rd Asian All Star Athletics Meet 2010 New Delhi

Asian All Star Athletics Meet 2010

Asian All-Star Athletics: Khubbieva and Dusanova steal the show

New Delhi, India – 30 July 2010 : Guzel Khubbieva of Uzbekistan outsprinted opposition, as she spurt in to front from blocks, to become the fastest woman of the two day 3rd Asian All-Star Athletics Meet which concluded on Friday at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here. A familiar face with the Indian fans, Khubbieva is the reigning Asian Games champion and multiple medalist in the Asian Grand Prix series.

On the contrary Sri Lankan star Shehan Abeypitiyage, after initial lead in the first half, had to fight it out with Hong Kong’s Tsui Chi Ho in the men’s 100m. Tsui, who clocked a national best 10.28 secs this May, looked as winner from the stands. A scrutiny of photo-finish favoured the Sri Lankan 10.49 to 10.50.

Dusanova rise to further height

Uzbekistan’s Nadezhda Dusanova delivered the best performance of the day by improving her continental leading mark to 1.95m to win the women’s high jump. Her teammate Svetlana Radzivil, who scaled 1.93m in the last month’s Asian Grand Prix at Bangalore, could manage only 1.88m today and thus had to be settled with a bronze. The silver medal in this event went to Anna Ustinova of Kazakhstan in 1.93m.

Field day for Indian throwers

Krishna Poonia, ranked tenth in the World, proved the training she had in the United States under Olympian Mac Wilkins highly beneficial when she hurled the discus beyond 60m twice on the evening. As expected it was a clean sweep for Indians with Harwant Kaur (58.73) and Seema Antil (54.21) took the next two spots beyond Poonia who achieved 60.93m for the gold. It was double joy for Krishna as Indian Government announced highest sporting honour Arjuna Award today.

Om Prakash Singh, the basketball player turned athlete, missed out the 20m mark once again but heaved the iron ball to 19.74m to become a clear winner here. His teammate Saurabh Vij got the silver medal with a 19.09m throw while Iran’s Nikfar Amin, who achieved a season leading 19.70m at Bangalore last month, settled with a bronze medal as his day’s best throw measured only to 18.65m.

Juana captured the sheen in hurdles

Indian 400m hurdler Joseph G. Abraham received a shock defeat in the hands of Japan’s Takayuki Koike as he slowed down at the last hurdle. Koike clinched the gold at 50.08 secs, while the Indian clocked a distant 50.87s for the silver.

Juana Murmu, who recently switched to hurdles, delivered a sterling performance on Friday evening as she outlived favourite Natalya Asanova of Uzbekistan to win the event in 57.39 secs.

Sri Lanka’s Chaminda Indika Wijekoon and Indian Sinimole Paulose showed a brilliant ‘come-back’ as they won the metric mile among the men and women respectively as Sandeep Batham of India took the men’s 5000m gold in a moderate time.

The hosts India took half of the medals that were in stake in the two day event as they garnered an amazing 12 gold, 9 silver and 10 bronze medals to top the field.
( Ram. Murali Krishnan for AAA )

Asian All-Star Athletics: Indian women ruled day-1
New Delhi, India – 29 July 2010

Blessed with a shower of rain at the beginning of competition, the third edition of Asian All-Star Athletics Meet witnessed outstanding performances by women athletes of India on the opening day.

Running on the newly laid synthetic track, Indian half-miler Tintu Luka outclassed the little opposition from no less a person than teammate Sinimol Paulose. A fast 58 seconds clocking on the first lap showed the fifteen-year-old national record by Shiny Wilson (1:59.85) is on threat. However, with no one to push her, the prodigy of P.T. Usha, had to run a solo race and

slowed down at the last 200m thus ended her campaign with a personal best 2:01.24 at the end.

On the far side of the stadium, the women long jumpers received cheer from a large number of school children who assembled to witness the event. The pre-event favourite Yulia Tarasova, seventh in this year’s World Indoor championships at Doha and a multi-event specialist, could not find her rhythm and hence managed only a silver medal with 6.49m jump on her fifth try. The upcoming Indian jumper Mayookha Johny on the other hand was already leading the fray with her personal best 6.64m, registered on her fourth try, and opted to skip the last two as she was made sure of the gold. Her teammate M.A. Prajusha took the bronze (6.30m). With today’s performance, Mayookha currently ranked sixth among the athletes from commonwealth nations and is all set to make a podium finish in the Commonwealth Games to be held in the same venue in October this year.

Iranian quarter-milers took the first two spots in the men’s 400m as Sajjad Hashemi took the top spot followed by countryman Reza Bouazar. The women’s race saw the come back of Mandeep Kaur as she outran the favourite Kazakh runner Yulia Gavrilova. Asian champion Manjula Kumara Wijesekara was the notable winner in men’s high jump.

As expected Indonesian Jumras Rittidet had won the men’s 110m hurdles while Anastasiya Soprunova of Kazakhstan clinched the women’s 100m hurdled gold. India’s Gayathry Govindaraj, who showed consistent win at the continental scene recently, took the silver in the women’s race.

The women’s 5,000m was a three horse race. Indonesia’s SEA Games double gold medalist Trianingsih, who interchanged the lead with Kazakhstan’s Sitora Khamidova, pulled up when two laps to go and won the event with a moderate 16:24.12 clocking.

Coming back to the field, Indian junior Ankit Sharma surprised his senior teammates Maha Singh and Harikrishnan to win the gold medal in the men’s long jump wherein the hosts made a clean sweep. Ankit was credited with a personal best 7.77m while winning the bronze medal in the Asian junior championships at Hanoi, Vietnam, at the beginning of this month.

As much as 250 athletes from seventeen nations are taking part in the two day meet. A total prize money of USD 70,000 are to be distributed amongst the winners of the first three places in the above meet.

Earlier the meet was inaugurated by Rt.Hon. Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sports, United Kingdom in the evening in the presence of Suresh Kalmadi, President, Asian Athletics Association and Commonwealth Games Organising Committee as well as Lord Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the London Olympics Organising Committee. ( Ram. Murali Krishnan for AAA)

July 20, 2010: Billed as a ‘test event’ in athletics for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, the Asian All-Star Athletics competition is expected to provide a serene atmosphere for everyone concerned to prove their mettle at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (JNS). The two day contest set for July 29 and 30 at the newly furbished tracks on the Indian capital will witness a flurry of star athletes making their strides for the first time since its renovation.
Originally built for the 1982 Asian Games, the state-of-the-art JNS hosts the athletics completion besides opening and closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games. The Asian All-Star Athletics will offer a chance, perhaps the only time before the CWG, to test various area of organization prior to the mega sporting extravaganza in October. As much as 250 technical officials and hundreds of volunteers besides scores of other functional area staff will make sure that every area of competition work perfectly.
Mixture of past and future champs
First held in 2004 at Singapore, the Asian All-Star athletics aims to tap new potential among the juniors while the cream of continental champions and medalists had invited to take part. The second edition of the competition was held at Bhopal, two years ago. At least seven champions from Bhopal have figured on the Delhi start-list. This apart, many Asian Games and continental (senior and junior) championship medalists are also on the fray for a podium finish in the next week’s competition.
Strong field in throws
Reigning Asian champion Ehsan Hadadi stood tall and top among the list of participants. The 25 year old Iranian, who holds the continental record of 69.32m and was a world junior champion in 2004, recently recorded a season’s best of 68.45m in Tehran. Vikas Gowda, the Indian thrower living in United States, making a come back with a performance of 63.22m. On the women’s side, Indian throwers are a cut above the rest with Krishna Poonia leading the challenge with a season leading 61.64m recorded in USA while went through a training-cum-competition stint under the watchful eyes of former Olympian Mac Wilkins.

Om Prakash Singh, the current Asian champion, led the list in men’s shot put along with teammates Satyendra Singh and Saurabh Vij. Amin Nikfar from Iran, the Asian Indoor Games victor, together with Grigoriy Kamulya of Uzbekistan is expected to provide the required challenge to the Indians. Iran also fields a strong athlete in women’s shot put. Leyla Rajabi, formerly known as Tatsiana Ilyuschanka of Belarus, brought her adopted country an Asian indoor gold this year. She is a notable athlete to watch as also Yang Yanbo and Liu Jing of China on the shot put circle.
Triple jumpers to the fore
The triple jumpers are ready to grab the attention of fans in both men and women divisions. Renjith Maheswary, the former asian champion would log horn with Kazakhstan’s Yevgeniy Ektov, the bronze medalist in last year’s asian championships at Guangzhou and defending Asian all-star victor in Bhopal. Among women, Alexandra Kotlyarova—who recorded a personal best 14.08m while winning this year’s Asian Grand Prix at Bangalore—is all set to boost Gayathry Govindaraj, the double silver medalist in Commonwealth Youth Games at Pune, two years ago. Gayathry registered 13.58m earlier this month when taking a silver medal in the Asian junior championships at Hanoi, which incidentally the second best ever by an Indian. However she missed a golden chance in 100m hurdles at the Vietnamese capital due to a false start.

Joseph Abraham, the World championship semi-finalist in 400m hurdles at Osaka in 2007, unbeaten in Asian Grand Prix this year is aiming high with better marks at Delhi.

The women’s long jump will be another attraction as multi-event specialist Yulia Tarasova of Uzbekistan, Bhopal champion Priyadarshini of Sri Lanka and the trio of Indian jumpers—M A Prajusha, Mayookha Johny and Reshmi Bose—are all set to make it a memorable contest to remember.
Half-milers steady on tracks
World University Games champion Sajad Moradi, who made another clean sweep of medals in the three-leg Asian Grand Prix on Indian soil earlier this year, is set to rule the tracks once again. Among women, Tintu Luka—the prodigy of legendary Indian sprinter P.T. Usha—is gearing up to set aside the challenge from teammate Sushma Devi and Ayako Jinnouchi of Japan.

The men’s 100m sprint will have the entire podium finishers from 2008 Asian junior championships—Lai Chun Ho and Tsui Chi Ho of Hong Kong and Shehan Abeypitiyage of Sri Lanka. However, the women’s race will have higher standard as both Asian Games gold medalist Guzel Khubbieve of Uzbekistan and Yulia Gavrilova of Kazakhstan—the double gold medalist in the Asian junior championships this year will be challenged by H.M. Jyothi, the bronze medalist in last year’s Asian meet at Guangzhou and winner of 2008 edition of the Asian All-Star meet.

Athletes from about seventeen asian nations are taking part in the two day competitions. (Ram. Murali Krishnan)


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