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Asian Grand Prix 2007
May 22,2007: Asian Athletics Association has release the Competition
Schedule of the 1st leg of Asian Grand Prix 2007 series at Bangkok which
will be held on June 19. Second leg of AGP Series will be held at Indian
city Guwahati on June 23 and Pune will host final leg of AGP on June 27. Top
150 elite Asian athletes from 23 Asian Countries will vie for honors since
AGP series is a part of World Athletics Tour. Cash awards will be given to
first 3 winners in all events. Click here
to view competition schedule of Bangkok Asian Grand Prix. |
 Final
Start list of first leg of Asian Grand Prix is ready for online viewing. AGP
will be held at National Stadium in Bangkok from 2:30pm onwards.
Click here to view the start list. |
Bangkok,
June 17,2007: Bangkok Asian Grand Prix
We are presenting you the preview of the AGP Bangkok.
Men’s event-wise preview : The men’s
line-up in this year’s Asian Grand Prix is widely open. No doubt that it
does have a number of medalists from last year’s Asian Games at Doha, and
previous continental and global competitions. However, as the margin of
performance look ‘thin’ between the favorites and little-knowns, an
emergence of new champions from this year’s series will not be ruled out.
Last moment confirmation of Chinese Triple Jumper Li Yanxi has added more
glamour to the GP.
Click here to read Eventwise preview>>
Women’s
event-wise preview
: Women athletes look stronger
in this year’s Asian Grand Prix as the line-up includes six defending Asian
Games champions, World and Asian junior champions, as well as two former
World Youth Championship gold medalists. The following are the event-wise
preview based on the provisional list of entries provided by the Asian
Athletics Association.
Click here to read Eventwise preview>>
Previews by Ram Murli Krishnan for AAA. |
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 Guwahati,
June 23: Asian Games champion Guzel Khubbieva of Uzbekstan
not only beat her arch rival Susantika of Srilanka for the
second consecutive time but also set the Asian Leading mark
with personal best timing of 11.24s in the second leg of
Asian Grand Prix Series 2007 at Guwahati.
India’s Surendra Singh avenged his Bangkok defeat by Sunil
Kumar in 3000m with an Asian leading performance of
7:57.87s. Sunil settled on second place with 8:15.20s.
China’s Li Ling extend her Asian Grand Prix record by 0.3 cm
with a throw of 18.63m while India’s Renjith Maheshwary set
the new AGP record with 17.04m. He broke India’s longest
standing record of triple jump in due course and became
first Indian to cross 17m barrier.
In 400m races, Asian Games Champion Olga TERESHKOVA
of Kazakhstan faced defeat by India’s Chitra Soman while
Chinese WANG Liangyu remained unbeaten with 46.16s. Iranian
Samimi Abbas continued his unbeaten run in AGP with another
win in Men’s Discus throw with a throw of 60.91m. In spite
of bomb explosion in the city in the wee hours, more than
7,000 viewers attended the first ever international meet in
north East Indian region. |
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 Guwahati:
Caravan of Asian Athletics Grand Prix has now reached Indian
city Guwahati for the second leg of AAA AGP. Indians will
field all relay teams including Doha Gold medal winning team
of Women's 4x400. Organizer has readied the Indira Gandhi
Stadium with all technical requirements. It will be the
first international athletic meet in Guwahati and due to
this there is great enthusiasm seen among the public to see
Asian Stars in their town. |
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Guwahati, June 13:
"free entry passes to spectators for the daylong meet." said
AGP Guwahati organising committee secretary general Pradeep
Buragohain. Guwahati is ready with necessary hotel
arrangements for athletes and officials. The Indira Gandhi
Athletics Stadium has a seating capacity of 30,000.
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16.06.2007
Big stars arrive for Asian GP in Bangkok.
Read More
(The
Nation- Bangkok)
14.06.2007
Delhi route for Grand Prix players to reach Guwahati.
Read More
(The
Telegraph- Kolkata)
11.06.2007
Malaysian star hurdler Moh Siew Wei to miss AGP. She is
suffering from a hamstring injury .
Read More.
(New Strait Times)
10.06.2007
200 atheletes to take part in Asian Grand Prix final leg
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Read more..
(The Hindu-Delhi) |
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