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Asian
Grand Prix 2010
Asian
Records | Asian Leaders
2010 | AGP Champions |
AGP Records
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 Chennai
9 June 2010: Tintu Luka avenged her defeat while facile victory for Krishna Poonia in Asian Grand Prix
India’s Krishna Poonia, currently ranked ninth in the World lists, made it easy when she completes a hat-trick of victories in the Asian Grand Prix series this year. A throw of 59.94m was just enough for her to win the gold. Krishna underwent a
training-cum-competition stint at the United States under the watchful eyes of former Olympian Mac Wilkins and achieved a PB of 63.69m while winning a silver medal in a contest at Chula Vista in April this year. She is presently ranked third among the athletes from the commonwealth nations and second in Asia behind the Chinese thrower Li Yanfeng (65.20m). In commonwealth, Australian Dani Samuels (65.84) and South African Elizna Naude (64.49) are ahead of her.
 On the contrary, in the women’s 800m, Tintu Luka avenged her defeat to Kazakhstan’s Margarita Matsko with an all out effort. Tintu was second at the first leg in Pune with a time of 2:03.14. But this evening she adopted a typical strategy to win from Kazakh in 2:03.67. It is to be noted that she had achieved a personal best 2:01.61 while winning the national championship at Kochi, less than a month ago. A silver medalist in the last Asian junior championships at Jakarta, Tintu currently ranked 27th in the world and is among the medal probables for both Commonwealth and Asian Games.
Despite their fine form, Indian triple jumper Renjith Maheswary and shot putter Om Prakash Singh have suffered shock defeats.
Renjith fails to find his rhythm and hence could not go beyond 16.60m. China’s Wu Bo had won the top spot with a 16.73m effort.
This evening Om Prakash tossed the iron ball to 18.45m, 19 cm short of China’s Zhang Jun, for the silver.
Among others, Toea Wisil from Papua New Guinea provided a stunner as she halted Guzel Khubbieva’s unbeaten record in the women’s 100m. India’s H M Jyothi took the bronze medal. Indonesian sprinter Surya Agung Wibowo won the men’s crown.
In yet another thrilling race, Wisil’s teammate Nelson Stone edged S K Mortaza of India 47.01 to 47.29 to win the 400m. Iranian half-miler Sajad Moradi improved the meet mark with 1:47.28 in 800m, where Indians Pankaj Dimri and Ghamanda Ram took the next two places.
Malaysian high jumper Lee Hup Wei sailed over 2.27m to equal his career best and to win the event from China’s Wang Chen (2.24). Nikhil Chittarasu of India was third.
India’s Gayathri Govindaraj won a bronze medal in women’s 100m hurdles in which the gold and silver went to Anastasiya Suprunova of Kazakhstan and Indonesia’s Dedeh Erawati respectively.
( Ram Murli Krishnan for AAA)
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 It is with sadness we learn of the passing away of Mr Hanji
Aoki ( May 30, 2010, age 94) , one of Asia's most revered sports leader and personality.
Mr Hanji Aoki will always be remembered and admired as Japan AAF's most famous
President who became a Vice-President of the IAAF until his
retirement. The Asian Athletics family will always remember his contribution to the harmony
and development of the Asian Athletics Association. On behalf of the President, Mr Suresh Kalmadi,
M.P., and Members of the Council
of the Asian Athletics Association we request that our deepest condolences be
conveyed to the members of his family- Maurice R. Nicholas
( Secretary Treasurer AAA)
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 Bangalore,
5 June 2010: Contrary to the first leg of AGP,
Bangalore provided ideal conditions for better
performances in the second leg of Asian Grand Prix.
Tall and lanky Yu Zhengwei of China leaped to 8.12m
in the Men's Long Jump to set new AGP record. In
fact, first three finishers improved on meet record
of 7.99m. Responding to Yu's massive leap Safronov
of Kazakhstan jumped to 8.06m in his last attempt
and secured second place by pushing Thailand's World
Youth Champion Supanara Ayud to the third place. 
Supanara cleared 8.04m.
2007 Asian High Jump Champion Lee Hup Wei from Malaysia
soared to 2.24m to register consecutive win in the
men's high jump. Wang Chen ( 2.20) of China and
Vitaliy Tsykunov ( 2.15) of Kazakhstan won silver
and bronze medal respectively. In the women's
Discus throw Indian throwers swept all the medals.
India's Krishna Poonia extended her lead by winning
another title with 61.64m. Another Indian thrower
Harwant Kaur threw 59.67m to improve her season best
performance while winning silver medal. Seema Antil
could manage only 58.81m. Men's Triple Jump India's
Renjith Maheshwary regain his lost form by touching
magical 17m mark and his second win in a row in the
Asian Grand Prix. Roman Valiyev of Kazakhstan jumped
to 16.93m to finish on the second place while Wu Bo
of China won bronze in 16.92m. Women's High Jump was
won by former World Junior Champion Svetlana
Radzivil of Uzbekistan clearing height of 1.93m.
Anna Ustinova too cleared the same height of 1.93m
but lost on countback and had to settle on silver.
Boonwan Wanida of Thailand won bronze in 1.80m
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 Pune,
1 Jun 2010: Asian Grand Prix series 2010 flagged off
in Pune today with a taste of first monsoon rain
which disrupted the schedule for an hour. More than
150 athletes from 21 Asian countries are competing
in the 2010 Asian Grand Prix. After heavy shower and
gusty wind events resumed in cool and pleasant atmosphere.
Sajad Moradi of Iran set new AGP record in
the men's 800m with a timing of 1:47.70s (h).
In the women's Shot put Chinese Liu Xiangrong heaved
4kg shot put to 18.43m despite tough conditions
after rain. India's Renjith Maheshwary won the men's
triple jump with a distance of 16.84m beating Wu Bo
of China who managed 16.53m. It was a sweet revenge
for Zhang Jun of China when he beat Asian champion
Om Prakash Singh of India. Zhang threw 19.71m while
Om could managed only 19.58m. Guzel Khubbieva once
again started 3rd AGP season with an unbeaten run in
the women's 100m by winning her 7th run in row with
a timing of 11.70s. Shehan Abeypitiyage of
Srilanka who had won his first Gold medal in the
Commonwealth Youth Games in 2008 at the same track,
zoomed past everyone at the finish to win his first
Asian Grand Prix fastest man title in 10.47s. Matsko
Margarita of Kazakhstan delivered the biggest upset
of the day by winning her 4th in a row AGP 800m run
by beating local favorite and current Asian leader
Tintu Luka with a timing of 2:02.85s. Tintu who led
most of the run failed to keep up the lead in the
last 10m and finished on the second place with
2:03.14s. Now Asian Grand Prix will move to
Bangalore which will be held on 5th June at the
newly laid synthetic track of Kanteerava Stadium
which will also host AGP for the second time.
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Asian
Grand Prix 2010 series will be held in the month of
June at Pune, Bangalore and Chennai in India on 1st,
5th and 9th June respectively.
Asia's elite athletes will be competing in the
$110,000 worth of cash prize Grand Prix Series. AAA
has allowed athlete from outside of Asia to take
part in the AGP Series. There will be 15 events in
total for men and women as follows : Men: 100m, 400m, 800m, 110m hurdles, High jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Shot Put
Women : 100m, 800m, 100m hurdles, Triple Jump, High Jump, Shot Put, Discus Throw.
Click
here to view tentative order of events for Asian GP
Series 2010.
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