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 SEA Games: 100m record broken, Thailand top
VIENTIANE — Indonesia's Suryo Agung Wibowo broke his own Southeast Asian Games 100
meters record on the first day of track and field Sunday as Thailand pulled clear at the top of the medals table.
Wibowo ran 10.17 seconds, also knocking 0.03 seconds off the Indonesian national record of 10.20, yelling "December 13 is mine," as he celebrated his win in the new 20,000-seat stadium in Laos capital Vientiane. The Indonesian runner had set the previous SEA Games record of 10.25 seconds in Thailand in 2007.
Thailand took three athletics golds, in the men's 400m hurdles, triple jump and shot put to take their overall tally at the games to 29, four clear of nearest challengers Vietnam. Narongdech Janjai won the men's 400m hurdles in 52.49, Theerayut Philakong took triple jump gold with a jump of 16.51 metres and Chatchawal Polyiam won the shot put with a throw of 17.59
meters.
For the Philippines, Arniel Ferrera took gold in the hammer with a throw of 61.62
meters and Rosie Villarito threw 49.69 meters to win the women's javelin.
In other events, Vietnam's Vu Thi Huong took the women's 100m in 11.34 seconds, Malaysia's Noraseela Khalid won the 400m hurdles in 56.99 seconds and Myanmar's Aung Khaing cruised clear of the field to win the men's 5,000
meters in 14 mins 43.12 seconds.
Athletes from 11 nations are competing at the 10-day biennial SEA Games in sports ranging from athletics and swimming to sepak takraw and wushu. Participants are Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Singapore. The Games close on December 18
(AFP)
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 East Asian Games concludes
The athletic competitions of the 5th East Asian Games concluded at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground, Hong Kong today (13).
The morning session saw an interesting dual between Japan’s Tomoya Onishi and Pak Song Chol (PRK) in the men’s Half Marathon. Onishi (22), this year’s World University Games runner-up edged the North Korean, the two runners clocking an identical 1:06:05.
In the women’s race, 2007 World University Games champion Kim Kum Ok won North Korea’s only gold of the Games beating Yuri Kano of Japan. The Japanese was the seventh place finisher in the Marathon at the Berlin World Championships, a race in which today’s winner finished twentieth.
Japan’s Hiroaki Doi successfully defended his title in the Hammer Throw, beating Ma Liang of China whorecently took the Asian Championships bronze medal in Guangzhou, one place ahead of Doi. Today Doi retained his Games’ crown, 71.25 to 70.74m.
In the men’s Triple Jump, 2005 silver medallist Yohei Kajikawa took the title this time.
The women’s 5000m was won with a last straight sprint by Yuriko Kobayashi, a former World youth and junior championships medallist over 1500m, while in the men's 3000m Steeplechase, it was China’s National Games victor Sun Wenli who was the victor.
Asian champions Zheng Xingjuan (High Jump) and Liu Chunhua (Javelin Throw) took their respective events.
Xingjuan, the World Junior High Jump silver medallist three years ago, who set her personal best of 1.95m while winning the National Games at Jinan this October and scaled 1.93 at Guangzhou in the Asian meet, found a 1.88m clearance enough today.
In the Javelin Throw, a sixth round throw of 60.05m, the second best release of her career best, allowed Chunhua to grab victory from compatriot Zhang Li. Li, the 2005 World Youth champion who has a personal best of 62.09m, was also second to Chunhua at the National Games when her vanquisher registered her PB of 60.65m.
China topped the medal table with 26 gold, 16 silver and 6 bronze medals, ahead of Japan (16-21-5) and Korea (2-5-3).
(Ram. Murali Krishnan)
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 Liu
Xiang wins in Hong Kong
Dec 11, 2009 ,Hong Kong: China’s former world and Olympic champion Liu Xiang took another step in his recovery from a
career-threatening injury on Friday by winning the 110
meters hurdles at the East Asian Games in Hong Kong.
Liu coasted to victory against a mediocre field in a time of 13,66 seconds, well behind the 12,88 he ran to set a world record in 2006 before a torn
achilles forced him to limp out of the Beijing Olympics last year.
Cuba’s Dayron Robles has since bettered the world record by one-hundreth of a second.
“My foot is good, there wasn’t much problem, but it was a little sore,” the 26-year-old Liu told reporters on the track, where his every move was cheered by a sellout crowd of
30500 people.
“It will definitely get slowly better ... though I still have to protect my body a little more.” Liu, who finished second in an IAAF Golden Grand Prix in his home city of Shanghai in September before winning gold at last month’s Asian athletics championships, said the 2012 London Olympics were one of his major goals but played down the chances of taking back the world record.
(Reuters)
China's Su Bingtian and Tao Yujia held off Japanese rivals to take the 100-meter sprint titles at the East Asian Games on Saturday.
Su claimed the men's title by crossing in 10.33 seconds _ 0.06 seconds before Shintaro Kimura. Tao posted a winning time of 11.70 seconds, with Mayumi Watanabe trailing by 0.13 seconds.
But Japan found winning form in other track and field events, taking gold in the men's and women's 400-meter hurdles and the men's discus.
South Korea's Jung Hye-kyung came first in the women's triple jump, while China took out the women's hammer throw.(AP)
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 China takes 7 athletics
gold in East Asia Games
Two Japanese runners and a South Korean pole vaulter prevented China making a clean sweep of the first 10 athletics gold medals at the East Asian Games on Thursday.
Japan's Kenji Fujimitsu won the men's 200 meters in 20.91 seconds and Ryosuke Awazu took out the men' 800 meters in 1 minute, 50.66 seconds. South Korea's Lim Eun-ji clinched gold in the women's pole vault with a height of 4.20 meters.
The trio were the only non-Chinese winners in track and field on Thursday.
Yu Wei won the men's 20-kilometer walk in 1 hour, 26 minutes and 46 seconds, edging Japan's Koichiro Morioka by just one second. Li Yanfei was the winner in the women's event, crossing in 1:35:33.
The other winners were Li Ling in the women's shot put (17.95 meters); Li Jinzhe in the men's long jump (7.85 meters); Jiang Lan in the women's 200 meters (23.92 seconds); Qin Qiang in the men's javelin (80.41 meters); and Liu Qing in the women's 800 meters (2:06.41).
China's Qi Haifeng was the leader in the decathlon with 3,899 points after five events.
( AP)
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 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.
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 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
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 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.
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.
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the newly elected council members for the term
2009-2013.
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 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.
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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.
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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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 Andreyev's 5.60m vault the highlight as Asian Indoor Games conclude in Hanoi
Leonid Andreyev's victory in the Pole Vault was the key highlight on the third and final day of athletics competition at the 3rd Asian Indoor Games in Hanoi on Monday
(2 Nov). The 26-year-old from Uzbekistan, who took World junior gold in the Decathlon in 2002,
equaled his indoor PB of 5.60m to win event over China's Yang Yansheng. Yang, himself a prodigy who took World Youth gold in 2005 and and World Junior silver the following year, topped out at 5.40m before bowing out at a would-be indoor PB of 5.60m. For Andreyev, who didn't move beyod qualifying at last year's Olympic Games and this year's World championships, his clearance was the fourth best of his career.
The leading marks on the track were delivered by Sajad Moradi of Iran, the reigning World University Games champion in the 800m, and Kamal Ali Thamer of Qatar, who won the 1500m. Moradi won by nearly half a second in 1:48.48 while Thamer won his event in 3:42.36, more than a second clear of Bahraini Alemu Bekele Gebre who clocked 3:43.66. Both set new meet marks in the process. Records fall in nearly every event on the final day, except in the women’s 3000m and 4x400m Relay.
Several defending champions couldn't manage successful defences. Two of them, India’s P.J. Vinod in the Heptathlon and China’s Chen Yaling in the women’s Long Jump, finished outside the podium with a fourth place showing in their respective events. Vinod lost his rhythm from the start and the event saw even the Asian record holder Dmitriy Karpov of Kazakhstan, a two-time World bronze medallist in the Decathlon, finish second behind Saudi Arabian Mohammed Al-Qaree who tallied 5791.
Olga Rypakova of Kazakhstan, who won the Triple Jump on Sunday, added another victory with her winning 6.58m leap in the Long Jump. Yuliya Tarasova of Uzbekistan was second, reaching 6.45. India’s M.A. Prajusha and Chen each reached 6.27m, with the bronze going to Prajusha on countback.
In the women’s High Jump, defending champion Noengruthai Chaipech of Thailand and Nadiya Dusanova of Uzbekistan both cleared 1.93m, with Dusanova taking the gold on countback as well.
Kazakh Natalya Ivoninskaya lost her crown in 60m Hurdles, finishing a well-beaten second to Wallapa Punsoongneun of Thailand who clocked 8.28.
( Ram Murli Krishnan: Source: IAAF.org )
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Srilanka to send 22 member
team for Asian Athletics Championship:
The Athletics Association of Sri Lanka yesterday announced the team including Prasanna Amarasekara for the forthcoming Asian Athletic Championship to be held in Guangzhou, China next month.
The defending champion in the men’s 400 meters at the Asian Championship, Amarasekara is the only athlete in the 22 member team to have won an individual medal at the last edition in Amman, Jordan. While Amarasekara won gold in the 400 metres, Susanthika Jayasinghe won two golds in sprint events at the last edition.
Col. S. B. Madugalle will be the manager of the team, while Sajith Jayalala will be the coach. Roshini Bowatte will be the lady chaperon while Ranjith Aluvihare will be the assistant manager.
The team is due to leave on November 9.
The team: Men: Shehan Ambepitiya (100m, 200m), S. M. Weerasuriya (100m, 200m), Rohitha Pushpakumara (400m, 4x400m), T. P. K. Mendis (800m), Chaminda Wijekoon (1500m), H. P. Y. Ajith (400m hurdles), Indika Bandara (3000m St. chase), M. G. C. N. Gamage (Triple Jump), Mohamed Sameer (Decathlon), U. G. Wickramasinghe (4x400m), K. K. K. Seneviratne (4x400m), W. A. C. D. Aloka (4x400m), Manjula Kumara (High jump), Prasanna Amarasekara (400m, 4x400m)
Women: Achala Dias (100m, 4x100m), D. D. P. Priyadharshani (200m, 4x100m), Chandrika Subahshini (400m, 4x100m), N. M. C. Dilrukshi (800m), D. A. S. Samanmali (1500m), N. C. D. Priyadharshani (Long jump and 4x100m), Shashiprabha Jayasinghe (4x100m) and Priyangika Madumanthi (High jump).
Source :The island
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Ten sweep Asian Grand
Prix series 2009
 Ten
finished with the distinction of having won all the
three legs. They were: Men: Su Bingtian (China,
100m), Mohammed Al-Azemi (Kuwait, 800m), Surendra
Kumar Singh (India, 3000m/5000m) and Kim Deok-Hyung
(Korea, Triple Jump); Women: Guzel Khubbieva
(Uzbekistan, 100m), Margarita Matsko (Kazakhstan,
800m), Natalya Ivoninskaya (Kazakhstan, 100m
Hurdles), Xie Limei (China, Triple Jump), Gong
Lijiao (China, Shot Put) and Song Aimin (China,
Discus). Read
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Founder
President of Asian Athletics Association Sardar
Umrao SIngh dies.
New Delhi, 12 April 2009: Athletics Federation of India is shocked by the news of the death of its President “Padam Bhshan Sardar Umrao Singh”, former minister and a great sports administrator. Sardar Umrao Singh was associated with the Athletics Federation in the various capacities in last more than 50 years. He served as the President of the Athletics Federation of India two times. He was IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) council member.
He was conferred with “Padam Bhushan” for his contribution towards successful conduct of the “Asian Games 1982” by the Government of India. With his death India has lost an able sports administrator. He was also founder president of Asian Athletics Association and senior member of Indian Olympic Association. Athletics Federation of India and its all members condole the death of “Sardar Umrao Singh” who left for his heavenly abode today early morning at Jalandhar
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IAAF High Performance Centre opens in Beijing
The Chinese capital which played host to such fantastic athletics competition in and around the Bird’s Nest stadium at last year’s Olympic Games, on 1 April proudly became the latest world city to open an IAAF High Performance Centre (HPTC). Already the home of a Regional Development Centre, Beijing now becomes the host of the ninth IAAF HPTC. The centre which is based in the Beijing Sport University will specialise in three of the four jumps - Long Jump, Triple Jump and High Jump - as well as middle and long distance running and race walking. There will also be a focus on the coaching of the women’s throwing events. The first athlete will arrive at the Beijing HPTC on 15 April. The centre was officially opened on 1 April in a ceremony attended among others (see photo) by Dr. Luo Chaoyi, IAAF Council Member, Dr. Chi Jian Vice-President of Beijing Sport University, Maurice Nicholas, Secretary-Treasurer of the Asian Athletics Association, Dr. Feng Shuyong, Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Athletics Federation, Lou Dapeng, former IAAF Vice-President, and Dr. Elio Locatelli, the Director of IAAF Member Services. ( IAAF )
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 10th
Asian Cross County Championship 2009
1 March, Bahrain
Teams | Athletes
Results
Individual
Team
Men | Women
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Men | Jr.
Women
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Medal Table (Individuals and Teams)
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Country |
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Silver |
Bronze |
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Bahrain |
5 |
5 |
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Qatar |
2 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
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Japan |
1 |
2 |
3 |
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India |
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Yeman |
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Asian Cross Country Championships
Manama, Bahrain - Bahrain’s World 1500m champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal and Asian 10,000m record holder Ahmed Hassan Abdullah comfortably defended their women’s and men’s titles respectively at the 10th Asian Cross Country Championships in Manama, Bahrain on Sunday (01). In a championship dominated by the host nation, Alemu Bekele and Shitaye Eshete were the winners of the men’s and women’s junior races.
Senior Women - Jamal in a class of her own
For Jamal, who has never lost in Asian competitions, the 24-year-old lived up to her pre-meet billing with a comfortable victory in front of a small, but vocal home crowd at the Al-Rafah Bahrain Hippodrome in the Southern part of the capital. Despite a rare downpour and consequent windy conditions, the race’s out-and-back course helped the runners set a fast tempo from the early part of the race. Japan’s Aya Nagata chose to do the leading for the first half of the race with Jamal and teammates Mimi Belete and Sara Bakheet Yaqoob in tow. Bakheet was the first from the major contenders to fall back from the leading group, but Agata’s persistence at the head of the pack helped make up for a brief, but interesting encounter with the Bahraini duo. At the bell, Jamal and Belete had already made easy work of dispatching Agata who hang for dear life in the last bronze medal position. Buoyed, no doubt, by the fact that she was making her competitive home debut, Jamal cruised ahead with 600m of the race left to take a comfortable victory in 26:21.6, ten seconds ahead of Belete with a battling Agata home in third. In the race for team titles, Japan narrowly edged out Bahrain to take the title with India coming home in third.
Senior Men - Abdullah leads Qatari clean sweep
The senior men’s race followed a similar path to the women’s as Qatar’s Ahmed Hassan Abdullah, who won the title in Amman two years ago, comfortably defending his title to lead a Qatari clean sweep of the first four places.
Bahrain’s dominance of the junior races and the senior women’s competitions suggests that they could pose cross country’s traditional powerhouses Ethiopia and Kenya problems in Amman in four weeks time. With the exception of Maryam Yusuf Jamal, who still has not decided on her Amman participation, all athletes who competed here will take part in Amman in what is already looking like a formidable Bahraini squad for the championships.
(Elshadai Negash, IAAF)
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HCM
City to host open games
As many as 250 athletes have registered to compete in the
15th Ho Chi Minh City Open Track and Field Tournament set to
take place from July 17-19. Alongside 28 international
competitors, Vietnam will be represented by
regionally-acclaimed athletes such as Bui Thi Nhung, Bui Thi
Hien, Vu Van Huyen, Vu Thi Huong, Truong Thanh Hang, Le Ngoc
Phuong and Nguyen Duy Bang.
The city’s Athletics Federation General Secretary Nguyen
Trung Hinh said local athletes will face strong rivals from
the Republic of Korea as well as young competitors from
Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines that will compete
with Vietnam for titles at Southeast Asian Games. Hinh said
the President of the Asian Athletics Federation will visit
Vietnam on July 18 to observe the tournament and inspect
Thong Nhat Stadium in preparation for the 4th Southeast
Asian Junior Athletics Championships slated for June next
year. (VNA) |
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