Om Prakash wins gold in shot put in Asian Athletics
Shot putter Om Prakash Singh won the first gold for India while three of his compatriots bagged a bronze each on the second day of the 18th Asian Athletics Championships.
|Last Updated: Nov 11, 2009, 08:52 PM IST|Source: Bureau
Guangzhou: Shot putter Om Prakash Singh won the first gold for India while three of his compatriots bagged a bronze each on the second day of the 18th Asian Athletics Championships here today.
Manjeet Kaur, Chatholi Hamza and Manjunath Jyothi bagged
a bronze each in women`s 400m, men`s 1500m and women`s 100m
dash as the Indians put up a fine show today.
With a gold and three bronze today, India`s medal tally
swelled to five with one gold and four bronze. Kavita Raut had
won a bronze in women`s 5000m yesterday.
Om Prakash cleared 19.87m in his fifth round throw to bag
the yellow metal in a strong field which had Asian record
holder Al-habishi Sultan of Saudi Arabia, who eventually
finished fifth with 18.89m.
The Indian, however, failed to touch his personal best of
20.02m.
Chang Ming Huang (19.34m) of Chinese Taipei won the
silver while Jun Zhang (19.15m) of China took the bronze.
National record holder Manjeet Kaur`s 53.66 sec effort in
women`s 400m was well below her best of 51.05 sec or season`s
best of 52.08 sec but still enough to win a bronze in a tight
race. Compatriot Mandeep Kaur was fourth with 53.76 sec.
Asami Tanno of Japan finally won her elusive Asian
Championships gold with a timing of 53.32 sec. She had won
silver in Amman (2007) and bronze in Incheon (2005). Chen Li (
53.55 sec) of China won the silver.
Hamza, who had a personal best of 3:40.10, clocked
3:48.44 to win the bronze while compatriot Sunil Kumar was
fifth with 3:49.38. Saudi Arabia`s Mohammed Shaween (3:46.08)
won the gold while Sri Lanka`s Wijekon Chaminda (3:47.01)
finished second.
Jyothi ran a fine race in a strong field to fetch a
bronze in women`s 100m dash, clocking 11.60 sec. Chisato
Fukushima of Japan as expected won the gold in 11.27 sec to
emerge as the fastest woman in the Championships while
Vietnam`s Vu Thi Huong was second with 11.50 sec.
The two Indians in men`s 100m, however, disappointed.
Sathya Suresh and Abdul Najeeb Qureshi finished seventh and
eighth respectively in the final with efforts of 10.62 sec and
10.63 sec.
China`s Zhang Peimeng won the race in 10.28 sec to become
the fastest man in the competition.
In women`s triple jump, MA Prajusha (12.58m) and Reshmi
Bose (12.18m) were eighth and 10th respectively. Asian record
holder Olga Rypakova (14.53m) of Kazakhstan won the gold.
In men`s 400m final, Bibin Mathew and Shaikh Mortaza
failed to come up their best to finish fourth and fifth
respectively, clocking 47.03 and 47.36.
In the women`s 1500m also, Simon Rajam Bindhu and Sushma
Devi brought up fourth and fifth place finish respectively
with efforts of 4:33.73 and 4:35.04.
Bureau Report
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