Junior athletes bag two bronzes

SINGAPORE, OCT 2: KM Binu and S Geetha helped India open their medal account with two bronzes in men's 800m and women's 400m respectively...

SINGAPORE, OCT 2: KM Binu and S Geetha helped India open their medal account with two bronzes in men’s 800m and women’s 400m respectively as Chinese domination continued on the second day of the Asian Junior Athletics championships at National Stadium.

Binu and Geetha set their personal bests on the way to bronze medal wins. Two Indian runners also made it to the women’s 200m final. China bagged four of the 12 golds decided and now top the list with seven golds two days into the championship.

In the men’s 800m, the fight was for second place between Binu and Mohammad Al Azemi of Kuwait as the gold winner, Saudi Arabia’s Salah Fadila, was way ahead.

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In the women’s 400m, Geetha clocked 55.03 seconds for the third place. She had also competed in the last championships in Bangkok. Gold winner Lin Cui of China clocked 53.51 seconds, almost a second ahead of Uzbek Elena Piskunova who bagged the silver with a 54.43 effort. Another Indian R Sukumari was fifth at 55.91.

Results

Boys (100m): KazuyaKitamuras (Jpn) 10.56, Yang Yaozu (Chn) 10.66, Shingo Suetsugu (Jpn); (400m): Salah El-Din Bakar (Qat) 45.86 (NMR), Hamdan Al-Bishi (Ksa) 45.98, Mitsuhiro Sato (Jpn); (800m): Salah Fadila (Ksa) 1:49.17, Mohammed Al-Azemi (Kuw) 1:49.53, KM Binu (Ind) 1:49.60; (3000 steeple): Said Harasi (Qat) 8:54.65, Jassimal Balooshi (UAE) 8:56.05, Hongru Sun (Chn).Girls (100m): 1 Qin Wangping (Chn) 11.56, Irene Joseph (Ina) 11.89, Juan Hong Zhu (Chn), 6 Mandeep Kaur (Ind) 12.43; (400m): Lin Cui (Chn) 53.51, Elena Piskunova (Uzb) 54.43, S Geetha (Ind) 55.03; (800m): Ya Huei-Li (Tpe) 2:06:47, Tomoko Mastsushima (Jpn) 2.07:08, Jun li Yan (Chn); (Pole vault): Tang Mei Juan (Chn) 4.10m, Chang Ko-Hsin (Tpe) 4.00m, Kuan Mei-Lian (Tpe); (Triple Jump): Viktoriya Brigadnay (Tur) 13.97m, Anna Tarassova (Kaz) 13.76, Shaq Huq Yu (Chn).

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