26th Asian Athletics Championships
Gumi Civi Stadium, Gumi, Korea
27-31 May 2025
Asian Athletics Championships, Day 1, May 27, 2025
China dominated opening day, by EME News
GUMI (KOR, May 27): In Korea started the 26th Asian Championships. In the men 20 km walk championships record 1:20:37 by Chinese Paris Olympian Wang Zhaozhao ahead of Japanes Kento Yoshikawa 1:20:46 and Indian Servin Sebastian 1:21:14. Also women competition had a Chinese winner in meet record, World medalist Yin Hang 1:30:44. Silver also for China as Ma Li got 1:32:08 and bronze for Kazakhstan´s Yasmina Tokonbayeva 1:32:22 ahead of best Japanese Ayane Yanai 1:33:15. Indian record holder Gulveer Singh won the 10 000 m in 28:38.63 clearly ahead of Mebuki Suzuki from Japan 28:43.84 and Albert Rop from Bahrain 28:46.82. China dominated women hammer with 1-2, Li Ji 72.98 ahead of Li Jiangyan 69.13. In third Ya Chien Yu from Taipei 64.25. Su Lingdan won women javelin with 63.29 PB followed by Japanese duo Momone Ueda 59.39 and Sae Takemoto 58.94. And another Chinese gold for Li Yi in triple jump 13.80 (-0.9) edging Sharifa Davronova of Uzbekistan 13.74 (-1.3) and Japanese Mariko Morimoto 13.65 (-1.4). Tejaswin Shankar from India clearly leads the decathlon after day one with 4205 points (219 in high jump). Fastest in 400 m heats was Chinese Fu Haoran with 46.21. Later in semifinals the fastest 45.74 achieved by Japanese Fuga Sato (735) and Sri Lankan Kalinga Kumarage (740). Japanese Nanako Matsumoto was the best in women 400 m heats with 52.24. In the 100 m heats fastest Liang Xiaojing 11.22 (+0.9) among women and talented Puripol Boonson 10.22 (+1.4) among men.
Asian Athletics Championships, Day 2, May 28, 2025, by EME News
Zhu 17.06, Yanagita 10.20
GUMI (KOR, May 28): Tokyo silver medallist Zhu Yaming topped the triple jump with 17.06 (1.4) at the Asian Championships day two, winning ahead of India’s Praveen Chithravel 16.90 (1.9) and Yu Gyumin of Korea 16.82w (2.1), also 16.55 (0.9). Hiroki Yanagita won the 100m in photo-finish in 10.194 (0.6) with Puripol Boonson of Thailand (10.196). 400m titles for Japan’s Nanako Matsumoto in 52.17 over Rupal Chaudhary of India (52.68) and Uzbekistan’s Jonbibi Hukmova (52.79 PB), and for Qatar’s Ammar Ismail Yahya Ibrahim in 45.33 ahead of Kentaro Sato of Japan (45.50) and Sri Lanka’s Kalinga Kumarage (45.55). More wins for China, by Liang Xiaojing in the 100m in 11.37 (-0.1) over Singapore’s Veronica Shanti Pereira (11.41) and Tran Thi Nhi…
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