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team will take part in the IAAF / VTB Bank
Continental Cup at Spilt
( Croatia ) beginning on 4th Sept 2010. For the
first time Oceania Pacific team will be merged with
Asia and new team will be called Asia Pacific (
ASP)
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 First Youth Olympic Games officially under way in Singapore
Singapore, 14 Aug 2010 - The Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games officially got under way today with an Opening Ceremony at the Marina Bay Floating Stadium in downtown Singapore.
With the city skyline providing an impressive backdrop, some 3600 athletes aged 14 to 18 marched in the Parade of Nations, which was followed by speeches from International Olympic Committee President (IOC) Jacques Rogge and Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee Chairman (SYOGOC) Ser Miang Ng.
“Tonight we open a new chapter in the history of the Olympic Movement,” said President Rogge. “From this moment on, young people around the world have a chance to participate in a global event that combines sport, education and culture.”
The IOC President added that he expected the first-ever Youth Olympic Games, which run from 14 to 26 August, to produce high-level sporting competition within an Olympic environment while at the same time providing the athletes with a platform to learn, share and build friendships through a supporting Culture and Education Programme.
Attending the Opening Ceremony were Singapore Prime Minister Hsien Loong, IAAF Seniore Vice President and Coordination Commission Chairman for the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games Sergey Bubka, and Youth Olympic Games Ambassador Yelena Isinbayeva, among others.
Addressing the athletes, President Rogge said their participation at the Youth Olympic Games would help them “learn the difference between winning and being a champion. To win, you merely have to cross the finish line first. To be a champion, you have to inspire admiration for your character, as well as for your physical talent.”
( IAAF)
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Youth
Olympic Games 2010 Singapore
Athletics
17- 23 Aug
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Asian
All Star Athletics Meet 2010
29-30 July, New
Delhi ( INDIA)
Schedule |
Photo Gallery | Asian
leaders | Asian
Top 10 2010
Records - World
Records | Asian
Records
Meet Record | Indian
all comers Records
Start List - Day 1 |
Day 2
Results - Day 1 | Day 2
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Asian All-Star Athletics: Khubbieva and Dusanova
steal the show
New Delhi, India – 30 July 2010 : Guzel Khubbieva of Uzbekistan outsprinted opposition, as she spurt in to front from blocks, to become the fastest woman of the two day 3rd Asian All-Star Athletics Meet which concluded on Friday at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here. A familiar face with the Indian fans, Khubbieva is the reigning Asian Games champion and multiple medalist in the Asian Grand Prix series.
On the contrary Sri Lankan star Shehan Abeypitiyage, after initial lead in the first half, had to fight it out with Hong Kong’s Tsui Chi Ho in the men’s 100m. Tsui, who clocked a national best 10.28 secs this May, looked as winner from the stands. A scrutiny of photo-finish favoured the Sri Lankan 10.49 to 10.50.
Dusanova rise to further height
Uzbekistan’s Nadezhda Dusanova delivered the best performance of the day by improving her continental leading mark to 1.95m to win the women’s high jump. Her teammate Svetlana Radzivil, who scaled 1.93m in the last month’s Asian Grand Prix at Bangalore, could manage only 1.88m today and thus had to be settled with a bronze. The silver medal in this event went to Anna Ustinova of Kazakhstan in 1.93m.
Field day for Indian throwers
Krishna Poonia, ranked tenth in the World, proved the training she had in the United States under Olympian Mac Wilkins highly beneficial when she hurled the discus beyond 60m twice on the evening. As expected it was a clean sweep for Indians with Harwant Kaur (58.73) and Seema Antil (54.21) took the next two spots beyond Poonia who achieved 60.93m for the gold.
It was double joy for Krishna as Indian Government
announced highest sporting honour Arjuna Award
today.
Om Prakash Singh, the basketball player turned athlete, missed out the 20m mark once again but heaved the iron ball to 19.74m to become a clear winner here. His teammate Saurabh Vij got the silver medal with a 19.09m throw while Iran’s Nikfar Amin, who achieved a season leading 19.70m at Bangalore last month, settled with a bronze medal as his day’s best throw measured only to 18.65m.
Juana captured the sheen in hurdles
Indian 400m hurdler Joseph G. Abraham received a shock defeat in the hands of Japan’s Takayuki Koike as he slowed down at the last hurdle. Koike clinched the gold at 50.08 secs, while the Indian clocked a distant 50.87s for the silver.
Juana Murmu, who recently switched to hurdles, delivered a sterling performance on Friday evening as she outlived favourite Natalya Asanova of Uzbekistan to win the event in 57.39
secs.
Sri Lanka’s Chaminda Indika Wijekoon and Indian Sinimole Paulose showed a brilliant ‘come-back’ as they won the metric mile among the men and women respectively as Sandeep Batham of India took the men’s 5000m gold in a moderate time.
The hosts India took half of the medals that were in stake in the two day event as they garnered an amazing 12 gold, 9 silver and 10 bronze medals to top the field.
( Ram. Murali Krishnan for AAA )
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 Asian All-Star Athletics: Indian women ruled day-1
New Delhi, India – 29 July 2010
Blessed with a shower of rain at the beginning of competition, the third edition of Asian All-Star Athletics Meet witnessed outstanding performances by women athletes of India on the opening day.
Running on the newly laid synthetic track, Indian half-miler Tintu Luka outclassed the little opposition from no less a person than teammate Sinimol Paulose. A fast 58 seconds clocking on the first lap showed the fifteen-year-old national record by Shiny Wilson (1:59.85) is on threat. However, with no one to push her, the prodigy of P.T. Usha, had to run a solo race and
slowed down at the last 200m thus ended her campaign with a personal best 2:01.24 at the end.
On the far side of the stadium, the women long jumpers received cheer from a large number of school children who assembled to witness the event. The pre-event favourite Yulia
Tarasova, seventh in this year’s World Indoor championships at Doha and a multi-event specialist, could not find her rhythm and hence managed only a silver medal
 with 6.49m jump on her fifth try. The upcoming Indian jumper Mayookha Johny on the other
hand was already leading the fray with her personal best 6.64m, registered on her fourth try, and opted to skip the last two as she was made sure of the gold. Her teammate M.A. Prajusha took the bronze (6.30m). With today’s performance, Mayookha currently ranked sixth among the athletes from commonwealth nations and is all set to make a podium finish in the Commonwealth Games to be held in the same venue in October this year.
Iranian quarter-milers took the first two spots in the men’s 400m as Sajjad Hashemi took the top spot followed by countryman Reza
Bouazar. The women’s race saw the come back of Mandeep Kaur as she outran the favourite Kazakh runner Yulia Gavrilova. Asian champion Manjula Kumara Wijesekara was the notable winner in men’s high jump.
As expected Indonesian Jumras Rittidet had won the men’s 110m hurdles while Anastasiya Soprunova of Kazakhstan clinched the women’s 100m hurdled gold. India’s Gayathry
Govindaraj, who showed consistent win at the continental scene recently, took the silver in the women’s race.
The women’s 5,000m was a three horse race. Indonesia’s SEA Games double gold medalist
Trianingsih, who interchanged the lead with Kazakhstan’s Sitora
Khamidova, pulled up when two laps to go and won the event with a moderate 16:24.12 clocking.
 Coming back to the field, Indian junior Ankit Sharma surprised his senior teammates Maha Singh and Harikrishnan to win the gold medal in the men’s long jump wherein the hosts made a clean sweep. Ankit was credited with a personal best 7.77m while winning the bronze medal in the Asian junior championships at Hanoi, Vietnam, at the beginning of this month.
As much as 250 athletes from seventeen nations are taking part in the two day meet. A total prize money of USD 70,000 are to be distributed amongst the winners of the first three places in the above meet.
Earlier the meet was inaugurated by Rt.Hon. Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sports, United Kingdom in the evening in the presence of Suresh Kalmadi, President, Asian Athletics Association and Commonwealth Games Organising Committee as well as Lord Sebastian Coe, Chairman of the London Olympics Organising Committee.
( Ram. Murali Krishnan for AAA)
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 July
20, 2010: Billed as a ‘test event’ in athletics for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, the Asian All-Star Athletics competition is expected to provide a serene atmosphere for everyone concerned to prove their mettle at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (JNS). The two day contest set for July 29 and 30 at the newly furbished tracks on the Indian capital will witness a flurry of star athletes making their strides for the first time since its renovation.
Originally built for the 1982 Asian Games, the state-of-the-art JNS hosts the athletics completion besides opening and closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games. The Asian All-Star Athletics will offer a chance, perhaps the only time before the CWG, to test various area of organization prior to the mega sporting extravaganza in October. As much as 250 technical officials and hundreds of volunteers besides scores of other functional area staff will make sure that every area of competition work perfectly.
Mixture of past and future champs
First held in 2004 at Singapore, the Asian All-Star athletics aims to tap new potential among the juniors while the cream of continental champions and medalists had invited to take part. The second edition of the competition was held at Bhopal, two years ago.
At least seven champions from Bhopal have figured on the Delhi start-list. This apart, many Asian Games and continental (senior and junior) championship medalists are also on the fray for a podium finish in the next week’s competition.
Strong field in throws
Reigning Asian champion Ehsan Hadadi stood tall and top among the list of participants. The 25 year old Iranian, who holds the continental record of 69.32m and was a world junior champion in 2004, recently recorded a season’s best of 68.45m in Tehran. Vikas Gowda, the Indian thrower living in United States, making a come back with a performance of 63.22m.
On the women’s side, Indian throwers are a cut above the rest with Krishna Poonia leading the challenge with a season leading 61.64m recorded in USA while went through a training-cum-competition stint under the watchful eyes of former Olympian Mac Wilkins.
Om Prakash Singh, the current Asian champion, led the list in men’s shot put along with teammates Satyendra Singh and Saurabh Vij. Amin Nikfar from Iran, the Asian Indoor Games victor, together with Grigoriy Kamulya of Uzbekistan is expected to provide the required challenge to the Indians.
Iran also fields a strong athlete in women’s shot put. Leyla Rajabi, formerly known as Tatsiana Ilyuschanka of Belarus, brought her adopted country an Asian indoor gold this year. She is a notable athlete to watch as also Yang Yanbo and Liu Jing of China on the shot put circle.
Triple jumpers to the fore
The triple jumpers are ready to grab the attention of fans in both men and women divisions. Renjith Maheswary, the former asian champion would log horn with Kazakhstan’s Yevgeniy Ektov, the bronze medalist in last year’s asian championships at Guangzhou and defending Asian all-star victor in Bhopal.
Among women, Alexandra Kotlyarova—who recorded a personal best 14.08m while winning this year’s Asian Grand Prix at Bangalore—is all set to boost Gayathry Govindaraj, the double silver medalist in Commonwealth Youth Games at Pune, two years ago. Gayathry registered 13.58m earlier this month when taking a silver medal in the Asian junior championships at Hanoi, which incidentally the second best ever by an Indian. However she missed a golden chance in 100m hurdles at the Vietnamese capital due to a false start.
Joseph Abraham, the World championship semi-finalist in 400m hurdles at Osaka in 2007, unbeaten in Asian Grand Prix this year is aiming high with better marks at Delhi.
The women’s long jump will be another attraction as multi-event specialist Yulia Tarasova of Uzbekistan, Bhopal champion Priyadarshini of Sri Lanka and the trio of Indian jumpers—M A Prajusha, Mayookha Johny and Reshmi Bose—are all set to make it a memorable contest to remember.
Half-milers steady on tracks
World University Games champion Sajad Moradi, who made another clean sweep of medals in the three-leg Asian Grand Prix on Indian soil earlier this year, is set to rule the tracks once again. Among women, Tintu Luka—the prodigy of legendary Indian sprinter P.T. Usha—is gearing up to set aside the challenge from teammate Sushma Devi and Ayako Jinnouchi of Japan.
The men’s 100m sprint will have the entire podium finishers from 2008 Asian junior championships—Lai Chun Ho and Tsui Chi Ho of Hong Kong and Shehan Abeypitiyage of Sri Lanka. However, the women’s race will have higher standard as both Asian Games gold medalist Guzel Khubbieve of Uzbekistan and Yulia Gavrilova of Kazakhstan—the double gold medalist in the Asian junior championships this year will be challenged by H.M. Jyothi, the bronze medalist in last year’s Asian meet at Guangzhou and winner of 2008 edition of the Asian All-Star meet.
Athletes from about seventeen asian nations are taking part in the two day competitions.
(Ram. Murali Krishnan)
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 Singapore,
24 May 2010: Asia Area Qualification for 1st Youth
Olympic Games was held in Singapore on 22-23 May
2010. Chinese youth athletes dominated the
qualification. Click
here to view the final results of the
qualification.
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 Colombo,
9 May 2010: Mr. Sergey Bubka of Ukarine, who is
currently the world pole vault record holder, and
IAAF Vice President was impressed with the talent
and dedication of the Sri Lankan athletes. Bubka was
on a short visit to Sri Lanka, was an observer at
the Kids Athletic Programme held at the Mahinda
Rajapaksa International Stadium in Diyagama on
Saturday morning.
“To improve in the standard of athletics, you
have to improve on the number of coaches and their
knowledge and should have more facilities throughout
the country. Athletes must also compete in foreign
competitions and they must go with their coaches so
that they can increase on their knowledge,”
observed Bubka. Being a senior vice president of the
IAAF, Bubka said that US$ 40 million is allocated to
extend support to Asian countries so that they can
improve on the facilities for their athletes.
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 Mr. Teruji KOGAKE, Honorary Vice President of Japanese Federation passed
away at 21:43(JST) on May 9, 2010 at the hospital in Tokyo due to "Liver
Failure" aged at 77 years old. He was a Head Coach
of Japanese Federation for many years and a Vice President from
1995 to 2005. Mr. Teruji also served as Vice President of Japanese Olympic
Committee(1999~2003) and IAAF, Veterans' Committee Member(1995~2007).
On behalf of the President and Council of the Asian Athletics Association and Athletics Family of Asia
, Mr. Maurice Nicholas, Secretary General of AAA
sent deepest condolences to his family and loved ones.
He said that Mr. Teruji was always friendly and unassuming of disposition and was always willing to help other coaches who needed his advice.
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KOBE, May 7 (AP) - (Kyodo)—A plan has been approved to hold the Asian athletics championships on July 7-10 next year at Kobe Sports Park, organizers said on Friday.
It will be the first time Japan will host the event since the 1998 Fukuoka meet.
The meet will be held about one month prior to the 2011 world athletics championships in Daegu, South Korea starting Aug. 27.
Athletes who triumph at the Asian championships will pass the A qualifying standard to compete in the world championships
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 Jordan,
March 28, 2010: Fouad
Habash (Syria), technical director of Arab Athletics
Association passed away on 26th March. Fouad Habash was a
major expert on Arab Athletics and had contributed a
lot to the World of Athletics.
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Nomi City (Japan) 14 March 2010: Asian 20Km
Walking
Championship 2010
Local athlete Yusuke Suzuki won Asian 20km walking
championship title with a timing of 1 hour 20min and
6 sec followed by
South Korean Byun Young-Jun with 1
hour 22 min and 7 sec. SUGIMOTO AKIHIRO of
Japan took third place in 1hour 23min 33
sec.
In the women's 20km walk Japanese walked swept all
three places. Masumi Fuchise of Japan won the title
with 1 hour 29 min 35 sec. Click
here to view the final results of the championship
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 Asian
champion Rypakova rose to stardom with a golden leap in triple jump!
Doha, Qatar – 13 March 2010 : Olga Rypakova finally achieved what she was longing for—the World title in triple jump—as she leaped to a career best 15.14m in the Aspire Dome on Saturday and thus become the first Asian victor in the ongoing 13th World Indoor championships in the Qatari capital.
The women’s triple jump was incidentally the first event which decided a title here.
Interestingly Rypakova’s jump was the second longest in the World Indoors behind Russian superstar Tatyana Lebedeva’s 15.36m global best registered during the 2004 edition in Budapest.
Fourth at both World indoor meet at Valencia and the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Rypakova was in a great form this season as she annexed a golden double by winning long and triple jumps at the Asian Indoor Games at Hanoi in November 2009.
Having qualified with a modest 14.57m behind the favourite Yargelis Savigne of Cuba (14.59m) on Friday, Rypakova faultered on her opening try in the finals before took lead of the elite group with a 14.78m in her second jump—no other athlete go beyond it on Saturday. She then registered 14.17m on third before a “no mark” on her fourth and an improvised 14.93m in the fifth before achieving a world leading and title winning 15.14m on her final leap.
Savigne settled for silver with 14.86m while Anna Pyatykh of Russia got the bronze in 14.64m.
Other notable winners of the day were Australian Steven Hooker in pole vault with a meet record 6.01m and Croatian woman Blanka Vlasic with a modest 2m high jump.
(Ram. Murali Krishnan for AAA)
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 All set for the big day in Doha!
The Aspire Dome in Qatari capital, venue for 13th World Indoor Championships in Athletics, is wearing a
colorful look as it welcomes the cream of athletes from around the globe for the three day meet which scheduled to begin on Friday (12 March).
It is the first major global event the Asian continent organizing in 2010, prior to the inaugural Youth Olympic Games at Singapore this August as well as the Commonwealth Games at New Delhi in October and the Asian Games at Guangzhou in the fag end of the year.
Doha is an important destination in the World sports calendar in recent times. It is the second city in Asia to host the World Indoors after Maebashi in Japan which celebrated an excellent edition in 1999.
A large number of medalists from previous editions of the championships together with outdoor world championships and Olympians are taking part in Doha. Qatar as a host country is having high hopes on its athletes. Besides this other gulf countries like Bahrain and the East Asian bloc led by mighty China are well prepared for the big occasion.
Many Asian athletes have already revealed medal-winning ambitions. Former World and Olympic champion Liu Xiang of China, on his comeback trail, logging horn with two-time World Indoor 60m hurdles champion Terrence Trammell (USA) and Cuban world 110m hurdles record-holder Dayron Robles. The athletic fans around the universe are already looking for the "titanic clash" from the above race.
The world record ambition of Yelena Isinbayeva and many other promising athletes will make it a memorable weekend in the middle-east nation.
(Ram. Murali Krishnan)
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Asian Athletics Association wishes all its member federations,
council members, athletes, coaches and technical officials from Asia
a very Happy New Year 2010.
It is another important year for athletics as Asian countries
continues to host successful global events in athletics besides multisport extravaganza. Doha will host IAAF World Indoor Championships while Delhi is gearing up towards the Commonwealth Games. City of Guangzhou, after the successful Asian championships last year, once again welcomes Asian athletes for the quadrangular multisport Asian Games. To cap it all, Singapore is hosting the inaugural World Youth Games in August.
This apart, Doha is all set to launch the IAAF Diamond League which is followed by the Shanghai edition in May 2010. Further, Osaka Grand Prix and Colorful Daegu are important among the fixtures of the newly devised World Challenge one-day meetings.
On the continental scene, India plays a vital role as it organises two events for the second-time with Asian All-Stars Meet in New Delhi and Asian Marathon championships at Pune. The year also witness the Asian Indoor meet at Teheran and continental junior championships at Hanoi, as Vietnam is becoming an important destination for the young aspirants from the continent to test their talents.
Other regular features like the Asian Grand Prix series, Race Walking championships, Cross-country races and regional events like South Asian Games makes 2010 a busy year for everyone concerned with our sport.
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