Youngsters shine after hard time in Asian meet<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Gold was so alluring to Chinese Taipei's Hsu
\nPeichin that she collapsed and vomited just after winning the
\n400m low hurdles race on the third day of the 11th Asian Track
\nand Field Championship at the Senayan Madya stadium yesterday.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old clocked 56.99 to get across the finish line
\nfirst, leaving Thailand's Reawadee Watanasin and Kazakhstan's
\nNatalia Torchina in second and third place respectively.<\/p>\n
Hsu's time was 85 seconds slower than the championship record
\nof 56.14 set by India's P.T. Usha in New Delhi in 1989. It also
\nfailed to come close to her best time of 55.75 which won her the
\nsilver medal at last year's Asian Games in Hiroshima, at which
\nshe also fell down upon reaching the finish line.<\/p>\n
But for her the gold medal is everything, because it ended
\nChinese Taipei's six-year gold medal drought at the previous
\nthree Asian championships.<\/p>\n
"I'm very proud and happy to have contributed the first gold
\nmedal to my country in this championship," said the economics
\nstudent, soon after her physician declared she was all right.<\/p>\n
Hsu knew she had to fight it out to win the gold medal because
\nshe raced against a very strong opponent from Kazakhstan, Torchi
\nna, who finished eighth in the world track and field championship
\nin Gothenburg, Sweden.<\/p>\n
Keeping his promise to his mother motivated Qatar's Mobarak
\nAl-Nubi to grab the gold medal in the men's 400m hurdles. He
\nclocked 50.17 to give his country its second gold in the
\nchampionships.<\/p>\n
"I promised my mom I would bring her a gold medal from here. I
\ndid it," the 17-year-old, who recorded his best time of 50.05 at
\nthe Gulf track and field championship in Cairo in April.<\/p>\n
Al-Nubi beat Japan's Hideaki Kawamura who was timed at 50.45
\nto win the silver medal and fellow Qatari Ali Ismail who ran
\n50.73.<\/p>\n
Svetlana Kazanina of Kazakhstan took the full advantage of the
\nabsence of world heptathlon champion Gada Shouaa. Kazanina
\ncollected a total of 5,728 points to win in her first outing.<\/p>\n
Kazanina was of course happy, as her interpreter put it,
\nespecially after her poor performance in Gothenburg where she
\nfinished 24th. In the recently concluded Student Games in Fukuo
\nka, Japan, the fourth semester student of the Alma Alta Physical
\nCulture Institute climbed to fourth with 5,910.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old national champion, who recorded her best of
\n6,092 points in the Best Sportsman Kosanov track and field meet
\nin Kazakhstan's capital city Alma Alta in May, said that she
\nstruggled with the heat during yesterday's race.<\/p>\n
Another hard thing was the reward she usually receives from
\nher government after winning, a handshake.<\/p>\n
Hard times befell Indonesian long-distance runner Eduardus
\nNabunome who finished 11th in the men's 5,000m run yesterday and
\nquit running after the eighth lap in the men's 10,000m on
\nThursday.<\/p>\n
Yet, the 28-year-old father, who has not attended the coun
\ntry's track and field centralized training program since the
\nSingapore Southeast Asian Games in 1993, consoled himself by
\nshrugging-off his poor performance.<\/p>\n
"Those in the program also performed poorly, not just me," the
\n1992 Asia marathon champion said. (arf)<\/p>\n
Results<\/p>\n
Women's<\/p>\n
10,000m walk
\n 1. Feng Haixa (Chn) 45:58.76 (new meet record)
\n 2. Wang Liping (Chn) 46:19.83
\n 3. Yuka Kamioka (Jpn) 46:36.39
\n ...
\n 5. Hasiati Lawole (Ina) 54:01.39<\/p>\n
400m hurdles
\n 1. Hsu Pei-Chin (Tpe) 56.99
\n 2. Reawadee Watanasin (Tha) 57.98
\n 3. Natalia Torchina (Kaz) 58.88
\n ...
\n 8. Vera Igouge (Ina) 1:06.33<\/p>\n
Javelin throw
\n 1. Li Lei (Chn) 60.48m
\n 2. Lee Young-sum (Kor) 58.68
\n 3. Ha Xiaoyan (Chn) 55.80
\n ...
\n 8. Tati Ratnaningsih (Ina) 45.48<\/p>\n
Long jump
\n 1. Elene Pershina (Kzk) 6.50m
\n 2. Yao Weili (Chn) 6.47
\n 3. Elma Muros (Phi) 6.37
\n ...
\n 13. Ni Nyoman Rae (Ina) 5.92<\/p>\n
Heptathlon women (total scores)
\n 1. Svetlana Kazanina (Kaz) 5,728
\n 2. Liu Bo (Chn) 5,516
\n 3. Rumiko Ubukata (Jpn) 5,395<\/p>\n
Men's<\/p>\n
400m hurdles
\n 1. Mobarak Al-Nubi (Qat) 50.17
\n 2. Hideaki Kawamura (Jpn) 50.45
\n 3. Ali Ismail (Qat) 50.73<\/p>\n
High jump
\n 1. Lee Jin-taek (Kor) 2.32m (new meet record)
\n 2. Xu Yang (Chn) 2.26
\n 3. Lou Kum Zee (Mal) 2.19<\/p>\n
5,000m
\n 1. Saad A. Mozazae (Ksa) 14:01.43
\n 2. Maly Sopyev (Tur) 14:02.97
\n 3. Xia Fengyuan (Chn) 14:07.99
\n ...
\n 11. Eduard Nabunome (Ina) 15:00.24<\/p>\n
Medals tally<\/p>\n
G S B Total
\n China 10 5 3 18
\n South Korea 2 3 0 5
\n Qatar 2 2 3 7
\n Kazakhstan 2 2 2 6
\n Saudi Arabia 2 0 0 2
\n Japan 1 3 4 8
\n Chinese Taipei 1 1 0 2
\n Turkmenistan 1 1 0 2
\n India 1 0 3 4
\n Uzbekistan 0 2 1 3
\n Indonesia 0 1 0 1
\n Sri Lanka 0 1 0 1
\n Thailand 0 1 0 1
\n Malaysia 0 0 3 3
\n Iran 0 0 1 1
\n Iraq 0 0 1 1
\n Philippines 0 0 1 1<\/p>\n
Today's program<\/p>\n
Finals program on the fourth day of the 11th Asian Track and
\nField Championships here (all in West Indonesian Time):<\/p>\n
08.20 decathlon (100m)
\n 08.30 hammer throw
\n 09.00 decathlon (long jump)
\n 10.00 decathlon (shot put)
\n 15.30 women's 100m hurdles
\n 15.30 men's triple jump
\n 15.30 decathlon (high jump)
\n 15.30 men's discus throw
\n 15.40 women's 400m
\n 15.55 men's 400m
\n 16.00 women's shot put
\n 16.15 women's 200m
\n 16.30 men's 200m
\n 16.50 decathlon (400m)
\n 17.00 women's 5,000m<\/p>",
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