Youngsters shine after hard time in Asian meet
Youngsters shine after hard time in Asian meet
JAKARTA (JP): Gold was so alluring to Chinese Taipei's Hsu
Peichin that she collapsed and vomited just after winning the
400m low hurdles race on the third day of the 11th Asian Track
and Field Championship at the Senayan Madya stadium yesterday.
The 22-year-old clocked 56.99 to get across the finish line
first, leaving Thailand's Reawadee Watanasin and Kazakhstan's
Natalia Torchina in second and third place respectively.
Hsu's time was 85 seconds slower than the championship record
of 56.14 set by India's P.T. Usha in New Delhi in 1989. It also
failed to come close to her best time of 55.75 which won her the
silver medal at last year's Asian Games in Hiroshima, at which
she also fell down upon reaching the finish line.
But for her the gold medal is everything, because it ended
Chinese Taipei's six-year gold medal drought at the previous
three Asian championships.
"I'm very proud and happy to have contributed the first gold
medal to my country in this championship," said the economics
student, soon after her physician declared she was all right.
Hsu knew she had to fight it out to win the gold medal because
she raced against a very strong opponent from Kazakhstan, Torchi
na, who finished eighth in the world track and field championship
in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Keeping his promise to his mother motivated Qatar's Mobarak
Al-Nubi to grab the gold medal in the men's 400m hurdles. He
clocked 50.17 to give his country its second gold in the
championships.
"I promised my mom I would bring her a gold medal from here. I
did it," the 17-year-old, who recorded his best time of 50.05 at
the Gulf track and field championship in Cairo in April.
Al-Nubi beat Japan's Hideaki Kawamura who was timed at 50.45
to win the silver medal and fellow Qatari Ali Ismail who ran
50.73.
Svetlana Kazanina of Kazakhstan took the full advantage of the
absence of world heptathlon champion Gada Shouaa. Kazanina
collected a total of 5,728 points to win in her first outing.
Kazanina was of course happy, as her interpreter put it,
especially after her poor performance in Gothenburg where she
finished 24th. In the recently concluded Student Games in Fukuo
ka, Japan, the fourth semester student of the Alma Alta Physical
Culture Institute climbed to fourth with 5,910.
The 23-year-old national champion, who recorded her best of
6,092 points in the Best Sportsman Kosanov track and field meet
in Kazakhstan's capital city Alma Alta in May, said that she
struggled with the heat during yesterday's race.
Another hard thing was the reward she usually receives from
her government after winning, a handshake.
Hard times befell Indonesian long-distance runner Eduardus
Nabunome who finished 11th in the men's 5,000m run yesterday and
quit running after the eighth lap in the men's 10,000m on
Thursday.
Yet, the 28-year-old father, who has not attended the coun
try's track and field centralized training program since the
Singapore Southeast Asian Games in 1993, consoled himself by
shrugging-off his poor performance.
"Those in the program also performed poorly, not just me," the
1992 Asia marathon champion said. (arf)
Results
Women's
10,000m walk
1. Feng Haixa (Chn) 45:58.76 (new meet record)
2. Wang Liping (Chn) 46:19.83
3. Yuka Kamioka (Jpn) 46:36.39
...
5. Hasiati Lawole (Ina) 54:01.39
400m hurdles
1. Hsu Pei-Chin (Tpe) 56.99
2. Reawadee Watanasin (Tha) 57.98
3. Natalia Torchina (Kaz) 58.88
...
8. Vera Igouge (Ina) 1:06.33
Javelin throw
1. Li Lei (Chn) 60.48m
2. Lee Young-sum (Kor) 58.68
3. Ha Xiaoyan (Chn) 55.80
...
8. Tati Ratnaningsih (Ina) 45.48
Long jump
1. Elene Pershina (Kzk) 6.50m
2. Yao Weili (Chn) 6.47
3. Elma Muros (Phi) 6.37
...
13. Ni Nyoman Rae (Ina) 5.92
Heptathlon women (total scores)
1. Svetlana Kazanina (Kaz) 5,728
2. Liu Bo (Chn) 5,516
3. Rumiko Ubukata (Jpn) 5,395
Men's
400m hurdles
1. Mobarak Al-Nubi (Qat) 50.17
2. Hideaki Kawamura (Jpn) 50.45
3. Ali Ismail (Qat) 50.73
High jump
1. Lee Jin-taek (Kor) 2.32m (new meet record)
2. Xu Yang (Chn) 2.26
3. Lou Kum Zee (Mal) 2.19
5,000m
1. Saad A. Mozazae (Ksa) 14:01.43
2. Maly Sopyev (Tur) 14:02.97
3. Xia Fengyuan (Chn) 14:07.99
...
11. Eduard Nabunome (Ina) 15:00.24
Medals tally
G S B Total
China 10 5 3 18
South Korea 2 3 0 5
Qatar 2 2 3 7
Kazakhstan 2 2 2 6
Saudi Arabia 2 0 0 2
Japan 1 3 4 8
Chinese Taipei 1 1 0 2
Turkmenistan 1 1 0 2
India 1 0 3 4
Uzbekistan 0 2 1 3
Indonesia 0 1 0 1
Sri Lanka 0 1 0 1
Thailand 0 1 0 1
Malaysia 0 0 3 3
Iran 0 0 1 1
Iraq 0 0 1 1
Philippines 0 0 1 1
Today's program
Finals program on the fourth day of the 11th Asian Track and
Field Championships here (all in West Indonesian Time):
08.20 decathlon (100m)
08.30 hammer throw
09.00 decathlon (long jump)
10.00 decathlon (shot put)
15.30 women's 100m hurdles
15.30 men's triple jump
15.30 decathlon (high jump)
15.30 men's discus throw
15.40 women's 400m
15.55 men's 400m
16.00 women's shot put
16.15 women's 200m
16.30 men's 200m
16.50 decathlon (400m)
17.00 women's 5,000m