Opening Ceremony - First Asian Indoor Championships (© AAF of Islamic Republic of Iran/Ali Kaveh)
The inaugural Asian Indoor Athletic Championships began yesterday in Tehran, Iran, and will conclude on Sunday, 8 February.
The competition is taking place in Piroozi Hall, which offers an impressive six lane synthetic track with facilities for all standard indoor athletic events.
Not surprisingly there were numerous national indoor records and personal bests established in the first day of action, with significant results coming in the men’s Long Jump which was won by Saudi Arabia’s Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwailidi with a 7.94m performance, and the two 60m sprint finals.
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Selected results -
Men
60 m
1. Abdolghafar Saghar IRI 6.76
2. To Wai Lok HKG 6.79
3. Chiang Wai Hung HKG 6.79
Long Jump
1 Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwailidi KSA 7.94 (national record)
2 Ahmed Al-Dosari KSA 7.76
Shot
1 Amin Nikfar IRI 18.33 (nat. rec)
2 Ali Rahmani IRI 18.30
Women
60m
1 Zou Yiting CHN 7.41
2 Roqaya al Ghasara BRN 7.48
3 Saori Kitakaze JPN 7.52
800m
1 Miki Nishimura JPN 2:10.40
2 Liu Qing CHN 2:14.43
3 Pinki Paramanik IND 2:15.06
High Jump
1 Miyuki Aoyama JPN 1.83
2 Bobby Aloysius IND 1.81 (nat rec)
3 Sahana Kumari IND 1.79
Shot
1 Zhang Xiaoyu CHN 17.38
2 Iolanta Ulyeva KAZ 16.78
3000m walk
1 Jasmin Kaur IND 14:54.15
