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Surendra Singh picks up gold

Surendra accounted for India’s lone gold
India made a clean sweep in the 3,000m

Surendra Singh.

Suzhou (China): Surendra Kumar Singh accounted for India’s solitary gold medal in the opening leg of the Asian Grand Prix athletics meet here on Saturday.

Surendra, national record holder in the event (7:50.31), won the 3,000 metres untroubled in 7:59.52, with teammates Ravinder Sharma Bharadwaj (7:59.81) and Sandip Kumar (8:00.15) making it a clean sweep of the medals for India.

In fact, five of the eight runners in the field were Indians, making it look like an Indian Grand Prix meet rather than an Asian Grand Prix one. Kashinath Aswale (8:03.21, fourth) and Elam Singh (8:10.99, sixth) were the other Indians.

Other winners

Other Indian medal winners were Bibin Mathew (silver) and Shake Mortaja (bronze) in the men’s 400 metres, Om Prakash Singh (silver) and Saurabh Vij (bronze) in men’s shot put and Krishna Poonia (silver) and Seema Antil (bronze) in women’s discus.

Abdul Najeeb Qureshi took the first place in the men’s 100 metres ‘B’ race, while H. M. Jyothi was second in the women’s 100 metres ‘B’ race.

The Indian men’s 4x400m team also took the first position in a two-team race, with a local Chinese combination providing the only challenge. It clocked 3:10.60.

The Indian quartet did not finish in the men’s 4x100m relay while the women ended third in the 4x100m relay in 45.65 seconds.

The results:

Men: 100m: Race ‘A’: Su Bingtian (Chn) 10.48, 2. A.S. Sadaruwan (Sri) 10.59, 3. Tan Juquan (Chn) 10.60; Race ‘B’: 1. Abdul Najeeb Qureshi (Ind) 10.70, 2. Tawarit Chantaphan (Tha) 10.75, 3. Wattana Deewong (Tha) 10.77; 400m: 1. Liu Xiaosheng (Chn) 46.88, 2. Bibin Mathew (Ind) 47.18, 3. Shake Mortaja (Ind) 47.56; 4. V. B. Bineesh (Ind) 47.61; 800m: 1. Mohammed Al-Azemi (Kuw) 1:48.64, 2. Sadjad Moradi (Iri) 1:48.67, 3. Li Xiangyu (Chn) 1:48.78; 4. Prakash Verma (Ind) 1:48.96, 5. Ramesan Rajeev (Ind) 1:49.26.

3000m: 1. Surendra Kumar Singh (Ind) 7:59.52, 2. Ravinder Sharma (Ind) 7:59.81, 3. Sandip Kumar (Ind) 8:00.15; 110m hurdles: 1. Shi Dongpeng (Chn) 13.58, 2. Xie Wenjun (Chn) 13.61, 3. Park Tae-Kyong (Kor) 14.08, 6. Krishna Mohan (Ind) 14.74; High jump: 1. Lee Hup Wei (Mas) 2.24, 2. Sergey Zasimovich (Kaz) 2.20, 3. Xu Xin (Chn) 2.15; 4. Benedict Starli (Ind) 2.15, 6. Hari Sankar Roy (Ind) 2.05.

Triple jump: 1. Kim Deok-Hyun (Kor) 16.81, 2. Cao Shuo (Chn) 16.68, 3. Yevgenoy Ektov (Kaz) 16.63; 6. Amarjeet Singh (Ind) 15.13.

Shot put: 1. Chang Minghuang (Tpe) 19.45, 2. Om Prakash Singh (Ind) 19.36, 3. Saurabh Vij (Ind) 18.56; 5. Satyendra Kumar Singh (Ind) 17.86; Javelin: 1. Qi Qing (Chn) 80.24, 2. Park Jae-Young (Kor) 77.21, 3. Chen Qi (Chn) 76.17; 4. Kashinath Naik (Ind) 72.33, 6. Anil Kumar Singh (Ind) 69.25, 7. Rohit Kumar (Ind) 60.46.

Women: 100m: Race ‘A’: Guzel Khubbieva (Uzb) 11.31, 2. Tao Yujia (Chn) 11.71, 3. Nongnuch Sanrat (Tha) 11.78; Race ‘B’: 1. Ornat Klomdee (Tha) 11.76, 2. H. M. Jyothi (Ind) 11.88, 3. Sangwan Jaksunin (Tha) 11.91.

400m: 1. Huang Xiaoxiao (Chn) 53.30, 2. Marina Maslenko (Kaz) 53.30, 3. Olga Tereshkova (Kaz) 54.14; 5. K. Sowjanya (Ind) 55.87, 6. K. Mridula (Ind) 57.52; 800m: 1. Margarita Matsko (Kaz) 2:03.38, 2. Truong Thanh Hang (Vie) 2:04.15, 3. Irina Moroz (Uzb) 2:04.19; 6. Sushma Devi (Ind) 2:06.12.

100m hurdles: 1. Natalya Ivoninskaya (Kaz) 13.28, 2. Liu Jing (Chn) 13.36, 3. Sun Yawei (Chn) 13.43; High jump: 1. Nadiya Dussanova (Uzb) 1.95, 2. Yeketerina Yevseyeva (Kaz) 1.93, 3. Svetlana Radizivil (Uzb) 1.91; 9. Sahana Kumari (Ind) 1.80, Susmita Singha Roy-no mark.

Triple jump: 1. Xie Limei (Chn)14.19, 2. Aleksandra Kotlyarova (Uzb) 13.58, 3. Thtima Muangjan (Tha) 13.57; 7. M. A. Prajusha (Ind) 13.14, 8. Gayathri Govindraj (Ind) 12.86.

Shot put: 1. Gong Lijiao (Chn) 19.50, 2. Li Meiju (Chn) 18.86, 3. Leyla Rajabi (Iri) 17.20; Discus: 1. Song Aimin (Chn) 63.91, 2. Krishna Poonia (Ind) 57.26, 3. Seema Antil (Ind) 55.94.

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