February
16, 2008 India Win Asian
Indoor Athletics Title
with 17 Medals
Doha
India finished atop the medal standings with five gold, nine silver
and three bronze at the Asian Athletics Indoor Championships that
concluded here Saturday.
China were second with five gold, two silver and as many bronze
medals while Kazakhstan was third with four gold, six silver and
four bronze medals.
India's middle distance runner Sinimol Paulose finished two gold
medals while Preeja Sreedharan, P.J. Vinod and women's 4x400 metres
relay team won one gold each.
Sushma Devi bagged two silver medals and Kavita Raut, Surendra Singh
(3,000m), wommen's 4x400 metres relay team - Mandeep Kaur, Manjeet
Kaur, Sini Jose and Chitra Soman - as well as Anju Bobby George, Om
Prakash, C. Hamza and Amarjeet Singh clinched won one each.
Leelavathi Veerappan, Mandeep Kaur and M.A. Prajusha settled for one
bronze each.
On Saturday, Sinimol, 24 and reigning Asian and Asian Indoor Games
champion, won her second gold with win over Matsko Mragarita of
Kazakhstan in the final of women's 800m.
Sinimol clocked 2:03.43 seconds while her compatriot Sushma Devi
overtook Matsko in the last 50 metres to finish second with a
personal-best time of 2:04.66 sec. Matsko was third in 2:04.85 sec.
The women's relay team won the gold with a championship record time
of 3:37.46 sec. Kazaksthan finished second with 3:38.10 sec while
Thailand took the bronze in 3:43.22 sec.
The men's 4x400m relay team, comprising Thannickkal Aboobcker,
Chaudhary Vinay, Bhullar Gurvinder Pal Singh and Pankaj Virender
Kumar, won the silver with a timing of 3:16.53 sec in the last final
of the championships.
Saudi Arabia dominated the race from start to finish. Winning in
3:14.25 sec to register the sixth championship record of the third
and final day. Host Qatar finished third with 3:17.93 sec.
In the men's 3,000m final, Surendra won the silver with a new
personal best of 7:49.47 sec - an improvement of more than 15
seconds to his indoor best.
India's Om Prakash, participating in his maiden indoor competition,
earned silver and first continental championship medal for himself
in the men's shot put final with a throw of 18.37 metres, which was
better than the championship record.
Gholoum Ahmed of Kuwait won gold with a throw of 18.55m. Yao Yong
Guang of China took bronze with 18.16m throw.
India's Vinod, Asian Indoor Games champion, once again tallied the
same number of points, 5,561, achieved in the Macau Asian Indoor
Games to win the indoor heptathlon gold medal.
Sephrzad Hadi of Iran finished on second place with 5,515 points and
Hiromasa Tanaka of Japan took bronze with 5,306 points.
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