Adekoya surges to women’s hurdles title Friday, May 19, 2017 Friday, May 19, 2017 22 Day 23 6 Odiong Edidiong after Azerbaijan to face winning the women’s Oman in football final 200m gold Baku tightly-contested game at the zerbaijan sealed their Dalga Arena. place in the final of Magsad Isayev added Yaqoob Salem after Athe Islamic Solidarity another on the hour mark to receiving the men’s Games football tournament send Algeria packing. 200m silver medal on Thursday by defeating Oman, meanwhile held off Algeria 2-0, while Oman the Indomitable Lions who edged Cameroon 5-3 failed to find the back of the on penalties after a 0-0 net for the second game of stalemate. the tournament. Just before the break, It all came down to Azeri captain Ruslan penalties and Lady Luck Abishov headed home a favoured Oman, who booked DT News Network of Jebet, while United Arab Emirates athlete Mahir Madatov free-kick a seat for the final after Manama Alia Mohammed rounded off the podium to score the first goal of a winning 5-3. ahrain yesterday had another outstanding winning the bronze after a strong challenge day in athletics events at the fourth Islamic from Kyrgyzstan’s Daria Maslova. SolidarityB Games, being held in Baku, in Bahrain’s second gold medal of the day was Azerbaijan. captured by Odiong Edidiong, who raced to Three golds for Azerbaijan The kingdom’s athletes grabbed two gold victory in the women’s 200m final. and one silver medal to take their tally to 11 The short-distance runner completed the Baku The imposing Sabah medals in total, including 6 gold, 2 silver and 3 race in 22.95 seconds, edging Gina Bass of osts Azerbaijan had Shariati (130kg) had to bronze, thus moving up to eighth place among Gambia for a silver and Nigina Sharipova of Yaqoob Salem three wrestlers in the settle for bronze though in 33 nations competing at the games. Uzbekistan claimed a bronze. reacts after winning Hfour finals of Thursday’s the fourth and last event Bahrain’s first victory was marked by Ruth Yaqoob Salem (20.56 seconds) completed the men’s 200m action at the 2017 Islamic of the day. The explosive Jebet, who battled to a second gold medal of the the kingdom’s medal haul, winning the men’s final Solidarity Games in Baku Kamran started the day well Games. The long-distance star clinched victory 200m final silver after a tough battle with gold and they all claimed gold. by claiming a fast victory, after edging Turkey’s Yasemin Can in a thrilling medalist Ramil Guliev (20.08) of Turkey. The Heydar Aliyev Arena dominating Kyrgyz Zhanat women;s 5,000-metre final at Baku Olympic Earlier, Bahrain’s Oluwakemi Adekoya resonated with the music of Kyilybaev to grab gold. Stadium. breezed into the women;s 400 metre final the “March of Azerbaijan” The Azeri wrestler was Jebet strolled to gold in the 3,000-metre to remain on track for a Baku double. The anthem as president a dynamo of aggression steeplechase on Wednesday, but she was Bahraini, who won 400-metre hurdles gold on Ilham Aliyev celebrated throughout the tournament pushed all the way at the stadium Wednesday, ran 51.46 seconds to blitz through Jebet targets the title wins of Kamran as he cruised past his Double after a superb effort from her heat to qualify for today’s final. Mammadov (66kg), Elvin opponents 6-3, 6-3 and 9-4 training partner Can. Adekoya, along with compatriot Mursaliyev (75kg) and before dominating the final Can, the European Salwa Nassr, will both compete today Islam Abbasov (85kg). 9-0 in just over a minute. 5,000 and 10,000- in the gold-medal race at 5.20pm improvement Oluwakemi Adekoya prepares for metre champion, (Bahrain time). the women’s 400m final attacked on the Another Bahraini, Salwa Eid Naser, final lap, but was the only athlete to get close to the Olympic Adekoya’s time, as the 2015 world despite gold Guliev secures sprint double steeplechase youth champion posted 51.94 Baku Championship silver champion seconds to win her heat. Baku The 20-year-old, who will stay urkey’s Ramil Guliev medallist was well ahead Nigeria’s Folasade Abigeal ahrain track star Ruth in Baku for another month Treaffirmed his of Bahrain’s Salem Eid Abugan won the other heat. BJebet said she wants to to train, said she intends to dominance of the men’s Yaqoob, who surged past old Abraham Rotish, John improve in the 5000 metres, put in the extra hours to aid sprint events at the Islamic the 2013 silver medallist Kibet and Evans Chematot despite winning gold in the her bid for further 5000- Solidarity Games in Baku Winston George in the final were unable to follow discipline on Thursday at metre glory.“I need to keep on Thursday as he charged few metres to take second suit as they failed to grab the fourth Islamic Solidarity my preparations going ahead to gold in the 200-metre place with 20.56s. Guyana’s responded podium in their respective Games in Baku. of the 2020 Olympics,” added final. Baku-born Guliev George was 0.06s further superbly to challenges. Jebet ran 14 minutes and Jebet. had already won 100-metre back. edge ahead on Rotish finished last in the 53.41 seconds at the Olympic The 3000-metre gold on Tuesday in a time Guliev may have the final straight men’s 800m final where he Stadium to hold off Turkey’s steeplechase remains the of 10.06s and he sprinted managed it, but the sprint as she won in reached the end in 1:47.46, Yasemin Can as she claimed holy grail for the Bahraini, away from the field in the double eluded Gina Bass as 14 minutes and two seconds less than gold a second gold medal of the who broke the world record 200 metres to clock 20.08 she was beaten to women’s 53.41 seconds. mdalist Mostafa Smaili Games. in the Paris Diamond League seconds. 200-metre gold by Bahrain’s joy The Turkish of Morocco, while Kibet Jebet stormed to gold in meeting last August, and she The 200-metre European Edidiong Ofonime Odiong. runner had (8:34.27) and Chamatot her favoured 3000-metre admitted she might call it a to make do (8:48.46) ended fourth and steeplechase on Wednesday to day after Tokyo 2020. with silver as sixth, respectively in the men’s add to her Olympic title from “Maybe I will retire after I she finished 3,000m steeplechase final, Rio, but she found it much defend my Olympic title,” she just nine which saw another Moroccan tougher in the 5000 metres said with a wry smile. Yaman, Azizov grab golds hundredths of Mohamed Tindouft (8:26.26) against her training partner Turkey’s Kenyan-born Baku before Mahdi Yousefi won for a second adrift stroll away to win gold. Can, who finished just nine athlete Can meanwhile was eigning world lightweight the men’s -63kg title for hundredths of a second adrift upbeat after being pipped to champion Irem Yaman Iran by thrashing Alimzhan to take silver. gold by her friend Jebet. Rclaimed gold for Turkey on Serikbayev 27-7. “The steeplechase is my Can, who is also 20, is the the final night of taekwondo Two-time European best event but I need to try reigning European champion action at the Islamic Solidarity middleweight medallist and improve my 5000-metre in both long-distance races, Games in Baku, as Azerbaijan’s Azizov nailed a last-gasp times. I need to try and keep but she appears to have bigger Ramin Azizov won in spinning head kick to defeat the 5000 metres going ahead of targets on her agenda. dramatic fashion. The 21-year- Iranian practitioner Ahmad London (2017 world athletics “I’m going to enter the old edged out Uzbekistan’s Mohammadi 16-13 in the Women 5,000-metre winner Ruth Jebet championships),” said Jebet 5000 and 10,000 metres in Umida Abdullaeva 3-1 to -87kg final at the Baku Sports Bahrain Ruth Jebet races to victory in the on the podium after winning the event for London. We will have to wait claim women’s -62kg gold, Hall. women 5,000-metre final the first time in her career. and see how it goes.” (AFP).