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Asian Athletics Digest February 15, 2016 4 / 2016 Asian Indoor Championships Special Preview ~ Ranklists ~ Records Asian Athletics Digest February 15, 2016 Contents From the Editor’s desk .……………… 66 Preview on Asian Indoor Champs …. 67 From the Editor’s desk Asian Indoor All-Time Rankings ……. 68 Asian & National Indoor Records ….. 75 Hello All, Welcome back to Asian Athletics Digest! First of all I would like to thank you all for your No. 4/2016 comments, continuous support and encouragement to our magazine from time to time. Editor & Publisher Ram. Murali Krishnan This edition of our magazine is dedicated to the 7th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships to be held Doha, Qatar, from 19 Address for Communication to 20 February 2016. “ Kausalyam ” 72/4, Sri Padmavathi Nagar NSN Palayam P.O. As in the previous edition, that was produced as a Coimbatore – 641031, INDIA special preview for the South Asian Games, this number of our magazine will also have tons of stats on Asian Indoor Athletics Contact E-Mail [email protected] As much as 432 athletes from 37 member national [email protected] federations of Asian Athletics Association are expected to take part in the three day meet at Doha. PHOTOS Doha 2016 Organising Committee In this edition of Asian Athletics Digest contains a brief history of Asian Indoor championships, Asian All-Time Top-10 Designer ranking lists as well as Asian and National Indoor Records. N. Sasivarnan To accommodate the large number of info in this issue we have excluded some of our regular features, which will be resumed in our next number. The Asian Athletics Digest is a FREE weekly e-Magazine distributed As usual we continue to invite our readers to share their throughout the World through E-Mail to thoughts, and meet organizers to send in the results, reports and promote and publicize Asian Athletics. photographs for our upcoming numbers. The contents of this e-magazine, (excluding photographs) are allowed to Looking forward to hear from you! be reproduced in any publications. However a mention of Asian Athletics Yours truly, will be highly appreciated. Digest Ram. Murali Krishnan 66 Asian Athletics Digest February 15, 2016 Chinese city Hangzhou also hosted two back to Asian Indoor Champs - Preview back editions in 2012 and 2014. However we are happy to see that athletes from countries like Bahrain, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan are also excel in many events by giving stiff competition to Chinese athletes from time to time in the past editions of Asian Indoor Champ’s. Medal prospects in Doha-2016: The main attraction in the Doha meet will be Qatar’s star high jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim. The reigning World Indoor Champion is holding both the continental as well as meet records in his pet event and expected to soaring over greater heights “at home”. On the women’s side another field event star, Kazakh triple jumper Olga Rypakova, the reigning Olympic Champion from London in 2012 and World Indoor champion in 2010. Several defending champions from the last edition held at Hangzhou, China, in 2014 are also expected to retain title in Doha. Important among them are host country’s sprinter Samuel Francis, half-miler Abdulrahman Musaeb Balla and double distance gold medalist in 1500 and 3000m Mohamed Al-Garni. Iranian two-lappers Mahdi Zamani and Maryam Toosi, Kuwaiti hurdler Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel and long jumper Saleh Alhadad besides Japanese pole vaulter Tomomi Abiko are the other athletes looking to retain the gold positions in Aspire Dome this weekend. The first Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was held at Tehran, Iran, in 2004. Uzbek high jumpers Nadezhda Dusanova and her teammate Svetlana Radzivil, both with identical personal The seventh edition of the above Championships bests of 1.96m, are ready to deliver a real treat to their fans will be held in Aspire Dome at Doha, Qatar for three days in the indoor arena. from February 19 to 21. Asian champion Kemi Adekoya in women’s 400m As much as 13 events for men and an equal and distance running star and continental record-holder number of events for women will be contested in Doha Albert Rop are the main medal contenders from Bahrain where athletes from 37 out of 45 national member while Japan pins its major hope on vaulting star Seito federations of Asian Athletics Association will take part. Yamamoto. This is the second time that Doha takes up the Kazakhstan also have a strongman in shot putter venture of conducting this continental championship as it Ivan Ivanov, his recent throw of 20.51m is the best mark was also organised the third edition in 2008 in an exemplary indoors in Asia although it will not be counted as a manner. continental record due to missing doping control. Their woman sprinter Victoria Zyabkina is also looking to excel in As in other competitions the Asian sporting this edition. powerhouse of China dominated the Asian Indoor Champs, having garnered 40 gold, 22 silver and 19 bronze medals We have to wait and watch what the mighty China from the past six editions of the biennial meet. is having in store this time around. 67 Asian Athletics Digest February 15, 2016 ASIAN INDOOR ALL-TIME RANKINGS (as of 15 Feb 2016) Men's 60m: 6.51 2 Talal Mansour 1964 QAT Karlsruhe, GER 06-Mar-1993 6.51 2rA Femi Ogunode 1991 QAT Flagstaff, USA 25-Jan-2014 6.52 4 Su Bingtian 1989 CHN Sopot, POL 08-Mar-2014 6.54 1 Samuel Francis 1987 QAT Macau, MAC 30-Oct-2007 6.55 2 Nobuharu Asahara 1972 JPN Sindelfingen, GER 01-Mar-1997 6.56 2 Yahya Saed Al-Kahes 1986 KSA Macau, MAC 30-Oct-2007 6.57 1 Gennadiy Chernovol 1976 KAZ Erfurt, GER 01-Feb-2002 6.57 1h1 Eric Cray 1988 PHI Albuquerque, USA 14-Feb-2015 Men's 400m: 45.39 1rB Abdalelah Haroun 1997 QAT Stockholm, SWE 19-Feb-2015 45.76 3 Shunji Karube 1969 JPN Paris, FRA 09-Mar-1997 45.81 1 Ibrahim Ismail 1972 QAT Moscow, RUS 14-Feb-1996 46.08 1 Wang Liangyu 1984 CHN Macau, MAC 31-Oct-2007 46.66 1 Xu Zizhou 1981 CHN Tianjin, CHN 21-Feb-1999 46.76 1rB Sugath Thilakaratne 1973 SRI Vienna, AUT 12-Feb-2001 46.82 1 Jun Osakada 1974 JPN Yokohama, JPN 27-Feb-1999 46.83 1 Hiroyuki Hayashi 1973 JPN Yokohama, JPN 01-Mar-1997 46.87 1 Mikhail Litvin 1996 KAZ Kamenogorsk, KAZ 14-Feb-2015 46.88 1 Shon Ju-Il 1969 KOR Tianjin, CHN 27-Feb-1996 Men's 800m: 1:45.26 3 Youssef Saad Kamel 1981 BRN Valencia, ESP 09-Mar-2008 1:45.48 1rA Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla 1989 QAT Stockholm, SWE 19-Feb-2015 1:46.15 2 Rashid Ramzi 1980 BRN Budapest, HUN 07-Mar-2004 1:46.30 1 Abraham Kipchirchir Rotich 1993 BRN Karlsruhe, GER 01-Feb-2014 1:46.48 1 Bilal Mansour Ali 1988 BRN Gent, BEL 08-Feb-2009 1:47.37 1 Mohammed Mutlak Al-Azimi 1982 KUW Hangzhou, CHN 19-Feb-2012 1:47.74 4h2 Abdulrahman Suleiman 1984 QAT Moscow, RUS 10-Mar-2006 1:47.85 1 Abraham Rotich 1993 BRN Mondeville, FRA 07-Feb-2015 1:47.95 1 Majed Saeed Sultan 1986 QAT Gent, BEL 26-Feb-2006 1:48.07 3rB Mohammed Nasser Abbas 1996 QAT Stockholm, SWE 19-Feb-2015 Men's 1,500m: 3:36.28 3 Bilal Mansour Ali 1988 BRN Stockholm, SWE 20-Feb-2007 3:36.88 4r1 Mohamed Al-Garni 1992 QAT Dusseldorf, GER 10-Feb-2012 3:37.31 3h3 Rashid Ramzi 1980 BRN Valencia, ESP 07-Mar-2008 3:40.28 7 Youssef Saad Kamel 1981 BRN Valencia, ESP 09-Feb-2008 3:40.86 1 Kamal Ali Thamer 1988 QAT Doha, QAT 15-Feb-2008 3:41.18 2 Chatholi Hamza 1981 IND Doha, QAT 15-Feb-2008 3:41.69 1 Ali Abubaker Kamal 1983 QAT Stockholm, SWE 18-Feb-2009 68 Asian Athletics Digest February 15, 2016 3:41.87 4h2 Daham Najim Bashir 1979 QAT Moscow, RUS 10-Mar-2006 3:42.12 7 Hamza Driouch 1994 QAT Stockholm, SWE 23-Feb-2012 3:43.32 2 Benson Seurei 1984 BRN Doha, QAT 22-Dec-2015 Men's 3,000m: 7:38.77 1 Albert Rop 1992 BRN Gent, BEL 09-Feb-2014 7:39.77 1 Saif Saeed Shaheen 1982 QAT Pattaya, THA 11-Feb-2006 7:42.55 4 Mushir Salim Jawher 1978 BRN Peania, GRE 22-Feb-2004 7:43.71 1 Tareq Mubarak Taher 1986 BRN Gent, BEL 08-Feb-2009 7:43.88 1 Bilisuma Shugi Gelassa 1989 BRN Hangzhou, CHN 19-Feb-2012 7:44.61 4h1 James Kwalia C'Kurui 1984 QAT Doha, QAT 12-Mar-2010 7:44.64 3 Moukhled Al-Outaibi 1980 KSA Valencia, ESP 11-Feb-2006 7:45.62+ 4 Suguru Osako 1991 JPN New York, USA 31-Jan-2015 7:45.69 3 Mohamed Suleiman 1969 QAT Stockholm, SWE 27-Feb-1995 7:46.17 2 Mohamed Al-Garni 1992 QAT Hangzhou, CHN 19-Feb-2012 Men's 60m Hurdles: 7.41 1 Liu Xiang 1983 CHN Birmingham, GBR 18-Feb-2012 7.55 1 Li Tong 1967 CHN Stuttgart, GER 04-Feb-1996 7.60 3 Xie Wenjun 1990 CHN Birmingham, GBR 16-Feb-2013 7.63 3s2 Shi Dongpeng 1984 CHN Moscow, RUS 11-Mar-2006 7.64 1r2 Yin Jing 1988 CHN Nanjing, CHN 15-Feb-2009 7.68 5 Wu Youjia 1983 CHN Shanghai, CHN 16-Mar-2007 7.69 1 Ji Wei 1984 CHN Hanoi, VIE 01-Nov-2009 7.69 2h1 Zhang Honglin 1994 CHN Gent, BEL 13-Feb-2016 7.70 3h Chen Yanhao 1972 CHN Paris, FRA 08-Mar-1997 7.74 1 Jiang Fan 1989 CHN Hangzhou, CHN 18-Feb-2012 7.74 4h1 Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel 1989 KUW Sopot, POL 08-Mar-2014 Men's High Jump: 2.41 1 Mutaz Essa Barshim 1991 QAT Athlone, IRL 18-Feb-2015 2.33 1 Zhang Guowei 1991 CHN Beijing, CHN 21-Mar-2014 2.31 1 Zhu Jianhua 1963 CHN Kobe, JPN 05-Mar-1986 2.30 1 Wang Yu 1991 CHN Brno, CZE 12-Feb-2013 2.28 1 Gennadiy Byelkov 1956 UZB Vlinius, LTU 04-Feb-1979 2.28 1 Daigo Naoyuki 1981 JPN Yokohama, JPN 19-Feb-2006 2.27 1 Yuriy Pakhlyayev 1974 KAZ Tashkent, UZB 28-Feb-1997 2.26 1 Tao Rui 1972 CHN Yokohama, JPN 27-Feb-1999 2.26 12q Majed El Dein Ghazal 1987 SYR Istanbul, TUR 10-Mar-2012 2.26 1 Naoto Tobe 1992 JPN Tartu, EST 11-Feb-2014 2.26 1 Yuriy Dergachev 1994 KAZ Kamenogorsk, KAZ 31-Jan-2016 2.26 1 Hiromi Takahari 1987 JPN Prague, CZE 07-Feb-2016 69 Asian Athletics Digest February 15,