2013 Asian Athletics Champs Full Report

By Andrew Pirie

ATFS Statistician

Top three Bagsit, Alejan and Nierras battle it out at the PNG. (Photo Credit: PATAFA Facebook Group)[/caption]

1. Day 1 Report Alejan has a major breakthrough

Edgardo Alejan proved his worth after a last-minute replacement for 2007 SEA Games champion Julius Nierras. So Alejan had a massive breakthrough to finish third in Heat 2 in a Personal Best of 47.40s. While the time shattered his then personal best of 48.01.

He had established at the National Games finishing third then behind Archand Bagsit (47.89) and Julius Nierras (47.90).

Also, Julius who at the PNG ran 47.84 in the heats, in which Alejan took the season lead for 2013. While Alejan performance is #2 in South East Asia in 2013, behind 2011 SEA Games Champion Heru Astriano. Also, the time also put him at #5 in the all-time list behind former SEA Games Champions Del Prado, Nierras, Candelario, Aing.

And in the first heat Archand Bagsit, the 2011 SEA Games Silver Medalist finished fifth in heat 1 and managed to qualify through with a seasons best of 47.87.

While No other SEA Athletes qualified for the Semi-Finals.

Also in the Semi-Finals Bagsit was last in Heat 1 in 47.93 and Alejan obviously tired from his earlier effort finished sixth in 48.18 in the second heat in which the last two of his competitors did not finish the race.

While this is really good for the Men's 4x400 Relay. Yet no SEA rivals showed any good form in this event and Alejan performance will greatly bring down the teams average.

While now three men have hit below the 47.97 required for SEA Games in 2013,

Alejan 47.40 / 3rd at PNG, Nierras 47.84 / 2nd at PNG and Bagsit 47.87 /1st at PNG. So this will make it hard for the selectors to decide on the final two as only two entries allowed per country per event at SEA Games. Definitely, all three will be certain of spots in the 4x400 Relay selection.

Philippines Team During the Opening Ceremony of the Asian Championships. (Photo Credit: PATAFA Facebook Group)[/caption]

2. Other Results

While SEA Games Record Holder Marestella Torres had withdrawn from the Asian Champs.

Also, SEA Games 2011 Bronze Medalist Katherine Khay Santos was only able to leap 5.91m finishing 9th outside the qualification mark of 6.25m required for SEA Games. While Kath has a season-best of 6.17m so far this year. In Decathlon Jesson Ramil Cid sits in 7th place after Day 1 with 3528 points.

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3. Day 2 Report: Loralie Sermona breaks National Record

Loralie Sermona[/caption]

Also, Loralie Sermona continued her success at Asian Championship level by securing an eighth place at the meet. Sermona also threw a new national record of 50.55m, to break her old mark of 50.23m she set in Hong Kong last year. Loralie the bronze medallist at the last sea games is now ranked third in south- east Asia for 2013.

Jesson Ramil Cid in action during the Shot-put event of the Men's Decathlon. (Photo Credit: Roselyn Hamero)[/caption]

Very heavy rain saw it very difficult for all athletes for produce very good results on the second day of competition at Pune. Jesson Ramil Cid finished seventh overall in the Decathlon. Albeit his score of 6433 was considerably below his personal best overall score of 6961 he scored in Thailand last November.

National Record Holder Henry Dagmil qualified through in the last place of 12 in the prelims of the Men's Long Jump with 7.34m and will seek action in the final tomorrow.

Dagmil has a personal best of 7.99m and a season-best of 7.39m from the PNG. A score of 7.61m is required for SEA Games qualification. He will be in action tomorrow in the finals.

The other participant today was Fil-Heritage Hurdler Eric Cray who finished third in his heat in 14.31s and did not advance to the finals finishing 12th of 21 entries. Cray is the National Record Holder in the 110 and 400 Hurdles. His time at the PNG was 14.17. Cray now will participate in his core event the 400 Hurdles on July 6 where he is ranked fifth on the startlists with a personal best of 50.46.

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4. Day 3 Report

Apologies as due to other commitments and site issues I had not been able to update this site as frequently as I would have liked.

So in Summary, some athletes had performances below what they did at the PNG and were not able to reach the SEA Games standards in their events but still have time to meet the marks before December.

• Veteran Danilo Fresnido finished with 63.41m behind his performance at the PNG of 66.16m with SEA Games Bronze sitting at 66.27m. • Henry Dagmil finished 11th in the Long Jump with 7.27m (Dagmil had leaped 7.34m in the prelims outside his seasons best of 7.39m), Thai Supanara Sukhavasti who leaped SEA leading 7.64m in the prelims (the leading time in South East Asia). • Not a good meet for Narcisca Atienza 1.64m High Jump (PB 1.81 phi record), 11.69 Shotput (12+ PB), 110H (15.61 not bad). .

5. Also very interesting to note the following changes to the SEA Rankings for 2013

• Guarte (PHI) did not participate in the 1500m • In the Women's 1500m Do Thi Thao ran 4:26.31, to move ahead of Sarah Vitug 4:27.65 on the SEA Rankings for 2013. • Pham Tien San of Vietnam clocked 9:17.94 in his second race for 2013, ran 9:19 prior this year. He is ranked #2 in the SEA but well behind Ulboc who has run 9:05. • Wassana Winatho of Thailand ran 13.90 in the 100 Hurdles which is the #2 fastest time in South East Asia this year. And also ranked 3rd in SEA with 1.82m while participating in the Heptathlon.

6. Day 4 Report: Cray Makes the Final

Fil-Heritage hurdler Eric Cray made the final of the 400 Hurdles.While Cray who has a personal best of 50.46, made the most of the heavy rain to finish third in the first heat in 51.83. And he finished behind Fueki of Japan (PB 49.08) the meets fastest man on the entry list and local favorite Satinder Singh 51.20.

Cray also beat SEA Games Champion Dao Xuan Cuong of Vietnam 52.34 (PB and SEA Games Gold 51.45) and blocked him from making the final, Cuong finished fourth in heat 1.

While in the second heat, Yuta of Japan clocked 51.24 (PB 49.3) with Chen of Taipei 51.74

(PB 50.23). In Heat 3 Cheng of China 51.36 (PB 50.1), Gamel Abel Nasir of Qatar 51.68 (PB 49.6) and Artem Dyalov of Uzbekistan 52.07. The top 2 and the 2 fastest qualifiers made it through.

Lane Draw for the Final (please ignore the date of births the Asian Athletics Association has got them wrong).

FINAL

1 Cray Eric Shauwn 03/08/1992 PHI 2 Artem Dyatlov 22/05/1989 UZB 3 Satinder Singh 07/02/1987 IND 4 Yuta Imazeki 06/11/1987 JPN 5 Cheng Wen 18/03/1992 CHN 6 Yasuhiro Fueki 20/12/1985 JPN 7 Gamal Abdelnasir O a. 01/06/1992 QAT 8 Chen Chieh 08/05/1992 TPE

It was also a good performance by Arniel Ferrera who had earlier was worrying about back issues but was able to break his seasons best with a throw of 61.39m which sees him in the kind of shape he needs to regain his SEA Games Gold medal he lost in 2011. Ferrera would be going for his 5th title in this event at the SEA Games if he is able to win.

Mervin Guarte clocked 1:58.44 (but it looks like the second heat has some sort of timing error, as his heat won in 1:54 and heat 1 and 3 is 1:48 and 1:49 winners). It was also a disappointing meet for Rosie Villarito who threw 46.29m (below her seasons best of 49.16m at the Asian Grand Prix) and Narsica Atienza suffering an elbow injury in the Javelin unable to finish the Heptathlon.

• Also, interesting to note Wassana Winatho has won her first Asian Games title at the age of 34 with 5818 points in the Heptathlon. • The 200m women's runners were not close to the SEA Games leaders for 2013 • Thailand women's 4x100 time of 44.44 improved their season lead for SEA • Sukanya Chomchuendee of Thailand who was only 5th at the last SEA Games with 3.80, had a massive breakthrough in the women's pole vault to win the Bronze at her first Asian championships and now goes into the SEA Games as the favorite to win the gold

7. Day 5 Final Report

Bano starts off the men's 4x400m relay team.[/caption]

Eric Cray was not able to finish in the 400 Hurdles in it what was a rain-soaked final. Unable to warm up as the bus sent by the organizers did not reach the athlete's hotel.

The same quartet that won the Men's 4x400 of Bano, Bagsit, Alejan, and Nierras improved their mark to 3:10.86 and placed fifth the highest rank of any of the Filipino athletes at the meet. This improved their SEA Games winning time. However, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia who were not present will also be strong at SEA Games.

It's going to be interesting.

Fil-Heritage athlete Eric Cray set both Philippine National records in the 110 and 400 Hurdles in the last 3 months. Cray is ranked #5 in Asia will compete in both events at the Asian Championships in Pune India. (Photo Credit: University of Oklahoma)

8. The Following National Athletes have withdrawn for following reasons

• Eduardo Buenavista (no Marathon available) • Eric Panique (no Marathon available) • Rene Herrera (withdrew) • Marestella Torres (withdrew) • Benigno Marayag (withdrew)

9. Included below are the athletes participating and their respective rankings on the start lists.

Women's

• Katherine Khay Santos Long Jump 9th/12 • Rosie Villarito Javelin 10th/10 • Nars Atienza Hepta 10th/13 • Loralie Amahit Sermona Hammer 9th/9

Mens

*NB only 2 entries allowed in 400m will have to decide

• Archand Bagsit 400,4x400 16th/38 • Julius Nierras 400, 4x400 15th/38 • Mervin Guarte 800,1500 14th/24 12th/24 • Eric Cray 110H, 400H, 4x400 Res 13th/19 5th/23 • Junrey Bano 400H,4x400 21st/23 • Edgardo Alejan 400, 4x400 18th/38 • Jesson Ramil Cid DECA, 4x400 Res 9th/16 • Henry Dagmil Long Jump 16th/22 • Arniel Ferrera Hammer 13th/13 • Danilo Fresnido Javelin 16th/16

10. Asian Athletics Championships Schedules

20TH ASIAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS COMPETITION SCHEDULE

(schedule courtesy of athelticsasia.org) DAY I 3RD JULY 2013 EVENT NO. TIME EVENT GENDER ROUND 101 9.00 Hrs 100M MEN DECATHLON 1 102 9.20 Hrs 400M WOMEN HEATS 103 9.40 Hrs LONG JUMP MEN DECATHLON 2 104 9.50 Hrs 400M MEN HEATS 105 11.00 Hrs SHOT PUT MEN DECATHLON 3 AFTER NOON SESSION 106 17.00 Hrs 100M MEN HEATS 107 17.00 Hrs HIGH JUMP MEN DECATHLON 4 108 17.00 Hrs POLEVAULT MEN FINAL 109 17.10 Hrs SHOT PUT MEN FINAL 110 17.15 Hrs DISCUS THROW WOMEN FINAL 111 17.35 Hrs 100M WOMEN HEATS 112 18.00 Hrs 400M MEN SEMI FINAL 113 18.00 Hrs LONG JUMP WOMEN FINAL 114 18.25 Hrs 400M WOMEN SEMI FINAL 115 18.50 Hrs 10000M WOMEN FINAL 116 19.30 Hrs 400M MEN DECATHLON 520TH ASIAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS COMPETITION SCHEDULE DAY II 4TH JULY 2013 EVEN T NO. TIME EVENT GENDER ROUND 201 9.00 Hrs 110M HURDLES MEN DECATHLON 6 202 9.20 Hrs 110M HURDLES MEN HEATS 203 9.40 Hrs DISCUS THROW MEN DECATHLON 7 204 9.55 Hrs 100 M HURDLES WOMEN HEATS 205 11.00 Hrs POLEVAULT MEN DECATHLON 8 AFTER NOON SESSION 206 17.00 Hrs JAVELIN MEN DECATHLON 9 207 17.00 Hrs 100M MEN SEMI FINAL 208 17.15 Hrs 100M WOMEN SEMI FINAL 209 17.30 Hrs 1500M MEN HEATS 210 17.30 Hrs HIGH JUMP WOMEN FINAL 211 17.50 Hrs 1500M WOMEN HEATS 212 17.50 Hrs LONG JUMP MEN QUALIFYING 213 18.15 Hrs 110 M HURDLES MEN SEMI FINAL 214 18.35 Hrs 100 M HURDLES WOMEN SEMI FINAL 215 18.45 Hrs DISCUS THROW MEN FINAL 216 18.55 Hrs 400M WOMEN FINAL 217 19.05 Hrs 400M MEN FINAL 218 19.15 Hrs 100M MEN FINAL 219 19.25 Hrs 100M WOMEN FINAL 220 19.35 Hrs 10000M MEN FINAL 221 20.10 Hrs 1500M MEN DECATHLON 1020TH ASIAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS COMPETITION SCHEDULE DAY III 5TH JULY 2013 EVENT NO. TIME EVENT GENDER ROUND 301 9.00 Hrs 100M HURDLES WOMEN HEPTATHLON 1 302 9.40 Hrs HIGH JUMP WOMEN HEPTATHLON 2 303 10.45 Hrs SHOTPUT WOMEN HEPTATHLON 3 AFTER NOON SESSION 304 17.00 Hrs JAVELIN MEN FINAL 305 17.00 Hrs LONG JUMP MEN FINAL 306 17.00 Hrs HIGH JUMP MEN QUALIFYING 307 17.30 Hrs 4X100 M RELAY WOMEN HEATS 308 17.50 Hrs 4X100 M RELAY MEN HEATS 309 18.10 Hrs 1500M WOMEN FINAL 310 18.20 Hrs 1500M MEN FINAL 311 18.30 Hrs 200 M WOMEN HEPTATHLON 4 312 18.45 Hrs HAMMER THROW WOMEN FINAL 313 18.45Hrs TRIPLE JUMP WOMEN FINAL 314 18.45 Hrs 100M HURDLES WOMEN FINAL 315 18.55 Hrs 110M HURDLES MEN FINAL 316 19.10 Hrs 3000 M SC MEN FINAL 317 19.25 Hrs 3000 M SC WOMEN FINAL20TH ASIAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS COMPETITION SCHEDULE DAY IV 6TH JULY 2013 EVENT NO. TIME EVENT GENDER ROUND 401 9.00 Hrs 200M MEN HEATS 402 9.00 Hrs LONG JUMP WOMEN HEPTATHLON 5 403 9.40 Hrs 200M WOMEN HEATS 404 10.00 Hrs JAVELIN WOMEN HEPTATHLON 6 AFTER NOON SESSION 405 17.00 Hrs 400m HURDLES WOMEN HEATS 406 17.00 Hrs POLEVAULT WOMEN FINAL 407 17.00 Hrs HAMMER THROW MEN FINAL 408 17.15 Hrs SHOT PUT WOMEN FINAL 409 17.20 Hrs 400M HURDLES MEN HEATS 410 17.50 Hrs 800M WOMEN HEATS 411 18.05 Hrs TRIPLE JUMP MEN QUALIFYING 412 18.10 Hrs 800M MEN HEATS 413 18.30 Hrs 200M WOMEN SEMI FINAL 414 18.45 Hrs 200M MEN SEMI FINAL 415 18.45 Hrs JAVELIN WOMEN FINAL 416 19.00 Hrs 800M WOMEN HEPTATHLON 7 417 19.15 Hrs 4X400M RELAY MEN HEATS 418 19.30 Hrs 4X400M RELAY WOMEN HEATS 419 19.45 Hrs 4X100M RELAY WOMEN FINAL 420 20.00 Hrs 4X100M RELAY MEN FINAL20TH ASIAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS COMPETITION SCHEDULE DAY V 7TH JULY 2013 EVENT NO. TIME EVENT GENDER ROUND 501 16.00 Hrs 400M HURDLES MEN FINAL 502 16.00 Hrs TRIPLE JUMP MEN FINAL 503 16.10 Hrs 400M HURDLES WOMEN FINAL 504 1615 Hrs HIGH JUMP MEN FINAL 505 16.30 Hrs 200M WOMEN FINAL 506 16.40 Hrs 200M MEN FINAL 507 16.50 Hrs 800M WOMEN FINAL 508 17.00 Hrs 800M MEN FINAL 509 17.10 Hrs 5000M WOMEN FINAL 510 17.20 Hrs 5000M MEN FINAL 511 18.05 Hrs 4X400 M RELAY WOMEN FINAL 512 18.20 Hrs 4X400 M RELAY MEN FINAL As on 6th June. 2013 Note: The timings are subject to change after technical meeting.

Startlists can be found here http://athleticsasia.org/AAC2013/aac2013-entrylist-26.6.13.pdf