Beijing (Beijing sports College). Women's 10000m Olympic champion, Xing Huina and Women's hammer Asian record holder, Zhang Wenxiu started the outdoor in a low-key meet in Beijing. In the 1st competition of 2007, Xing Huina lost to high school girl, Zhu Yingying in women's 5000m. Zhu finished in a time of 15:35.25 beating Xing by 1.69s. Double Asian champion and 4th placer in world junior championships last year, Bai Xue finished way back at 16:02.26.
Zhang Wenxiu started her season with a 72.17m win. Hao Shuai from Liaoning set a pb 68.60m to finish 2nd and Wang Yang from Sichuan also set a pb of 64.47m to take the third position. Zhang's coach,Ye Kuigang interestingly, finished 2nd in men's competition (63.09m) behind Chongqing's Yao Hongzhu (65.16m).
After jumping 17.03m last year, Zhejiang's Zhu Shujing still cannot find his form and only finished 2nd (16.04m) behind Jia Shengli from Hebei (16.12m) in a strong headwind condition.
Top 400m runner, Wang Xiaoxu of Beijing won men's 400m in moderate 47.54.
High jump events of both genders were won by Fujian jumpers. Asian Games silver medalist, Zheng Xingjuan jumped a moderate 1.84m while up and coming junior, Qu Shaobing set a pb at 2.20m to win the competition.
Former Asian Games champion and world junior champion, Wu Tao won men's discus in 61.29m to beat national junior record holder, Nuermaimaiti of Xinjiang (57.29m). Wu has not been improved since 2004 and there have been a number of throwers from middle east toppling Chinese supremacy in this event. Wu only finished 5th in the last year Asian Games. On women's side, Asian games champion and runner-up, Song Aimin and Ma Xuejun kept the ranking in the competition. Song won in 61.43m compared to 60.63m from Ma. Not a bad effort for the 1st competition. But the domestic leader currently was 61.69m by Sun Taifeng from Tianjin set in Sichuan earlier this month.
Asian number 2 in men's 110m hurdle, Shi Dongpeng zipped through ahead in the heats against -2.6m/s headwind winning 13.92 but chose to skip the final. He will be racing in Osaka GP next month with world record holder, Liu Xiang.
Under strong headwind conditions, results were poor in sprint events. Women's 100/200 times were over 12/25 seconds. Women's sprints are going downward in these few years. There were no medalists in Asian Games from women's 100 to 400m. Compared to 10.79/22.01 Asian records, 12/25 are disastrous warnings.
Former national record holder, Chen Xiaofang, won women's 3000m steeplechase in 10:00.50, about 10 seconds behind her pb.
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