Thursday, June 28, 2007

Asian GP wrapped up

3 Asian GP finally comes to the end. Some good, some disappointing. The highlight is Xie Limei's 14.73m Asian Record in Bangkok (1st leg). Meng Yan started his season with couple of 49 sec runs (49.47 and 49.50) in men's 400m hurdle and dnf in the last leg. Wen Yongyi won twice in 100m. The best time was 10.36 in the 2nd leg. He ran pb last year in Asian GP at 10.30, still a circuit record.

Worth to mention is Wang Liangyu won all 3 legs of men's 400m and set a pb at 45.95s in the 1st leg, 1st sub-46s mark. The leading Asian time so far is Liu Xiaosheng's 45.79s. Asian Games champion, Li Yanxi suffered a setback who lost all 3 competitions. He only got a bronze in 2nd leg with 16.70m, 5 cm less than his SB. Wu Tao, 2002 Asian Games champion in men's discus, seemed to lose his form tremendously. No mark beyond 60m was recorded by him in all 3 legs. The best was 58++m.

On women side, Xie won all 3 competitions followed by Li Qian who set a pb at 13.88m in 2nd leg. 10th national game winner, Qin Wangping only managed to run 11.8 in the 1st leg of 100m and 4x100m quartet all lost to Thai. The best time was 44.07s. On the other hand, 4x400m quartet (Chen Jingwen, Tang Xiaoyin, Li Xueji and Wang Xiaoxiao) won 3 legs with 3:32+. Asian Games winner, Li Ling also won 3 competitions in shotput and her best was 18.68m.

From these 3 legs, highlights from other countries include 2.30m in high jump by Kazah, and 17.04m in triple jump by Indian.

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