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Asian Games | Athletics roundup: Su breaks 36-year-old triple bounce report as marathon titles go to Japan, Bahrain

NAGOYA, Japan, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) — China’s Su Wen broke a 36-year-old Asian Games report to win the lads’s triple bounce on Saturday, as two extra Games data fell on a day that started with marathon golds for Japan and Bahrain.

Su jumped 17.42 meters, eclipsing the 17.31m mark set by compatriot Zou Sixin on the 1990 Beijing Games. It was his first Asian Games gold. Japan’s Manato Miyao took silver with 16.77m, whereas China’s Ma Yinglong claimed bronze with 16.75m.

Su mentioned his first two makes an attempt had left him struggling for rhythm. “Before the third, I told myself to calm down and focus on my technique and takeoff,” he mentioned. “This is a new beginning for me.”

Iran’s Mohammadreza Tayebise additionally broke a Games report, throwing 20.81m to win the lads’s shot put and deny India’s Tajinderpal Singh Toor a 3rd straight title. Toor took silver with 20.64m, forward of Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed Tolu with 20.48m. China’s Xing Jialiang positioned fourth.

Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser reclaimed the ladies’s 400m title in 49.20 seconds, breaking the Games report of fifty.09 she set on her approach to gold in 2018. Iran’s Zahra Zarei Manoujan was a distant second in 52.38, with India’s Prachi third in 53.21.

On the roads, Japan’s Ichitaka Yamashita broke away after 38 kilometers to win the lads’s marathon in 2:10:49. India’s Sawan Barwal took silver in 2:11:37, whereas China’s Feng Peiyou handed a rival late on to safe bronze in 2:12:13.

Bahrain’s Shitaye Habte made her transfer across the 37km mark within the girls’s race, pulling clear to win in 2:27:31. China’s Cirencuomu completed 12 seconds behind for silver, with Japan’s Mikuni Yada third in 2:27:56 after setting the tempo for a lot of the race.

Thailand’s Joshua Atkinson received the lads’s 400m in a personal-best 44.90 seconds. Bahrain’s Nelly Korir took the ladies’s 1,500m in 4:04.50, forward of China’s Li Chunhui, who ran a private better of 4:05.50, and Japan’s Nozomi Tanaka.

The lineup for Sunday’s finals additionally started to take form. China’s 17-year-old Chen Yujie, topped girls’s 100m champion on Friday, received her 200m warmth in 23.29 seconds to maintain her dash double hopes alive.

“My legs felt heavy throughout,” Chen mentioned after the race. “I’ll definitely give it everything in the final and try to win a medal.”

Chinese hurdlers Wu Yanni and defending champion Lin Yuwei reached Sunday’s girls’s 100m hurdles last, whereas Chen Yuanjiang and Liu Junxi superior within the males’s 110m hurdles. Japan’s Mako Fukube and Hitomi Nakajima shared the quickest girls’s qualifying time of 12.85 seconds, whereas their compatriot Rachid Muratake led the lads’s heats in 13.27.

Thailand’s Puripol Boonson, who received the lads’s 100m on Friday, was quickest within the 200m semifinals in 20.10 seconds.

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