by Alfonz Juck
Salwa Eid Naser, Rome DL 2018, photo by PhotoRun.netNaser and Singh Games records
JAKARTA (INA, Aug 25): Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser won her 400m heat in a championship record of 50.86 on the first day of the athletics at Asian Games with India’s Hima Das a close second in 51.00. After heats earlier in the day, Das’ teammate Muhammad Anas was the fastest in the 400m semifinals in 45.30 with Bahrain’s Abubaker Abbas (45.59) and Qatar’s Abdelelah Haroun (45.83) also winning their semifinals. In the first track final of the Asian Games, Kyrgyzstan’s Daria Maslova won the 10,000m in good (taking weather into account) 32:07.23 from Bahrain’s Eunice Chumba (32:11.12) and China took a one-two in the women’s hammer courtesy of Luo Na (71.42m) and Wang Zheng (70.86m). There was also a championship record in the men’s shot put with Tajinderpal Singh winning by more than one metre with 20.75m in the fifth round. With best winning margin of the Games in this event second place for Liu Yang of China 19.52. Elsewhere, Chinese Taipei’s Chun-han Yang was the fastest in the 100m heats with 10.13 (+0.6, fastest 1st round of the Games), China’s Wei Yongli qualified fastest from the women’s 100m heats in 11.32 (-0.1) and Thailand’s Suttisak Singkhon leads the decathlon first day with 4239 points. Yuki Hashioka from Japana led the long jump qualifiers with 803 (0.0), the best ever in qualification at the Games.
