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Asian All-Star meet from today

Last Updated 28 July 2010, 18:42 IST

The two-day event at the newly-laid synthetic tracks at the renovated Jawaharlal Nehru stadium will be a Commonwealth Games test event. However, many of the top-notchers from the continent are not taking part this time, taking the sheen off the event.

US-based Gowda, with his season’s best of 63.22M, will be the top contender for gold. Syrian Mansour Hamid, who has season’s best of 57.14, is the only other foreigner in the five-man field.

Sri Lanka’s Manjula Kumara Wijesekara, the reigning Asian champion, tops the roster among the men high jumpers. He has to tackle Kazakhstan’s Vitaliy Tsykunov, Asian Indoor Games winner and Doha Asian Games champion Jean-Claude Rabbath of Lebanon for the yellow metal.

In women’s long jump, the Indian  trio of MA Prajusha, Mayookha Johny and Reshmi Bose will have to fight it out against Uzbekistan’s multi-event specialist Tatyana Konichsheva who has a best of 6.81M.

Indian middle distance star Tintu Luka is a strong bet in women’s 800M, as also her team-mate Prakash Verma on the men’s side. Indian athletes will also be the top draw in women’s 400M with Sini Jose raring to go.
India’s Gayathry Govindaraj, who posted a national junior best 13.59 seconds in the World Junior Championships at Moncton (Canada) hardly a week ago, will be in focus in women’s 100M hurdles.
Thirteen countries are taking part in the event.

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(Published 28 July 2010, 18:42 IST)

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