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STAR ATTRACTION: Anju B. George obliged fans in Singapore by taking the long jump gold in the Asian All Stars championship on Tuesday. — AP
SINGAPORE, SEPT. 28. India's Anju Bobby George — the star attraction at the first Asian All-Stars athletics championships was in a ``holiday mood'' on Tuesday as she easily won the women's long jump, as mediocre performances dominated the one-day event that lacked many of the region's best athletes. Anju, who won bronze at the 2003 World championships in Paris and Asian Games gold a year earlier, easily took the long jump gold with a leap of 6.66 metres from Kazakhstan's Yelena Kochsheyeva who recorded a 6.41m leap. Filipino Marestella Torres finished third. ``Next year, I'm looking for something big,'' said Anju, referring to the Helsinki World championships. ``Here, I was just in a holiday mood.'' Anju finished sixth at the 2004 Athens Olympics, and claimed her allergy to dust affected her performance in the Greek capital.
Chernovol, Xiaoli fastest
Kazakhstan's Gennadiy Chernovol and China's Ni Xiaoli won the men's and women's 100m sprints. Other winners included China's Wu Tao in the men's discus, Yevgeny Melashenko of Kazakstan in the men's 400m hurdles and Kyrgyzstan's Tatiano Borisova in the women's 1,500m. The Indian star stood out in an event sadly lacking big names and record times or distances. Asia's Olympic champions — 110m hurdler Liu Xiang from China, hammer thrower Koji Murofushi from Japan and compatriot Mizuki Noguchi (women's marathon) — made guest appearances at the event but did not compete or did not have events scheduled. ``The event was patterned after the Grand Prix events in Europe. But if Asian athletes went to Europe, many of them would not stand a chance,'' said the Asian Athletics Association secretary, Maurice Nicholas. ``What you have instead is close competition here,'' he said, adding that they would change the event's dates to ensure it would not be scheduled in the off-season. Mr. Nicholas said the event was designed to poach Asian athletes now taking part in Europe on a regular basis to compete in the region and serve to prepare the continent's athletes for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Athletes from 20 Asian countries competed in the event. The results: Men: 100m: 1. Gennadiy Chernovol (Kaz, 10.65s); 2. Piyush Kumar (Ind, 10.73); 3. Mohamed Nazmizan (Mal, 10.74). 400m: 1. Rohan Pradeep Kumar (SL, 46.18s); 2. Amarseka Sampati (SL, 46.73); 3. K.M. Binu (Ind, 47). 400m hurdles: 1. Yevgeny Melashenko (Kaz, 49.56s); 2. P. Shankar (Ind, 50.74); 3. Zaherreddin Alnajem (Syr, 51.10). 1,500m: 1. Kobayashi Fumikazu (Jpn, 3:47.35); 2. W.C. Wijeekoon (SL, 3:51.24); 3. John Lozada (Phi, 3:59.63). 5,000m: 1. Bhandari Rajendra (Nep, 14:16.36); 2. Eduardo Buenavista (Phi, 14:22.38); 3. Denis Bagrev (Kyr, 14:33.76). Discus: 1. Wu Tao (Chn, 57.29m); 2. Shigeo Hatakeyama (Jpn, 54.83); 3. Sawusdee Wunsawang (Thai, 52.49). Pole vault: 1. Grigoriy Yegorov (Kaz, 5.10m); 2. Teh Weng Chang (Mal, 4.90); 3. Kumar Geesh (Ind, 4.50). Women: 100m: 1. Ni Xiaoli (Chn, 11.75s); 2. Viktoriya Kovyreva (Kaz, 11.83); 3. Tawoncharden Jutamass (Thai, 11.96). 100m hurdles: 1. Feng Yun (Chn, 13.47s); 2. Kumiko Ikeda (Jpn, 13.89); 3. Moh Siew Wei (Mal, 13.91). 400m: 1. Manjit Kaur (Ind, 53.08s); 2. Tanno Asami (Jpn, 53.58); 3. Rajwinder Kaur (Ind, 53.89). 1,500m: 1. Tatiana Borisova (Kyr, 4:17.47s); 2. Myint Myint Aye (Mya, 4:18.71); 3. Bang Do Thi (Vie, 4:30.39). Long jump: 1. Anju Bobby George (Ind, 6.66m); 2. Yelena Kochsheyeva (Kaz, 6.41); 3. Marestella Torres (Phi, 6.41). — AP
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