Asian Junior Athletics Championships
The Asian Junior Athletics Championships (U20) (Asian Junior U20 Athletics Championships) are the Asian championships open for those of age according to junior. It is currently organized by the Asian Athletics Association.athletics
Athletics may refer to:
Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
* Athletics (physical culture), competi ...
competition for
Asia
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n under-20 athletes, organised by the
Asian Athletics Association
The Asian Athletics Association is the continental governing body for the sport of athletics in Asia. It is headquartered in Singapore. It organises the Asian Championships in Athletics and other continental competitions.
The current president Qa ...
Colombo
Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo m ...
, Sri Lanka – the same venue hosted the
2002 Asian Athletics Championships
The 14th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 9–12 August 2002.
Results
Men
Women
Medal table
See also
*2002 in athletics (track and field)
ReferencesMedalists at GBR AthleticsAshraf steals the show in Asian Juniors with 80.85m world junior hammer lead IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-06-13. A total of 44 events were contested, with the events being evenly split between the genders.
The
Chinese
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team topped the medal table with fifteen gold medals and a total of 23 medals. Chinese Taipei (Republic of China) had the second greatest number of event wins with six gold medals out of fifteen medals, while Japan had the second greatest haul with a total of 22 medals. India, Thailand and Qatar each won four gold medals and the hosts Sri Lanka won six medals during the four-day competition. Eighteen nations reached the medal table.Final Medal Tally 15th Asian Junior Athletics Championship . Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved on 2012-06-13.
Qatar's
Ashraf Amgad Elseify
Ashraf Amgad Elseify ( ar, أشرف أمجد الصيفي; born 20 February 1995) is a Qatari hammer thrower.
Biography
He won a gold medal at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships in Colombo
Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, transli ...
gave the stand-out performance of the championships with his Asian junior record in the men's
hammer throw
The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin.
The "hammer" used in this sport is not like any of the tools also called by that name. It consist ...
. Six other championship records were broken: Chinese
pole vault
Pole vaulting, also known as pole jumping, is a track and field event in which an athlete uses a long and flexible pole, usually made from fiberglass or carbon fiber, as an aid to jump over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the Myc ...
ers Zhang Wei and Xu Huiqin bettered the men's and women's standards, Japan's Haruka Kyuma ran a 5000 m women's record, and Li Ting-Yu representing Chinese Taipei improved the women's steeplechase record. The two other records were set by
Hamza Driouch
Hamza Driouch ( ar, حمزة الدريوش ''Ḥamza ad-Driyūsh''; born 16 November 1994) is a Qatari track and field athlete. He was born in Guelmim, Morocco. In February 2015 it was announced that Driouch had been banned from athletics for tw ...
800 metres
The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since t ...
while Driouch won the
1500 metres
The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athle ...
Mutaz Essa Barshim
Mutaz Essa Barshim ( ar, معتز عيسى برشم, Muʿtazz ʿĪsā Baršim; born 24 June 1991) is a Qatari track and field athlete who competes in the high jump and is the current Olympic Champion (2020). He is also the current World Champion ...