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'Japan Emerge on Top - 17th Asian Junior Athletics 2016' ©Asian Athletics Association
‚Japan Emerge on Top – 17th Asian Junior Athletics 2016‘ – Brett Larner – Japan Running News
Japan's distance medals at the Ho Chi Minh Asian Junior Championships included the women's 1500 m silver, women's 3000 m gold, women's 3000 mSC gold, men's and women's 5000 m gold and silver and men's 10000 m gold.
Final Medal Tally – 17th Asian Junior Athletics Championships
1. Japan – gold: 13 silver: 10 bronze: 4
2. China – gold: 11 silver: 7 bronze: 4
3. India – gold: 7 silver: 4 bronze: 6
4. Malaysia – gold: 3 silver: 3 bronze: 1
5. Taiwan – gold: 2 silver: 3 bronze: 4
6. Thailand – gold: 2 silver: 3 bronze: 4
7. Vietnam – gold: 2 silver: 3 bronze: 2
8. Qatar – gold: 2 silver: 2 bronze: 0
9. Iraq – gold: 1 silver: 2 bronze: 0
10. South Korea – gold: 1 silver: 0 bronze: 2
Brett Larner – Japan Running News
Ho Chi Minh City- Japan emerged on the top of the medal tally of the 17th Asian Junior Athletics Championship 2016 held at Ho Chi Minh City from June 3-6. Japan athletes won 13 Gold, 10 Silver and 4 Bronze medal. Runners up position went to China with 11 Gold, 7 Silver and 4 bronze medals. India finished on the third rank with 7 Gold 4 Silver and 4 Bronze.
Ishizuka Haruko of Japan was in the clear by the time she crossed 10th hurdle, winning gold medal in the women 400m hurdles with a performance of 57.91s. Khuat Phuong Anh of Vietnam took over Lin Yu Chieh of Chinese Taipei at the finish line to secud silver medal in 59.78s. Lin clocked 1:00.02 for bronze medal.
It was another Japanese victory in the men's 400m hurdles when Watanabe Yoshiro fend of late challenge from Feng Zhiqiang of China to win race in 50.86s. Feng clocked 51.49s for silver medal while Kim Hyan-bin of South Korea took bronze with a performance of 52.55s
Men's javelin throw final kept its drama till the last throw thanks to the championship record breaking throw by Sado Junya of Japan in the last attempt measuring 77.97m. This upset rhythm of Niraj Chopra of India and World junior leader who failed to respond Sado's throw and had to settle with first round best of 79.60m. Both throwers broke 15 years old championship record of 79.22m set by Chen Qi of China. Pakistan's Nadeem Arshad won bronze medal with a best throw of 73.40m
