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2011 Asian Athletics Championships - Day Two Results
Kobe, Hyogo, July 8, 2011
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Men's 3000 mSC
1. Abubaker Ali Kamal (Qatar) - 8:30.23
2. Artem Kossinov (Kazakhstan) - 8:35.11
3. T.M.S. Taher (Bahrain) - 8:45.47

Men's 1500 m
1. Mohammed Alazemi (Kuwait) - 3:42.49
2. Sajad Moradi (Iran) - 3:43.30
3. C.I. Wijekoon (Sri Lanka) - 3:44.01

Women's 1500 m
1. Genzeb Shumi Regasa (Bahrain) - 4:15.91
2. Tranh Hang Truong (Vietnam) - 4:18.40
3. J. Orchatteri Puthiya (India) - 4:21.41

Men's 400 m
1. Yousef Ahmed Masrahi (Saudia Arabia) - 45.79
2. Hideyuki Hirose (Keio Univ.) - 46.03
3. Yuzo Kanemaru (Team Otsuka Seiyaku) - 46.38

Women's 400 m
1. Olga Tereshkova (Kazakhstan) - 52.37
2. Gulustan Ieso (Iraq) - 52.80
3. Jingwen Chen (China) - 52.89

Men's 100 m
1. Bingtian Su (China) - 10.21
2. Masashi Eriguchi (Team Osaka Gas) - 10.28
3. Sota Kawatsura (Chuo Univ.) - 10.30

Women's 100 m
1. Guzel Khubbieva (Uzbekistan) - 11.39
2. Yongli Wei (Chinda) - …

by Brett Larner

Watch this video and say that you are not impressed:


Chuo Univ., lane 5, wins the men's 4x100m over Waseda Univ., lane 4.

Japanese sprinting keeps moving forward. On the second to last day of the 2010 Kanto Regional University Track and Field Championships, May 22 in Tokyo's National Stadium, Chuo University's men's 4x100 m pulled off the biggest upset of the meet so far with a 38.54 national university record win over titan Waseda University thanks to a stunning performance by freshman anchor Shota Iizuka. The unheralded Chuo team's time was not only a record and not only beat Waseda, which features 2009 national champion and World Championships team member Masashi Eriguchi, by exactly one second but would have won last year's American NCAA Div. I National Championships, placed the team 5th in the Beijing Olympics final and 6th in the final of last summer's World Championships.

With Eriguchi on 2nd Waseda had a strong first half, but a great ru…