Ibrahim Moaaz Mohamed of Qatar set the first championship record of the 17th Asian Junior Athletics Championship 2016 with a 60.49m effort in the men’s discus throw final in Ho Chi Minh City.
Ibrahim erased a 15-year-old championship record of 60.14m set by Wu Tao of China.
Ando Yume of Japan achieved 58.80m for silver medal, while Yukinaga Shinichi, winner of shot put, added another medal to his tally by winning bronze medal with a throw of 54.79m.
Another Qatar athlete, Saifeldin Muhand Khamis won the men’s 3,000m steeplechase final with a timing of 9:26.79s. Vietnamese runners Le Trung Duc (9:27.40s) and Le Quang Hoa (9:31.86s) finished second and third respectively.
In the women’s 3,000m steeplechase final, Mukai Chika of Japan won gold medal ahead of two North Korean runners. Mukai clocked 10:21.04s to win while Ro Hyo Hyong took 10:31.02s to take silver medal and her teammate Ju Ok Byol finished third in 10:41.91s.
Thailand women’s team (Charoensuk Parichat, Chattha On-uma, Runana Sureewan and Khongthong Suwimon) claimed back 4x100m relay title from China winning in 45.23s. China settled for second place with 45.41s. Hong Kong China was third with 45.84s.
In the men’s 4x100m relay final, Chinese Taipei team (Yeh Shou Bo, Yang Chun Han, Liu Chao Hsuan and Shen Yu Sen) took top honours with a performance of 39.75s beating Malaysian team to second place. Malaysia clocked 39.91s while Thailand team took 40.36s to cover 400m for bronze medal.
Mohamed Rizzua Haizad of Malaysia booked his place for World juniors with a last moment dip at the finish line to win men’s 110m hurdles in headwind performance of 14.00s. India’s Maymon Poulose took silver in 14.02s. Zhang Tao of China was third in 14.05s.
In the women’s 100m hurdles, Yu Jiaru of China was declared winner after disqualification of winner Yumi Tanaka of Japan, who was initially shown red card for foul start but later allowed to run under protest pending decision. Yu took 13.79s to win gold medal while two Chinese Taipei runners Cheng Tang Hsiu (13.97s) and Lin Shih Ting (14.11s) finished second and third place respectively.
Fujita Keitaro of Japan won men’s high jump final clearing a height of 2.16m. Ahmad Mohamed Syazwan of Malaysia finished on the second place clearing 2.14m. Iraq’s Al-Ibraheemi Hussein Falah won bronze medal with 2.14m height clearance.
Women’s triple jump final witnessed close dual between Kirthana Ramasamy of Malaysia and Mariya Ovchinnikova of Kazakhstan. Mariya was leading mid-way with a jump of 13.19m before Kirthana jumped to new personal best of 13.20m in the 4th attempt to take lead of just 1 cm over Mariya. Mariya could not better that distance and had to settle for second place behind Kirthana. Kirthana not only won the gold medal but also achieved World junior qualification distance. Anna Gorodkova of Kazakhstan took bronze medal with a jump of 12.97m.  
Women’s pole vault title went to Chen Qiaoling of China clearing a height of 4.15m. Misaki Morota of Japan grabbed silver medal in 3.80m and Wu Chiaju of Chinese Taipei took bronze in 3.60m
Women’s Hammer Throw, last event of the day was won by Zhao Fan of China with a throw of 61.77m. Her teammate Ji Li took silver medal with a throw of 58.11m. Thailand’s Koomphon Mingkamon grabbed bronze medal throwing hammer to 56.44m.
 (Asian Athletics)