Iran’s Ehsan Hadadi, the London Olympics silver medallist, won a fifth Asian title in the discus to highlight the opening day of the Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar, India, on Thursday (6).
With China enjoying huge success at the Asian Games, where the athletics action ended just nine days ago, it was always clear that many of the top athletes gaining success there would not appear at the National Championships on 9-12 October just more than a week later.
The athletics competition of the 12th National Games concluded in Shenyang on Wednesday evening (11) with a new generation of Chinese athletes stepping up.
China’s dominated the penultimate day of the 20th Asian Athletics Championships in Pune, India, with two championship records studding their golden da on Saturday (6).