Asian U18 Athletics Championships:
Kamareh grabs 3000m gold as Iran finishes with three medals
The final day of the Asian U18 Athletics Championships saw Iran’s Mohammad-Saleh Kamareh walk away with the ultimate prize of the boys’ 3000m event in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
The Iranian boy clocked 8:37.55 minutes in Friday’s final to set a new national cadet record and beat Uzbek duo Timur Nasimov (8:51.27) and Asilbek Tukhtamurodov (9:01.95) to the top podium.
This was a third, and most colorful, medal for the Iranian nine-athlete squad in Dammam.
Amirreza Ahanin-Maram won a bronze in the boys’ hammer throw event on Day 1 of the competitions in the Saudi coastal city.
Ahanin-Maram began the final showpiece with a 67.74m effort, and then registered 69.88m, before his final attempt of 70.83m saw the Iranian finish behind the host’s Mohammed Siraj Alzayer (79.11m) and Chinese Wang Ankang (74.81m).
A second bronze medal for Iran came in the girls’ 3000m event on the penultimate day, when Samia Shahpari finished the crossline in a new national-record of 10:09.07 minutes – following Uzbekistan’s Anastasiya Silchenkova (9:45.17) and Suolang Zhuoma (10:00.44) of China.