Asian Athletics Championships:
Iran’s Kamran reaches 110m hurdles final
Iran’s Masoud Kamaran progressed to the men’s 110m hurdles final on the second day of the Asian Athletics Championships in in Gumi, South Korea.
The Iranian sprinter registered a personal fastest record of 13.62 seconds to finish runner-up to Qatari Oumar Doudai Abakar (13.39) in Wednesday’s seminal, joining the Asian under-20 champion in today’s final showdown at the at the Gumi Civic Stadium.
Meanwhile, Reihaneh Mobini will vie for a women’s long jump medal in today’s final after an impressive qualification campaign on Wednesday.
The Iranian girl registered a best attempt of 6.33m to beat China’s Guo Sijia (6.17) and Kazakhstan’s Anastassiya Rypakova (6.15) to the top spot in the qualification jumps.
The second day of the event in Gumi, however, was one to forget for other Iranians in action.
Mahdi Haft-Cheshmeh settled for the eighth place in the men’s hammer throw event with 65.30 attempt.
China’s Wang Qi grabbed the gold with 74.50m, followed by Japanese duo Tatsuto Nakagawa (71.97m) and Shota Fukuda (71.89m).
Iran’s Ali Amirian and Amir Zamanpour missed out on the podium in the men’s 1500m event, finishing fourth and seventh, respectively, in the final race.