FILE–Philippines’ John Tolentino in motion throughout 110m hurdles males’s remaining within the 2023 SEA Video games. REUTERS/Jeremy Lee
BANGKOK—John Christopher Cabang Tolentino reset his personal nationwide report after practically putting third within the males’s 110m hurdles on Friday night time on the twenty fifth Asian Athletics Championships.
Tolentino completed with the same clocking with Kuwait’s Yaqoub Alyouha in 13.56 seconds, however the latter was rewarded with the bronze medal after reaching the road quicker by a head.
“It was shut, it was a superb race. And sure, it was a brand new (nationwide) report,’’ stated Tolentino, who erased his earlier better of 13.65 seconds that the Filipino-Spanish hurdler completed on the Campeonato de Esukadi in Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain final month.
Japan’s Shunya Takayama claimed the gold medal in 13.29 seconds and China’s Zhuoyi Xu pocketed the silver in 13.39.
The Philippine Athletics Monitor and Area Affiliation is interesting the results of Tolentino’s race.
FILE–Eric Cray.
Eric Cray progressed to the ultimate of the lads’s 400m hurdles later within the night time on the Supachalasai Nationwide Stadium right here whereas Kristina Knott wasn’t as lucky in her medal bid within the ladies’s 100m medal race.
Cray, the 2017 Asian champion, checked second in his semifinal warmth in 49.98 seconds behind the cocky Mahdi Pirjahan of Iran (49.71).
Additionally making it to Saturday’s remaining are Japan’s Yusaku Kodama 49.45), Zhiyu Xie of China (49.60), India’s Yashas Palaksha (49.60), Qatar’s Bassem Hemeida (49.81), Chinese language Taipei’s Ming Yang Peng (50.04) and India’s Anthosh Umar Amilarasan (50.6).
“I didn’t give all of it, however I didn’t maintain again both. I simply made positive there’s extra left within the tank,’’ stated Cray, the six-time Southeast Asian Video games champion and record-holder of 49.40 seconds.
Knott wound up sixth out of the eight finalists within the 100m, clocking 11.61 seconds behind gold winner Pereira Shanti of Singapore (11.20), Iran’s Farzaneh Fasihi (11.39) and bronze medalist Ge Manqi of China (11.40).
William Morrison likewise couldn’t safe a medal within the males’s shot put, ending up sixth with a finest heave of 18.17 meters in his fifth out of six makes an attempt.
“I want a coach. I’ve to seek out one once I return to the States,’’ stated Morrison, the 2022 SEA Video games champion and shot put standard-bearer of 18.14m.
India’s Tajinderpal Singh Toor dominated the occasion in 20.23 meters adopted by silver performer Mehdi Saberi of Iran (19.98) and bronze medalist Ivan Ivanov of Kazakhstan (19.87).
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