Hong Kong Athletes Shine at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships: Results and Highlights

2023-07-15 13:02:44

[Sports News]The 4th day of the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships held in Thailand today (15th), “Prince of Long Jump” Chen Mingtai set a personal best result in the past 6 years with 8.02 meters and finished the event in fifth place. Gao Manlang of the same group won the 9th place. As for tomorrow’s (16th) race, there will be Hong Kong athletes again, including Cheng Xiaoya, the representative of the Tokyo Olympic 20km race walk.

Qiu Qianting (Picture: STUDIO HORIZON) Li Zitao (Picture: STUDIO HORIZON) He Weilun (Picture: STUDIO HORIZON)

The Hong Kong team took the lead in the 200-meter sprint preliminary race in the morning. Qiu Xiting, who started in the first group of the women’s group, won the fifth place in the group with 24.91 seconds. 5, but lost to the Thai player by 0.09 seconds in the total score and lost the “small q”. As for He Weilun, he ran a new personal best of 21.43 seconds in the preliminary round of the men’s group and won the fifth place in the group. The 17th place in the total score also advanced to the semi-finals with “small q”. He Weilun, who played again in the evening, finally finished the semi-finals in 21.82 seconds. Unfortunately, he ranked 7th in the group and missed the promotion.

Chen Mingtai (Photo: STUDIO HORIZON) Gao Manlang (Photo: STUDIO HORIZON)

In addition, Gao Tanlang and Chen Mingtai appeared in the men’s long jump. The former was fouled in the first two jumps, and ranked ninth with 7.73 meters in the third jump, only one step away from the final. As for Chen Mingtai’s first jump, he has achieved 8.02 meters, which is 10 centimeters behind his Hong Kong record. However, he jumped into the 8-meter mark again after last year, and set the best result in the past six years. In the fifth jump of the final, Chen Mingtai jumped 8.02 meters again, but failed to advance the result due to a foul in the last jump. In the end, Hong Kong will finish fifth. The champion is won by Lin Yutang of Chinese Taipei with 8.40 meters.

Qi Zunkang won the seventh place in the men’s high jump final with 2.05 meters. (Photo: STUDIO HORIZON) Ma Yingwen won the seventh place in the women’s 400m hurdles final with a time of 62.17 seconds. (Photo: STUDIO HORIZON)

Tomorrow (16th) Shake Day will continue to have Hong Kong players in the race. First, Qian Wenjie and Cheng Xiaoya will compete in the men’s and women’s 20km race finals respectively. Tse Chun-hsien and Qu Zhiying will also appear in the men’s and women’s 5000m finals. In Tian Xiang, Zhang Peixian and Xu Huaixi participated in the pole vault and javelin respectively. In addition, Xu Yingen, Deng Peijun, Ma Yingwen and Zou Ziqiu also appeared in the women’s 4×400m preliminary competition, competing for the final qualification of the same night.

Results of the Hong Kong team on the 4th day of the Asian Athletics Championships

Men’s Long Jump Final
Chen Mingtai 8 meters 02 5th place
Gaomanlang 7 meters 73 No. 9

Men’s High Jump Final
Qi Zunkang 2 meters 05 No. 7

Men’s 200m Semifinals
He Weilun ranked 7th in the group in 21.82 seconds

Women’s 200m Preliminaries
Li Zitao ranked 5th in the group in 24.88 seconds
Qiu Qianting ranked 5th in the group in 24.91 seconds

Women’s 400m Hurdles Final
Ma Yingwen ranked 7th in 62.17 seconds

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