Sri Lanka's 400m teams enter finals

by Ranjan ANANDAPPA

Sri Lanka’s 400m men’s and women’s teams gave a glimmer of hope of winning a medal as they entered the final of the 400m race.

In the 400m race heat number two Sri Lanka’s Dulaj Madusanka clocked 47.75 seconds to qualify to run in the finaland also reaching the qualifying standards of World World junior ) ) and junior qualifying standards.

In the women’s 400m race their were two namely Nadeeshani Henderson (56.51 sec). Chinese Taipei’s Liao Ching-Hsien won the 100m women’s final with a timing of 11.97 sec. while Iran’s Taftian Hassan won the men’s 100m final with a timing of 10.49 seconds.

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100m men final: 1. Taftian Hassan (iran) seconds, 2. Xie Zheny 10.64 KSA) (10.54) sec., 3. Al Shalani Yousuf Ali.

100m women’s final: 1. Liao Ching-Hsien(Taipei) 11.97 sec, 2. Lin Huijun (China)11.98 (Thailand).

Triple Jump (Men) final: 1. Fu Haitao ( China)16.38 m, 2 Tepparak Pratchaya (Thailand) 16.25m, 3. Khosravi Mostafa (Iran)15.31 m.

Shot put: 1. Li Meng ( China)19.95 m, 2. Abdul Qadri Omar (KSA) 18.44m, 3. Wong Kai Yuen (Singapore) 17.39m.