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Wang Junxia runs this year's fastest 10,000m

Double for magnificent Mansoor
HIROSHIMA. Oct 16: Chinese world record- holder Wang J unxIa ran this year's fastest 10.000 metres, Qaiai > Talal Mansoor became Asia s undisputed sprint champ and Ramil Ganiev of Uzbekistan took best ingle athlete honours al the Aslan Games Saturday, reports AP The three performances, all bl them Ranies records, highlighted the next-to-last day of track and field competition at the 12th Asiad. where 43 golds are at stake.
China enters the final stretch with an unsurpassable lead, having taken 18 to Kazkhstan s four. Qatar. Uzbekistan and a faltering Japan have three apiece whUe South Korea has two golds.
Wang, world record holder in both the 3.000 and 10.000 metres, suddenly went into high gear with eight laps to go and ran her own race until she dashed across the finish line In 30 minutes. 50.34 seconds.
It broke the old Games mark of 31:50.98 but still was far from her 1993 world best of 29 31.78. Teammate Dong LI gamed the silver In 31:31.08 and Japan's Miki Igarashi the bronze in 31 45.82.
"It s a regular training run ' tor us. If she ran records, she would be tired," said Ma Junren. the flamboyant coach whose formidable racers ate known as "Ma s Army".
Gaining even more crowd applause was Qatar's Talal Mansoor who streaked to a Gaines record of 20.41 seconds in the men's 200 metres m what he said would be the last individual race of his stellar career. The 8-year-old mark had stood at 20.71.
Mansoor earlier had captured his third straight Games IWO metres The 30-year-old sprinter Who says he is retlr-mg to spend more time with his young son. also will run In a relay race Sunday.
Koji Ito of Japan Was the Silver medal wanner tn 20.70 and Ibrahim Ismail Muftah. Mansoor's teammate and the 400 metre gold medalist, took the bronze In 20.88.
Mansoor. clutching a Japanese flag, and Muftah. holding a Qatari one. circled the track at the 50.000-seat Big Arch stadium after the nr wry
The day's third big star was
Ganiev, who won half of the decathlon s disciplines to earn the unofficial title of Asia s best all-around male athlete. The physical education teacher and former Alpine skier accumulated 8.006 points, which bettered the Asian record of 7.995 sei by Munebiro Kaneko of Japan last year. ,
Another Uzbekistan!. Oleg Veretelnlkov. was the silver medalist with 7.70:2 while Tomokazu Sugama of Japan earned the bronze, totaling 7.666 points’ In the two-day event. Cai Mln of China, who stood second after seven events, withdrew with an injury after the pole vault
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, haiwi let republics mak-
ing their Asiad debut, have displayed their prowess al Hiroshima, snatching some of the medals China and Japan would otherwise have taken
Unexpected was Kazkhstanl Serguei Korepanov s victory in the 50-kilometre walk In 3 hours. 54.37 minutes. China's Zhou Youngsheng. No 1 In Asia, dropped out of the pun ishing contest despite and early lead and the other Chinese entry, Jin Guohong. finished only fourth.
Taking the silver was ^Japan's Fumio Imamura in 3:56.16 and the bronze went to teammate Tadahlreo Kosaka in 4:05 00 The top three fin Ishers all beat the previous best qaihe* perform nice of
4 08 33. Formal records are not kept In this event since courses vary widely
Another upset occurred in the women s javelin.
Going in with a personal best throw five metres shorter than that of China's favoured Ha Xiaoyan. Oksana Yargfna of Uzbekistan won with a 64.62-nietre effort
"1 am extremely happy”, she said. Today. I could set my personal record and I think that Is because of this encouraging atmosphere.'
Silver medalist Lee Young-Sun of South Korea threw 62.30 metres, while Ha had to settle for a bronze with 62.08.
But the Chinese roared back with a 1-2 victory in the men's I 10-metre hurdles. Asian record holder Li Tong broke his own Games record of 13.57 with a 13.30 clocking. Silver medalist Chen Yanhao also liested the mark with a 13.39 and Malaysia won its first track medal when Nur Herman Majid posted a 13.73 for the bronze.
LI. who has trained In the United States for six years and now teaches sports there, took a victory lap. waving the Chinese flag. Li had set the former Games mark here in heats' and the Aslan record earlier this year.
Other 1-2 Chinese finishes came in the women's long Jump and shot put.
Asian record hojder Yao Weill added another trophy to her collection when she took gold and smashed the 6.69-metre record tn the long jump with a leap of 6.91.
LI Jing, ranked No 2 in Asia, took the silver for China with a record-equaling 6.69 and Elma Muros presented the Philippines with its first track medal with a 6.41 jump for the bronze.
Games record holder- Sui Xinmel hurled the shot put 20.45 metres for gold and teammate Zhang Liuhong added a silver with a 19.25-metre heave. Thailand's Sunisa Yooyao won the bronze with 16.24.
To the rhythmic clapping of the crowd. Japan's Takahisa Yoshida bested Asia's top high Jumper. Lee Jln-taek of South Korea, with a leap of 2.27 metres. Both Lee and China's Xu Yang cleared the bar at 2.24 but Lee was awarded the silver because of fewer misses.