16th Asian Athletics Junior Championships, Taipei 2014
>> June 23, 2014
16th Asian Athletics Junior Championships at Taipei, 12-15 June 2014
-following are important statistical facts from Heinrich Hubbeling, Asian AA statistician;
New Asian Junior Championships Records were achieved in 3 events;
-Mohammad Hossein Abareghi (IRQ) - 200m 20.65 +2.0 NR, AJCR, NJR
-Taio Kanai (JPN) - 110mh 13.33 +0.5 AJCR
-Nguyen Thi Oanh (VIE) - women's 3000st 10:27.29 AJCR
There were at least Asian 2014 Junior best performances in 15 events, although (unfortunately) several leading Asian Juniors did not participate at these Continental Championships for different reasons. Some of the best athletes already preparing for the World Juniors,some Federations did not participate at all etc.
Overall athletes from 31 Asian AA Member Federations participated and 22 of these countries won at least one medal with CHN (12 Gold) & JPN (11 Gold) once again the predominant countries, while the remaining 14 Federations did not send any athletes to these Continental Championships at all.
Full results can be seen HERE
Team manual could be downloaded HERE
Entries with seasonal bests could be downloaded HERE
Special reports also available, DAY 1, DAY 2, DAY 3
(45 events – including two Gold medals given at Women´s 5000 m)
BAN, CAM, KUW, MAC, MYA, NEP, OMA, PAK & PHI = no medals