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Double delight for Damayanthi

HYDERABAD MAY 19. Sri Lankan ace Damayanthi Darsha came up with a fine double by first edging out Indian hope K.M. Beenamol in the women's 400m and then by winning the women's 100m quite comfortably with Poonam Tomar of India taking the silver and Saraswati Saha the bronze in the first leg of the Asian Grand Prix athletic championship at the GMC Balayogi athletic stadium in Hyderabad on Saturday.

The results:

Men: Javelin: 1. Sergey Voynov (Uzb) 76.00 m, 2. Lee Rongxiang (Chn) 75.57, 3. Jagdish Bishnoi (Ind) 74.71. High jump: 1. Zhou Zhongge (Chn) 2.22m, 2. Lee Jin Taek (Kor) 2.22, 3. Bae Kyungho (Kor) 2.18. 3,000m: 1. I.A. Sivanand (Ind) 8m16.83s, 2. Eduardo Buenavista (Phl) 8m19.62s; 3. Arun D'Souza (Ind) 8m32.79s. Triple jump: 1. Salem Mouled Alhamadi (Saudi) 16.84m, 2. Sergey Arzamasov (Kaz) 16.51, 3. Petin Yevgeny (Uzb) 16.02. 100m: 1. Reancha Sriharwong (Tha) 10.55s, 2. Clifford Joshua (Ind) 10.57s, 3. Anand Menezs (Ind) 10.57s.

Women: Long jump: 1. Yelena Koshcheyeva (Kaz) 6.59m, 2. Anju B. George (Ind) 6.58m, 3. Jetty C. Joseph (Ind) 6.30m. 800m: 1. Wang Yuan Ping (Chn) 2m4.13s, 2. Tatayana Borisova (Kirghiz) 2m4.21s, 3. Madhuri Singh (Ind) 2m4.63s. Discus: 1. Ma Shuli (Chn) 60.51m, 2. Harwant Kaur (Ind) 60.08m, 3. Song Aimin (Chn) 57.74m. 100m hurdles: 1. Su Yiping (Chn) 13.03s, 2. Trecia Roberts (Tha) 13.33s, 3. Sriyani Kulawansa Fonseca (SL) 13.50s. 100m: 1. Damayanthi Darsha (SL) 11.52s, 2. Poonam Tomar (Ind) 11.68s, 3. Saraswati Saha (Ind) 11.71s.

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