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Seminar for Technical Officers Its 24 days to go for the 43-nation Asian Athletic Championships to be held in Colombo in August. This is the 26th in a series of articles in the ANCL English language newspapers, which leads the largest-ever sporting event to be hosted by Sri Lanka. The Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited (ANCL) (Print media sponsor) and Dialog GSM (Sri Lanka team sponsor, official mobile communication provider and the official web designer & hoster) are two of the six Gold sponsors of the event. The official web-site of the meet is: www.asianathletics2002.com A 225 Technical officials (TO) selected for the forthcoming 14th Asian Athletic Championships will undergo a special workshop at the National Youth Services centre, Maharagama tomorrow (16). This follows the successful two-day residential workshop for the 150 volunteers at the same venue over the weekend. The workshop for TO's will be inaugurated by the Minister Youth Affairs & Sports Johnston Fernando. The President AAA Sunil Jayaweera too will grace the occasion and address the Technical Officials. International Technical Officer (ITO), P.H.D.Waidyatilaka, the Technical Director for the Asian Championships and Chairman Technical Committee of the A.A.A briefed the key officials on Friday on their duties and named the respective teams. The 225 local technical team will be joined by 15 foreign ITOs/ ATOs who will officiate during the four-day Asian athletic extravaganza. According to Waidyatilaka, tomorrow's workshop will be conducted under two sections. Waidyatilaka will initially outline the duties and responsibilities of the officials and thereafter the teams will be separated and each team leader will brief the respective team members on their specific duties and responsibilities, under the supervision of the Technical Director. Waidyatilaka says the selected officials will first oficiate at the National Championship Meet which will be held towards the end of the month as a dress rehearsal for next month's Asian championships. In this column, it was stated earlier about the fancied athletes in each event at the Championship. Under the "Asian Star Parade" we discussed the men's 400m, women's 100m hurdles and women's 400m. Today, we will take a look on women's 100m. With the host country has the luxury of having three competitors at each event, Sri Lanka could well play both their trump cards in women's sprint events - Olympic medallist Susanthika Jayasinghe and Asian Games double gold medallist Damayanthi Darsha, though the duo have mainly been concentrating on women's 200m and 400m respectively. Jayasinghe, during last year's IAAF World championships in Edmonton, indicated that she may drop 100m and switch on to 400m, in addition to her pet event - women's 200, in which she won medals at the Olympics and World championships. But the chances in competing before a home crowd may persuade both of them to have a head to head meeting. During the recent Asian Grand Prix series, Darsha competed in the 100m too and did well to secure the first place in Hyderebad beating Indian Poonam Tomar. But India's Saraswathi Saha pushed Darsha to second place in Bangkok. Saha also won the third round of Asian Grand Prix in Manila. Kazakhstan's Viktoria Kovyereva has shown a good form in the Asian circuit but her current form would not be sufficient for her to make a strong claim for the gold. Among the foreign athletes in the Asian region who have reached top timing in women's 100m this year are India's Poonam Tomar (11.56) and Japan's Kaori Sakagami (11.45) and Tomoko Ishida (11.59). But if Jayasinghe decides to have a go, she is sure to pose the biggest threat to all. Jayasinghe has one of the best timings among Asians this year, having clocked 11.11 seconds in winning this year's Osaka Grand Prix 100m. Star athletes in women's 100m at 2002 Asian Grand Prix series: in Bangkok: 1. Saraswati Saha (Ind) 11.66, 2. K. V. Damayanthi Darsha (Sri) 11.81, 3. Poonam Tomar (Ind) 11.87, 4. Viktoria Kovyereva (Kaz) 11.91, 5. Orrnut Klomdee (Tha) 11.97, 6. Kavita Pandya (Ind) 12.08. Manila: 1. Saraswati Saha (Ind) 11.52, 2. Oranut Klomdee (Tha) 11.58, 3. Lerma Bulauitan-Gabito (Phi) 11.61, 4. Poonam Tomar (Ind) 11.62, 5. Viktoriya Koviyreva (Kaz) 11.67, 6. Kavita Pandya (Ind) 11.97. |
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