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Athletics was a sport at the inaugural Afro-Asian Games in 2003 in Hyderabad, India. The second Games were planned for 2007 but they have been indefinitely postponed.
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Athletics was a sport at the inaugural Afro-Asian Games in 2003 in Hyderabad, India. The second Games were planned for 2007 but they have been indefinitely postponed.
| Games | Year | Host | Events | |
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| Men | Women | |||
| I | 2003 | Hyderabad | 21 | 20 |
| II | ? | Algiers | ? | ? |
Anju Bobby George is a retired Indian athlete. Anju Bobby George made history when she won the bronze medal in long jump at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics in Paris. With this achievement, she became the first Indian athlete ever to win a medal in a World Championships in Athletics jumping 6.70 m. She went on to win the gold medal at the IAAF World Athletics Final in 2005, a performance she considers her best. Anju was upgraded to the gold status from silver in the 2005 World Athletics Final in Monte Carlo following the disqualification of Tatyana Kotova of Russia by the International Association of Athletics Federations, following the recent re-testing of the latter's sample collected at the 2005 World Championship in Helsinki. She was awarded the Arjuna Award in 2002, Khel Ratna in 2003 and Padma Shri in 2004. She had got 5th position with personal best score of 6.83 at the 2004 Athens Olympics. In March 2021, Anju won the BBC lifetime achievement award for best athlete in India.
The Afro-Asian Cup of Nations, also called the AFC Asia/Africa Challenge Cup, was an international football competition endorsed by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), contested between representative nations from these confederations, usually the winners of the Africa Cup of Nations and the winners of the AFC Asian Cup or the Asian Games. All editions were official competitions of CAF and AFC and indirectly also of FIFA. For FIFA statute, official competitions are those for representative teams organized by FIFA or any confederation. The most successful team is Japan with 2 championships.
Boniface Toroitich Kiprop is a track and field athlete from Uganda.
Lwiza Msyani John is a Tanzanian athlete who mainly competes in the 800 metres. Her personal best is 1:59.58 minutes, achieved in 2000.
Ezra Kenyoke Sambu is a Kenyan sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.
Ismail Ahmed Ismail is a Sudanese runner, who specializes in the 800 metres. He was born in Khartoum.
Eyerusalem Kuma is an Ethiopian long-distance runner, who competes in marathons. She has a personal best of 2:24:55 hours for the distance and was the 2009 winner of the Amsterdam Marathon.
Dilshod Jamoliddinovich Nazarov is a Tajik track and field athlete who specializes in the hammer throw. He has represented his country at the Olympic Games on four occasions, winning the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro, the first gold medal for Tajikistan in the history of the Olympic Games.
Delphine Bertille Atangana is a Cameroonian sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.
Yevgeniy Meleshenko is a Kazakhstani hurdler.
The 2003 Afro-Asian Games, officially known as the First Afro-Asian Games or I Afro-Asian Games and unofficially known as the Inaugural Afro-Asian Games, was a major international multi-sport event held in Hyderabad, India, from October 24 to November 1, 2003.
The Afro-Asian Games were the series of inter-continental multi-sport competitions, held between athletes from Asia and Africa. These Games are one-of-a-kind, since no other sporting competition brings athletes from these two continents together for one event, excluding the Olympic Games. These Games are supposed to be held once every four years. They are jointly supervised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), and the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA).
The athletics events at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games were held from 28–30 October 2003, at the GMC Balayogi Athletic Stadium. A total of 42 events were contested at the inaugural edition of the Games.
Malaysia first competed at the Asian Games in 1954. Malaysia got its first gold medal in 1962 Asian Games, when Mani Jegathesan won the men's 200 metres athletics event on 28 August 1962.
Dorcus Inzikuru is a Ugandan track and field athlete, competing in the steeplechase. She won the inaugural world title in women's 3000 m steeplechase, as well as the first Commonwealth title in the event. Her coach is Renato Canova. Sometimes her name is spelt "Docus". It was misspelled in her passport, and the mistake was perpetuated when she entered international races.
Wassana Winatho, also known as Amornrat Winatho and Vassanee Vinatho, is a Thai track and field athlete who specialises in the heptathlon and the 400 metres hurdles. She represented Thailand at the 2008 Summer Olympics and competed at five consecutive editions of the Asian Games.
In India, the sport of athletics was introduced during the period of the British Raj. The sport is governed at national level by the Athletics Federation of India, which was formed in 1946. Despite its large population, few Indian athletes have won a medal in a global or major championship. This began to change in the 21st century, when Indians started taking greater interest in athletics more generally and improved facilities for the sport began to be built at a local level. At a continental level, it has been among the more successful Asian nations, though some distance behind China and Japan.
These are the results of the athletics competition at the 2003 Afro-Asian Games which took place from October 28 to October 30, 2003 in Hyderabad, India.
Mariam Ibekwe is a Nigerian former track and field athlete who competed in the shot put. She set her personal best of 16.68 m in 2007.
Josephine de la Viña was a discus thrower from the Philippines who is considered as her country's greatest athlete in the event. She won gold medals in her pet event at the 1966 Asian Games and 1973 Asian Athletics Championships. She also competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics.
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