Osaka medallists star - Wenxiu’s 72m defies Khanafeyeva - World Military Games, Day 1

Hyderabad, India - Asian record holder Zhang Wenxiu from the People’s Army of China successfully defended her title in women’s Hammer throw with a new Games Record, which measured to 72.25m, in the 4th CISM World Military Games here on Monday (15 Oct).
The four-day athletics programme of the Games, which started in G.M.C. Balayogi Stadium, saw this year’s World championship bronze medallist win beating Russia’s Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, who has been a world record breaker in her career (77.26).

Khanafeyeva, last year’s European championship silver medallist, had only a modest 69.28 throw to finish behind Wenxiu. Italy’s Ester Balassini was third in 67.09m.

Wenxiu, the Asian Games champion at Doha, set her fifth Asian Record (74.86m) this August during her preparations for the global meet at Osaka. Her first continental record - 73.24 - set in 2005, remains the current World Junior record.

In the men’s Hammer Throw, Osaka silver medallist Primoz Kozmus of Slovenia sent the implement out to 75.98, which was enough for the victory, with Sydney Olympic silver medallist Nicola Vizzoni of Italy nailing 74.96m for the second spot, a place he held at the second edition of CISM Games at Zagreb, eight years ago.

There was no stopping for Asian Race Walking champion Cui Zhide as he marched 20,000m in a season’s best 1:23:43 for gold. Ivan Trotski of Belarus, a bronze medallist in 10,000m Race Walk at the 3rd edition of CISM Games at his ‘home’ in Catania, improved one place with a silver medal in 1:25:23.7, as Matej Toth of Slovakia finished 19 seconds later for the bronze.

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Results

		M Discus Throw
Pos	Bib	Athlete	Country	Result
1	398	P. MALACHOWSKI	Poland	65.87
2	287	KOVAGO Z	Hungary	64.38
3	650	AL DOSSARE RS	Qatar	60.03
4	440	ALEXANDER B	Russia	58.97
5	317	HANNES KIRKLER	Italy	58.61
6	448	A SULTAN	Saudi Arabia	58.39
7	591	STANISLOV A	Russia	55.03
8	607	YGOV P	Slovenia	54.74
9	148	VAN DAFLE JURI	Belgium	54.08
10	651	DHEEM AM	Qatar	52.95
11	465	L RUJEVIC	Serbia	52.46
12	246	HUNT MARGUS	Estonia	51.84
13	219	DRAGAN	Croatia	50.17
14	366	H GEORGES	Lebanon	44.47
15	345	MUSAB IBRAHIM	Jordan	44.37
16	544	ABDULLA JM	UAE	36.36
DSQ	624	A SABER	UAE	-
DSQ	671	PEETRE TAAVI	Estonia	-
		W Hammer Throw
Rank	Back No	Player Name	Country	Result
1	730	Wenxiu ZHANG	China	72.25
2	793	G KHANAFEEVA	Russia	69.28
3	758	E BALASSINI	Italy	67.09
4	754	C CLARETTI	Italy	66.94
5	806	DANISOVA M	Slovakia	66.78
6	740	S MATHES	Germany	63.36
7	707	N.PAULIUKOUSKAYA	Belarus	57.04
		M Shot Put
Rank	Back No	Player Name	Country	Result
1	475	M VODOVINK	Slovenia	19.93
2	411	AL SUWAIDI KHALE	Qatar	19.24
3	133	A.SINIAKOU	Belarus	18.73
4	595	A SULTAN ABDULMA	Saudi Arabia	18.67
5	468	KONOPKA MIKU	Slovakia	18.61
6	401	L. SLIWA	Poland	18.23
7	238	STEHLIK Petr	Czech Republic	17.76
8	671	PEETRE TAAVI	Estonia	17.64
9	220	KRESIMIR R	Croatia	17.62
10	294	P B GIRI	India	17.55
11	465	L RUJEVIC	Serbia	17.49
12	548	RASHED SAIF	UAE	16.89
13	367	O BADRI	Lebanon	14.88
14	345	MUSAB IBRAHIM	Jordan	14.68
15	159	H HASAN	Bahrain	14.17
16	224	DIMITRIOU D.	Cyprus	13.40
17	677	Marvin	Suriname	11,91
DSQ	214	Zhongjun ZHAO	China	-
		M Hammer Throw
Rank	Back No	Player Name	Country	Result
1	604	P KOZMUS	Slovenia	75.98
2	324	N VIZZONI	Italy	74.96
3	268	J RAUTENKRANZ	Germany	72.38
4	236	MELICH Lukas	Czech Republic	71.79
5	136	A.VARANTSOU	Belarus	71.78
6	589	Y VORONKIN	Russia	69.25
7	561	M MICHAEL	USA	67.30
8	563	P JAMES	USA	65.33
9	131	P.KRYVITSKI	Belarus	64.83
10	120	S BENJAMIN	Austria	63.18
11	284	ZOULLIEN S.	Greece	60.65
DSQ	279	POLYCHRONIOU CH.	Greece	-
DSQ	319	L POVEGLIANO	Italy	-
DSQ	408	ALKAKABI FARAJ	Qatar	-
		M Javelin
Rank	Back No	Player Name	Country	Result
1	432	BARTHA LEVENTE	Romania	77.16
2	248	MANNIO ARI	Finland	76.77
3	278	ILTSIOS GEORGIOS	Greece	73.23
4	368	T INTAS	Lithuania	72.34
5	519	F. LORETZ	Switzerland	71.78
6	271	A VIEWEG	Germany	70.66
7	482	HK GUNATHILAKA	Sri Lanka	70.19
8	466	BOKOR M	Slovakia	70.18
9	568	V SERGEY	Uzbekistan	67.23
10	225	KALOGIROU P.	Cyprus	63.44
11	550	YOUSEF KHAMIS	UAE	59.68
12	549	AADEL SALEM	UAE	59.62
13	231	STAVROU K.	Cyprus	56.92
14	622	RICK FRANCIS	Trinidad	47.49
15	677	Marvin	Suriname	43.01