Kwalia and Aitova steal the limelight in Tehran - Asian Indoor Champs, Day 1

25 February 2010 - The Asian Indoor championships returned to its birthplace, Tehran, after six years. The Iranian capital, which conducts the annual Fajr invitational indoor meet, had successfully organized the inaugural Asian indoors at Aftab-e-Enqelab Gymnasium in 2004.Asia is the only other continent after Europe to stage the continental indoor championships. As many as 300 athletes from 27 nations, including China and Japan, are taking part in the three day meet which began on Wednesday (24).

Qatar’s James Kwalia took the gold in a hard fought 3000m race in 7:57.73.
Samuel Francis conquered the men’s 60m with 6.58.
Japanese long jumper Rikiya Saruyama leaped to the top spot with 7.65m.
In women’s High jump Marina Aitova from Kazakhstan clinched the title with 1.93m.

IAAF website