Jamal captures 1500m title in Guangzhou - Asian Games, Day 3

24 November 2010 - Guangzhou, China - World champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal lived up to her stature, winning the 1500me in the Asian Games athletics championships on Tuesday (23).

Championship races are invariably run to win medals and not to post records and Jamal could not have been found wanting in her effort to enlarge her adopted country’s medals tally.

“I am here just to win. I controlled myself at first but it wasn’t easy,” she said, probably hinting at the fact that she had to hold herself back in an effort to keep the pace down for a comfortable finish. She crossed the line in 4:08.22 to win by more than a full second.

* Shahween takes men's 1500m
* Tareq Mubarak Taher wins 3000m Steeplechase
* Essa Mutaz Barshim takes High Jump gold
* Jung Soon-Ok upsets late entry Rypakova in the Long Jump
* Tarasova wins Heptathlon title
* Yanfeng Li throws Asian leading mark in Discus

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