Athletics at the 2006 South Asian Games

Athletics at the 10th South Asian Games
Athletics at the 10th South Asian Games
	Susanthika Jayasinghe was a triple gold medallist
Dates	23 August – 27 August
Host city	Colombo, Sri Lanka
Venue	Sugathadasa Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	35
Participation	? athletes from ; 8 nations
Records set	5 Games records
	← 2004 Islamabad 2010 Dhaka → ; 2006 South Asian Games

At the 2006 South Asian Games, the athletics events were held at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 23 August to 27 August 2006.^[1] A total of 35 events were contested, of which 20 by male and 15 by female athletes.

India was the most successful country, medals-wise, with a total of 43 medals, 15 of which were gold. The hosts Sri Lanka were the next best medal winner, having taken 14 gold medals.^[2] A total of 5 Games records were broken during the competition, which included world medallist Anju Bobby George's performance of 6.42 metres in the long jump.^[3] Susanthika Jayasinghe completed a 100 and 200 metres double, before going on to take the gold with the Sri Lankan relay team. Her male counterpart Rohan Pradeep Kumara achieved a similar feat, winning the 200 and 400 metres races, as well at the 400 m relay. Pinki Pramanik of India was another athlete to win two golds as she won the women's 400 and 800 metres finals.

Rajendra Bhandari of Nepal won a 5000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase double, but his sample delivered at the Games tested positive for Norandrosterone. He was disqualified from the event and banned from competing for two years.^[4] Jani Chathurangani Silva, the 100 m silver medallist, was also banned for Norandrosterone.^[5]

Records[edit]

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Anju Bobby George	Long jump	India	6.42 m	GR
Susanthika Jayasinghe Buddika Sujani Premila Priyadarshani Jani Chathurangani	4×100 metre relay	Sri Lanka	44.63	GR
Preeja Sreedharan	10,000 metres	India	34:27.13	GR
Chaminda Sampath	Triple jump	Sri Lanka	16:26 m	GR
Surender Singh	10,000 metres	India	29:41.30	GR

Key:0000	WR — World record • AR — Area record • GR — Games record • NR — National record

Medal summary[edit]

Key

Performance annulled

Men[edit]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Umanga Surendra (SRI)	10:52	Anil Kumar (IND)	10:53	Basak Jagdish (IND)	10:61
200 metres	Rohan Pradeep Kumara (SRI)	21.14	Vishal Saxena (IND)	21.51	Muhammad Imran (PAK)	21.52
400 metres	Rohan Pradeep Kumara (SRI)	46.33	Prasanna Amarasekera (SRI)	46.40	Rana Saheer Ahmed (PAK)	47.77
800 metres	Francis Sagayaraj (IND)	1:50:23	S. Abeynayaka (SRI)	1:50:30	W. Weliwita (SRI)	1:50:36
1500 metres	Hamza Chatholi (IND)	3:44.50	Chaminda Wijekoon (SRI)	3:45.60	P.H. Chamal (SRI)	3:53.73
5000 metres	Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari (NEP)	14:01.19	Surendra Kumar Singh (IND)	14:02.43	Nowshad Khan (PAK)	14:28.59
10,000 metres	Surendra Singh (IND)	29:41.30 GR	Regunath Sadasivam (IND)	29:43.09	M. Ajanthan (SRI)	31:01.34
110 metre hurdles	Mafuzur Rahman (BAN)	14.19	Muhanned Sajjad (PAK)	14.26	Abdul Rashid (PAK)	14.62
400 metre hurdles	Allah Ditta (PAK)	51.00	Asoka Jayasundara (SRI)	51.02	Joseph Abraham (IND)	51.66
3000 metre steeplechase	Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari (NEP)	8:51:76	Om Prakash (IND)	9:00:99	Ram Bhadur (IND)	9:02:15
4×100 metre relay	India (IND)	40.29	Pakistan (PAK)	40.76	Afghanistan (AFG)	43.91
4×400 metre relay	Sri Lanka (SRI)	3:09:25	India (IND)	3:10:47	Pakistan (PAK)	3:11:35
Marathon	Ajit Bandara (SRI)	2:25:40	Arjun Kumar Basnet (NEP)	2:28:10	L. Binning (IND)	2:29:16
High jump	Manjula Kumara (SRI)	2:19 m	Benedict Stanley (IND)	2:19 m	Nalin Priyantha (SRI)	2:16 m
Pole vault	Muhammad Ayub (PAK)	4.78 m	Muhammed Zafar (PAK)	4.70 m	Vidivelu (IND)	4.50 m
Long jump	Wayne Pepin (IND)	7.73 m	Prasad Dharmaratne (SRI)	7.46 m	Muhammed Riaz (PAK)	7.31 m
Triple jump	Chaminda Sampath (SRI)	16:26 m GR	Khan Waseem (PAK)	15:85 m	Mathew Binu (IND)	15:82
Shot put	Sourabh Vij (IND)	17.43 m	Kudeep Man (IND)	16.75 m	Asraf Ali (PAK)	16.63 m
Discus throw	Basharat Ali (PAK)	55.10 m	Amrit Pal Singh (IND)	52.89 m	Harpreet Singh (IND)	52.69 m
Javelin throw	Kingsly Gunathilake (SRI)	77.99	Sunil Goswami (IND)	70.20	Muhammad Irfan (PAK)	69.69

Women[edit]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Susanthika Jayasinghe (SRI)	11.33	Jani Chathurangani Silva (SRI)	11.76	Sadaf Siddiqui (PAK)	12:07
200 metres	Susanthika Jayasinghe (SRI)	22.99	Buddika Sujani (SRI)	24.24	Poonam Tomar (IND)	24.62
400 metres	Pinki Pramanik (IND)	52.54	Menaka Wickramasinghe (SRI)	53.83	Lasanthi Deepika (SRI)	55.76
800 metres	Pinki Pramanik (IND)	2:03.81	Santhi Soundarajan (IND)	2:04.77	Bushra Parveen (PAK)	2:08.04 NR
1500 metres	Santhi Soundarajan (IND)	4:14.26	Sinimoule Paulose (IND)	4:14.71	Shanika Samanmali (SRI)	4:30.61
5000 metres	O. P. Jaisha (IND)	16:03.11	D. A. Inoka (SRI)	16:37.41	Preeja Sreedharan (IND)	16:52.51
10,000 metres	Preeja Sreedharan (IND)	34:27.13 GR	Kanchai Maya Koju (NEP)	35:03.43	Preethi Rao (IND)	35:24.05
100 metre hurdles	Anuradha Biswal (IND)	14.28	Sumita Rani (BAN)	14.36 NR	Poonam Bojanna (IND)	14.61
4×100 metre relay	Sri Lanka (SRI) Susanthika Jayasinghe Buddika Sujani Jani Chathurangani Premila Priyadarshani	44.63 GR	India (IND)	46.37	Pakistan (PAK)	47.28
4×400 metre relay	India (IND)	3:38:01	Sri Lanka (SRI)	3:39:48	Pakistan (PAK)	3:44:81
High jump	Dulanjalee Ranasinghe (SRI)	1.71 m	Tharanga Vinodani (SRI)	1.68 m	Tessymol Joseph (IND)	1.68 m
Long jump	Anju Bobby George (IND)	6.42 m GR	Foujia Huda (BAN)	6.07 m =NR	N.C.D. Priyadarshani (SRI)	5.94 m
Shot put	Saroj Sihag (IND)	14.96 m	Nadeeka Muthunayake (SRI)	14.45 m	Zeenat Parveen (PAK)	14.07 m
Discus throw	Padma Nandani Wijesundara (SRI)	47.50 m	Saroj Sihag (IND)	45.67 m	Priyanka Bhanot (IND)	43.29 m
Javelin throw	Nadeeka Lakmali (SRI)	50.73 m	Anne Maheshi De Silva (SRI)	49.85 m	Gurmeet Kaur (IND)	46.45 m

Doping in Athletics at the 2006 South Asian Games[edit]

Name	NOC	Sport	Banned Substance	Stripped Off Medal	Ban Duration	Awarded	Ref.
Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari	Nepal	Athletics (3000m)	Norandrosterone	Gold	2 Years	Om Prakash	^[6]
Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari	Nepal	Athletics (5000m)	Norandrosterone	Gold	2 Years	Surendra Kumar Singh	^[6]
Jani Chathurangani Silva	Sri Lanka	Athletics (100m)	Nandrolone	Silver	2 Years	Sadaf Siddiqui	^[7]
Jani Chathurangani Silva	Sri Lanka	Athletics (4×100m Relay)	Nandrolone	Gold	2 Years	India	^[7]

Updated Medal Summary after Doping test results (Medal Upgrade)[edit]


Events	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
5000 metres (Men)	Surendra Kumar Singh	Nowshad Khan	Sita Ram Jat	^[8]
3000 metres Steeplechase	Om Prakash	Ram Bhadur	Muhammad Nawaz
100 metres (Women)	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sadaf Siddiqui	Poonam Bojanna Berera
4×100m Relay (Women)	India	Pakistan	Bangladesh

Medal table[edit]

* Host nation (Sri Lanka)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India (IND)	18	12	15	45
2	Sri Lanka (SRI)*	13	12	7	32
3	Pakistan (PAK)	3	7	11	21
4	Bangladesh (BAN)	1	2	1	4
5	Nepal (NEP)	0	2	0	2
6	Afghanistan (AFG)	0	0	1	1
7	Bhutan (BHU)	0	0	0	0
7	Maldives (MDV)	0	0	0	0
Totals (8 entries)		35	35	35	105

Note: Table has been adjusted to discount medals by athletes who failed drugs tests

References[edit]

General

Athletics results. SAF Games 2006. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
Weerawansa, Dinesh (2006-08-24). Jayasinghe back with 22.99 to win South Asian Games 200m - Day 1. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
Weerawansa, Dinesh (2006-08-25). South Asian Games – Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
Weerawansa, Dinesh (2006-08-26). South Asian Games – Day 3. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
Weerawansa, Dinesh (2006-08-27). Marathon ends South Asian Games – Final day. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.

Specific

^ Weerawansa, Dinesh (2006-08-17). Bobby George hopes to gain World Cup selection in Colombo – South Asian Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
^ Weerawansa, Dinesh (2006-08-27). Marathon ends South Asian Games – Final day. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
^ Weerawansa, Dinesh (2006-08-25). South Asian Games – Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
^ Doping Rule Violation. IAAF (2007-06-04). Retrieved on 2010-03-05.
^ Jani found guilty likely to lose her medals Archived 2009-03-16 at the Wayback Machine. Sri Lanka News First (2006-11-02). Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
^ "iaaf.org - Doping Rule Violation". 2012-10-02. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
^ "Jani found guilty likely to lose her medals". 2007-07-07. Archived from the original on 7 July 2007. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
^ "- SAF GAMES 2006 ATHLETIC RESULTS -". 2012-02-29. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 2022-03-28.

External links[edit]

Official Games website

[1] Weerawansa, Dinesh (2006-08-17). Bobby George hopes to gain World Cup selection in Colombo – South Asian Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.

[2] Weerawansa, Dinesh (2006-08-27). Marathon ends South Asian Games – Final day. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.

[3] Weerawansa, Dinesh (2006-08-25). South Asian Games – Day 2. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.

[4] Doping Rule Violation. IAAF (2007-06-04). Retrieved on 2010-03-05.

[5] Jani found guilty likely to lose her medals Archived 2009-03-16 at the Wayback Machine. Sri Lanka News First (2006-11-02). Retrieved on 2010-03-04.

[6] "iaaf.org - Doping Rule Violation". 2012-10-02. Archived from the original on 2 October 2012. Retrieved 2022-03-28.

[7] "Jani found guilty likely to lose her medals". 2007-07-07. Archived from the original on 7 July 2007. Retrieved 2022-03-28.

[8] "- SAF GAMES 2006 ATHLETIC RESULTS -". 2012-02-29. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 2022-03-28.

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