ASTANA, Kazakhstan – Iranian athlete Farzaneh Fasihi was crowned champion at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships that began in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Friday.
Faishi won gold in the women’s 60m running. She clocked 7.28 seconds to finish first among Hamideh Esmailnezhad, another representative from Iran, as well as competitors from Kazakhstan, Indonesia, India, Kuwait, and Turkmenistan.
Esmailnezhad clocked 7.48 seconds and finished seventh.
Meanwhile, Fatemeh Mohitizadeh, another female athlete from the Iranian national team, gained 3,835 scores and finished seventh in the women’s pentathlon.
The Asian Indoor Athletics Championships has been running since 2004. It is a biennial competition organized by the Asian Athletics Association.