Team Asia for World Cup

The following athletes have been selected by the Asian Athletics Association (AAA) to be the Asian Team to the IAAF World Cup in Athletics to be held in Athens, Greece, on September 16 and 17, 2006. 

The Team:
 
Men:
100m: Yang Yaozu (CHN)
200m: Shingo Suetsugu (JPN)
400m: Rohan Pradeep Kumara (SRI)
800m: Kamel Yousef (BRN)
1500m: Rashid Ramzi (BRN)
3000m: Taher Tareq (BRN)
5000m: Saif Saaeed Shaheen (QAT)
110m Hurdles: Liu Xiang (CHN)
400m Hurdles: Yevgeniy Melshenko (KAZ)
3000m Steeplechase: Saif Saaeed Shaheen (QAT)
High Jump: Huang Haiqiang (CHN)
Pole Vault: Daichi Sawano (JPN)
Long Jump: Salman Mohammed Al Kuwailidi (KSA)
Triple Jump: Li Yanxi (CHN)
Shot Put: Navpreet Singh (IND)
Discus Throw: Ehsan Hadadi (IRI)
Hammer Throw: Koji Murofushi (JPN)
Javelin Throw: Chen Qi (CHN)
4x100m:
Suetsugu, Naoki Tsukahara, Shinji Takahira, Sigeyuki Kojima, Yasuke Omae and Shin Sugwara (all JPN)
4x400m:
Rohan Pradeep Kumara and Prasanna Amarasekara (SRI), Yuzo Kanemaru (JPN), Hamed Hamdan Al-Bishi and Mohammed Al-Salhi (KSA) 
 
Women:
100m: Guzel Khubbiyeva (UZB)
200m: Guzel Khubbiyeva (UZB)
400m: Manjeet Kaur (IND)
800m: Pinki Paramanik (IND)
1500m: Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN)
3000m: Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN)
5000m: Kayoko Fukushi (JPN)
100m Hurdles: Feng Yun (CHN)
400m Hurdles: Huang Xiaoxiao (CHN)
3000m Steeplechase: Miyori Hayakari (JPN)
High Jump: Marina Aitova (KAZ)
Pole Vault: Gao Shuying (CHN)
Long Jump: Olga Rypakova (KAZ)
Triple Jump: Anastasiya Juravyaleva (UZB)
Shot Put: Li Ling (CHN)
Discus Throw: Song Aimin (CHN)
Hammer Throw: Zhang Weixiu (CHN)
Javelin Throw: Ma Ning (CHN)
4x100m:
S. Khwapeag, Ornaut Klomdee, J. Tawoncharoen, Nongnuch Sanrat, S. Jaksunin and Sujirat Sukka (all THA)
4x400m:
Manjeet Kaur, S. Geetha, Pinki Paramanik and Chitra Soman (IND), Asami Tanno (JPN) and Olga Tershekova (KAZ).

NB. we have been informed by our correspondent that Olga Rypakova (KAZ) has definitively been selected for the women's Long Jump.