Korea’s reigning Asian Games champion Jung Soon-Ok could manage only 6.37m this season. Sachiko Masumi had won the Asian championship in Pune last year. Surprisingly Japan did not field any athletes in long jump. China’s Jiang Yanfei and Lu Minjia, both with season’s best of 6.57m, leading the lists. It may be an open house with Uzbek duo Yuliya Tarasova (6.81m PB in 2010) and Darya Reznichenko (6.60m in 2012) with Philippine’s Marestella Torres (6.71m PB in 2011) and Indian Mayookha Johny (6.64m PB in 2010) entered in the start-lists.
With Olympic champion Olga Rypakova entered the field there will be little opposition for the Kazakh in triple jump. China’s Li Yanmei (14.14m) is the only other 14m jumper in the season, although seven other with personal bests greater than that distance has been entered in Incheon.
