Thai Sprinter Puripol Breaks Own Asian Games Record to Win 100m Gold
Puripol Boonson ran 9.90 seconds, breaking his own Games record and giving Thailand its first men’s 100m gold since 1978.
- On Friday, September 25, 2026, Thailand's Puripol Boonson claimed the men's 100m gold medal at the Asian Games in Nagoya, setting a Games record with a time of 9.90s.
- This victory marks Thailand's first men's 100m gold since Suchart Jairsuraparp won on home soil at the 1978 Bangkok Games, following Boonson's semi-final record-breaking run of 9.91s.
- Omani brothers Ali Al-Balushi and Malham Al-Balushi completed a family double, taking silver in 10.04s and bronze in 10.11s respectively behind Boonson.
- China's 17-year-old Chen Yujie won the women's 100m final in a Games-record 11.06s, relegating Singapore's Veronica Shanti Pereira to silver and Bahrain's Edidiong Odiong to bronze.
- Bahrain's Birhanu Balew, who won the men's 10,000m in 28min 27.51sec, will chase his fifth Asian Games gold in the 5,000m on Tuesday, saying "I think that after the 5,000 metres, Inshallah, I will get another gold medal, the fifth.
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Thai sprinter Puripol breaks own Asian Games record to win 100m gold
China's Chen Yujie won the women's 100m in a Games-record 11.06sec to relegate the Hangzhou gold medallist, Singapore's Shanti Pereira (11.21), to the silver. Bahrain's Edidiong Odiong took bronze in 11.33. The 20-year-old Puripol's semi-final run of 9.91sec had eclipsed the 9.92 sec by China's Su Bingtian at the 2018 edition in Jakarta. But the Thai shaved another 100th off that in the final to finish well clear of the Omani pair of Ali Al-Balu…
Thailand's Puripol Boonson won the men's 100m final at the 2026 Aichi Nagoya Asian Games with a new Games record of 9.90 seconds. Boonson showed a steady improvement, breaking records in every race from the preliminaries to the final. Meanwhile, South Korea's Namadi Joeljin and Biwesa Daniel Gasama advanced to the final and finished 4th and 5th respectively, competing on equal footing with the Asian athletes.
Puripol Boonson unleashed its potential at the Asian Games, the multi-sport competition on a continental basis that is going on stage in Nagoya (Japan). Thai won the 100 meters with the remarkable time of 9.90, in substantially zero wind conditions (0.1 m/s in favor): after a reaction far from optimal on the blocks [...]
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