Jakarta Aug 26 (IANS) Bahrain s Rose Chelimo won gold in the women s marathon at the Asian Games here on Sunday.
Chelimo crossed the finish line in a time of two hours 34 minutes and 51 seconds beating Japan s Keiko Nogami by one minute 36 seconds for silver and North Korea s Kim Hye Song by two minutes 29 seconds for bronze reports Efe news.
Kenyan-born Chelimo s gold appeared to be the first for Bahrain at the games bringing the medal total to three and topping two silvers. The win bumped the country s medal table standing up from 25th to 20th.
On Sunday morning China was leading the medals table with a total of 153 ahead of Japan with 109 and South Korea with 84.

--IANS kk/ksk