HYDERABAD, India, 30 October 2003 — Frankie Fredericks won two gold medals on a flying visit to the Afro-Asian Games, and India’s world championship medalist Anju George made a triumphant return in the long jump.

Fredericks, a former world champion and a four-time Olympic silver medalist, won the 200 meters in 20.57 seconds just hours after landing in Hyderabad yesterday.

“I didn’t feel anything, I just ran,” said Fredericks, shrugging off jet lag.

While most of Africa’s athletics stars skipped the games, Fredericks said he squeezed it into his preparations for the Athens Olympics because he liked the idea of the two-continent format.

The 36-year-old Namibian later returned to anchor an African combination to victory in the 4x100 relay.

George, who became India’s first medalist at an athletics world championships when she placed third at Paris in August, measured 6.53 meters in her first competition back in India.

It sparked a winning yesterday for India, which picked up two other golds in athletics and two in shooting to move into fourth place on the standings with eight, behind China (17), South Africa (12)and Japan (9). The Indian men’s field hockey team beat Malaysia in a shootout (5-3) after the scores were locked 1-1 after extra time to set up a final against archrivals Pakistan. Pakistan beat South Korea 2-0.

In soccer, India beat Zimbabwe 5-3 to make the decider against Uzbekistan, which needed Boyev Konstantin’s golden goal 12 minutes into extra time to edge Rwanda 2-1. Chinese weightlifter Deng Huijie missed with her attempt at a world record in the clean-and-jerk but settled for gold in the women’s 63-kilogram class.

Dehghaniyan Ali led a 1-2 for Iran in the men’s 94-kilo class, lifting a combined total of 332.5 to edge Noidj Omid.

After George’s win, Anil Kumar won the discus and J.J. Shobha won the heptathlon for India.

China’s Zhang Na won the women’s pole vault, but Africans dominated the remainder of the athletics program.

Sudan’s Mohammed Abdulallam edged compatriot Peter Ashak Abaih on the line to win the men’s 1,500 in 3:40.17, Kenyan John Kemboi won the 3,000 steeple chase and South Africa’s Hardus Pienaar won the javelin at 84.50 meters.

Delphine Atangana of Cameroon won the women’s 200 in 23.37 seconds, and Nigeria’s Angela Oniosomiegbe won the 100m hurdles in 13.18.

Ethiopia picked up its third 1-2 finish in a distance event when Ejagayou Dibaba led Eyerusalem Kuma in the women’s 10,000.

Her younger sister, 5,000-meters world champion Tirunesh Dibaba, was due to compete today. Algeria won two athletics finals through Boussad Bahhai in the women’s 10,000-meter walk and Mohammed Nabil Adamou in the men’s long jump.

Sofiane Daid, the 400 medley champion here, won the 50 breaststroke and his compatriot Aghiles Slimani paced an Algerian 1-2 in the 100 butterfly.