1998 Asian Athletics Championships

1998 Asian Championships
Dates	July 19–22
Host city	Fukuoka, Japan
Venue	Hakatanomori Athletic Stadium
Participation	at least 16 nations
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The 12th Asian Championships in Athletics were held in Fukuoka, Japan in July 1998.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Zhou Wei   China	10.39	Watson Nyambek   Malaysia	10.42	Hiroyasu Tsuchie   Japan	10.44
200 m (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Koji Ito   Japan	20.70	Han Chaoming   China	20.77	Gennadiy Chernovol   Kazakhstan	20.92
400 m	Sugath Tillakaratne   Sri Lanka	44.61 CR	Masayoshi Kan   Japan	45.64	Kenji Tabata   Japan	45.69
800 m	Cheng Bing   China	1:47.71	Abdulhassan Abdulrahman   Qatar	1:47.74	Mahmoud Al-Kheirat   Syria	1:48.16
1500 m	Mohammed Sulaiman   Qatar	3:43.70	Kiyonari Shibata   Japan	3:44.38	Cheng Bing   China	3:44.92
5000 m	Toshinari Takaoka   Japan	13:54.34	Gulab Chand   India	13:55.40	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama   Qatar	13:58.35
10,000 m	Baek Seung-do   South Korea	30:12.26	Toshihiro Iwasa   Japan	30:12.57	Gulab Chand   India	30:14.69
3000 m St.	Saad Shadad Al-Asmari   Saudi Arabia	8:31.13	Yasunori Uchitomi   Japan	8:33.40	Hamid Sajjadi   Iran	8:37.88
110 m H (wind: +1.9 m/s)	Chen Yanhao   China	13.53 CR	Qi Zhen   China	13.74	Andrey Sklyarenko   Kazakhstan	13.86
400 m H	Mubarak Al-Nubi   Qatar	48.71 CR	Hideaki Kawamura   Japan	49.69	Kazuhiko Yamazaki   Japan	49.81
20 km Walk	Li Zewen   China	1:27:58	Yoshima Hara   Japan	1:28:16	Valeriy Borisov   Kazakhstan	1:29:05
4 x 100 m	China Zhou Wei Lin Wei Yin Hanzhao Han Chaoming	39.03	Japan Tatsuhiko Watanabe Tatsuo Sugimoto Hiroyasu Tsuchie Koji Ito	39.30	Qatar Jamal Abbas Hamed Al-Dosari Jamal Suleiman Saad Mubarak	39.43
4 x 400 m	Japan Kenji Tabata Jun Osakada Shunji Karube Masayoshi Kan	3:02.61	South Korea Kim Jae-da Shon Ju-il Kim Ho Kim Yong-hwan	3:04.44 NR	Sri Lanka Ranga Wimalawansa Vellasamy Ratnakumara Rohan Pradeep Kumara Sugath Thilakaratne	3:05.79
High jump	Zhou Zhongge   China	2.30	Lee Jin-taek   South Korea	2.27	Loo Kum Zee   Malaysia	2.23
Pole vault	Igor Potapovich   Kazakhstan	5.55	Aleksandr Korchagin   Kazakhstan	5.40	Hideji Suzuki   Japan	5.20
Long jump	Masaki Morinaga   Japan	8.08	Liu Hongning   China	7.97	Shigeru Tagawa   Japan	7.96
Triple jump	Duan Qifeng   China	16.79	Takanori Sugibayashi   Japan	16.50	Takashi Komatsu   Japan	16.38
Shot put	Bilal Saad Mubarak   Qatar	19.17 CR	Liu Hao   China	18.86	Shakti Singh   India	18.40
Discus	Li Shaojie   China	60.28	Dashdendev Makhashiri   Mongolia	57.00	Ajit Bhaduria   India	55.46
Hammer	Andrey Abduvaliyev   Uzbekistan	76.67 CR	Koji Murofushi   Japan	74.17	Nikolay Davydov   Kyrgyzstan	70.31
Javelin	Zhang Lianbiao   China	77.61	Li Rongxiang   China	77.48	Mikio Tamura   Japan	75.71
Decathlon	Toru Yasui   Japan	7439 pts CR	Tomokazu Sugama   Japan	7347 pts	Ivan Yarkin   Kazakhstan	7239 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Yan Jiankui   China	11.39	Cui Dangfeng   China	11.42	Shanti Govindasamy   Malaysia	11.60
200 m (wind: +1.7 m/s)	Yan Jiankui   China	23.00 =CR	Huang Mei   China	23.21	P.T. Usha   India	23.27
400 m	Damayanthi Dharsha   Sri Lanka	51.23 =CR	Svetlana Bodritskaya   Kazakhstan	52.46	P.T. Usha   India	52.55
800 m	Zhang Jian   China	2:01.16 CR	Liu Jing   China	2:01.85	Jyotirmoy Sikdar   India	2:02.65
1500 m	Liu Jing   China	4:12.76 CR	Wang Chunmei   China	4:13.45	Jyotirmoy Sikdar   India	4:14.32
5000 m	Wang Chunmei   China	15:49.48	Liu Shixiang   China	15:53.76	Megumi Tanaka   Japan	15:55.10
10,000 m	Liu Shixiang   China	32:28.49	Chiemi Takahashi   Japan	32:32.99	Aki Fujikawa   Japan	32:48.05
100 m H (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Olga Shishigina   Kazakhstan	13.04 CR	Feng Yun   China	13.10	Sriyani Kulawansa   Sri Lanka	13.16
400 m H	Li Rui   China	55.80 CR	Natalya Torshina   Kazakhstan	56.34	Hsu Pei-Ching   Chinese Taipei	57.09
10,000 m road walk	Li Yuxin   China	46:41	Rie Mitsumori   Japan	46:42	Yuka Mitsumori   Japan	47:01
4 x 100 m	India P. T. Usha Rachita Mistry E. B. Shyla Saraswati Dey	44.43	Japan Kaori Yoshida Yuka Fujii Asami Nagashima Motoka Arai	44.45	Thailand Reawadee Srithoa-Watanasin Naparat Suajongprue Savitree Srichure Supawadee Khawpeag	44.85
4 x 400 m	China Huang Mei Li Jing Chen Yuxiang Li Rui	3:33.48	India M.K. Asha Rosa Kutty Jyotirmoyee Sikdar P.T. Usha	3:34.04	Japan Sachiko Kiso Kazue Kakinuma Sakie Nobuoka Satomi Kasashima	3:35.71
High jump	Miki Imai   Japan	1.94 CR	Yoko Ota   Japan	1.91	Jin Ling   China	1.88
Pole vault	Peng Xiaoming   China	4.00 CR	Masumi Ono   Japan	3.80	Chie Miyoshi   Japan	3.70
Long jump	Guan Yingnan   China	6.83 CR	Yu Yiqun   China	6.74	Yelena Pershina   Kazakhstan	6.50w
Triple jump	Ren Ruiping   China	14.11 CR	Wang Kuo-Huei   Chinese Taipei	13.30	Maho Hanaoka   Japan	13.24
Shot put	Li Meisu   China	18.63	Yu Juan   China	18.12	Lee Myung-Sun   South Korea	17.66
Discus	Yu Xin   China	57.47	Neelam Jaswant Singh   India	56.81	Xiao Yanling   China	53.32
Hammer	Gu Yuan   China	61.86	Aya Suzuki   Japan	56.12	Eriko Kubota   Japan	48.48
Javelin	Li Lei   China	60.12	Harumi Yamamoto   Japan	55.41	Gurmeet Kaur   India	55.35
Heptathlon	Ding Ying   China	5846 pts	Svetlana Kazanina   Kazakhstan	5779 pts	Ma Chun-Ping   Chinese Taipei	5489 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China  (CHN)	26	13	3	42
2	Japan  (JPN)*	6	17	14	37
3	Qatar  (QAT)	3	1	2	6
4	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	2	4	5	11
5	Sri Lanka  (SRI)	2	0	2	4
6	India  (IND)	1	3	8	12
7	South Korea  (KOR)	1	2	1	4
8	Saudi Arabia  (KSA)	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan  (UZB)	1	0	0	1
10	Chinese Taipei  (TPE)	0	1	2	3
	Malaysia  (MAS)	0	1	2	3
12	Mongolia  (MGL)	0	1	0	1
13	Iran  (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan  (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
	Syria  (SYR)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand  (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		43	43	43	129

See also

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics