2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

2012 Asian Indoor Championships
Dates	18–19 February
Host city	Hangzhou, China
Events	25
Participation	195 athletes from 26 nations
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The 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was the fifth edition of the international indoor athletics event between Asian nations. It took place at the Vocational and Technical College Athletics Hall in Hangzhou, China, between 18 and 19 February. A total of 26 nations sent athletes to compete at the championships, which featured 25 track and field events. ^[1]

China topped the medal table with 14 golds. Iran was second with three golds while Bahrain finished third with three golds.

The competition featured two Asian indoor records. Mutaz Essa Barshim broke the men's high jump record with a clearance of 2.37 m, bettering Zhu Jianhua's 26-year-ol standard. Li Ling beat the women's Asian indoor record in the pole vault with a mark of 4.50 m. ^[2]

Results

Further information: 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships – Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Reza Ghasemi   Iran	6.68	Lai Chun Ho   Hong Kong	6.78	Hassan Heidarpour   Iran	6.78
400 m	Reza Bouazar   Iran	48.09	Chang Pengben   China	48.47	Amin Ghelichi   Iran	48.64
800 m	Mohammad Al-Azemi   Kuwait	1:47.37 CR NR	Adnan Taes   Iraq	1:49.42 NR	Yang Xiaofei   China	1:50.32
1500 m	Mohammed Shaween   Saudi Arabia	3:57.84 NR	Mohamed Al-Garni   Qatar	3:58.04	Omar Al-Rasheedi   Kuwait	3:59.83
3000 m	Bilisuma Shugi   Bahrain	7:43.88	Mohamed Al-Garni   Qatar	7:46.17	Alemu Bekele   Bahrain	7:48.04
60 m hurdles	Jiang Fan   China	7.74 CR	Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel   Kuwait	7.82 NR	Ji Wei   China	7.85
4 × 400 m relay	Event cancelled due to lack of entries
High jump	Mutaz Essa Barshim   Qatar	2.37 m AR	Zhang Guowei   China	2.28 m	Majed Al-Din Ghazal   Syria	2.24 m
Pole vault	Yang Yansheng   China	5.50 m	Zhang Wei   China	5.40 m	Junya Nagata   Japan	5.30 m
Long jump	Li Jinzhe   China	7.98 m	Rikiya Saruyama   Japan	7.63 m	Kumaravel Premkumar   India	7.62 m
Triple jump	Dong Bin   China	17.01 m CR	Cao Shuo   China	17.01 m CR	Li Yanxi   China	16.23
Shot put	Zhang Jun   China	19.78 m CR	Wang Guangfu   China	19.40 m	Wang Like   China	19.09 m
Heptathlon	Dmitriy Karpov   Kazakhstan	5928 pts CR	Keisuke Ushiro   Japan	5590 pts	Hiromasa Tanaka   Japan	5033 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
60 m	Wei Yongli   China	7.37	Tao Yujia   China	7.40	Viktoriya Zyabkina   Kazakhstan	7.44
400 m	Maryam Tousi   Iran	53.85 NR	Chen Jingwen   China	54.17	Tang Xiaoyin   China	55.06
800 m	Zhao Jing   China	2:04.15	Genzeb Shumi   Bahrain	2:05.96	Song Tingting   China	2:11.32
1500 m	Genzeb Shumi   Bahrain	4:15.85	Betlhem Belayneh   United Arab Emirates	4:16.97 NR	Liu Fang   China	4:18.32
3000 m	Shitaye Eshete   Bahrain	8:49.27 CR NR	Betlhem Belayneh   United Arab Emirates	8:53.56 NR	Tejitu Daba   Bahrain	8:53.75
60 m hurdles	Wu Shuijiao   China	8.24 CR	Natalya Ivoninskaya   Kazakhstan	8.29	Sun Yawei   China	8.35
4 × 400 m relay	China Chen Yanmei Tang Xiaoyin Cheng Chong Chen Jingwen	3:40.34	Kazakhstan Natalya Tukova Yekaterina Yermak Margarita Kudinova Alexandra Kuzina	3:44.85	Kyrgyzstan Olesia Korovina Anna Bulanova Ksenia Kadkina Iuliia Khodykina	3:56.11 NR
High jump	Zheng Xingjuan   China	1.92 m	Wang Yang   China	1.88 m	Duong Thi Viet Anh   Vietnam	1.84 m
Pole vault	Li Ling   China	4.50 m AR	Choi Yun-Hee   South Korea	4.30 m	Megumi Nakada   Japan	4.15 m
Long jump	Lu Minjia   China	6.33 m	Anastassiya Kudinova   Kazakhstan	6.23 m	Wang Wupin   China	6.22 m
Triple jump	Xie Limei   China	14.06 m	Li Yanmei   China	13.73 m	Lyudmila Grankovskaya   Kazakhstan	13.22 m
Shot put	Liu Xiangrong   China	18.37 m CR	Leila Rajabi   Iran	17.51 m	Meng Qianqian   China	16.13 m
Pentathlon	Irina Karpova   Kazakhstan	4050 pts	Duong Thi Viet Anh   Vietnam	3812 pts	Sepideh Tavakkoli   Iran	3775 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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China  (CHN)	14	9	10	33
2	Iran  (IRI)	3	1	3	7
3	Bahrain  (BHR)	3	1	2	6
4	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	2	3	2	7
5	Qatar  (QAT)	1	2	0	3
6	Kuwait  (KUW)	1	1	1	3
7	Saudi Arabia  (KSA)	1	0	0	1
8	Japan  (JPN)	0	2	3	5
9	United Arab Emirates  (UAE)	0	2	0	2
10	Vietnam  (VIE)	0	1	1	2
11	Hong Kong  (HKG)	0	1	0	1
	Iraq  (IRQ)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea  (KOR)	0	1	0	1
14	India  (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan  (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
	Syria  (SYR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		25	25	25	75

Participating nations

A total of 26 nations were represented by athletes competing at the 2012 championships

•   Bahrain (6)
•   China (63)
•   Chinese Taipei (7)
•   Hong Kong (7)
•   India (14)
•   Indonesia (3)
•   Iran (13)
•   Iraq (1)
•   Japan (10)
•   Kazakhstan (15)
•   Kuwait (8)
•   Kyrgyzstan (7)
•   Laos (2)
•   Macau (6)
•   Mongolia (7)
•   Pakistan (2)
•   Philippines (1)
•   Qatar (3)
•   Saudi Arabia (1)
•   Singapore (4)
•   South Korea (2)
•   Syria (1)
•   Thailand (2)
•   Turkmenistan (5)
•   United Arab Emirates (2)
•   Vietnam (3)

References

1. Ram. Murali Krishnan (18 February 2012). "Chinese dominate but there is double-delight for Iran at the Asian Indoor Championships - Day 1". IAAF. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 27 February 2012.
2. Krishnan, Ram. Murali (2012-02-19). Barshim soars 2.37m Asian record in Hangzhou as Asian Indoor champs conclude. IAAF. Retrieved on 2012-05-24.

• Results Book. Asian Athletics Association (2012) - archived. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.

External links

• Asian Athletics Association