2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

18th Asian Junior Athletics Championships
Dates	7–10 June
Host city	Gifu, Japan
Venue	Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium
Level	Junior (under-20)
Events	44
Participation	437 athletes from 35 nations
Records set	6 championship records
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The 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the 18th edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association and the Japan Association of Athletics Federations. Athletes born between 1999 and 2002 competed in 44 events, divided evenly between the sexes. The competition took place over four days from 7–10 June at Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium in Gifu, Japan. ^[1]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Host nation)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan*	14	15	12	41
2	China	11	8	5	24
3	India	5	2	10	17
4	Chinese Taipei	4	5	3	12
5	Sri Lanka	3	4	2	9
6	Qatar	3	3	0	6
7	Iran	1	1	3	5
8	Indonesia	1	1	0	2
9	Iraq	1	0	1	2
	Vietnam	1	0	1	2
11	South Korea	0	3	1	4
12	Kazakhstan	0	1	2	3
13	Thailand	0	1	1	2
14	Malaysia	0	0	2	2
15	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		44	44	44	132

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lalu Muhammad Zohri   Indonesia	10.27	Daisuke Miyamoto   Japan	10.35	Muhammad Ismail   Malaysia	10.46
200 metres	Wei Tai-sheng   Chinese Taipei	21.05	Shin Min-kyu   South Korea	21.06	Justin Junpei Tsukamoto   Japan	21.09 PB
400 metres	Aruna Dharshana   Sri Lanka	45.79 CR NJR	Pasindu Kodikara   Sri Lanka	46.96	Syuji Mori   Japan	47.08
800 metres	Anu Kumar   India	1:54.11	Abdolrahim Dorzadeh   Iran	1:54.23	Fuki Torii   Japan	1:54.55
1500 metres	Saife Saifeldin   Qatar	3:49.30	Reito Hanzawa   Japan	3:49.66	Hussein Lafta   Iraq	3:49.75
5000 metres	Ajeet Kumar   India	14:15.24 PB	Ren Tazawa   Japan	14:17.26	Amir Zamanpour   Iran	14:25.25 PB
10,000 metres	Suolang Cairen   China	30:01.51 PB	Yuhi Nakaya   Japan	30:04.24	Kartik Kumar   India	30:05.30 PB
110 m hurdles	Lu Hao-hua   Chinese Taipei	13.61 PB	Rikuto Higuchi   Japan	13.71	David Yefremov   Kazakhstan	13.81
400 m hurdles	Yusuke Shirao   Japan	50.52	Bassem Hemeida   Qatar	50.55	Mehdi Pirjahan   Iran	51.18 PB
3000 m steeplechase	Saife Saifeldin   Qatar	8:51.97	Takumi Yoshida   Japan	8:52.79	Nguyễn Trung Cường   Vietnam	8:59.32 PB
10,000 m walk	Gong Hao   China	42:47.98	Sho Sakazaki   Japan	42:53.56	Kim Min-gyu   South Korea	43:06.89
4 × 100 m relay	Yuki Takagi Daisuke Miyamoto Satoru Fukushima Justin Junpei Tsukamoto   Japan	39.65	Lin Yu-tang Wei Tai-sheng Lu Hao-hua Yeh Shou-po   Chinese Taipei	39.72	Prajwal Ravi Akash Kumar Nithin Balakumar Gurindervir Singh   India	40.75
4 × 400 m relay	Pabasara Niku Pasindu Kodikara Ravishka Indrajith Aruna Dharshana   Sri Lanka	3:08.70	Potchara Petchkaew Thipthanet Sripha Yanakorn Munrot Phitchaya Sunthonthuam   Thailand	3:09.20	Luqmanual Khairul Akmal Muhammad Suhaimi Safwan Saifuddin Abdul Roslan   Malaysia	3:09.60
High jump	Kyohei Tomori   Japan	2.16 m PB	Nuh Anuh   Qatar	2.14 m	Zhang Hao   China	2.12 m
Pole vault	Syunto Ozaki   Japan	5.20 m PB	Idan Richsan   Indonesia	5.15 m	Kasinpob Chomchanad   Thailand	5.00 m
Long jump	Yugo Sakai   Japan	7.61 m	Zhou Keqi   China	7.54 m	M Sreeshankar   India	7.47 m
Triple jump	Kamalraj Kanagaraj   India	15.75 m	Yu Gyumin   South Korea	15.56 m PB	Shunsuke Izumiya   Japan	15.47 m
Shot put	Moaaz Ibrahim   Qatar	18.57 m PB	Yeo Jin-seong   South Korea	18.25 m	Ashish Bhalothia   India	18.22 m PB
Discus throw	Hossein Rasouli   Iran	62.29 m CR	Mohamed Ibrahim Moaaz   Qatar	61.50 m	Kosei Yamashita   Japan	56.51 m
Hammer throw	Ashish Jakhar   India	76.86 m PB	Damneet Singh   India	74.08 m PB	Masanobu Hattori   Japan	69.34 m
Javelin throw	Liu Zhekai   China	70.53 m	Masafumi Azechi   Japan	68.76 m	Kentaro Nakamura   Japan	65.36 m
Decathlon	Wang Chen-yu   Chinese Taipei	7200 pts PB	Wang Yu-shiang   Chinese Taipei	6704 pts PB	Rin Haraguchi   Japan	6693 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Feng Lulu   China	11.68	Amasha De Silva   Sri Lanka	11.71 PB	Mei Kodama   Japan	11.98
200 metres	Tao Yanan   China	24.01	Amasha De Silva   Sri Lanka	24.47 PB	Jisna Mathew   India	24.48
400 metres	Jisna Mathew   India	53.26 PB	Dilshi Kumarasinghe   Sri Lanka	54.03 PB	Yang Jui-hsuan   Chinese Taipei	54.74
800 metres	Ayaka Kawata   Japan	2:04.14	Ayano Shiomi   Japan	2:04.50	Dilshi Kumarasinghe   Sri Lanka	2:04.53 PB NJR
1500 metres	Ririka Hironaka   Japan	4:17.62 PB	Tomomi Takamatsu   Japan	4:21.65	Durga Deore   India	4:24.56
3000 metres	Nozomi Tanaka   Japan	9:04.36 CR	Yuna Wada   Japan	9:14.13	Liu Fang   China	9:35.69
5000 metres	Mikuni Yada   Japan	16:31.65	Niu Lihua   China	16:55.54	Poonam Sonune   India	17:03.75
100 m hurdles	Yuiri Yoshida   Japan	13.45 CR PB	Lin Yuwei   China	13.55 PB	Lin Hsiao-hui   Chinese Taipei	13.61 PB
400 m hurdles	Kasumi Yoshida   Japan	58.43	Yang Jui-hsuan   Chinese Taipei	58.89 PB	Natsumi Murakami   Japan	58.92
3000 m steeplechase	Parami Wasanthi Maristela   Sri Lanka	10:21.54 PB NJR	Tian Wanhua   China	10:28.24	Yuka Nosue   Japan	10:38.30
10,000 m walk	Ma Li   China	45:20.59 CR	Nanako Fujii   Japan	45:24.35 PB	Li Wenxiu   China	47:38.46
4 × 100 m relay	Lin Yuwei Zhu Cuiwei Tao Yanan Feng Lulu   China	45.06	Yuiri Yoshida Miku Yamada Yuri Okumura Mei Kodama   Japan	45.95	Leung Wing Hei Wu Yi Lam Leung Kwan Yi Chan Pui Kei   Hong Kong	47.00
4 × 400 m relay	Ayano Shiomi Kasumi Yoshida Natsumi Murakami Ayaka Kawata   Japan	3:38.20 CR	Subha Venkatesan Rachna Nidhi Singh Jisna Mathew   India	3:41.11	Ishara Adittya Sachini Divyanjali Amasha De Silva Dilshi Kumarasinghe   Sri Lanka	3:45.16
High jump	Maryam Abdulelah   Iraq	1.80 m	Tsai Ching-jung   Chinese Taipei	1.78 m	Abhinaya Shetty   India	1.75 m PB
Pole vault	Wu Zuocheng   China	4.00 m	Anastasya Ermakova   Kazakhstan	3.60 m	Wu Chia-ju   Chinese Taipei	3.60 m
Long jump	Ayaka Kora   Japan	6.44 m PB	Zhong Jiawei   China	6.44 m	Mirei Yoshioka   Japan	5.92 m
Triple jump	Thi Ngoc Ha Vu   Vietnam	13.22 m	Pan Youqi   China	13.21 m	Priyadarshini Suresh   India	13.09 m PB
Shot put	Zhang Linru   China	16.05 m	Honoka Oyama   Japan	15.54 m PB	Guo Pei-yu   Chinese Taipei	14.76 m
Discus throw	Yang Huanhuan   China	51.53 m	Yin Yuanyuan   China	51.17 m	Arpandeep Bajwa   India	46.57 m
Hammer throw	Zhou Mengyuan   China	64.81 m	Li Jiangyan   China	61.44 m PB	Reyhaneh Arani   Iran	55.46 m PB
Javelin throw	Li Hui-jun   Chinese Taipei	55.36 m	Sae Takemoto   Japan	54.16 m	Dai Qianqian   China	53.29 m
Heptathlon	Karin Odama   Japan	5133 pts	Chen Cai-juan   Chinese Taipei	4925 pts	Diana Geints   Kazakhstan	4804 pts PB

References

1. "18th Asian Junior Athletics Championships" (PDF). www.jaaf.or.jp/. Japan Association of Athletics Federations . Retrieved 8 June 2018.

External links

• Official website