2022 Asian U18 Athletics Championships

4th Asian U18 Athletics Championships
Dates	13–16 October 2022
Host city	Kuwait City
Venue	Ahmed Al Rashdan Track & Field Stadium
Level	U18 (Youth)
Events	40 (39)
← 2019 Hong Kong 2023 Tashkent →

The 2022 Asian U18 Athletics Championships was the fourth edition of the biennial, continental athletics competition for Asian athletes aged 15 to 17. It was held at the Ahmed Al Rashdan Track & Field Stadium in Kuwait City from 13 to 16 October 2022. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}

History of Asian Youth Athletics Championship

The Asian Youth Athletics Championships (U18) (Asian Youth U18 Athletics Championships) is a biennial, continental athletics competition for Asian athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association. First held in 2015, it is a youth category event open to athletes aged fifteen and seventeen.^{[ citation needed ]} The competition was the fourth continental athletics competition to be held for that age level, following in the steps of the South American, Oceanian and African events. Its first edition came at a time of rising interest in such competitions, with the first African championships being held in 2013, and the European Athletics Youth Championships scheduled for the following year.^{[ citation needed ]} In March 2014, the Asian Athletics Association's president Dahlan Jumaan al-Hamad cited the creation of the championships as a way of boosting the grassroots-level development of the sport in Asia and raising the importance of continental-level competition among the region's countries.^{[ citation needed ]}

The logo for the 2022 championships features Kuwaiti middle-distance runner Khaled Khalifa Al-Shammari. ^[11]

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (20 participants) (wind: -0.4  m/s)	Puripol Boonson   Thailand	10.33 CR	Lee Po-jui   Chinese Taipei	10.73	Nwamadi Joel-jin   South Korea	10.77
200 metres (20) (wind: -0.7 m/s)	Puripol Boonson   Thailand	21.53	Yaqoub Al-Azemi   Kuwait	21.55	Pengiran Aidil Auf Bin Hajam   Malaysia	21.65
400 metres (15)	Seyed Mohammad Sajjad Aghaei   Iran	48.37	Jayathilake Praveen Salamuthu   Sri Lanka	48.56	Rajapaksha Pathiranage Don Avishka Theminda Rajapa   Sri Lanka	48.70
800 metres (11)	Mohamadhesam Mozafari   Iran	1:53.30	Chu Lok Yin   Hong Kong	1:53.46	Abdulaziz Khafif   Kuwait	1:54.55
1500 metres (8)	Amit Chaudhry   India	4:04.59	Sulaiman Assi   Syria	4:06.36	Aibol Omar   Kazakhstan	4:07.99
3000 metres (7)	Abdikani Hamid   Bahrain	8:35.76	Hamad Saleh Al-Yami   Saudi Arabia	8:59.01	Zainulabdeen Mokhles Al-Shamkhee   Iraq	9:01.50
110 metres hurdles (9)	Hsieh Yuan-kai   Chinese Taipei	13.65	Muhammad Fiross Bin Mohd Faizal   Malaysia	13.78	Brian Bagas Swara   Indonesia	13.90
400 metres hurdles (12)	Lin Yan-kai   Chinese Taipei	52.23	Mahamat Abakar Abdrahman   Qatar	52.47	Murad Sirman   India	53.34
2000 metres steeplechase (7)	Mustafa Mohsin Al-Khazaali   Iraq	5:59.48	Rinat Kulygin   Kazakhstan	6:04.63	Reza Mostafa Nejad   Iran	6:08.77
Medley relay (7)	India  (IND)	1:55.20	Thailand  (THA)	1:55.82	Hong Kong  (HKG)	1:56.82
10000 m walk (0)	Not awarded	-	Not awarded	-	Not awarded	-
High jump (10)	Choi Jin-woo   South Korea	2.21 m	Edirisingha Siriwardanalage Deneth Anuhas   Sri Lanka	2.01 m	Gammanage Lesandu Arthavidu   Sri Lanka	1.97 m
Pole vault (9)	Seifeldin Mohamed Abdelsalam   Qatar	5.10 m	Amirarshia Mosadeghi Dogaheh   Iran	5.00 m	Kuldeep Kumar   India	4.80 m
Long jump (11)	Abdullah Al-Azemi   Kuwait	7.34 m	Siraphob Bunyuak   Thailand	7.11 m	Yiu Pak Yu   Hong Kong	7.00 m
Triple jump (6)	Ng Tak Sing   Malaysia	14.62 m	Farid Gharanjik   Iran	14.35 m	Sami Mousa Bakheet   Saudi Arabia	14.26 m
Shot put (8)	Akash Yadav   India	19.37 m	Djibrine Adoum Ahmat   Qatar	19.01 m	Siddharth Choudhary   India	19.00 m
Discus throw (8)	Atul   India	56.23 m	Servan K. C.   India	55.91 m	Djibrine Adoum Ahmat   Qatar	53.75 m
Hammer throw (6)	Mahdi Haft Cheshmeh   Iran	68.30 m	Mohd Aman   India	67.03 m	Ali Al-Hendal   Kuwait	64.90 m
Javelin throw (7)	Huang Chao-hong   Chinese Taipei	80.40 m	Arjun   India	70.98 m	Himanshu Mishra   India	67.67 m
Decathlon (8)	Nodir Norbaev   Uzbekistan	6934 pts	Sina Afshinfar   Iran	6417 pts	Sajjad Ahmed Al-Alkhazali   Saudi Arabia	5674 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (14) (wind: -0.2  m/s)	Valentin Vanesa Lonteng   Indonesia	11.69	Athicha Phetkun   Thailand	12.01	Li Tsz To   Hong Kong	12.15
200 metres (11) (wind: -1.7  m/s)	Valentin Vanesa Lonteng   Indonesia	24.06	Athicha Phetkun   Thailand	24.48	Li Tsz To   Hong Kong	24.79
400 metres (7)	Hoang Thi Anh Thuc   Vietnam	55.03	Isha Rajesh Jadhav   India	56.16	Anushka Dattatray Kumbah   India	57.36
800 metres (5)	Ashakiran Barla   India	2:06.79	Wickramasinghe Mudiyanselage Kasuni Nirmali Wickra   Sri Lanka	2:15.42	Mutiara Oktarani Nurul Al Pasha   Indonesia Narjis Hussein Suwaed   Iraq	2:15.73 2:33.34
1500 metres (2)	Nguyen Khanh Linh   Vietnam	4:51.61	Piyapat Pongsapan   Thailand	4:58.82	Not awarded	–
3000 metres (2)	Arina Gladysheva   Kazakhstan	10:09.76	Sunita Devi   India	10:34.07	Not awarded	–
100 metres hurdles (8)	Pak Hoi Man Chloe   Hong Kong	14.02	Sabita Toppo   India	14.17	Lai Irene-li   Chinese Taipei	14.24
400 metres hurdles (6)	Nazaninftemeh Eidiyankakhaki   Iran	1:01.03	Anastassiya Koloda   Kazakhstan	1:01.52	Yi Bo-an   Chinese Taipei	1:02.40
2000 metres steeplechase (5)	Dilshoda Usmanova   Uzbekistan	6:55.41	Ekta Pradeep Dey   India	7:15.53	Setayesh Aminiyazdi   Iran	7:16.69
Medley relay (5)	India  (IND)	2:12.18	Thailand  (THA)	2:14.38	Hong Kong  (HKG)	2:17.97
5000 m walk (2)	Sabrina Arziyeva   Kazakhstan	27:35.44	Maryam Al-Qaimary   Jordan	34:40.10	Not awarded	–
High jump (9)	Sayfullaeva Barnokhon   Uzbekistan	1.84 m	Alina Chistyakova   Kazakhstan	1.73 m	Bui Thi Kim Anh   Vietnam	1.73 m
Pole vault (6)	Maria Andriani Melabessy   Indonesia	3.90 m	Vanshika Ghanghas   India	3.70 m	Jasmina Mansurova   Uzbekistan	3.60 m
Long jump (13)	Sharifa Davronova   Uzbekistan	6.06 m	Mubssina Mohamm   India	5.91 m	Jia Wai Yin   Hong Kong	5.81 m
Triple jump (9)	Sharifa Davronova   Uzbekistan	13.23 m	Khushnoza Shavkatova   Uzbekistan	12.23 m	Divyasri   India	12.15 m
Shot put (5)	Chiang Ching-yuan   Chinese Taipei	17.82 m	Park So-jin   South Korea	16.89 m	Elaheh Alizadeh   Iran	14.92 m
Discus throw (5)	Chiang Ching-yuan   Chinese Taipei	45.42 m	Im Chae-yeon   South Korea	44.21 m	Nikita Kumari   India	44.14 m
Hammer throw (5)	Kim Tae-hui   South Korea	59.24 m	Melika Norouzi   Iran	57.85 m	Mahdis Minaei Pour   Iran	54.02 m
Javelin throw (7)	Chu Pin-hsun   Chinese Taipei	52.70 m	Deepika   India	50.15 m	Yang Seok-ju   South Korea	48.61 m
Heptathlon (5)	Alina Chistyakova   Kazakhstan	4737 pts	Mubssina Mohamm   India	4730 pts	Elnaz Mousaei   Iran	4501 pts

Nations

Kuwait was hosting around 400 athletes from 33 Asian Countries. Athletes competed in 40 athletics sports, 20 for boys and 20 for girls. ^{[12] [13] [14]}

1.   Saudi Arabia
2.   Qatar
3.   Bahrain
4.   Oman
5.   Syria
6.   Lebanon
7.   Jordan
8.   Palestine
9.   Yemen
10.   Iraq
11.   Iran (25)
12.   Bangladesh
13.   Pakistan
14.   Brunei
15.   Chinese Taipei
16.   Hong Kong
17.   India (35)
18.   Indonesia
19.   Kazakhstan
20.   South Korea
21.   Kyrgyzstan
22.   Laos
23.   Thailand
24.   Malaysia
25.   Nepal
26.   Maldives
27.   Philippines
28.   Singapore
29.   Tajikistan
30.   Vietnam
31.   Uzbekistan
32.   Kuwait
33.   Sri Lanka (11)

Medal table

Following a decision by the judges, the bronze medal was awarded to two athletes in 800m Girls. ^[15]

  *   Host nation (Kuwait)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India  (IND)	6	11	7	24
2	Chinese Taipei  (TPE)	6	1	2	9
3	Uzbekistan  (UZB)	5	1	1	7
4	Iran  (IRI)	4	4	5	13
5	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	3	3	1	7
6	Indonesia  (INA)	3	0	2	5
7	Thailand  (THA)	2	6	0	8
8	South Korea  (KOR)	2	2	2	6
9	Vietnam  (VIE)	2	0	1	3
10	Qatar  (QAT)	1	2	1	4
11	Hong Kong  (HKG)	1	1	6	8
12	Kuwait  (KUW)	1	1	2	4
13	Malaysia  (MAS)	1	1	1	3
14	Iraq  (IRQ)	1	0	2	3
15	Bahrain  (BHR)	1	0	0	1
16	Sri Lanka  (SRI)	0	3	2	5
17	Saudi Arabia  (KSA)	0	1	2	3
18	Jordan  (JOR)	0	1	0	1
	Syria  (SYR)	0	1	0	1
Totals (19 entries)		39	39	37	115

References

1. "Home Page".
2. "Team Manual for 4th Asian U18 Athletics Championships, 13-16 October 2022, Kuwait – Home".
3. "4th Asian Youth Athletics Championship 2022 has started in Kuwait. – Home".
4. "Maybe not today maybe not tomorrow, but they are going to be champions one day! Third day of 4th Asian U18 Athletics Championship in Kuwait – Home".
5. "Future champions! How was the second day of the 4th Asian Youth Athletics Championship 2022 in Kuwait – Home".
6. "Final day of 4th Asian Youth Athletics Championship 2022 in Kuwait. – Home".
7. "4th Asian Youth Athletics Championships 2022 « Athletics Federation of India".
8. "Taiwan bags 3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze medals at Asian U18 Athletics Championships - Focus Taiwan".
9. "Asian Youth Athletics 2022: India squad, players to watch out for".
10. "Asian Youth Athletics Championship U18 – Home".
11. "تخليد ذكرى الشمري". alraimedia.com (in Arabic).
12. "Kuwait hosts 4th Asian Youth Athletics Championships 2022 next Oct". 6 September 2022.
13. "Kuwait to 'host' Championships". 6 September 2022.
14. "Deneth, Kasuni win silver medals while Lesandu wins bronze".
15. "Home Page".

External links

• Results
• Asian Athletics Association website

Preceded by 2019 Hong Kong

4th Asian Youth Athletics Championships 2022 Kuwait

Succeeded by 2023 Uzbekistan