Athletics at the 1951 Asian Games

Athletics at the 1951 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	8–11 March 1951
Nations	11
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Athletics was contested at the 1951 Asian Games in National Stadium, New Delhi, India from 8 March to 11 March 1951.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Lavy Pinto   India	10.8	Toshihiro Ohashi   Japan	11.0	Tomio Hosoda   Japan	11.1
200 m	Lavy Pinto   India	22.0 GR	Marian Gabriel   India	22.5	Tomio Hosoda   Japan	22.6
400 m	Eitaro Okano   Japan	50.7	Amit Singh Bakshi   India	50.8	Govind Singh   India	51.4
800 m	Ranjit Singh   India	1:59.3 GR	Kulwant Singh   India	1:59.7	Kikuo Moriya   Japan	2:00.6
1500 m	Nikka Singh   India	4:04.1 GR	Susumu Takahashi   Japan	4:04.4	Kikuo Moriya   Japan	4:05.4
5000 m	Ali Baghbanbashi   Iran	15:54.2 GR	Pritam Singh   India	15:57.8	Soichi Tamoi   Japan	15:59.0
10,000 m	Soichi Tamoi   Japan	33:49.6 GR	Ryosuke Takasugi   Japan	34:32.0	Gurbachan Singh   India	34:58.7
110 m hurdles	Ng Liang Chiang   Singapore	15.2 GR	Michitaka Kinami   Japan	15.3	Lloyd Valberg   Singapore	15.7
400 m hurdles	Eitaro Okano   Japan	54.2 GR	Teja Singh   India	56.9	Ng Liang Chiang   Singapore	57.6
3000 m steeplechase	Susumu Takahashi   Japan	9:30.4 GR	Ali Baghbanbashi   Iran	9:31.8	Ajit Singh   India	9:37.8
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Masaji Tajima Toshihiro Ohashi Tomio Hosoda Kazuta Ikoma	42.7 GR	India Alfred Shamin Ram Swaroop Marian Gabriel Lavy Pinto	42.8	Philippines Bernabe Lovina Jovencio Ardina Tito Almagro Genaro Cabrera	43.9
4 × 400 m relay	India Govind Singh Amit Singh Bakshi Balwant Singh Karan Singh	3:24.2 GR	Japan Yorio Mizuyoke Ichiro Tao Fumio Nishiuchi Eitaro Okano	3:24.4	Philippines Bernabe Lovina Bienvenido Llaneta Tomas Bennet Genaro Cabrera	3:35.8
Marathon	Chhota Singh   India	2:42:58.6 GR	Katsuo Nishida   Japan	2:49:03.0	Surat Mathur   India	2:53:49.8
10,000 m walk	Mahabir Prasad   India	52:31.4 GR	Takeo Sato   Japan	52:34.8	Kesar Singh   India	52:54.0
50 km walk	Bakhtawar Singh   India	5:44:07.4 GR	B. Das   India	5:44:14.6	Takeo Sato   Japan	5:54:47.4
High jump	Andres Franco   Philippines	1.93 GR	Yukio Ishikawa   Japan	1.91	Maram Sudarmodjo   Indonesia	1.89
Pole vault	Bunkichi Sawada   Japan	4.11 GR	M. A. Akbar   Ceylon	3.69	Shuhei Nishida   Japan	3.61
Long jump	Masaji Tajima   Japan	7.14 GR	Baldev Singh   India	6.99	Takashi Aso   Japan	6.98
Triple jump	Yoshio Iimuro   Japan	15.18 GR	Takashi Aso   Japan	14.25	Hendarsin   Indonesia	14.24
Shot put	Madan Lal   India	13.78 GR	Sukeo Denda   Japan	13.40	Norimi Sato   Japan	12.83
Discus throw	Makhan Singh   India	39.92 GR	Norimi Sato   Japan	39.29	Aurelio Amante   Philippines	38.14
Hammer throw	Fumio Kamamoto   Japan	46.65 GR	Somnath Chopra   India	43.35	Kishen Singh   India	42.32
Javelin throw	Haruo Nagayasu   Japan	63.97 GR	Parsa Singh   India	50.38	Matulessy   Indonesia	48.99
Decathlon	Fumio Nishiuchi   Japan	6324 GR	Bunkichi Sawada   Japan	5860	Khurshid Ahmed   India	5099

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Kiyoko Sugimura   Japan	12.6	Roshan Mistry   India	12.8	Kimiko Okamoto   Japan	12.9
200 m	Kimiko Okamoto   Japan	26.0 GR	Laura Dowdswell   Singapore	27.2	Mary D'Souza   India	28.0
80 m hurdles	Kyoko Yoneda   Japan	12.8 GR	Laura Dowdswell   Singapore	13.2	Taeko Sato   Japan	13.5
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Kimiko Okamoto Taeko Sato Ayako Yoshikawa Kiyoko Sugimura	51.4 GR	India Banoo Gulzar Mary D'Souza Pat Mendonca Roshan Mistry	51.9	Indonesia Surjowati Triwulan Darwati Lie Djiang Nio	54.4
High jump	Kyoko Yoneda   Japan	1.49 GR	Taeko Sato   Japan	1.44	Marie Semoes   India	1.37
Long jump	Kiyoko Sugimura   Japan	5.91 GR	Ayako Yoshikawa   Japan	5.18	Sylvia Gauntlet   India	4.52
Shot put	Toyoko Yoshino   Japan	11.90 GR	Fumi Kojima   Japan	10.42	Barbara Webster   India	9.02
Discus throw	Toyoko Yoshino   Japan	42.10 GR	Fumi Kojima   Japan	35.51	Annie Salamun   Indonesia	25.43
Javelin throw	Toyoko Yoshino   Japan	36.23 GR	Miyoko Kato   Japan	35.33	Barbara Webster   India	26.70

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan  (JPN)	20	17	11	48
2	India  (IND)	10	12	12	34
3	Singapore  (SIN)	1	2	2	5
4	Iran  (IRN)	1	1	0	2
5	Philippines  (PHI)	1	0	3	4
6	Ceylon  (CEY)	0	1	0	1
7	Indonesia  (INA)	0	0	5	5
Totals (7 entries)		33	33	33	99

Participating nations

•   Afghanistan
•   Burma
•   Ceylon
•   India  (52)
•   Indonesia  (17)
•   Iran  (8)
•   Japan
•   Nepal
•   Philippines
•   Singapore
•   Thailand

References

• Asian Games Results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Women's relay medallists ^{[ usurped ]}. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Men's relay medallists ^{[ usurped ]}. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.