Athletics at the 1966 Asian Games

Athletics at the 1966 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	10–15 December
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The Athletics events at the 1966 Asian Games were contested at the National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand from 10 to 15 December.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Mani Jegathesan   Malaysia	10.5	C. Kunalan   Singapore	10.5	Hideo Iijima   Japan	10.5
200 m details	Mani Jegathesan   Malaysia	21.5	Ajmer Singh   India	21.5	Thambu Krishnan   Malaysia	21.6
400 m details	Ajmer Singh   India	47.1	Yoshinori Sakai   Japan	47.4	Masami Yoshida   Japan	47.5
800 m details	Bhogeswar Baruah   India	1:49.4 GR	Subramaniam Ramasamy   Malaysia	1:49.5	Mamoru Morimoto   Japan	1:49.6
1500 m details	Keisuke Sawaki   Japan	3:47.3 GR	Subramaniam Ramasamy   Malaysia	3:48.0	Satsuo Iwashita   Japan	3:48.1
5000 m details	Keisuke Sawaki   Japan	14:22.0 GR	Kazuo Tsuchiya   Japan	14:23.1	Lucien Rosa   Ceylon	14:56.0
10,000 m details	Kazuo Tsuchiya   Japan	30:27.8	Sunao Shirai   Japan	30:36.8	Lucien Rosa   Ceylon	31:06.6
110 m hurdles details	Ghulam Raziq   Pakistan	14.4	Yoshinobu Hamada   Japan	14.5	Ishtiaq Mubarak   Malaysia	14.7
400 m hurdles details	Kiyoo Yui   Japan	51.7 GR	Kazuhiko Itagaki   Japan	52.3	Nathan Andyappan   Malaysia	53.0
3000 m steeplechase details	Taketsugu Saruwatari   Japan	8:53.6 GR	Ahmad Mirhosseini   Iran	8:56.5	Nobuyoshi Matsuda   Japan	9:05.2
4 × 100 m relay details	Malaysia Thambu Krishnan Mohd Ariffin Ahmad Rajalingam Gunaratnam Mani Jegathesan	40.6 GR	Indonesia Soepardi Agus Sugiri Bambamg Wahjudi Jootje Pesak Oroh	41.0	Philippines Rogelio Onofre Remegio Vista Arnulfo Valles William Mordeno	41.3
4 × 400 m relay details	Japan Toru Honda Masami Yoshida Yoshinori Sakai Kiyoo Yui	3:09.1 GR	Malaysia Victor Asirvatham Rengan Pakkri Nathan Andyappan Thambu Krishnan	3:13.1	Singapore Bava Natahar Ho Mun Cheong Gunasena Migale C. Kunalan	3:13.4
Marathon details	Kenji Kimihara   Japan	2:33:23	Morio Shigematsu   Japan	2:35:04	Lee Sang-hoon   South Korea	2:40:56
High jump details	Bhim Singh   India	2.05	Osamu Shimizu   Japan	2.03	Teymour Ghiasi   Iran	2.00
Pole vault details	Tetsuo Hirota   Japan	4.70 GR	Yoshizo Uryu   Japan	4.60	Hong Sang-pyo   South Korea	4.40
Long jump details	Hiroomi Yamada   Japan	7.48	Takayuki Okazaki   Japan	7.39	Su Wen-ho   Republic of China	7.31
Triple jump details	Kosei Gushiken   Japan	15.61	Satoshi Shimo   Japan	15.54	Labh Singh   India	15.49
Shot put details	Joginder Singh   India	16.22 GR	Yoshihisa Ishida   Japan	16.13	Jalal Keshmiri   Iran	16.02
Discus throw details	Praveen Kumar   India	49.62 GR	Jalal Keshmiri   Iran	49.30	Balkar Singh   India	47.64
Hammer throw details	Takeo Sugawara   Japan	62.90	Shigenobu Murofushi   Japan	60.02	Praveen Kumar   India	57.18
Javelin throw details	Nashatar Singh Sidhu   Malaysia	72.92	Takeshi Ikeda   Japan	68.24	Yumio Miyoshi   Japan	67.86
Decathlon details	Wu Ah-min   Republic of China	7003	Yukio Nogami   Japan	6613	Hiroomi Yamada   Japan	6553

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Miho Sato   Japan	12.3	Ritsuko Sukegawa   Japan	12.4	Debra Marcus   Israel	12.5
200 m details	Debra Marcus   Israel	25.3	Miyoko Tsujishita   Japan	25.3	Kishiko Ikeda   Japan	25.7
400 m details	Mary Rajamani   Malaysia	56.3 GR	Han Myung-hee   South Korea	57.5	Yasuyo Mishima   Japan	57.7
800 m details	Hana Shezifi   Israel	2:10.5 GR	Yoko Miyamoto   Japan	2:12.7	Yasuyo Mishima   Japan	2:13.6
80 m hurdles details	Ritsuko Sukegawa   Japan	11.2 = GR	Takako Abe   Japan	11.4	Manjit Walia   India	11.4
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Ritsuko Sukegawa Miho Sato Kishiko Ikeda Miyoko Tsujishita	47.1 GR	Republic of China Chi Cheng Yeh Chu-mei Tien Ah-mei Huang Pi-yun	47.8	Malaysia Mary Rajamani Cheryl Dorall Jacqueline Kleinman Rajemah Sheikh Ahmad	48.8
High jump details	Mami Takeda   Japan	1.60 = GR	Lolita Lagrosas   Philippines	1.58	Cheong Wai Hing   Singapore	1.55
Long jump details	Chi Cheng   Republic of China	5.95 = GR	Emiko Komaru   Japan	5.83	Christine Forage   India	5.69
Shot put details	Ryoko Sugiyama   Japan	14.48 GR	Yuko Sawada   Japan	13.92	Wu Jin-yun   Republic of China	12.83
Discus throw details	Josephine de la Viña   Philippines	47.58 GR	Yuko Tsunoda   Japan	42.34	Han Dong-si   South Korea	41.08
Javelin throw details	Misako Katayama   Japan	49.44 GR	Sachiko Senzaki   Japan	42.50	Marcelina Alonso   Philippines	40.90
Pentathlon details	Michiko Okamoto   Japan	4468 GR	Yeh Chu-mei   Republic of China	3951	Lolita Lagrosas   Philippines	3889

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan  (JPN)	18	22	10	50
2	Malaysia  (MAL)	5	3	4	12
3	India  (IND)	5	1	5	11
4	Republic of China  (ROC)	2	2	2	6
5	Israel  (ISR)	2	0	1	3
6	Philippines  (PHI)	1	1	3	5
7	Pakistan  (PAK)	1	0	0	1
8	Iran  (IRN)	0	2	2	4
9	South Korea  (KOR)	0	1	3	4
10	Singapore  (SIN)	0	1	2	3
11	Indonesia  (INA)	0	1	0	1
12	Ceylon  (CEY)	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 entries)		34	34	34	102

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.