Athletics at the 1st East Asian Games | |
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Dates | 9 – 18 May |
Host city | Shanghai, PR China ![]() |
Venue | Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium |
Level | Senior |
Events | 41 |
Participation | ? athletes from 8 nations |
At the 1993 East Asian Games , the athletics events were held at the Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. A total of 41 events were contested, 22 by male and 19 by female athletes. [1] [2] The competition featured only track and field events as there was no marathon race and the 20 km walk was held on the track.
The host country, China, dominated the proceedings by winning the most gold medals and having the highest overall total. Chinese athletes won 29 of the 41 events, and won all of the women's competitions except two sprinting events, with a total of 62 medals. Japan was second with a total of 29 medals, while South Korea was the third-most successful nation with 12 medals. All the countries at the Games won at least one medal in the athletics competition, with the sole exception of Macau.
Wang Huei-Chen, representing Chinese Taipei, was the only woman to upset the Chinese hegemony and she won the gold in both the 100 metres and 200 metres events. Qu Yunxia won the 1500 metres – an event that she went on to set a long-standing world record in at the 1993 Chinese National Games. The hammer throw saw 18-year-old Koji Murofushi (later an Olympic champion) reach his first international podium, winning a bronze medal. Zhang Lirong became the first and only women's 3000 metres champion of the Games as the event was replaced with the 5000 metres in 1997. Three athletes reached the podium in two individual events: Li Yong-Ae of North Korea won silver medals in the long and triple jump, her teammate Choi Ok-Soon was the 800 m and 1500 m bronze medallist, and Lee Myung-Sun won the javelin silver and shot put bronze.
A number of athletes went on to further success at the 1994 Asian Games: among the men's East Asian Games gold medallists, Lee Jin-Il, Shunji Karube, Takahisa Yoshida, Bi Zhong and Zhang Lianbiao also became the Asian champion in their event. On the women's side, Wang Huei-Chen, Qu Yunxia and Min Chunfeng went on to add the 1994 Asian gold to their East Asian titles. [3]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100 metres Wind: 3.4m/s | ![]() | 10.23 w | ![]() | 10.24 w | ![]() | 10.25 w |
200 metres Wind: 3.0 m/s | ![]() | 20.99 w | ![]() | 21.19 w | ![]() | 21.19 w |
400 metres | ![]() | 46.77 | ![]() | 46.92 | ![]() | 47.00 |
800 metres | ![]() | 1:47.13 | ![]() | 1:48.75 | ![]() | 1:48.80 |
1500 metres | ![]() | 3:56.17 | ![]() | 3:56.18 | ![]() | 3:57.46 |
5000 metres | ![]() | 13:47.61 | ![]() | 13:51.67 | ![]() | 13:54.09 |
10,000 metres | ![]() | 29:03.55 | ![]() | 29:05.09 | ![]() | 29:41.44 |
110 metre hurdles Wind: 2.4 m/s | ![]() | 13.77 w | ![]() | 13.88 w | ![]() | 14.21 w |
400 metre hurdles | ![]() | 49.93 | ![]() | 50.84 | ![]() | 51.03 |
3000 metre steeplechase | ![]() | 8:51.72 | ![]() | 8:52.66 | ![]() | 9:04.54 |
4×100 metre relay | ![]() | 39.36 | ![]() | 39.59 | ![]() | 40.37 |
4×400 metre relay | ![]() | 3:04.35 | ![]() | 3:05.99 | ![]() | 3:26.75 |
20 km track walk | ![]() | 1:21:29.1 | ![]() | 1:22:18.4 | ![]() | 1:22:40.2 |
High jump | ![]() | 2.26 m | ![]() | 2.26 m | ![]() | 2.24 m |
Pole vault | ![]() | 5.20 m | ![]() | 5.10 m | ![]() | 5.10 m |
Long jump | ![]() | 8.34 m | ![]() | 7.93 m | ![]() | 7.84 m |
Triple jump | ![]() | 16.77 m w | ![]() | 16.58 m w | ![]() | 16.53 m |
Shot put | ![]() | 19.50 m | ![]() | 18.32 m | ![]() | 17.12 m |
Discus throw | ![]() | 57.18 m | ![]() | 51.56 m | ![]() | 49.72 |
Hammer throw | ![]() | 74.60 m | ![]() | 67.62 m | ![]() | 66.78 m |
Javelin throw | ![]() | 77.56 m | ![]() | 75.02 m | ![]() | 69.32 m |
Decathlon | ![]() | 7995 pts | ![]() | 7824 pts | ![]() | 7678 pts |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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100 metres Wind: 1.6m/s | ![]() | 11.38 | ![]() | 11.56 | ![]() | 11.57 |
200 metres Wind: 2.0 m/s | ![]() | 23.47 | ![]() | 23.67 | ![]() | 23.76 |
400 metres | ![]() | 53.75 | ![]() | 54.97 | ![]() | 55.75 |
800 metres | ![]() | 2:01.68 | ![]() | 2:03.38 | ![]() | 2:08.03 |
1500 metres | ![]() | 4:04.42 | ![]() | 4:07.25 | ![]() | 4:14.76 |
3000 metres | ![]() | 8:40.30 | ![]() | 8:44.82 | ![]() | 8:59.10 |
10,000 metres | ![]() | 32:32.37 | ![]() | 32:36.29 | ![]() | 33:20.94 |
100 metre hurdles Wind: −1.8 m/s | ![]() | 13.23 | ![]() | 13.31 | ![]() | 13.35 |
400 metre hurdles | ![]() | 56.21 | ![]() | 56.96 | ![]() | 59.08 |
4×100 metre relay | ![]() | 44.23 | ![]() | 45.49 | Only two finished | |
4×400 metre relay | ![]() | 3:33.41 | ![]() | 3:40.85 | Only two finished | |
10,000 m walk | ![]() | 45:00.32 | ![]() | 46:08.07 | ![]() | 46:29.39 |
High jump | ![]() | 1.89 m | ![]() | 1.87 m | ![]() | 1.83 m |
Long jump | ![]() | 6.45 m | ![]() | 6.33 m | ![]() | 6.15 m |
Triple jump | ![]() | 13.64 m | ![]() | 13.25 m w | ![]() | 13.01 m |
Shot put | ![]() | 19.88 m | ![]() | 18.17 m | ![]() | 15.99 m |
Discus throw | ![]() | 63.12 m | ![]() | 55.50 m | ![]() | 49.90 m |
Javelin throw Old model | ![]() | 64.52 m | ![]() | 61.44 m | ![]() | 60.12 m |
Heptathlon | ![]() | 6064 pts | ![]() | 5821 pts | ![]() | 5636 pts |
* Host nation (China)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 29 | 22 | 11 | 62 |
2 | ![]() | 6 | 11 | 12 | 29 |
3 | ![]() | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 |
4 | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals (8 entries) | 41 | 41 | 39 | 121 |
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