Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games

Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Stadium
Dates	6–20 December
Competitors	451 from 37 nations
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The athletics competition at the 1998 Asian Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand between 13 and 20 December. ^[1]

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Koji Ito   Japan	10.05	Reanchai Seeharwong   Thailand	10.31	Yasukatsu Otsuki   Japan	10.31
200 m details	Koji Ito   Japan	20.25 GR	Han Chaoming   China	20.70	Sugath Thilakaratne   Sri Lanka	20.83
400 m details	Sugath Thilakaratne   Sri Lanka	44.99	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah   Qatar	45.32	Paramjit Singh   India	45.93
800 m details	Lee Jin-il   South Korea	1:46.56	Kim Soon-hyung   South Korea	1:46.61	Abdulrahman Hassan Abdullah   Qatar	1:47.10
1500 m details	Mohamed Suleiman   Qatar	3:40.03	Kim Soon-hyung   South Korea	3:40.56	Bahadur Prasad   India	3:41.48
5000 m details	Mohamed Suleiman   Qatar	13:55.79	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama   Qatar	13:56.65	Baek Seung-do   South Korea	13:57.11
10,000 m details	Kenji Takao   Japan	28:45.66	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama   Qatar	28:46.55	Gulab Chand   India	29:10.53
110 m hurdles details	Chen Yanhao   China	13.65	Andrey Sklyarenko   Kazakhstan	13.86	Hamad Mubarak Al-Dosari   Qatar	13.99
400 m hurdles details	Hideaki Kawamura   Japan	49.59	Yoshihiko Saito   Japan	49.94	Chen Tien-wen   Chinese Taipei	50.46
3000 m steeplechase details	Yasunori Uchitomi   Japan	8:41.00	Hamid Sajjadi   Iran	8:42.53	Jafar Babakhani   Iran	8:55.04
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Yasukatsu Otsuki Shin Kubota Hiroyasu Tsuchie Koji Ito	38.91 GR	Thailand Niti Piyapan Vissanu Sophanich Worasit Vechaphut Reanchai Seeharwong	39.17	Oman Ahmed Al-Moamari Mohamed Al-Houti Hamoud Al-Dalhami Jahad Al-Sheikh	40.26
4 × 400 m relay details	Japan Jun Osakada Kenji Tabata Masayoshi Kan Shunji Karube	3:01.70 GR	India Lijo David Thottan Purukottam Ramachandran Paramjit Singh Jata Shankar	3:02.62	South Korea Kim Jae-da Kim Yong-hwan Kim Ho Shon Ju-il	3:05.72
Marathon details	Lee Bong-ju   South Korea	2:12:32	Akira Manai   Japan	2:13:25	Kim Jung-won   North Korea	2:16:30
20 km walk details	Yu Guohui   China	1:20:25 GR	Valeriy Borisov   Kazakhstan	1:23:52	Li Zewen   China	1:24:41
50 km walk details	Wang Yinhang   China	3:59:26	Sergey Korepanov   Kazakhstan	3:59:27	Fumio Imamura   Japan	4:06:59
High jump details	Lee Jin-taek   South Korea	2.27	Zhou Zhongge   China	2.23	Shigeki Toyoshima   Japan	2.19
					Loo Kum Zee   Malaysia
Pole vault details	Igor Potapovich   Kazakhstan	5.55	Kim Chul-kyun   South Korea	5.40	Fumiaki Kobayashi   Japan	5.20
Long jump details	Masaki Morinaga   Japan	8.10	Liu Hongning   China	8.05	Abdulrahman Al-Nubi   Qatar	7.99
Triple jump details	Sergey Arzamasov   Kazakhstan	17.00	Duan Qifeng   China	16.98	Nattaporn Namkanha   Thailand	16.42
Shot put details	Liu Hao   China	19.20	Shakti Singh   India	18.81	Sergey Rubtsov   Kazakhstan	18.79
Discus throw details	Li Shaojie   China	64.58 GR	Anil Kumar   India	58.43	Zhang Cunbiao   China	57.28
Hammer throw details	Koji Murofushi   Japan	78.57 GR	Andrey Abduvaliyev   Uzbekistan	77.14	Nikolay Davydov   Kyrgyzstan	68.10
Javelin throw details	Sergey Voynov   Uzbekistan	79.70	Zhang Lianbiao   China	78.58	Li Rongxiang   China	78.57
Decathlon details	Oleg Veretelnikov   Uzbekistan	8278 GR	Ramil Ganiyev   Uzbekistan	7857	Toru Yasui   Japan	7612

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Li Xuemei   China	11.05	Li Yali   China	11.36	Rachita Mistry   India	11.41
200 m details	Damayanthi Dharsha   Sri Lanka	22.48 GR	Li Xuemei   China	22.53	Yan Jiankui   China	23.15
400 m details	Damayanthi Dharsha   Sri Lanka	51.57	Chen Yuxiang   China	52.50	Svetlana Bodritskaya   Kazakhstan	53.00
800 m details	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar   India	2:01.00	Rosa Kutty   India	2:03.34	Wang Yuanping   China	2:04.45
1500 m details	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar   India	4:12.82	Wang Qingfen   China	4:13.19	Sunita Rani   India	4:13.66
5000 m details	Supriyati Sutono   Indonesia	15:54.45 GR	Sunita Rani   India	15:54.47	Michiko Shimizu   Japan	15:55.36
10,000 m details	Yuko Kawakami   Japan	32:01.25	Zheng Guixia   China	32:18.81	Chiemi Takahashi   Japan	32:20.68
100 m hurdles details	Olga Shishigina   Kazakhstan	12.63 GR	Liu Jing   China	12.89	Sriyani Kulawansa   Sri Lanka	13.08
400 m hurdles details	Natalya Torshina   Kazakhstan	55.33	Hsu Pei-ching   Chinese Taipei	55.71	Li Yulian   China	55.93
4 × 100 m relay details	China Liang Yi Yan Jiankui Li Yali Li Xuemei	43.36 GR	Uzbekistan Elena Kviatkovskaya Guzel Khubbieva Lyudmila Dmitriadi Lyubov Perepelova	44.38	Thailand Savitree Srichure Supavadee Khawpeag Reawadee Watanasin Natthaporn Wongtiprat	44.68
4 × 400 m relay details	China Zhang Henghua Chen Yuxiang Li Yulian Zhang Hengyun	3:32.03	India Jincy Phillip Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Rosa Kutty K. M. Beenamol	3:32.20	Kazakhstan Svetlana Badrankova Natalya Torshina Svetlana Kazanina Svetlana Bodritskaya	3:37.16
Marathon details	Naoko Takahashi   Japan	2:21:47 AR	Kim Chang-ok   North Korea	2:34:55	Tomoko Kai   Japan	2:35:01
10,000 m walk details	Liu Hongyu   China	43:57.28 GR	Rie Mitsumori   Japan	44:29.82	Svetlana Tolstaya   Kazakhstan	45:29.95
High jump details	Yoko Ota   Japan	1.88	Jin Ling   China	1.88	Anna Cherntsova   Kyrgyzstan	1.84
Pole vault details	Cai Weiyan   China	4.00 GR	Masumi Ono   Japan	4.00 = GR	Sun Caiyun   China	4.00 = GR
Long jump details	Guan Yingnan   China	6.89	Yu Yiqun   China	6.77	Yelena Pershina   Kazakhstan	6.55
Triple jump details	Ren Ruiping   China	14.27 GR	Wu Lingmei   China	14.25	Wiktoriýa Brigadnaýa   Turkmenistan	13.66
Shot put details	Li Meisu   China	18.96	Cheng Xiaoyan   China	18.55	Juttaporn Krasaeyan   Thailand	18.24
Discus throw details	Luan Zhili   China	63.43	Liu Fengying   China	59.34	Neelam Jaswant Singh   India	55.09
Javelin throw details	Lee Young-sun   South Korea	62.09	Liang Lili   China	60.11	Gurmeet Kaur   India	59.00
Heptathlon details	Shen Shengfei   China	5817	Svetlana Kazanina   Kazakhstan	5775	Ma Chun-ping   Chinese Taipei	5659

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China  (CHN)	15	17	7	39
2	Japan  (JPN)	12	4	8	24
3	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	4	4	5	13
4	South Korea  (KOR)	4	3	2	9
5	Sri Lanka  (SRI)	3	0	2	5
6	India  (IND)	2	6	7	15
7	Qatar  (QAT)	2	3	3	8
8	Uzbekistan  (UZB)	2	3	0	5
9	Indonesia  (INA)	1	0	0	1
10	Thailand  (THA)	0	2	3	5
11	Chinese Taipei  (TPE)	0	1	2	3
12	Iran  (IRI)	0	1	1	2
	North Korea  (PRK)	0	1	1	2
14	Kyrgyzstan  (KGZ)	0	0	2	2
15	Malaysia  (MAS)	0	0	1	1
	Oman  (OMA)	0	0	1	1
	Turkmenistan  (TKM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		45	45	46	136

Participating nations

A total of 451 athletes from 37 nations competed in athletics at the 1998 Asian Games:

•   Bahrain  (1)
•   Bangladesh  (4)
•   Cambodia  (2)
•   China  (59)
•   Chinese Taipei  (17)
•   Hong Kong  (7)
•   India  (26)
•   Indonesia  (5)
•   Iran  (8)
•   Japan  (63)
•   Jordan  (6)
•   Kazakhstan  (19)
•   Kuwait  (7)
•   Kyrgyzstan  (7)
•   Laos  (5)
•   Lebanon  (4)
•   Macau  (2)
•   Malaysia  (11)
•   Maldives  (2)
•   Mongolia  (3)
•   Nepal  (9)
•   North Korea  (6)
•   Oman  (8)
•   Pakistan  (2)
•   Palestine  (3)
•   Philippines  (1)
•   Qatar  (25)
•   South Korea  (19)
•   Sri Lanka  (22)
•   Syria  (5)
•   Tajikistan  (5)
•   Thailand  (60)
•   Turkmenistan  (3)
•   United Arab Emirates  (2)
•   Uzbekistan  (13)
•   Vietnam  (8)
•   Yemen  (2)

References

1. Athletics - Medallists from previous Asian Games - Men - Track - Relays ^{[ usurped ]}. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.

• Asian Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Results. China People. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Asian 13th Games. Sport Fieber. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.

External links

• Official meet results