Athletics at the 2010 South Asian Games

Athletics at the 11th South Asian Games
Dates	February 6 – February 9
Host city	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Venue	Bangabandhu National Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	23
Participation	8 nations
Records set	?
← 2006 Colombo 2016 Guwahati → 2010 South Asian Games

At the 2010 South Asian Games , the athletics events were held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh from February 6 to February 9. A total of 23 events were contested, of which 15 by male and 8 by female athletes.

India (10 golds) had the greatest medal haul of the six countries which reached the medal table, shortly followed by Sri Lanka (8 golds). Stand out performers included Chandrika Subashini, who took the 200/400 metres double, and Pakistan's Naseem Hameed, who was a rank outsider before the games but won the women's 100 metres race over more-fancied opposition. ^[1] Following her victory, the Senate of Pakistan passed a resolution to improve her family's poor living standards and reward her with professional training. ^[2]

The marathon race caused much controversy as Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari, returning from a doping violation from the 2006 South Asian Games, finished in first place. Furthermore, a miscalculation caused by a change in finishing location resulted in a course of only 35 km (over 5 km short of the true marathon distance). Following an investigation, the athletes' positions remained unchanged, although their times were barred from the record books. ^[1]

Records

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Priyangika Madumanthi	High jump	Sri Lanka	1.81 m	=GR
Azharul Islam	Discus throw	Bangladesh	44.98 m	NR
Sumita Rani	100 m hurdles	Bangladesh	13.99 m	NR

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Shehan Ambepitiya  (SRI)	10.46	Abdul Najeeb Qureshi  (IND)	10.56	Liaqat Ali  (PAK)	10.63
200 metres	Abdul Najeeb Qureshi  (IND)	21.16	Shehan Ambepitiya  (SRI)	21.19	Liaqat Ali  (PAK)	21.27
400 metres	Bibin Mathew  (IND)	47.25	Prasanna Sampath Amarasekara  (SRI)	47.36	Shake Mortaja  (IND)	47.53
1500 metres	Chaminda Wijekoon  (SRI)	4:10.01	Sunil Kumar  (IND)	4:10.57	P.H. Chamal  (SRI)	4:10.97
5000 metres	Sunil Kumar  (IND)	14:23.83	Mohammad Yunus  (IND)	14:24.22	Chaminda Wijekoon  (SRI)	14:47.68
110 metre hurdles	Mohsin Ali  (PAK)	14.56	Sandeep Parmar  (IND)	14.76	P. Muthuswamy  (IND)	14.88
400 metre hurdles	T. Balamurugan  (IND)	52.24	Nawaz Haq  (PAK)	52.52	Avin A. Thomas  (IND)	52.52
4×100 metre relay	Sri Lanka  (SRI) W.J.Y.T. Fernando Shehan Ambepitiya D.R. Ashan Hasaranga Shiwantha M. Weerasooriya	40.02	India  (IND) Abdul Najeeb Quereshi Sivadasan Nair Arunjith Sameer Mon Ritesh Anand	40.18	Maldives  (MDV) Hassan Saaid Hussain Haleem Azneem Ahmed Ali Shareef	41.39 NR
4×400 metre relay	India  (IND) Bibin Mathew K. Mathew Binu V. B. Bineesh Shake K. Mortaja	3:08.62	Sri Lanka  (SRI) Rohan Pradeep Kumara Rohitha Pushpakumara Prasanna S. Amarasekara U.G. Wickramesinghe	3:08.94	Pakistan  (PAK) Ali Amir Murad Tahir Shafiq Asad Iqbal Ali Muhammad	3:16.70 [3]
Marathon	Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari  (NEP)	N/A	Ajith Bandara Adikari  (SRI)	N/A	Ram Singh Yadav  (IND)	N/A
High jump	Harishankar Roy  (IND)	2.16	Nikhil Chittarasu  (IND)	2.13	Nalin Priyantha  (SRI)	2.13
Long jump	Mohammad Ibrar  (IND)	7.44	Nayana Dharmaratne  (SRI)	7.25	Ali Amin  (BAN)	7.19
Triple jump	Zafar Iqbal  (PAK)	16.05	Saurabh Singh  (IND)	15.27	Nishan Kumara  (SRI)	15.19
Discus throw	Basharat Ali  (PAK)	52.43	Simranjeet Singh  (IND)	49.18	Azharul Islam  (BAN)	44.98 NR
Javelin throw	Kashinath Naik  (IND)	74.27	Muhammad Imran  (PAK)	73.38	Samarjeet Singh  (IND)	71.65

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Naseem Hameed  (PAK)	11.81	Pramila Priyadarshini  (SRI)	11.93	Achala Shalika Dias  (SRI)	11.93
200 metres	Chandrika Subashini  (SRI)	24.49	Pramila Priyadarshini  (SRI)	24.63	Jauna Murmu  (IND)	24.87
400 metres	Chandrika Subashini  (SRI)	54.27	Priyanka Pawar  (IND)	54.98	A. C. Ashwini  (IND)	55.51
100 metre hurdles	G. Gayathri  (IND)	13.98	Sumita Rani  (BAN)	13.99 NR	Jasmin Akhter  (BAN)	14.05
4×100 metre relay	Sri Lanka  (SRI) N.C.D. Priyadharshani Achala Shalika Dias H.P. Sujani Buddika D.D. Premila Priyadharshani	46.33	Bangladesh  (BAN) Sumita Rani Jasmine Akhter Shamsun Nahar Chumky Ishrat Jahan Eva	46.80 NR	Pakistan  (PAK) Naseem Hameed Javeria Hassan Nadia Nazir Sadaf Siddiqui	47.16
4×400 metre relay	India  (IND) Jauna Murmu A. C. Ashwini Tiana Mary Thomas Priyanka Pawar	3:38.62	Sri Lanka  (SRI) T Kumari Menike Wickramasinghe E.W. Upamalika Ratna Kumari Chandrika Subashini	3:44.81	Bangladesh  (BAN)	3:52.29 NR
High jump	Priyangika Madumanthi  (SRI)	1.81 =GR	Sahana Kumari  (IND)	1.79	Dulangalee Kumari  (SRI)	1.72
Long jump	Chamali Dilrukshi  (SRI)	6.20	Reshmi Bose  (IND)	6.09	M. A. Prajusha  (IND)	5.96

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Bangladesh)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India  (IND)	10	11	8	29
2	Sri Lanka  (SRI)	8	8	6	22
3	Pakistan  (PAK)	4	2	4	10
4	Nepal  (NEP)	1	0	0	1
5	Bangladesh  (BAN)*	0	2	4	6
6	Maldives  (MDV)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		23	23	23	69

References

1. Krishnan, Ram. Murali (2010-02-10). South Asian Games – India dominates, but Pakistan’s Naseem Hameed steals the show. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-02-11.
2. Arsahd, Muhammad (2010-02-11). Senate recommends civil award, job for fastest Naseem Hameed ^{[ permanent dead link ]}. Pakistan Observer. Retrieved on 2010-02-11.
3. "Pakistan at the XI South Asian Games". sports.gov.pk. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 26 November 2017.

External links

• Official 2010 South Asian Games athletics page (archived)