Athletics at the 2019 South Asian Games

Athletics at the 13th South Asian Games
Dates	3–7 December 2019
Host city	Kathmandu
Venue	Dasarath Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	36
Participation	7 nations
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Athletics, aka track and field was among the sports to be contested at the 2019 South Asian Games. ^[1] The sport was hosted at the Dasarath Stadium.

Hassan Saaid of the Maldives, won his country's first ever South Asian Games gold medal. ^[2] Sri Lanka topped the medal count, winning a total of 15 gold medals, marking the first time since the 1993 games where the country has topped the athletics medal table. ^[3]

Medal summary

• Note : Medal Table needs to be Updated after Doping Test Results

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Nepal)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sri Lanka  (SRI)	15	13	8	36
2	India  (IND)	14	21	14	49
3	Pakistan  (PAK)	3	2	4	9
4	Nepal  (NEP)*	3	1	4	8
5	Maldives  (MDV)	1	0	1	2
6	Bangladesh  (BAN)	0	1	3	4
Totals (6 entries)		36	38	34	108

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Hassan Saaid   Maldives	10.49	Himasha Eashan   Sri Lanka	10.50	Uzair Rehman   Pakistan	10.71
200 m	Uzair Rehman   Pakistan	21.15	Vinoj Suranjaya   Sri Lanka	21.19	Hassan Saaid   Maldives	21.22
400 m	Aruna Darshana   Sri Lanka	46.69	Lakmal Priyantha   Sri Lanka	46.79	K. S. Jeevan   India	47.42
800 m	Indunil Herath   Sri Lanka	1:50.52	Mohammed Afsal   India	1:51.25	Som Bahadur Kumal   Nepal	1:51.44
1500 m	Ajay Kumar Saroj   India	3:54.18	Ajeet Kumar   India	3:57.18	Tanka Karki   Nepal	3:59.20
5000 m	Gopi Chandra Parki   Nepal	14:54.20	Sunil Dawar   India	14:55.21	Hari Rimal   Nepal	14:57.05
10000 m	Suresh Kumar   India	29:33:61	Kumar Shanmugeswaran   Sri Lanka	30:49:30	Deepak Adhakari   Nepal	30:50:06
110 m hurdles	Surendhar Jayakumar   India	14.37	Roshan Dhamika   Sri Lanka	14.42	Maymon Poulose   India	14.56
400 m hurdles	Jabir Madari P.   India	51.42	Santosh Kumar   India	51.98	Asanka Indrajit   Sri Lanka	54.33
4 × 100 m relay	Sri Lanka  (SRI) Himasha Eashan Chanuka Sandeepa Vinoj Suranjaya Yupun Priyadarshana	39.14 GR	India  (IND) Harjit Singh Gurindervir Singh Pranav Kalappur Amiya Kumar Mallick	39.97	Bangladesh  (BAN) Abdur Rouf MD Ismail Shariful MD Hasan	40.76
4 × 400 m relay	Sri Lanka  (SRI) Aruna Darshana Senira Gunaratne Rajitha Rajakaruna Lakmal Priyantha	3:08.04	India  (IND) K. S. Jeevan Santhosh Kumar Angrej Singh M. P. Jabir	3:08.21	Bangladesh  (BAN) MD Abu Taleb MD Masud Rana MD Saiful Ismail MD Jahir	3:15.50
Marathon	Kiran Bogati   Nepal	2:21:17	Rashpal Singh   India	2:21:57	Shre Singh   India	2:22:07
High jump	Sarvesh Anil Kushare   India	2.21m GR	Chethan Balasubramanya  [ fr ]   India Mahfuzur Rahman   Bangladesh	2.16m 2.16m NR	Not awarded as there was a tie for silver.
Long jump	Lokesh Sathyanathan   India	7.87m	R. Swaminathan   India	7.77m	Al Amin   Bangladesh	7.60m
Triple jump	Karthik Unnikrishnan   India	16.47m	Mohammed Salahuddin   India	16.16m	Safreen Ahmed   Sri Lanka	15.95m
Shot put	Tejinder Pal Singh Toor   India	20.03m GR	Om Prakash Karhana   India	17.31m	Samith Madhusankar   Sri Lanka	15.55m
Discus throw	Kirpal Singh Batth   India	57.88m	Gagandeep Singh   India	53.57m	Shams Ul Haq   Pakistan	44.31m
Javelin throw	Arshad Nadeem   Pakistan	86.29m GR	Shivpal Singh   India	84.16m	Sumeda Ranasinghe   Sri Lanka	74.97m

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Archana Suseendran   India	11.80	Amasha de Silva   Sri Lanka	11.82	Lakshika Sugandhi   Sri Lanka	11.84
200 m	Archana Suseendran   India	23.66	Najma Parveen   Pakistan	23.69 NR	A. Chandralekha   India	24.27
400 m	Dilshi Kumarasinghe   Sri Lanka	53.40	Priya Habbathan   India	54.31	Sahib-e-Asra   Pakistan	54.58
800 m	Dilshi Kumarasinghe   Sri Lanka	2:06.18	Gayanthika Abeyratne   Sri Lanka	2:08.52	Lily Das   India	2:08.97
1500 m	Nilani Rathnayake   Sri Lanka	4:34.34	Chanda   India	4:34.51	P. U. Chitra   India	4:35.46
5000 m	Nilani Rathnayake   Sri Lanka	16:55.18	Parul Chaudhary   India	16:57.49	Priti Lamba   India	17:09.32
10000 m	Santoshi Shrestha   Nepal	35:07.94	Kavita Yadav   India	35:07.95	Nilani Lanka Ariyadasa   Sri Lanka	35:09.02
100 m hurdles	Lakshika Sugandi   Sri Lanka	13.68	Aparna Roy   India	14.13	Ireshani Ranasinghe   Sri Lanka	14.18
400 m hurdles	Najma Parveen   Pakistan	1:00.35 NR	Kaushalya Madushani   Sri Lanka	1:00.40	Veerpal Kaur   India	1:01.38
4 × 100 m relay	Sri Lanka  (SRI) Lakshika Sugandi Sarangi Silva Sadeepa Henderson Amasha de Silva	44.89	India  (IND) Himashree Roy A. Chandralekha Archana Suseendran Daneshwari Ashok	45.36	Pakistan  (PAK) Sahib-e-Asra Najma Parveen Aneela Gulzar Esha Imran	46.74
4 × 400 m relay	Sri Lanka  (SRI) Omaya Udayangani Gayanthika Abeyratne Kaushalya Madushani Dilshi Kumarasinghe	3:41.10	Pakistan  (PAK) Sahib-e-Asra Aneela Gulzar Rabia Ashiq Najma Parveen	3:41.74	India  (IND) Priya Habbathan Vijayakumari Manisha Kushwaji Nancy	3:41.81
Marathon	Hiruni Wijayaratne   Sri Lanka	2:41:27	Pushpa Bhandari   Nepal	2:50:11 NR	Jyoti Gawte   India	2:52:44
High jump	Jishna M.   India	1.73m	Rubina Yadav   India Dulanjali Ranasinghe   Sri Lanka	1.69m	Not awarded as there was a tie for silver.
Long jump	Sarangi Silva   Sri Lanka	6.38m	Anjani Pulwansa   Sri Lanka	6.11m	Sandra Babu   India	6.02m
Triple jump	Hashini Paboda   Sri Lanka	13.21m	Vidusha Lakshani   Sri Lanka	13.14m	Bhairabi Roy   India	12.77m
Shot put	Abha Khatua   India	15.32m	Tharika Fernando   Sri Lanka	14.35m	Kachnar Chaudhary   India	13.66m
Discus throw	Navjeet Dhillon   India	49.85m	Survi Biswas   India	47.31m	Ishara Madhurangi   Sri Lanka	41.29m
Javelin throw	Dilhani Lekamge   Sri Lanka	55.02m	Nadeeka Lakmali   Sri Lanka	54.41m	Sharmila Kumari   India	53.64m

See also

• Doping at the 2019 South Asian Games

References

1. "SAG: official home page". 2 November 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
2. Malsa, Mariyam (3 December 2019). "Saaid bags Maldives' first gold medal at SAG". The Edition. Male, Maldives. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
3. Vasudevan, Estelle (7 December 2019). "Sri Lanka crowned Athletics Champs with 15 Golds". www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata . Retrieved 7 December 2019.