1973 Asian Athletics Championships

1973 Asian Championships
Dates	November 18–23
Host city	Marikina, Rizal, Philippines
Venue	Rodriguez Sports Center
Participation	at least 14 nations
Seoul 1975 →

The inaugural Asian Athletics Championships were held in 1973 at the Rodriguez Sports Center in Marikina, Rizal, Philippines from November 18–23, 1973.^[1][2]

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.5 m/s)	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	10.4	Suchart Chairsuvaparb  Thailand	10.5	Japan	10.6
200 metres (wind: +0.2 m/s)	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	21.0	Soo Wen-Ho  Taiwan	21.2	Philippines	21.6
400 metres	Yoshiharu Tomonaga  Japan	46.8	Japan	47.6	Singapore	47.8
800 metres	Muhammad Younis  Pakistan	1:51.2	Sri Ram Singh  India	1:51.5	Japan	1:52.2
1500 metres	Japan	3:47.4	Muhammad Younis  Pakistan	3:48.2	India	3:50.4
5000 metres	Japan	14:16.9	Shivnath Singh  India	14:17.0	Japan	14:18.2
10,000 metres	Japan	29:54.4	Shivnath Singh  India	29:54.8	Japan	29:55.8
Marathon	South Korea	2:27:31	South Korea	2:33:45	Nepal	2:35:38
3000 metre steeplechase	Takaharu Koyama  Japan	9:04.0	Iraq	9:10.9	Iran	9:22.0
110 metres hurdles (wind: -2.9 m/s)	Japan	14.3	Malaysia	14.3	Philippines	14.4
400 metres hurdles	Philippines	52.2	Iraq	52.7	Tai Shi-Yan  Taiwan	53.1
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan Iwamoto Yoshiharu Tomonaga	40.0	Thailand Suchart Chairsuvaparb Somsak Boontud Prasit Boonprasert Anat Ratanapol	40.0	India	40.3
4 × 400 metre relay	Japan Yoshiharu Tomonaga	3:10.2	Philippines	3:12.8	Singapore Canagasabai Kunalan	3:13.2
20 kilometre road walk	Yoshio Morikawa  Japan	1:11:31	India		Khoo Chong Beng  Malaysia
High jump	Teymour Ghiassi  Iran	2.15	Kazunori Koshikawa  Japan	2.15	Malaysia	2.05
Pole vault	Japan	4.36	South Korea	4.36
Long jump	Chen Chin-long  Taiwan	7.82w	Soo Wen-Ho  Taiwan	7.57w	India	7.53w
Triple jump	Mohinder Singh Gill  India	15.96w	Taiwan	15.31	T.C. Yohannan  India	14.96
Shot put	Jagraj Singh Mann  India	17.00	Gurdeep Singh  India	16.37	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	15.75
Discus throw	Jalal Keshmiri  Iran	51.20	Praveen Kumar  India	49.08	Japan	48.04
Hammer throw	India	60.42	South Korea	49.20	Khmer Republic	41.24
Javelin throw	Pakistan	63.58	Nashatar Singh Sidhu  Malaysia	63.28	India	58.28
Decathlon	Vijay Singh Chauhan  India	7245	Japan	7076	Chen Chin-long  Taiwan	6752

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +2.3 m/s)	Amelita Alanes  Philippines	11.6w	Japan	12.0w	Japan	12.0w
200 metres (wind: +1.1 m/s)	Japan	24.7	Amelita Alanes  Philippines	25.0	Japan	25.2
400 metres	Nobuko Kawano  Japan	55.2	Japan	56.1	Singapore	56.1
800 metres	Nobuko Kawano  Japan	2:08.1	Chee Swee Lee  Singapore	2:08.1	Japan	2:09.6
1500 metres	Japan	4:26.8	Lee Chiu-Hsia  Taiwan	4:28.0	Israel	4:34.6
100 metres hurdles (wind: +4.3 m/s)	Japan	13.6w	Taiwan	13.9w	Singapore	14.2w
200 metres hurdles (wind: +3.5 m/s)	Japan	27.6w	Singapore	28.5w	Taiwan	28.6w
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan	46.7	Singapore	47.0	Philippines ? ? ? Amelita Alanes	47.7
4 × 400 metres relay	Philippines Amelita Alanes Aida Mantawel Carmen Torres	3:48.9	Singapore Chee Swee Lee	3:50.1	Taiwan Chi Cheng Lin Chun-yu Lee Chiu-hsia	3:57.8
High jump	Orit Abramovich  Israel	1.68	Gladys Chai Ng Mei  Malaysia	1.58	Maryam Sedarati  Iran	1.58
Long jump	Japan	6.07	Taiwan	5.84	Taiwan	5.71
Shot put	Paik Ok-Ja  South Korea	15.05	Japan	13.63	Taiwan	12.93
Discus throw	Josephine de la Viña  Philippines	50.74	Japan	45.28	Paik Ok-Ja  South Korea	44.52
Javelin throw	Japan	49.74	Philippines	45.38	Kampuchea	43.48
Pentathlon	Lin Chun-Yu  Taiwan	4025	Japan	3963	Taiwan	3578

Medal Table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	18	8	8	34
2	India (IND)	4	5	6	15
3	Philippines (PHI)	4	3	3	10
4	Taiwan (TWN)	2	6	7	15
5	South Korea (KOR)	2	3	1	6
6	Thailand (THA)	2	2	0	4
7	Pakistan (PAK)	2	1	0	3
8	Iran (IRN)	2	0	2	4
9	Israel (ISR)	1	0	1	2
10	Singapore (SIN)	0	4	4	8
11	Malaysia (MAS)	0	3	1	4
12	Iraq (IRQ)	0	2	0	2
13	Cambodia (CAM)	0	0	2	2
14	Nepal (NEP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		37	37	36	110

External links[]

• GBR Athletics

References[]