1979 Asian Athletics Championships

1979 Asian Championships
Dates	May 31-June 3
Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	National Olympic Stadium
Participation	at least 10 nations
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The third Asian Athletics Championships were held in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s)	Suchart Chairsuvaparb  Thailand	10.63	South Korea	10.75	Japan	10.80
200 metres (wind: -1.7 m/s)	Japan	21.34	Japan	21.34	Toshio Toyota  Japan	21.39
400 metres	Japan	47.45	Abbas Al-Aibi  Iraq	47.47	Iraq	47.51
800 metres	Iraq	1:49.5a	Japan	1:49.6a	Sant Kumar  India	1:50.1a
1500 metres	India	3:49.8a	Japan	3:50.1a	Japan	3:50.9a
5000 metres	Hideki Kita  Japan	13:55.3a	Japan	13:59.8a	Gopal Singh Saini  India	13:59.8a
10,000 metres	Toshihiko Seko  Japan	28:59.2a	Kunimitsu Ito  Japan	29:00.2a	Takeshi So  Japan	29:02.5a
3000 metre steeplechase	Masanari Shintaku  Japan	8:40.8a	Japan	8:57.2a	Gopal Singh Saini  India	9:12.4a
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Yoshifumi Fujimori  Japan	14.29	India	14.53	Iraq	14.72
400 metres hurdles	Hussein Kadhum  Iraq	51.18	Takashi Nagao  Japan	51.53	Japan	52.14
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan Junichi Usui	39.70	Thailand	40.20	India Adille Sumariwalla Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran Thamizharasan	40.41
4 × 400 metres relay	Iraq	3:08.8a	Japan Takashi Nagao	3:08.9a	India	3:11.8a
20 kilometre road walk	Hakam Singh  India	1:35:40	People's Republic of China	1:35:48	Malaysia	1:36:27
High jump	Kazunori Koshikawa  Japan	2.15	Takao Sakamoto  Japan	2.15	Japan	2.15
Pole vault	Itsuo Takanezawa  Japan	5.20	Tomomi Takahashi  Japan	5.10	Japan	5.00
Long jump	Junichi Usui  Japan	7.97	Suresh Babu  India	7.94	Japan	7.91w
Triple jump	Zhou Zhenxian  People's Republic of China	17.02	Japan	16.52w	Japan	16.50w
Shot put	Kuwait	17.78	People's Republic of China	17.50	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	17.47
Discus throw	Japan	55.34	People's Republic of China	54.64	Japan	53.06
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi  Japan	66.73	Japan	65.94	India	61.52
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao  People's Republic of China	86.50	Japan	78.46	Japan	78.46
Decathlon	Japan	7096	Japan	6983	People's Republic of China	6975

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s)	Japan	12.09	People's Republic of China	12.10	Mo Myung-Hee  South Korea	12.11
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Japan	24.45	Mo Myung-Hee  South Korea	24.49	Japan	24.72
400 metres	South Korea	54.33	Rita Sen  India	54.99	Japan	55.66
800 metres	South Korea	2:06.1a	Chang Yong-Ae  North Korea	2:10.2a	Japan	2:11.8a
1500 metres	North Korea	4:25.0a	North Korea	4:29.1a	Lü Hongxiang  People's Republic of China	4:31.3a
3000 metres	North Korea	9:24.9a	People's Republic of China	9:30.8a	North Korea	9:31.4a
100 metres hurdles (wind: +1.2 m/s)	Emi Akimoto  Japan	14.17	People's Republic of China	14.33	Japan	14.45
400 metres hurdles	Japan	60.46	Malaysia	61.63	People's Republic of China	61.84
4 × 100 metre relay	Japan	45.85	Thailand	46.03	India Rita Sen Angel Mary Joseph	46.93
4 × 400 metre relay	Japan Iizuka Hatano	3:45.9a	Malaysia	3:46.3a	Philippines	3:57.5a
High jump	Zheng Dazhen  People's Republic of China	1.87	Japan	1.81	Hisayo Fukumitsu  Japan	1.81
Long jump	Sumie Awara  Japan	6.42w	People's Republic of China	6.27w	Japan	6.05w
Shot put	Shen Lijuan  People's Republic of China	17.48	Japan	14.78	Japan	14.12
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui  People's Republic of China	58.62	Japan	46.64	Japan	44.16
Javelin throw	People's Republic of China	58.44	People's Republic of China	54.82	Japan	51.16
Pentathlon	People's Republic of China	4139	Japan	3753	Japan	3706

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	20	18	21	59
2	People's Republic of China	7	8	3	18
3	Iraq (IRQ)	3	1	2	6
4	India (IND)	2	3	8	13
5	North Korea (PRK)	2	2	1	5
	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	1	5
7	Thailand (THA)	1	2	0	3
8	Kuwait (KUW)	1	0	0	1
9	Malaysia (MAS)	0	2	1	3
10	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 nations)		38	38	38	114

External links[]

• GBR Athletics