1983 Asian Athletics Championships

1983 Asian Championships
Dates	November 3–9
Host city	Kuwait City, Kuwait
Venue	Kuwait National Stadium
Participation	at least 16 nations
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The fifth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in November 1983 in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Suchart Chairsuvaparb  Thailand	10.47	Sumet Promna  Thailand	10.52	Mohamed Purnomo  Indonesia	10.60
200 metres (wind: -4.2 m/s)	Sumet Promna  Thailand	21.39	Mohamed Purnomo  Indonesia	21.64	Jang Jae-keun  South Korea	21.70
400 metres	Isidro del Prado  Philippines	46.24	Iraq	46.74	Malaysia	46.76
800 metres	Kuwait	1:49.43	Kuwait	1:49.97	Chinese Taipei	1:49.98
1500 metres	India	3:44.74	Japan	3:45.67	Kuwait	3:45.77
5000 metres	Zhang Guowei  China	14:07.72	Raj Kumar  India	14:22.56	South Korea	14:25.85
10,000 metres	Zhang Guowei  China	29:45.41	South Korea	30:04.89	Iran	30:20.88
3000 metre steeplechase	[zh]  Chinese Taipei	8:54.85	Hector Begeo  Philippines	8:55.57	India	9:05.80
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Wu Chin-jing  Chinese Taipei	13.90	Yu Zhicheng  China	14.16	Ahmed Hamada Jassim  Bahrain	14.24 (NR)
400 metres hurdles	Ahmed Hamada Jassim  Bahrain	49.43	Japan	50.69	Chinese Taipei	51.09
4 × 100 metres relay	China	40.16	Thailand	40.25	South Korea	40.60
4 × 400 metres relay	Iraq	3:07.98	India	3:11.02	Philippines	3:11.09
20 kilometre road walk	Chand Ram  India	1:30:14	China	1:32:14	India	1:43:19
High jump	Zhu Jianhua  China	2.31	Iraq	2.10	South Korea	2.05
Pole vault	China	5.00	Ku Chin-shui  Chinese Taipei	4.80	India	4.50
Long jump	Liu Yuhuang  China	7.97	Chinese Taipei	7.70	Japan	7.60
Triple jump	China	16.25	Yasushi Ueta  Japan	16.10	Park Yeong-jun  South Korea	15.80
Shot put	Kuwait	17.90	India	16.89	India	16.72
Discus throw	China	55.40	Ajmer Singh  India	52.30	Kuwait	51.00
Hammer throw	China	65.78	Japan	65.60	India	60.52
Javelin throw	Masami Yoshida  Japan	79.50	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi  Japan	70.16	Chen Hung-yen  Chinese Taipei	68.20
Decathlon	Lee Fu-an  Chinese Taipei	7641	Ku Chin-shui  Chinese Taipei	7438	Japan	7277

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	11.82	Thailand	12.01	Chinese Taipei	12.07
200 metres (wind: -2.9 m/s)	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	24.07	P.T. Usha  India	24.68	Mo Myung-Hee  South Korea	24.72
400 metres	P.T. Usha  India	54.20	Japan	54.65	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	55.66
800 metres	China	2:08.92	North Korea	2:09.20	China	2:10.02
1500 metres	China	4:30.72	China	4:31.10	North Korea	4:31.13
3000 metres	North Korea	9:39.64	North Korea	9:41.34	South Korea	9:47.19
100 metres hurdles (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Emi Sasaki (Akimoto)  Japan	13.63	Liu Huajin  China	13.82	Chinese Taipei	14.04
400 metres hurdles	Japan	59.89	Japan	59.95	Philippines	61.26
4 × 100 metres relay	Thailand	46.12	Chinese Taipei	46.42	Japan	46.47
4 × 400 metres relay	Thailand	3:48.62	Chinese Taipei	3:58.52	Jordan	4:17.41
High jump	Zheng Dazhen  China	1.84	Ge Ping  China	1.84	Kim Hee-sun  South Korea	1.81
Long jump	Liao Wenfen  China	6.21	Elma Muros  Philippines	6.09	China	6.08
Shot put	China	17.38	North Korea	14.61	South Korea	14.12
Discus throw	Jiao Yunxiang  China	53.00	South Korea	47.20	Lebanon	37.06
Javelin throw	China	53.48	Chinese Taipei	42.48	–	-
Heptathlon	Japan	5486	China	5394	Chinese Taipei	5075

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	16	6	2	24
2	Japan (JPN)	4	7	3	14
3	Thailand (THA)	4	3	0	7
4	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	3	6	6	15
5	India (IND)	3	5	5	13
6	Philippines (PHI)	3	2	3	8
7	Kuwait (KUW)	2	1	2	5
8	North Korea (PRK)	1	3	1	5
9	Iraq (IRQ)	1	2	0	3
10	Bahrain (BHR)	1	0	1	2
11	South Korea (KOR)	0	2	9	11
12	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	1	2
13	Iran (IRN)	0	0	1	1
	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	1	1
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia (MAS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 nations)		38	38	37	113

See also[]

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

• GBR Athletics