1987 Asian Athletics Championships

1987 Asian Championships
Dates	July 22-26
Host city	Singapore, Singapore
Venue	National Stadium
Participation	at least 14 nations
← Jakarta 1985 New Delhi 1989 →

The seventh Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1987 in Singapore.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Talal Mansour  Qatar	10.41	Cheng Hsin-fu  Chinese Taipei	10.56	Li Tao  China	10.57
200 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s)	Talal Mansour  Qatar	20.71	Li Feng  China	21.12	Cheng Hsin-Fu  Chinese Taipei	21.21
400 metres	Mohammed Al-Malki  Oman	45.77	Malaysia	47.05	Japan	47.32
800 metres	Ismail Yousef  Qatar	1:47.81	Ryu Tae-Kyung  South Korea	1:48.00	Malaysia	1:48.27
1500 metres	Duan Xiuquan  China	3:45.11	Japan	3:45.41	Japan	3:45.76
5000 metres	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama  Qatar	14:09.29	Japan	14:10.91	Cai Shangyan  China	14:11.30
10,000 metres	Cai Shangyan  China	29:47.85	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama  Qatar	30:03.02	Lee Sang-Geun  South Korea	30:06.79
3000 metre steeplechase	Japan	9:04.21	Qatar	9:08.03	South Korea	9:08.76
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Yang Guang  China	14.04	Yu Zhicheng  China	14.06	Iraq	14.30
400 metres hurdles	Japan	50.09	Kuwait	50.46	Qatar	51.15
4 × 100 metres relay	Qatar Jamal Abdallah Sulaiman Faraj Marzouk Talal Mansour	39.20	China	39.40	Chinese Taipei	39.68
4 × 400 metres relay	Japan Yoshioka Toyota	3:09.31	Malaysia	3:09.72	Chinese Taipei	3:09.86
20 kilometre road walk	China	1:33:16	South Korea	1:37:49	Japan	1:39:44
High jump	Liu Yunpeng  China	2.24	Cho Hyun-wook  South Korea	2.22	Malaysia	2.10
Pole vault	China	5.35	Japan	5.15	Ku Chin-shui  Chinese Taipei	5.10
Long jump	Kim Won-jin  South Korea	8.00	Liu Yuhuang  China	7.98	Wang Shijie  China	7.91
Triple jump	Park Young-Jun  South Korea	16.37	China	16.37	Japan	15.82
Shot put	Ma Yongfeng  China	18.32	China	18.05	India	17.56
Discus throw	China	56.10	China	54.48	Iran	53.00
Hammer throw	China	66.36	Japan	65.98	China	65.74
Javelin throw	Japan	72.62	Indonesia	72.30	China	70.80
Decathlon	Gong Guohua  China	7848	China	7554	Lee Fu-an  Chinese Taipei	7515

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.4 m/s)	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	11.43	P.T. Usha  India	11.74	Tian Yumei  China	11.76
200 metres (wind: -0.8 m/s)	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	23.38	China	24.06	Hiromi Isozaki  Japan	24.18
400 metres	P.T. Usha  India	52.31	Vandana Shanbagh  India	53.22	Xie Zhiling  China	54.16
800 metres	South Korea	2:05.11	China	2:05.21	Lim Chun-Ae  South Korea	2:05.39
1500 metres	China	4:19.29	South Korea	4:23.52	North Korea	4:25.44
3000 metres	North Korea	9:17.19	China	9:17.61	North Korea	9:18.76
10,000 metres	China	34:56.34	Japan	35:31.04	North Korea	37:04.12
100 metres hurdles (wind: -1.1 m/s)	China	13.56	Chinese Taipei	13.68	Wang Shu-Hwa  Chinese Taipei	14.05
400 metres hurdles	P.T. Usha  India	56.48	Chang Feng-Hua  Chinese Taipei	58.62	Japan	59.18
4 × 100 metres relay	China	45.20	India Vandana Shanbagh Vandana Rao Sany Joseph P.T. Usha	45.49	Chinese Taipei	45.66
4 × 400 metres relay	India Ashwini Nachappa Vandana Rao Sany Joseph P.T. Usha	3:34.50	Japan Hiromi Isozaki	3:39.70	Chinese Taipei	3:40.32
10000 metre track walk	China	52:40.21	Japan	53:01.37	South Korea	53:56.86
High jump	China	1.92	Kim Hee-sun  South Korea	1.90	China	1.86
Long jump	Wang Zhihui  China	6.70	Liao Wenfen  China	6.51	Li Yong-Ae  North Korea	6.23
Shot put	Cong Yuzhen  China	18.17	Choi Mi-Sun  South Korea	13.88	Chinese Taipei	13.33
Discus throw	Xing Ailan  China	58.08	Indonesia	43.94	North Korea	43.86
Javelin throw	Li Baolian  China	60.12	Chinese Taipei	52.60	Japan	50.14
Heptathlon	Dong Yuping  China	6036	Ma Miaolan  China	5460	Wang Shu-Hwa  Chinese Taipei	5293

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	21	13	8	42
2	Qatar (QAT)	5	2	1	8
3	Japan (JPN)	4	7	7	18
4	South Korea (KOR)	3	6	4	13
5	India (IND)	3	3	1	7
6	Philippines (PHI)	2	0	0	2
7	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	5	6
8	Oman (OMN)	1	0	0	1
9	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	4	10	14
10	Malaysia (MAS)	0	2	2	4
11	Indonesia (INA)	0	2	0	2
12	Kuwait (KUW)	0	1	0	1
13	Iran (IRN)	0	0	1	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		40	40	40	120

See also[]

• 1987 in athletics (track and field)

External links[]

• GBR Athletics