1991 Asian Athletics Championships

1991 Asian Championships
Dates	October 19–23
Host city	Kuala Lampur, Malaysia
Venue	Stadium Merdeka
Participation	at least 17 nations
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The ninth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1991 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Medal summary[]

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Talal Mansour  Qatar	10.29	Chen Wenzhong  China	10.45	Bahrain	10.56
200 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s)	China	20.75	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah  Qatar	20.96	Hiroki Fuwa  Japan	21.00
400 metres	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah  Qatar	45.66	Aktawat Sakoolchan  Thailand	46.52	Koji Ito  Japan	46.64
800 metres	Lee Jin-il  South Korea	1:51.42	Nadir Khan  Pakistan	1:51.68	Ismail Yousef  Qatar	1:51.70
1500 metres	Mohammed Sulaiman  Qatar	3:42.64	Kim Bong-yu[nb1]  South Korea	3:45.01	Nadir Khan  Pakistan	3:46.47
5000 metres	Mohammed Sulaiman  Qatar	14:03.35	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama  Qatar	14:04.45	China	14:04.68
10,000 metres	Hwang Young-Jo  South Korea	29:50.37	China	29:57.26	Kim Jae-Ryong  South Korea	30:05.48
3000 metre steeplechase	Hamid Sajjadi  Iran	8:33.89	China	8:34.32	Syria	8:34.66 (NR)
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.4 m/s)	Nur Herman Majid  Malaysia	14.04	China	14.05	Toshihiko Iwasaki  Japan	14.18
400 metres hurdles	Yoshihiko Saito  Japan	50.46	Ghulam Abbas  Pakistan	50.77	Zid Abou Hamed  Syria	51.15
4 × 100 metre relay	China Chen Wenzhong Zheng Chen	39.20	Thailand Seaksarn Boonrat Niti Piyapan Visut Watanasin	39.26	Japan Koji Ito Hiroki Fuwa	39.74
4 × 400 metre relay	Japan Yoshihiko Saito Masayoshi Kan Koji Ito	3:05.22	Thailand Sarapong Kumsup Aktawat Sakoolchan	3:05.81	Malaysia Nordin Mohamed Jadi	3:06.64 NR
20 kilometre road walk	China	1:31:36	Japan	1:34:02	India	1:37:01
High jump	Lee Jin-Taek  South Korea	2.22	Shigeki Toyoshima  Japan	2.19	Thailand	2.16
Pole vault	Hideyuki Takei  Japan	5.25	China	5.10	Ku Chin-shui  Chinese Taipei	5.10
Long jump	Chen Zunrong  China	8.10	Masaki Morinaga  Japan	8.02	Nai Hui-Fang  Chinese Taipei	7.85
Triple jump	Chen Yanping  China	17.22	Zou Sixin  China	16.95	Marzouk Abdullah Al-Yoha  Kuwait	16.48
Shot put	China	18.11	Bilal Saad Mubarak  Qatar	17.78	Yuji Okano  Japan	17.65
Discus throw	Yu Wenge  China	62.20	Shakti Singh  India	53.26	Japan	51.76
Hammer throw	Bi Zhong  China	69.90	Japan	64.56	Waleed Al-Bekheet  Kuwait	60.74
Javelin throw	Zhang Lianbiao  China	81.52	Masami Yoshida  Japan	80.44	Kim Ki-Hoon  South Korea	76.32
Decathlon	Gong Guohua  China	7652	China	7573	Katsuhiko Matsuda  Japan	7364

• ^nb1 Some English-language sources, such as GBR Athletics,^[1] erroneously state that Kim Bok-joo was 1991 Asian Championships runner-up in the men's 1500 m. Contemporary English and Korean sources indicate it was his similarly-named teammate Kim Bong-yu who achieved these feats.^[2]

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.1 m/s)	Tian Yumei  China	11.54	Pei Fang  China	11.62	Wang Huei-Chen  Chinese Taipei	11.69
200 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Chen Zhaojing  China	23.39	Wang Huei-Chen  Chinese Taipei	23.44	Xiao Yehua  China	23.48
400 metres	Shiny Wilson  India	53.46	Josephine Mary Singarayar  Malaysia	53.50	Kalawati "Kutty" Saramma  India	53.51
800 metres	Qu Yunxia  China	2:04.65	Shiny Wilson  India	2:05.18	Japan	2:05.48
1500 metres	Qu Yunxia  China	4:26.01	Khin Khin Htwe  Myanmar	4:26.08	North Korea	4:27.15
3000 metres	Zhong Huandi  China	9:10.27	Molly Chacko  India	9:14.07	Khin Khin Htwe  Myanmar	9:19.36
10,000 metres	Zhong Huandi  China	33:42.77	Lukose Leelamma  India	35:38.90	Indonesia	38:00.33
100 metres hurdles (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Zhang Yu  China	13.37	Japan	13.63	South Korea	13.77
400 metres hurdles	China	57.29	Reawadee Srithoa  Thailand	57.35	Japan	59.37
4 × 100 metres relay	China Pei Fang Tian Yumei Chen Zhaojing Xiao Yehua	43.41 CR	Thailand Reawadee Watanasin Ratjai Sripet Pronpim Srisurat	44.86	Japan Kaori Yoshida Kazue Kakinuma Toshie Kitada	45.25
4 × 400 metres relay	India Shiny Abraham-Wilson Laksmi Kutty Saramma Ashwini Nachappa	3:33.50	China Chen Zhaojing Qu Yunxia Pei Fang	3:36.71	Thailand	3:37.52
10,000 metre track walk	China	49:14.82	Japan	49:40.18	Ma Kyin Lwan  Myanmar	51:27.72
High jump	Yoko Ota  Japan	1.83	Chinese Taipei	1.83	Jaruwan Jenjudkarn  Thailand	1.80
Long jump	Li Yong-Ae  North Korea	6.79 (NR)	Liu Shuzhen  China	6.66	Japan	6.29
Shot put	Huang Zhihong  China	17.51	Min Chunfeng  China	16.91	Japan	15.22
Discus throw	Min Chunfeng  China	61.74	Myanmar	48.48	Chinese Taipei	43.80
Javelin throw	Xu Demei  China	59.84	Lee Young-Sun  South Korea	55.06	Sri Lanka	50.90
Heptathlon	Zhu Yuqing  China	6231	Ghada Shouaa  Syria	5425	Wang Shu-Hwa  Chinese Taipei	5388

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	24	11	2	37
2	Japan (JPN)	4	7	12	23
3	Qatar (QAT)	4	3	1	8
4	South Korea (KOR)	3	2	3	8
5	India (IND)	2	4	2	8
6	Malaysia (MAS)	1	1	1	3
7	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	1	2
8	Iran (IRN)	1	0	0	1
9	Thailand (THA)	0	5	3	8
10	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	2	5	7
11	Myanmar (MYA)	0	2	2	4
12	Pakistan (PAK)	0	2	1	3
13	Syria (SYR)	0	1	2	3
14	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	2	2
15	Bahrain (BHR)	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 nations)		40	40	40	120

See also[]

• 1991 in athletics (track and field)

References[]

External links[]

• GBR Athletics