1996 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

The 1996 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the sixth edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association. It took place from 3–6 December in New Delhi, India. It was the second time that the Indian capital had hosted the competition, following the 1992 edition.^[1] A total of 41 events were contested, 22 for male athletes and 19 for female athletes.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Kazuhiro Tamura (JPN)	10.64	(JPN)	10.77	William To Wai Lok (HKG)	10.80
200 metres	Kazuhiro Tamura (JPN)	21.00 CR	(IND)	21.19	William To Wai Lok (HKG)	21.45
400 metres	Mubarak Al-Nubi (QAT)	47.15	(IND)	47.72	(KOR)	48.02
800 metres	Mehdi Jelodarzadeh (IRI)	1:52.46	(IND)	1:52.89	(IRI)	1:52.91
1500 metres	(IRI)	3:52.69	(QAT)	3:53.20	(KOR)	3:53.70
5000 metres	(QAT)	14:26.91	(IND)	14:29.55	(CHN)	14:33.69
10,000 metres	(IND)	30:43.01	(IND)	31:12.16	(QAT)	31:23.47
110 metres hurdles	Khassif Mubarak (QAT)	14.11 CR	Tasuku Tanonaka (JPN)	14.31	(IND)	14.33
400 metres hurdles	Mubarak Al-Nubi (QAT)	50.76 CR	Chen Tien-Wen (TPE)	51.23	(IND)	51.64
3000 metres steeplechase	(CHN)	8:53.47 CR	(JPN)	9:01.52	(KAZ)	9:03.49
4 × 100 m relay	Thailand (THA)	40.96	Japan (JPN)	41.09	Malaysia (MAS)	41.31
4 × 400 m relay	India (IND)	3:12.4	Qatar (QAT)	3:12.7	Thailand (THA)	3:13.6
10,000 metres walk	(CHN)	43:40.63	(KOR)	44:08.90	(MAS)	44:33.84
High jump	(JPN)	2.15 m	(CHN)	2.10 m	(TPE)	2.10 m
Pole vault	(TPE)	5.00 m	(CHN)	5.00 m	(JPN)	4.90 m
Long jump	Huang Le (CHN)	7.68 m	Sanjay Kumar Rai (IND)	7.53 m	(JPN)	7.34 m
Triple jump	(KOR)	15.80 m	(QAT)	15.62 m	Sergey Bochkov (AZE)	15.42 m
Shot put	(IND)	17.03 m	(CHN)	16.82 m	(IND)	16.79 m
Discus throw	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari (QAT)	50.36 m	(CHN)	49.03 m	Abbas Samimi (IRI)	48.96 m
Hammer throw	(IND)	64.60 m CR	(IND)	61.84 m	(IND)	59.96 m
Javelin throw	(IND)	74.42 m	Yu Nam-Sung (KOR)	70.84 m	(IND)	70.50 m
Decathlon	(CHN)	7240 pts CR	(JPN)	6568 pts	(TPE)	6468 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(CHN)	11.92	Chen Shu-Chuan (TPE)	12.03	(IND)	12.08
200 metres	(IND)	24.21	Saraswati Dey (IND)	24.35	Chen Shu-Chuan (TPE)	24.39
400 metres	(IND)	55.10	Paramjit Kaur (IND)	55.48	(CHN)	56.19
800 metres	(JPN)	2:07.76	(IND)	2:10.59	(KAZ)	2:11.72
1500 metres	(KOR)	4:27.61	(JPN)	4:28.79	(CHN)	4:29.54
3000 metres	(CHN)	9:26.69	(JPN)	9:35.09	Sunita Rani (IND)	9:39.95
5000 metres	(CHN)	16:43.56	Sunita Rani (IND)	16:50.33	(IND)	17:05.00
100 metres hurdles	(CHN)	13.65	(CHN)	13.84	(JPN)	13.98
400 metres hurdles	Li Rui (CHN)	58.19	(IND)	58.81	(KAZ)	59.15
4 × 100 m relay	India (IND)	45.85	China (CHN)	46.44	Singapore (SIN)	49.35
4 × 400 m relay	India (IND)	3:47.50	Thailand (THA)	3:48.72	China (CHN)	3:49.31
5000 metres walk	(CHN)	24:04.79	(CHN)	24:19.85	Paramjit Kaur (IND)	24:52.60
High jump	(CHN)	1.76 m	(CHN)	1.76 m	(IND)	1.70 m
Long jump	Guan Yingnan (CHN)	6.31 m	(CHN)	6.20 m	(JPN)	6.05 m
Triple jump	(KAZ)	13.17 m	(CHN)	12.98 m	(TPE)	12.69 m
Shot put	(CHN)	15.58 m	(CHN)	14.96 m	Yoko Toyonaga (JPN)	14.70 m
Discus throw	(CHN)	55.30 m	(IND)	53.76 m	(CHN)	48.36 m
Javelin throw	(CHN)	57.92 m	Zhang Li (CHN)	55.34 m	Park Ho-hyun (KOR)	48.68 m
Heptathlon	Soma Biswas (IND)	5046 pts	Yuki Nakata (JPN)	5014 pts	Pramila Ganapathy (IND)	4853 pts

1996 Medal Table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	15	12	5	32
2	India (IND)	10	13	11	34
3	Qatar (QAT)	5	3	1	9
4	Japan (JPN)	4	8	5	17
5	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	3	7
6	Iran (IRI)	2	0	2	4
7	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	2	4	7
8	Thailand (THA)	1	1	1	3
9	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	0	2	2
	Malaysia (MAS)	0	0	2	2
11	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Singapore (SIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		40	41	38	119

References[]

Results

• Asian Junior Championships 1996. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2013-10-19.

External links[]

• Asian Athletics official website