1997 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

The 1997 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the seventh edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association. It took place from 4–7 November in Bangkok, Thailand.^[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	(CHN)	10.36	(QAT)	10.50	Kazuhiro Tamura (JPN)	10.51
200 metres	(JPN)	20.88 CR	(QAT)	21.03	Kazuhiro Tamura (JPN)	21.06
400 metres	(KOR)	46.45 CR	Hamdan Al-Bishi (KSA)	46.53	Takahiko Yamamura (JPN)	47.21
800 metres	(KOR)	1:51.03	(KSA)	1:51.45	Narong Nilploy (THA)	1:51.69
1500 metres	(KOR)	3:49.53	(CHN)	3:49.63	(JPN)	3:50.28
5000 metres	(CHN)	14:28.78	(CHN)	14:29.66	(JPN)	14:29.71
10,000 metres	(JPN)	30:03.67	(JPN)	30:24.80	(INA)	30:35.15
110 metres hurdles	Cao Jing (CHN)	13.97 w	(CHN)	14.28 w	(JPN)	14.35 w
400 metres hurdles	(CHN)	51.66	(TPE)	51.89	(JPN)	52.11
3000 metres steeplechase	(CHN)	9:00.76	(UAE)	9:01.95	(IND)	9:04.33
4×100 m relay	Japan (JPN)	39.72 CR	Qatar (QAT)	40.50	Thailand (THA)	40.60
4×400 m relay	Japan (JPN)	3:07.99 CR	Thailand (THA) Jirachai Linglom Narong Nilploy	3:08.29	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Chen Tien-Wen	3:08.66
10,000 metres walk	(CHN)	45:47.61	(KOR)	46:06.06	(JPN)	46:21.59
High jump	(JPN)	2.22 m CR	Naoyuki Daigo (JPN)	2.19 m	(CHN)	2.19 m
Pole vault	(CHN)	5.20 m CR	(KOR)	5.10 m	(JPN)	5.10 m
Long jump	Abdul Rahman Al-Nubi (QAT)	7.68 m	(CHN)	7.65 m	(TPE)	7.53 m
Triple jump	(CHN)	16.45 m	(KSA)	16.10 m	Sergey Bochkov (AZE)	15.77 m
Shot put	(CHN)	17.14 m	Navpreet Singh (IND)	16.16 m	(IND)	15.89 m
Discus throw	(CHN)	53.64 m CR	Abdullah Al-Shammari (KSA)	52.48 m	(TPE)	48.12 m
Hammer throw	(CHN)	63.00 m	(IND)	59.44 m	(JPN)	57.84 m
Javelin throw	Yu Nam-Sung (KOR)	72.66 m	Yukifumi Murakami (JPN)	71.18 m	(KOR)	69.92 m
Decathlon	(CHN)	6870 pts	(CHN)	6784 pts	Vitaliy Smirnov (UZB)	6683 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Chen Shu-Chuan (TPE)	11.70	(CHN)	11.80	(CHN)	11.83
200 metres	Chen Shu-Chuan (TPE)	23.47	(CHN)	23.91	(JPN)	23.96
400 metres	(CHN)	53.10 CR	Li Rui (CHN)	54.67	(TPE)	54.68
800 metres	Lang Yinglai (CHN)	2:02.66 CR	(TPE)	2:05.11	(JPN)	2:07.24
1500 metres	Lang Yinglai (CHN)	4:18.31	Cui Yuying (CHN)	4:20.24	(JPN)	4:21.18
3000 metres	Lan Lixin (CHN)	9:10.17 CR	Yin Lili (CHN)	9:10.26	Yoshiko Watanabe (JPN)	9:26.76
5000 metres	Yin Lili (CHN)	16:34.67	Lan Lixin (CHN)	16:34.90	Sunita Rani (IND)	16:48.60
100 metres hurdles	(CHN)	13.53	(CHN)	14.14	(TPE)	14.14
400 metres hurdles	(CHN)	58.09	Li Rui (CHN)	58.60	(TPE)	59.62
4×100 m relay	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Chen Shu-Chuan	45.47 CR	India (IND) Vinita Tripathi Sathi Geetha Saraswati Dey	45.89	Japan (JPN)	46.05
4×400 m relay	China (CHN)	3:39.24 CR	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	3:45.54	India (IND)	3:46.39
5000 metres walk	(CHN)	21:45.24 CR	Xu Aihui (CHN)	22:40.54	(JPN)	23:23.41
High jump	Tatyana Efimenko (KGZ)	1.77 m	(KOR)	1.74 m	Yuko Ono (JPN)	1.74 m
Long jump	(TPE)	6.56 m CR	Guo Chunfang (CHN)	6.41 m	(TPE)	6.01 m
Triple jump	(CHN)	14.23 m CR	(TPE)	13.26 m	Anna Tarasova (KAZ)	12.99 m
Shot put	(CHN)	16.43 m	(JPN)	15.10 m	(CHN)	14.50 m
Discus throw	Song Aimin (CHN)	55.84 m	Ma Shuli (CHN)	54.84 m	(KOR)	48.80 m
Javelin throw	(CHN)	58.92 m	Park Ho-hyun (KOR)	54.48 m	(KOR)	51.32 m
Heptathlon	Irina Naumenko (KAZ)	5099 pts	Wassana Winatho (THA)	4933 pts	(JPN)	4812 pts

1997 Medal Table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	24	16	3	43
2	Japan (JPN)	5	4	18	27
3	South Korea (KOR)	5	4	3	12
4	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	4	4	7	15
5	Qatar (QAT)	1	3	0	4
6	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	0	1	2
7	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	1	0	0	1
8	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	4	0	4
9	India (IND)	0	3	4	7
10	Thailand (THA)	0	2	2	4
11	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	1	0	1
12	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		41	41	41	123

References[]

Results

• Asian Junior Championships 1997. World Junior Athletics History. Retrieved on 2013-10-19.

External links[]

• Asian Athletics official website