2014 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

2014 Asian Junior Athletics Championships
2014 Asian Junior Athletics Championships
Dates	12–15 June
Host city	Taipei, Republic of China
Venue	Taipei Municipal Stadium
Level	Junior (under-20)
Events	44
Participation	? athletes from ; 24 nations
Records set	3 Championship records
	← 2012 Colombo 2016 → ;

The 2014 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the 16th edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association and the Chinese Taipei Track & Field Association. Events were held at Taipei Municipal Stadium in Taipei, Republic of China from 12–15 June. A total of 44 events were contested, with the events being evenly split between the sexes.^[1]

China narrowly beat Japan to extend its long-running undefeated streak at the competition. China had the most gold medals with twelve and also the highest tally with 24. Japan won eleven events and gathered 21 medals. Qatar had the next most gold medals, with six, while the hosts Chinese Taipei had the third highest medal total at 15. Twenty-two of the participating nations reached the medal table; Pakistan and Oman were the only participants not to medal.^[2] China had particular success in the jumps, winning all such events on both the men's and women's programmes. Qatar won no women's medals, but its male athletes won at all distances from 400 metres to 5000 metres.^[3]

Three championship records were broken at the event. Iran's men's 200 metres winner set a championship record of 20.63 seconds in the first round of the event.^[4] of Vietnam broke the women's 3000 metres steeplechase with 10:27.29 seconds (nearly twenty seconds ahead of the runner-up).^[5] All three medallists in the men's 110 metres hurdles were under the previous record mark, but Japan's Taio Kanai was still clear above the field in 13.33 seconds.^[6]

Some of the top performing athletes will go on to compete at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics. Ashraf Amgad Elseify added the global title to his Asian men's hammer crown. Men's long jumper Shotaro Shiroyama and women's shot putter Navjeet Kaur Dhillon repeated their bronze medallist placings there. Li Xiaohong, women's triple jump runner-up, also took the bronze in Eugene, Oregon.^[7]

After the competition, , Iran's original winner in the men's shot put, was disqualified after failing his post-event doping test. , another Iranian, was elevated to the gold medal.^[8]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Takuya Kawakami Japan	10.47	Himasha Eashan Sri Lanka	10.49	Iran	10.50
200 metres	Iran	20.69^[nb1]	China	20.96	Japan	21.05
400 metres	Mohamed Nasir Abbas Qatar	47.31	Mazen Al-Yasen Saudi Arabia	47.40	Iran	47.50
800 metres	Qatar	1:52.73	China	1:53.25	Iraq	1:53.31
1500 metres	Qatar	3:53.36	Abubaker Haydar Abdalla Qatar	3:54.74	China	3:56.11
5000 metres	Qatar	14:34.07	Japan	14:38.99	India	14:39.41
10,000 metres	Japan	31:10.60	India	31:52.37	Yaser Salem Bagharab Yemen	32:22.42
110 metres hurdles	Taio Kanai Japan	13.33 CR	Japan	13.51	Iran	13.56
400 metres hurdles	Chinese Taipei	50.49	China	50.61	Japan	50.76
3000 metres steeplechase	Qatar	9:02.80	Japan	9:03.35	Iran	9:03.54
4×100 metres relay	Japan (JPN) Takuya Kawakami	39.49	Thailand (THA)	39.74	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Yang Chun-Han	39.91
4×400 metres relay	Thailand (THA)	3:08.89	Iran (IRI)	3:09.61	Qatar (QAT) Mohamed Nasir Abbas Abubaker Haydar Abdalla	3:09.89
10,000 m walk	Japan	44:08.2	Chinese Taipei	45:51.62	Chinese Taipei	46:14.69
High jump	China	2.10 m	Kazakhstan	2.08 m	Iran	2.08 m
Pole vault	Huang Bokai China	5.25 m	South Korea	4.90 m	Chinese Taipei	4.90 m
Long jump	China	7.99 m	Chan Ming Tai Hong Kong	7.70 m	Shotaro Shiroyama Japan	7.70 m
Triple jump	Fang Yaoqing China	16.32 m	Thailand	15.59 m	Uzbekistan	15.55 m
Shot put^[nb2]	Iran	18.64 m	India	17.09 m	Uzbekistan	16.63 m
Discus throw	Mustafa Dagher Al-Saamah Iraq	59.35 m	China	57.49 m	Muhammad Irfan Shamshuddin Malaysia	56.07 m
Hammer throw	Ashraf Amgad Elseify Qatar	79.71 m	Qatar	68.90 m	Tajikistan	68.35 m
Javelin throw	Chinese Taipei	67.24 m	South Korea	66.15 m	Thailand	66.08 m
Decathlon	Chinese Taipei	6566 pts	Chinese Taipei	5920 pts	Hong Kong	5687 pts

^nb1 Iran's men's 200 metres winner set a championship record of 20.63 seconds in the first round of the event, but was a little slower in the final.
^nb2 Iran's men's shot-put winner got disqualified after failing in doping control test in the championships. Minor medallists (Iran) and (India) were promoted to the gold and silver medals while fourth placer (Uzbekistan) was given the bronze medal.^[8]

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Liang Xiaojing China	11.58	Yuan Qiqi China	11.64	Singapore	11.79
200 metres	Dutee Chand India	23.74	Singapore	23.99	Nigina Sharipova Uzbekistan	24.24
400 metres	Malaysia	53.93	Uzbekistan	54.11	Vietnam	55.36
800 metres	Japan	2:06.75	India	2:06.77	India	2:09.11
1500 metres	North Korea	4:28.38	Japan	4:28.75	Xu Shuangshuang China	4:28.78
3000 metres	Daria Maslova Kyrgyzstan	9:16.23	Hanami Sekine Japan	9:17.55	Sanjivini Jadhav India	9:35.02
5000 metres	Japan Daria Maslova Kyrgyzstan	16:18.35	Not awarded		North Korea	16:28.13
100 metres hurdles	Japan	13.98	India	14.09	Singapore	14.14
400 metres hurdles	Japan	58.80	Sri Lanka	62.31	Alvin Tehupeiory Indonesia	62.39
3000 metres steeplechase	Vietnam	10:27.29 CR	North Korea	10:45.41	North Korea	10:55.51
4×100 metres relay	China (CHN) Liang Xiaojing Yuan Qiqi	45.34	Thailand (THA)	45.89	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Hu Chia-Chen	45.94
4×400 metres relay	India (IND) Dutee Chand	3:40.53	Thailand (THA) Supanich Poolkerd	3:42.27	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	3:43.00
10,000 m walk	Kaori Kawazoe Japan	50:38.05	Kazakhstan	51:39.77	Kazakhstan	52:13.42
High jump	China	1.88 m	Chinese Taipei	1.75 m	Indonesia	1.72 m
Pole vault	China	4.05 m	China	4.00 m	Japan	3.80 m
Long jump	Li Xiaohong China	6.27 m	China	6.15 m	Chinese Taipei	5.89 m
Triple jump	China	13.64 m	Li Xiaohong China	13.62 m	Sri Lanka	12.87 m
Shot put	Xu Jiaqi China	16.50 m	China	15.05 m	Navjeet Kaur Dhillon India	14.99 m
Discus throw	Xie Yuchen China	55.65 m	Navjeet Kaur Dhillon India	53.66 m	Japan	46.16 m
Hammer throw	Chinese Taipei	56.81 m	Thailand	54.66 m	Kazakhstan	53.81 m
Javelin throw	Japan	55.75 m	China	51.97 m	Chinese Taipei	50.45 m
Heptathlon	Thailand	5290 pts	India	4962 pts	Chinese Taipei	4806 pts

2014 Medal table[]

Egyptian-born Ashraf Amgad Elseify won the men's hammer for Qatar

* Host nation (Chinese Taipei)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	12	10	2	24
2	Japan	11	5	5	21
3	Qatar	6	2	1	9
4	Chinese Taipei*	4	3	8	15
5	India	2	6	4	12
6	Thailand	2	5	1	8
7	Iran	2	1	5	8
8	Kyrgyzstan	2	0	0	2
9	North Korea	1	1	2	4
10	Iraq	1	0	1	2
	Malaysia	1	0	1	2
	Vietnam	1	0	1	2
13	Kazakhstan	0	2	2	4
14	Sri Lanka	0	2	1	3
15	South Korea	0	2	0	2
16	Uzbekistan	0	1	3	4
17	Singapore	0	1	2	3
18	Hong Kong	0	1	1	2
19	Saudi Arabia	0	1	0	1
20	Indonesia	0	0	2	2
21	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1
21	Yemen	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 nations)		45	43	44	132

Participation[]

References[]

^ 2014 Asian Junior Athletics Championships Team Manual Archived 2014-07-22 at the Wayback Machine. Athletics Asia. Retrieved on 2014-07-13.
^ Medal Tally. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-07-13.
^ Chua, CJ (2014-06-15). China's Lin and Qatar's El Seify the stars of Asian Junior Championships". IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-07-21.
^ Result 16th Asian Junior Athletics Championships #409 Final Men 200 Meters. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-07-21.
^ RESULT 16th Asian Junior Athletics Championships #324 Final Women 3000M Steeple Chase^{[permanent dead link]}. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-07-21.
^ RESULT 16th Asian Junior Athletics Championships #318 Final Men 110M Hurdles. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-07-21.
^ VIEWING: IAAF World Junior Championships > IAAF World Junior Championships 2014. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-08-04.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Men's Shot Put Final Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-08-04.

Results

16th Asian Junior Athletics Championships Women Results. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-07-13.
16th Asian Junior Athletics Championships Men Results. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-07-13.
Results by day

External links[]

Official website
SESSION Official results website^{[permanent dead link]}
Athletics Asia website

[1] 2014 Asian Junior Athletics Championships Team Manual Archived 2014-07-22 at the Wayback Machine. Athletics Asia. Retrieved on 2014-07-13.

[2] Medal Tally. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-07-13.

[3] Chua, CJ (2014-06-15). China's Lin and Qatar's El Seify the stars of Asian Junior Championships". IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-07-21.

[4] Result 16th Asian Junior Athletics Championships #409 Final Men 200 Meters. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-07-21.

[5] RESULT 16th Asian Junior Athletics Championships #324 Final Women 3000M Steeple Chase^{[permanent dead link]}. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-07-21.

[6] RESULT 16th Asian Junior Athletics Championships #318 Final Men 110M Hurdles. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-07-21.

[7] VIEWING: IAAF World Junior Championships > IAAF World Junior Championships 2014. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-08-04.

[Doping1-8] Jump up to: ^a ^b Men's Shot Put Final Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine. Taipei2014. Retrieved on 2014-08-04.

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