2016 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

17th Asian Junior Athletics Championships
Dates	3–6 June
Host city	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Venue	Thống Nhất Stadium
Level	Junior (under-20)
Events	44
Records set	2 championship records
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The 2016 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the 17th edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association and the Vietnam Athletics Federation. Athletes born between 1997 and 2000 competed in 44 events, divided evenly between the sexes. The competition took place over four days from 3–6 June at Thống Nhất Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. A total of 45 countries entered athletes into the tournament, eighteen of which reached the medal table.^[1]

Japan topped the medal table with thirteen gold medals among a total of 27, overturning a long period of Chinese dominance. China was a comfortable second, with 22 medals, half of which were gold. India was the next best performing nation and the only other to reach double digits in the medal count, taking seven golds. The hosts Vietnam took two golds and placed seventh in the medals overall. Two championship records were broken, both by Japanese: won the men's javelin throw in 77.97 m (255 ft 9+1⁄2 in) and took the 3000 m steeplechase in 10:21.04 minutes.^[2]

The host stadium in 2008

Malaysia's Khairul Hafiz Jantan was the most successful athlete of the competition, winning three medals: the 100 metres gold, and silvers in the 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay. Yang Chun-han was the only man to take two golds, topping the podium in the latter two events. On the women's side, there were two double gold medallists: Jisna Mathew led India to a 400 m individual and relay double, while scored a middle-distance double. Japan's took 400 m bronze after winning the hurdles gold and her compatriots and Nanaka Kori also took minor medals in the discus after becoming shot put winners.^[2]

The event was held in the month before the global 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships. Several of Asia's medallists at that competition were not present at the regional meet, although Qatar's Mohamed Ibrahim Moaaz became a double discus throw champion and India's Neeraj Chopra improved from a silver in Ho Chi Minh to a world under-20 gold with a world junior record throw. The 2016 world under-20 high jump bronze medallist managed only sixth on the Asian stage that year.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Khairul Hafiz Jantan  Malaysia	10.36	Japan	10.41	Abdullah Abkar Mohammed  Saudi Arabia	10.45
200 metres	Yang Chun-han  Chinese Taipei	20.73	Khairul Hafiz Jantan  Malaysia	21.15	Japan	21.16
400 metres	Japan	47.52	Taha Hussein Yaseen  Iraq	47.55	Saudi Arabia	47.83
800 metres	Amoj Jacob  India	1:51.82	Qatar	1:52.28	Iraq	1:52.78
1500 metres	Ajay Kumar Saroj  India	3:57.55	Qatar	3:58.28	Iran	4:03.37
5000 metres	Japan	14:16.42	Akira Aizawa  Japan	14:32.08	Gavit Murli Kumar  India	14:49.41
10,000 metres	Sota Watanabe  Japan	31:23.93	India	31:24.06	India	32:07.12
110 m hurdles	Malaysia	14.00	India	14.02	China	14.05
400 m hurdles	Japan	50.86	China	51.49	South Korea	52.55
3000 m steeplechase	Qatar	9:26.79	Vietnam	9:27.40	Vietnam	9:31.86
10,000 m walk	China	44:33.00	Japan	44:33.79	South Korea	45:38.45
4×100 m relay	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Yang Chun-Han	39.75	Malaysia (MAS) Badrul Hisyam Abdul Manap Khairul Hafiz Jantan	39.91	Thailand (THA)	40.36
4×400 m relay	Thailand (THA)	3:11.59	India (IND) Amoj Jacob	3:12.12	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	3:12.37
High jump	Japan	2.16 m	Malaysia	2.14 m	Iraq	2.14 m
Pole vault	Iraq	5.25 m	Phassapong Unsum-Ang  Thailand	5.20 m =NJR	Iraq	5.10 m
Long jump	China	7.84 m	Japan	7.75 m w	Japan	7.73 m
Triple jump	South Korea	16.19 m	China	16.05 m	India	15.99 m
Shot put	Japan	18.41 m	Iran	17.57 m	Iran	17.53 m
Discus throw	Mohamed Ibrahim Moaaz  Qatar	60.49 m	Japan	58.80 m NJR	Japan	54.79 m
Hammer throw	India	69.00 m	Iraq	65.71 m	Uzbekistan	63.77 m
Javelin throw	Japan	77.97 m CR	Neeraj Chopra  India	77.60 m	Arshad Nadeem  Pakistan	73.40 m NJR
Decathlon	Japan	6748 pts	Chinese Taipei	6624 pts	India	6551 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	China	11.84	Hong Kong	11.85 NJR	Thailand	11.88
200 metres	Vietnam	23.94	Supanich Poolkerd  Thailand	24.41	Malaysia	24.50
400 metres	Jisna Mathew  India	53.85	Huang Guifen  China	54.92	Japan	55.40
800 metres	India	2:06.64	Japan	2:07.21	Kyrgyzstan	2:07.56
1500 metres	India	4:29.50	Japan	4:30.76	India  North Korea	4:33.02
3000 metres	Japan	9:31.46	North Korea	9:50.72	North Korea	10:01.94
5000 metres	Japan	16:57.39	Japan	17:04.76	North Korea	17:08.79
100 m hurdles	China	13.79	Chinese Taipei	13.97	Chinese Taipei	14.11
400 m hurdles	Japan	57.91	Vietnam	59.78	Chinese Taipei	60.02
3000 m steeplechase	Japan	10:21.04 CR	North Korea	10:31.02	North Korea	10:41.91
10,000 m walk	China	50:23.89	China	50:37.03	India	51:09.48
4×100 m relay	Thailand (THA)	45.23	China (CHN) Huang Guifen	45.41	Hong Kong (HKG)	45.84 NJR
4×400 m relay	India (IND) Jisna Mathew	3:43.57	Vietnam (VIE)	3:44.56 NJR	Thailand (THA) Supanich Poolkerd	3:50.79
High jump	China	1.74 m	Nadezhda Dubovitskaya  Kazakhstan	1.74 m	Chinese Taipei	1.71 m
Pole vault	Chen Qiaoling  China	4.15 m	Japan	3.80 m	Chinese Taipei	3.60 m
Long jump	Nguyễn Thị Trúc Mai  Vietnam	6.34 m NJR	Parinya Chuaimaroeng  Thailand	6.28 m NJR	China	6.04 m
Triple jump	Malaysia	13.20 m NJR	Mariya Ovchinnikova  Kazakhstan	13.19 m	Kazakhstan	12.97 m
Shot put	Nanaka Kori  Japan	15.89 m NJR	China	14.23 m	China	14.22 m
Discus throw	China	51.47 m	Nanaka Kori  Japan	48.04 m	China	46.57 m
Hammer throw	China	61.77 m	China	58.11 m	Thailand	56.44 m
Javelin throw	Su Lingdan  China	57.32 m	Chinese Taipei	53.14 m	Kazakhstan	52.76 m NR
Heptathlon	China	5031 pts	Uzbekistan	4859 pts	Vietnam	4564 pts

2016 Medal table[]

Key

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	13	10	4	27
2	China (CHN)	11	7	4	22
3	India (IND)	7	4	6	17
4	Malaysia (MAS)	3	3	1	7
5	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	2	3	4	9
	Thailand (THA)	2	3	4	9
7	Vietnam (VIE)*	2	3	2	7
8	Qatar (QAT)	2	2	0	4
9	Iraq (IRQ)	1	2	3	6
10	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	2	3
11	North Korea (PRK)	0	2	4	6
12	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	2	2	4
13	Iran (IRI)	0	1	2	3
14	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	1	2
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	1	1	2
16	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	3	3
17	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 nations)		44	44	45	133

References[]

Results

• Results (archived)

Daily reports

• Ramsak, Bob (2016-06-05). Jantan and Liu take 100m titles as Asian Junior Championships reach midway point. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-12-28.
• Mulkeen, Jon (2016-06-06). Sado takes surprise javelin victory at Asian Junior Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-12-28.