2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

18th Asian Junior Athletics Championships
Dates	7–10 June
Host city	Gifu, Japan
Venue	Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium
Level	Junior (under-20)
Events	44
Participation	437 athletes from 35 nations
Records set	6 championship records
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The 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the 18th edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association and the Japan Association of Athletics Federations. Athletes born between 1999 and 2002 competed in 44 events, divided evenly between the sexes. The competition took place over four days from 7–10 June at Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium in Gifu, Japan.^[1]

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan*	14	15	12	41
2	China	11	8	5	24
3	India	5	2	10	17
4	Chinese Taipei	4	5	3	12
5	Sri Lanka	3	4	2	9
6	Qatar	3	3	0	6
7	Iran	1	1	3	5
8	Indonesia	1	1	0	2
9	Iraq	1	0	1	2
	Vietnam	1	0	1	2
11	South Korea	0	3	1	4
12	Kazakhstan	0	1	2	3
13	Thailand	0	1	1	2
14	Malaysia	0	0	2	2
15	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 nations)		44	44	44	132

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lalu Muhammad Zohri  Indonesia	10.27	Japan	10.35	Malaysia	10.46
200 metres	Chinese Taipei	21.05	South Korea	21.06	Japan	21.09 PB
400 metres	Aruna Dharshana  Sri Lanka	45.79 CR NJR	Sri Lanka	46.96	Japan	47.08
800 metres	India	1:54.11	Iran	1:54.23	Japan	1:54.55
1500 metres	Qatar	3:49.30	Japan	3:49.66	Iraq	3:49.75
5000 metres	India	14:15.24 PB	Japan	14:17.26	Iran	14:25.25 PB
10,000 metres	China	30:01.51 PB	Yuhi Nakaya  Japan	30:04.24	India	30:05.30 PB
110 m hurdles	Chinese Taipei	13.61 PB	Japan	13.71	Kazakhstan	13.81
400 m hurdles	Japan	50.52	Bassem Hemeida  Qatar	50.55	Mehdi Pirjahan  Iran	51.18 PB
3000 m steeplechase	Qatar	8:51.97	Japan	8:52.79	Vietnam	8:59.32 PB
10,000 m walk	China	42:47.98	Japan	42:53.56	South Korea	43:06.89
4 × 100 m relay	Japan	39.65	Chinese Taipei	39.72	India	40.75
4 × 400 m relay	Aruna Dharshana  Sri Lanka	3:08.70	Thailand	3:09.20	Malaysia	3:09.60
High jump	Japan	2.16 m PB	Qatar	2.14 m	China	2.12 m
Pole vault	Japan	5.20 m PB	Indonesia	5.15 m	Thailand	5.00 m
Long jump	Japan	7.61 m	China	7.54 m	M Sreeshankar  India	7.47 m
Triple jump	India	15.75 m	South Korea	15.56 m PB	Japan	15.47 m
Shot put	Qatar	18.57 m PB	South Korea	18.25 m	India	18.22 m PB
Discus throw	Iran	62.29 m CR	Mohamed Ibrahim Moaaz  Qatar	61.50 m	Japan	56.51 m
Hammer throw	India	76.86 m PB	India	74.08 m PB	Japan	69.34 m
Javelin throw	China	70.53 m	Japan	68.76 m	Japan	65.36 m
Decathlon	Chinese Taipei	7200 pts PB	Chinese Taipei	6704 pts PB	Japan	6693 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	China	11.68	Sri Lanka	11.71 PB	Mei Kodama  Japan	11.98
200 metres	China	24.01	Sri Lanka	24.47 PB	Jisna Mathew  India	24.48
400 metres	Jisna Mathew  India	53.26 PB	Dilshi Kumarasinghe  Sri Lanka	54.03 PB	Chinese Taipei	54.74
800 metres	Japan	2:04.14	Japan	2:04.50	Dilshi Kumarasinghe  Sri Lanka	2:04.53 PB NJR
1500 metres	Ririka Hironaka  Japan	4:17.62 PB	Japan	4:21.65	India	4:24.56
3000 metres	Nozomi Tanaka  Japan	9:04.36 CR	Japan	9:14.13	China	9:35.69
5000 metres	Japan	16:31.65	China	16:55.54	India	17:03.75
100 m hurdles	Japan	13.45 CR PB	China	13.55 PB	Chinese Taipei	13.61 PB
400 m hurdles	Japan	58.43	Chinese Taipei	58.89 PB	Japan	58.92
3000 m steeplechase	Parami Wasanthi Maristela  Sri Lanka	10:21.54 PB NJR	China	10:28.24	Japan	10:38.30
10,000 m walk	China	45:20.59 CR	Japan	45:24.35 PB	China	47:38.46
4 × 100 m relay	China	45.06	Mei Kodama  Japan	45.95	Hong Kong	47.00
4 × 400 m relay	Japan	3:38.20 CR	Subha Venkatesan Nidhi Singh Jisna Mathew  India	3:41.11	Dilshi Kumarasinghe  Sri Lanka	3:45.16
High jump	Iraq	1.80 m	Chinese Taipei	1.78 m	India	1.75 m PB
Pole vault	China	4.00 m	Kazakhstan	3.60 m	Chinese Taipei	3.60 m
Long jump	Ayaka Kora  Japan	6.44 m PB	China	6.44 m	Japan	5.92 m
Triple jump	Vietnam	13.22 m	China	13.21 m	India	13.09 m PB
Shot put	Zhang Linru  China	16.05 m	Japan	15.54 m PB	Chinese Taipei	14.76 m
Discus throw	China	51.53 m	China	51.17 m	India	46.57 m
Hammer throw	China	64.81 m	China	61.44 m PB	Iran	55.46 m PB
Javelin throw	Chinese Taipei	55.36 m	Japan	54.16 m	China	53.29 m
Heptathlon	Japan	5133 pts	Chinese Taipei	4925 pts	Kazakhstan	4804 pts PB

References[]

External links[]

• Official website