Asian Marathon Championships

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The Asian Marathon Championships is a biennial international competition in marathon road running for Asian athletes. Organised by the Asian Athletics Association, its creation in 1988 followed decision to drop the 42.195-kilometre (26-mile and 385-yard) race from the programme of events at the Asian Athletics Championships.[1] In that competition, championship marathons were held for men in 1973 and 1975, then finally for both men and women at the 1985.[2]

The first discrete men's and women's Asian championship marathons in 1988 were held at different locations. The men's side was incorporated into that year's Lake Biwa Marathon while the women's side was held within the Nagoya Women's Marathon. The first winners ( and Xie Lihua) were not the fastest Asian runners in those races, as only those specifically chosen to represent their nation were eligible to win the Asian title.[3][4][5] The following edition in 1990 saw both sexes compete at the same location and again the races were hosted within a major annual marathon race, this time the Seoul International Marathon, where Korean racers Kim Won-Tak and Lee Mi-Ok claimed both the Asian and Seoul titles.[6]

The 1992 Asian Marathon Championships were held in Bandung, Indonesia, outside of a major race for the first time. This was reverted soon after in 1994, when the men's race was contained at the Beppu-Ōita Marathon and the women in Nagoya for a second time. Since then, each occurrence of the championship has been in one location for both sexes alongside a major city marathon. The Pattaya Marathon has hosted the event twice (2000 and 2011), while the Hong Kong Marathon has served as the venue three times (2002, 2008 and 2013).[3]

East Asian runners have been the most successful at the competition, with the Japanese topping the rankings with nine men's titles and four women's titles across the championship's history. China, South Korea and North Korea have each won four titles between the men's and women's races. North Korea's Kim Kum-Ok is the most successful runner in competition history – she is a three-time winner of the women's championship (2006, 2008 and 2013). , Mohammed Abduh Bakhet and Zhang Shujing are the only other runners to have won the championship twice.[3]

Editions[]

Edition Year Race City Country Date Countries Athletes
— 1973 Asian Athletics Championships Marikina Philippines 23 November
— 1975 Asian Athletics Championships Seoul South Korea 14 June
— 1985 Asian Athletics Championships Jakarta Indonesia 29 September
1 1988 Lake Biwa Marathon/
Nagoya Women's Marathon		 Otsu/Nagoya Japan 13 March/
6 March
2 1990 Seoul International Marathon Seoul South Korea 18 March
3 1992 N/A Bandung Indonesia 4 October
4 1994 Beppu-Ōita Marathon/
Nagoya Women's Marathon		 Oita/Nagoya Japan 6 February/
13 March
5 1996 Chuncheon Marathon Chuncheon South Korea 27 October
6 1998 Ayutthaya Thailand 8 February
7 2000 Pattaya Marathon Pattaya Thailand 2 July
8 2002 Hong Kong Marathon Hong Kong Hong Kong 24 February
9 2004 JoongAng Seoul Marathon Seoul South Korea 7 November
10 2006 Beijing Marathon Beijing China 15 October
11 2008 Hong Kong Marathon Hong Kong Hong Kong 17 February
12 2010 Pune Marathon Pune India 5 December
13 2011 Pattaya Marathon Pattaya Thailand 17 July
14 2013 Hong Kong Marathon Hong Kong Hong Kong 24 February
15 2015 Hong Kong Marathon Hong Kong Hong Kong 25 January
16 2017 N/A Dongguan China 26 November
17 2019 N/A Dongguan China 22 December [7]

Medallists[]

Men[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1973   (KOR) 2:27:31   (KOR) 2:33:45   (NEP) 2:33:45
1975   (JPN) 2:32:06   (JPN) 2:37:51   (NEP) 2:39:06
1985   (PRK) 2:20:29   (JPN) 2:24:26   (PRK) 2:24:52
1988   (JPN) 2:15:32   (KOR) 2:26:56   (CHN) 2:29:39
1990  Kim Won-Tak (KOR) 2:11:38   (JPN) 2:14:25   (KOR) 2:15:26
1992  Eduardus Nabunome (INA) 2:20:23   (JPN) 2:21:17   (KOR) 2:23:27
1994   (JPN) 2:19:04  Eduardus Nabunome (INA) 2:21:09   (JPN) 2:21:38
1996   (JPN) 2:14:02   (JPN) 2:14:03  Baek Seung-Do (KOR) 2:14:05
1998   (JPN) 2:20:03   (JPN) 2:24:51   (IND) 2:27:19
2000   (JPN) 2:26:06  Sarath Prasanna Gamage (SRI) 2:28:25   (JPN) 2:30:03
2002  Satoshi Osaki (JPN) 2:16:46   (JPN) 2:18:03  Maung Maung Nge (MYA) 2:23:15
2004  Kim Yi-Yong (KOR) 2:11:32   (JPN) 2:14:34  Han Gang (CHN) 2:15:12
2006   (JPN) 2:15:37  Takhir Mamashayev (KAZ) 2:15:58   (JPN) 2:16:39
2008   (JPN) 2:16:50  Ser-Od Bat-Ochir (MGL) 2:20:18  Valery Pisarev (KGZ) 2:21:45
2010  Mohammed Abduh Bakhet (QAT) 2:17:34   (JPN) 2:20:28   (IND) 2:20:37
2011  Mohammed Abduh Bakhet (QAT) 2:21:06   (JPN) 2:23:09   (JPN) 2:25:33
2013  Ser-Od Bat-Ochir (MGL) 2:17:56  Andrey Petrov (UZB) 2:20:24   (JPN) 2:22:22
2015   (JPN) 2:14:29  Pak Chol (PRK) 2:16:09   (MGL) 2:22:49
2017  Gopi Thonakal (IND) 2:15:48  Andrey Petrov (UZB) 2:15:51  Tseveenravdan Byambajav (MGL) 2:16:14
2019  Daichi Kamino (JPN) 2:12:18   (PRK) 2:12:21   (JPN) 2:14:32

Women[]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1985  Asha Agarwal (IND) 2:48:53  Yuko Gordon (HKG) 2:54:16   (PRK) 2:57:28
1988  Xie Lihua (CHN) 2:31:43   (JPN) 2:40:29   (MYA) 2:41:52
1990  Lee Mi-Ok (KOR) 2:37:15   (KOR) 2:37:26   (JPN) 2:49:53
1992  Sunita Godara (IND) 2:53:12   (HKG) 2:55:58   (JPN) 2:57:11
1994  Eriko Asai (JPN) 2:30:30   (JPN) 2:43:41  Winnie Lai-Chu Ng (HKG) 2:36:33
1996   (JPN) 2:37:54  Toshiko Mori (JPN) 2:38:04   (KOR) 2:39:48
1998   (CHN) 2:46:47  Vally Sathyabhama (IND) 3:06:07   (IND) 3:19:21
2000   (THA) 2:58:14   (PHI) 3:05:07  Winnie Lai-Chu Ng (HKG) 3:09:43
2002  Zhang Shujing (CHN) 2:36:27   (JPN) 2:38:35   (JPN) 2:42:21
2004  Zhang Shujing (CHN) 2:36:22   (KOR) 2:38:03  Bai Xue (CHN) 2:42:21
2006  Kim Kum-ok (PRK) 2:35:16  Zhang Shujing (CHN) 2:35:24   (PRK) 2:36:48
2008  Kim Kum-ok (PRK) 2:36:43  Jong Yong-Ok (PRK) 2:36:43   (JPN) 2:36:50
2010  Hiromi Ominami (JPN) 2:44:19  Viktoriia Poliudina (KGZ) 2:48:46   (HKG) 3:01:22
2011  Noriko Higuchi (JPN) 2:44:10   (CHN) 2:52:24   (VIE) 2:53:09
2013  Kim Kum-ok (PRK) 2:32:21   (JPN) 2:35:02  Iuliia Andreeva (KGZ) 2:39:49
2015  Kim Hye Gyong (PRK) 2:31:46  Kim Mi Gyong (PRK) 2:36:08  Gulzhanat Zhanatbek (KAZ) 2:38:36
2017  Kim Hye Gyong (PRK) 2:28:35  Keiko Nogami (JPN) 2:29:05  Jo Un-ok (PRK) 2:30:01
2019  Ri Kwang-ok (PRK) 2:30:56   (JPN) 2:31:57  Kim Ji-hyang (PRK) 2:32:10

All time medal table (from 1988)[]

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Japan (JPN)14151039
2 North Korea (PRK)64313
3 China (CHN)4239
4 South Korea (KOR)33410
5 India (IND)2136
6 Qatar (QAT)2002
7 Mongolia (MGL)1124
8 Indonesia (INA)1102
9 Thailand (THA)1001
10 Uzbekistan (UZB)0202
11 Hong Kong (HKG)0134
12 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)0123
13 Kazakhstan (KAZ)0112
14 Philippines (PHI)0101
 Sri Lanka (SRI)0101
16 Myanmar (MYA)0022
17 Vietnam (VIE)0011
Totals (17 nations)343434102

See also[]

  • Marathons at the Asian Games

References[]

  1. ^ Asian Marathon Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
  2. ^ Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
  3. ^ a b c Asian Championships Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2013-03-02). Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
  4. ^ Biwa-ko Mainichi Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
  5. ^ Nagoya International Women's Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
  6. ^ Seoul International Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
  7. ^ Kamino comes from behind to win Asian Marathon Championships . World Athletics (2019-12-22). Retrieved 2020-03-24.

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