Athletics at the 1951 Asian Games

Athletics at the 1951 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	8–11 March
Nations	11
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Athletics was contested at the 1951 Asian Games in National Stadium, New Delhi, India from 8 March to 11 March.

Medalists[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Lavy Pinto  India	10.8 =GR	Japan	11.0	Tomio Hosoda  Japan	11.1
200 m	Lavy Pinto  India	22.0 GR	M. Gabriel  India	22.5	Tomio Hosoda  Japan	22.6
400 m	Eitaro Okano  Japan	50.7 GR	India	50.8	India	51.4
800 m	India	1:59.3 GR	India	1:59.7	Japan	2:00.6
1500 m	Nikka Singh  India	4:04.1 GR	Susumu Takahashi  Japan	4:04.4	Japan	4:05.4
5000 m	Ali Baghbanbashi  Iran	15:54.2 GR	India	15:57.8	Japan	15:59.0
10,000 m	Japan	33:49.3 GR	Japan	34:32.0	India	34:58.8
110 m hurdles	Ng Liang Chiang  Singapore	15.2 GR	Michitaka Kinami  Japan	15.3	Lloyd Valberg  Singapore	15.7
400 m hurdles	Eitaro Okano  Japan	54.2 GR	India	56.9	Ng Liang Chiang  Singapore	57.6
3000 m steeplechase	Susumu Takahashi  Japan	9:30.4 GR	Ali Baghbanbashi  Iran	9:31.8	India	9:37.8
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Masaji Tajima Tomio Hosoda	42.7 GR	India Lavy Pinto M. Gabriel Ram Swaroop Alfred Shamin	42.8	Philippines Bernabe Lovina	43.9
4 × 400 m relay	India	3:24.2 GR	Japan Eitaro Okano	3:24.4	Philippines Bernabe Lovina	3:35.8
Marathon	Chhota Singh  India	2:42:58.6 GR	Katsuo Nishida  Japan	2:49:03.0	Surat Singh Mathur  India	2:53:49.8
10,000 m walk	India	52:31.4 GR	Japan	52:34.8	India	52:54.0
50 km walk	Bakhtawar Singh  India	5:44:07.4 GR	India	5:44:14.6	Japan	5:54:47.4
High jump	Andres Franco  Philippines	1.93 GR	Yukio Ishikawa  Japan	1.91	Maram Sudarmodjo  Indonesia	1.89
Pole vault	Bunkichi Sawada  Japan	4.11 GR	Ceylon	3.69	Shuhei Nishida  Japan	3.61
Long jump	Masaji Tajima  Japan	7.14 GR	Baldev Singh  India	6.99	Japan	6.98
Triple jump	Yoshio Iimuro  Japan	15.18 GR	Japan	14.25	Indonesia	14.24
Shot put	Madan Lal  India	13.78 GR	Japan	13.40	Japan	12.83
Discus throw	Makhan Singh  India	39.92 GR	Japan	39.29	Philippines	38.14
Hammer throw	Fumio Kamamoto  Japan	46.65 GR	Somnath Chopra  India	43.35	India	42.32
Javelin throw	Japan	63.97 GR	Parsa Singh  India	50.38	Indonesia	48.99
Decathlon	Japan	6324 GR	Bunkichi Sawada  Japan	5860	India	5099

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Kiyoko Sugimura  Japan	12.6	Roshan Mistry  India	12.8	Kimiko Okamoto  Japan	12.9
200 m	Kimiko Okamoto  Japan	26.0 GR	Singapore	27.2	Mary D'Souza  India	28.0
80 m hurdles	Kyoko Yoneda  Japan	12.8 GR	Singapore	13.2	Japan	13.5
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Kimiko Okamoto Ayako Yoshikawa Kiyoko Sugimura	51.4 GR	India Mary D'Souza Roshan Mistry Banoo Gulzar Pat Mendonca	51.9	Indonesia	54.4
High jump	Kyoko Yoneda  Japan	1.49 GR	Japan	1.44	Marie Semoes  India	1.37
Long jump	Kiyoko Sugimura  Japan	5.91 GR	Ayako Yoshikawa  Japan	5.18	Sylvia Gauntlet  India	4.52
Shot put	Toyoko Yoshino  Japan	11.90 GR	Fumi Kojima  Japan	10.42	Barbara Webster  India	9.02
Discus throw	Toyoko Yoshino  Japan	42.10 GR	Fumi Kojima  Japan	35.51	Indonesia	25.43
Javelin throw	Toyoko Yoshino  Japan	36.25 GR	Japan	35.33	Barbara Webster  India	26.70

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	20	17	11	48
2	India (IND)	10	12	12	34
3	Singapore (SIN)	1	2	2	5
4	Iran (IRN)	1	1	0	2
5	Philippines (PHI)	1	0	3	4
6	Ceylon (CEY)	0	1	0	1
7	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	5	5
Totals (7 nations)		33	33	33	99

Participating nations[]

References[]

• Asian Games Results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Women's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Men's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.