Athletics at the 1963 GANEFO

I GANEFO
Dates	November 1963
Host city	Jakarta, Indonesia
Events	33
1966 Phnom Penh → 1963 GANEFO

At the 1963 GANEFO, the athletics events were held in Jakarta, Indonesia in November.^[1] A total of 21 men's and 12 women's athletics events were contested at the competition.^[2]

Given that the Soviet Union sent a lower standard of athletes to the games, China dominated the athletics competition. China won all but three of the women's events and won eleven gold medals in the men's section. The second most successful nation was North Korea, which won four gold medals, led by a triple gold medal performance by Sin Kim-dan. The next most successful nation was the United Arab Republic (combining Egypt and Syria), which swept the men's distance track events, and also won four gold medals.

This was a major international event for Chinese and North Korean athletes in particular, as they were excluded from the Asian Games, including the 1962 Jakarta Games held a year earlier. The Asian Games sprint and hurdles champion Mohammad Sarengat by China's . Ni Zhiqin won the men's high jump and would break the world record in that event later in his career. His counterpart on the women's side Zheng Fengrong was similarly successful, having become the first Chinese world record breaker in 1957 – here she was only runner-up (behind her teammate ) but won the women's pentathlon event.^[2] Another high-profile competitor was men's long jump winner Ali Brakchi, an Algerian who represented France at the 1960 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(CHN)	10.7	(CAM)	10.8	(CHN)	10.8
200 metres	(INA)	21.8	(CHN)	21.9	(CAM)	21.9
400 metres	(CHN)	49.5	(FIN)	49.8	(INA)	50.3
800 metres	(EGY)	1:52.3	(PRK)	1:54.5	(FIN)	1:55.9
1500 metres	(EGY)	4:00.8	(PRK)	4:00.9	(CHN)	4:02.9
5000 metres	(EGY)	14:57.5	Pak Yong-Ho (PRK)	14:58.8	(MAR)	15:08.2
10,000 metres	(EGY)	31:05.2	(MAR)	31:09.0	(INA)  Rachid (TUN)	32:51.1
Marathon	(PRK)	2:49:51	(PRK)	2:49:52	(INA)	3:01:41
110 m hurdles	(CHN)	14.3	Mohammed Sarengat (INA)	14.6	(EGY)	14.8
400 m hurdles	(CHN)	52.5	(EGY)	53.7	(FIN)	54.9
4 × 100 m relay	Indonesia (INA) Mohammad Sarengat	41.8	China (CHN)	41.9	Cambodia (CAM)	43.4
4 × 400 m relay	Indonesia (INA)	3:20.6	Philippines (PHI)	3:21.3	Cambodia (CAM)	3:27.3
High jump	Ni Zhiqin (CHN)	2.01 m	(CHN)	1.99 m	Ciriaco Baronda (PHI)	1.90 m
Pole vault	Hu Zurong (CHN)	4.40 m	(CHN)	4.30 m	(IRQ)	4.00 m
Long jump	Ali Brakchi (ALG)	7.51 m	(CHN)	7.36 m	(EGY)	7.31 m
Triple jump	(CHN)	16.04 m	(CHN)	15.87 m	(EGY)	14.73 m
Shot put	(CHN)	17.02 m	(CHN)	15.73 m	(ALB)	15.10 m
Discus throw	(CHN)	48.42 m	(CHN)	47.57 m	(ALB)	43.92 m
Hammer throw	(CHN)	62.33 m	(SYR)	51.02 m	(CHN)	50.84 m
Javelin throw	(CHN)	66.71 m	(INA)	65.53 m	(CHN)	62.57 m
Decathlon	(IRQ)	5900 pts	(INA)	5807 pts	(PHI)	4954 pts

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(CHN)	12.4	(CHN)	12.5	(JPN)	12.6
200 metres	Sin Kim-dan (PRK)	23.5	(CHN)	25.8	(INA)	26.8
400 metres	Sin Kim-dan (PRK)	51.4	(CHN)	57.7	(INA)	58.8
800 metres	Sin Kim-dan (PRK)	1:59.1	(CHN)	2:18.4	(INA)	2:20.0
80 m hurdles	(CHN)	11.4	(CHN)	11.8	(INA)	12.5
4 × 100 m relay	China (CHN)	48.2	Indonesia (INA)	50.5	Cambodia (CAM)	52.6
High jump	(CHN)	1.70 m	Zheng Fengrong (CHN)	1.68 m	(PRK)	1.58 m
Long jump	(CHN)	5.74 m	(CHN)	5.51 m	(INA)	5.45 m
Shot put	(CHN)	15.25 m	(CHN)	14.47 m	(PRK)	13.37 m
Discus throw	(CHN)	47.17 m	(CHN)	46.00 m	(PRK)	44.13 m
Javelin throw	Dong He (CHN)	47.32 m	(INA)	39.45 m	(INA)	39.31 m
Pentathlon	Zheng Fengrong (CHN)	4525 pts	(CHN)	3616 pts	(INA)	3407 pts

References[]

Medalists

• GANEFO Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-01-14.