Athletics at the 1966 Asian Games

Athletics at the 1966 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	10–15 December
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Athletics was contested at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand from December 10 to December 15.

Medalists[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Mani Jegathesan  Malaysia	10.5	C. Kunalan	10.5	Hideo Iijima  Japan	10.5
200 m	Mani Jegathesan  Malaysia	21.5	Ajmer Singh  India	21.5	Thambu Krishnan  Malaysia	21.6
400 m	Ajmer Singh  India	47.1	Yoshinori Sakai  Japan	47.4	Masami Yoshida  Japan	47.5
800 m	Bhogeswar Baruah  India	1:49.4 GR	Subramaniam Ramasamy  Malaysia	1:49.5	Mamoru Morimoto  Japan	1:49.6
1500 m	Keisuke Sawaki  Japan	3:47.3 GR	Subramaniam Ramasamy  Malaysia	3:48.0	Satsuo Iwashita  Japan	3:48.1
5000 m	Keisuke Sawaki  Japan	14:22.0 GR	Japan	14:23.1	Lucien Rosa	14:56.0
10,000 m	Japan	30:27.8	Japan	30:36.8	Lucien Rosa	31:06.6
110 m hurdles	Ghulam Raziq  Pakistan	14.4	Japan	14.5	Ishtiaq Mubarak  Malaysia	14.7
400 m hurdles	Kiyoo Yui  Japan	51.7 GR	Japan	52.3	Malaysia	53.0
3000 m steeplechase	Taketsugu Saruwatari  Japan	8:53.6 GR	Iran	8:56.5	Nobuyoshi Matsuda  Japan	9:05.2
4 × 100 m relay	Malaysia Thambu Krishnan Rajalingam Gunaratnam Mani Jegathesan	40.6 GR	Indonesia	41.0	Philippines Rogelio Onofre Remegio Vista Arnulfo Valles William Mordeno	41.3
4 × 400 m relay	Japan Toru Honda Masami Yoshida Yoshinori Sakai Kiyoo Yui	3:09.1 GR	Malaysia Victor Asirvatham Thambu Krishnan	3:13.1	C. Kunalan	3:13.4
Marathon	Kenji Kimihara  Japan	2:33:23	Morio Shigematsu  Japan	2:35:04	Lee Sang-hoon  South Korea	2:40:56
High jump	Bhim Singh  India	2.05	Japan	2.03	Teymour Ghiasi  Iran	2.00
Pole vault	Japan	4.70 GR	Japan	4.60	South Korea	4.40
Long jump	Hiroomi Yamada  Japan	7.48	Takayuki Okazaki  Japan	7.39	Su Wen-ho  Republic of China	7.31
Triple jump	Kosei Gushiken  Japan	15.61	Japan	15.54	Labh Singh  India	15.49
Shot put	Joginder Singh  India	16.22 GR	Yoshihisa Ishida  Japan	16.13	Jalal Keshmiri  Iran	16.02
Discus throw	Praveen Kumar  India	49.62 GR	Jalal Keshmiri  Iran	49.30	Balkar Singh  India	47.64
Hammer throw	Takeo Sugawara  Japan	62.90	Shigenobu Murofushi  Japan	60.02	Praveen Kumar  India	57.18
Javelin throw	Nashatar Singh Sidhu  Malaysia	72.92	Japan	68.24	Japan	67.86
Decathlon	Wu Ah-min  Republic of China	7003	Japan	6613	Hiroomi Yamada  Japan	6553

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Japan	12.3	Japan	12.4	Debra Marcus  Israel	12.5
200 m	Debra Marcus  Israel	25.3	Japan	25.3	Japan	25.7
400 m	Mary Rajamani  Malaysia	56.3 GR	South Korea	57.5	Japan	57.7
800 m	Hana Shezifi  Israel	2:10.5 GR	Japan	2:12.7	Japan	2:13.6
80 m hurdles	Japan	11.2 =GR	Japan	11.4	Manjit Walia  India	11.4
4 × 100 m relay	Japan	47.1 GR	Republic of China Chi Cheng Yeh Chu-mei Tien Ah-mei	47.8	Malaysia Mary Rajamani	48.8
High jump	Japan	1.60 =GR	Lolita Lagrosas  Philippines	1.58		1.55
Long jump	Chi Cheng  Republic of China	5.95 =GR	Emiko Komaru  Japan	5.83	Christine Forage  India	5.69
Shot put	Japan	14.48 GR	Japan	13.92	Wu Jin-yun  Republic of China	12.83
Discus throw	Josephine de la Viña  Philippines	47.58 GR	Japan	42.34	South Korea	41.08
Javelin throw	Misako Katayama  Japan	49.44 GR	Japan	42.50	Philippines	40.90
Pentathlon	Japan	4468 GR	Yeh Chu-mei  Republic of China	3951	Lolita Lagrosas  Philippines	3889

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	18	22	10	50
2	Malaysia (MAL)	5	3	4	12
3	India (IND)	5	1	5	11
4	Republic of China (ROC)	2	2	2	6
5	Israel (ISR)	2	0	1	3
6	Philippines (PHI)	1	1	3	5
7	Pakistan (PAK)	1	0	0	1
8	Iran (IRN)	0	2	2	4
9	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	3	4
10	(SIN)	0	1	2	3
11	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	0	1
12	(CEY)	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 nations)		34	34	34	102

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.