Athletics at the 2004 South Asian Games

At the 2004 South Asian Games, the athletics events were held at the Jinnah Stadium in Islamabad, Pakistan from 2 April to 6 April 2004. A total of 32 events were contested, of which 19 by male and 13 by female athletes.^[1] A total of six Games records were set over the course of the five-day competition.

India topped the medal rankings with 15 golds and 29 medals to their name – an Indian athlete reached the podium in all the women's events. Sri Lanka were second best, followed by the hosts Pakistan. Madhuri Singh scored an 800/1500 metres double gold medal in the women's events. Sri Lanka's Rohan Pradeep Kumara made an impact on the men's side by winning the 200 and 400 metres events, as well as helping the Sri Lanka 4×400 m relay team to another gold.

Records[]

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Manjula Kumara Wijesekara	High jump	Sri Lanka	2.20 m	GR NR
Rohan Pradeep Kumara	200 metres	Sri Lanka	20.99	GR
	4×100 metres relay	India	39.91	GR
	Triple jump	India	16.16 m	GR
Sangeetha Mohan	High jump	India	1.81 m	GR
Seema Antil	Discus throw	India	57.03 m	GR

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(IND)	10.44	(IND)	10.62	(PAK)	10.67
200 metres	Rohan Pradeep Kumara (SRI)	20.99 GR	(PAK)	21.24	(IND)	21.35
400 metres	Rohan Pradeep Kumara (SRI)	45.89	Prasanna Sampath Amarasekara (SRI)	45.95	Saghir Ahmad (PAK)	46.75 NR
800 metres	(SRI)	1:51.60	(IND)	1:52.21	(PAK)	1:52.24
1500 metres	(PAK)	3:43.40	Chaminda Wijekoon (SRI)	3:44.85	(IND)	3:50.18
5000 metres	(PAK)	14:39.47	Rajindra Baledran (IND)	14:42.63	(SRI)	14:42.68
110 metre hurdles	Abdul Rashid (PAK)	14.33	(PAK)	14.41	Krishan Mohan (IND)	14.42
400 metre hurdles	(PAK)	51.15	A.M.P Suranga Adikari (SRI)	51.3	(PAK)	52.15
3000 metre steeplechase	(SRI)	8:57.04	Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari (NEP)	8:57.30 NR	(PAK)	9:10.53
4×100 metres relay	India (IND)	39.91 GR	Sri Lanka (SRI)	40.09	Pakistan (PAK) Nasim Shah Mohammad Shahbaz Afzal Baig	40.36 NR
4×400 metres relay	Sri Lanka (SRI) Rohan Pradeep Kumara Ranga Wimalawansa Prasanna Sampath Amarasekara Sugath Thilakaratne	3:05.80	Pakistan (PAK) Abdul Majid	3:07.03	India (IND)	3:07.13
Marathon	Anuradha Indrajith Cooray (SRI)	2:16:38	(SRI)	2:19.29	(NEP)	2: 21.23
High jump	Manjula Kumara Wijesekara (SRI)	2.20 m GR NR	(SRI)	2.11 m	(IND)	2.09 m
Long jump	(IND)	7.70 m	Ghulam Abbas (PAK)	7.60 m	(IND)	7.59 m
Triple jump	(IND)	16.16 m GR	(PAK)	15.79 m	(IND)	15.69 m
Shot put	(IND)	17.41 m	(IND)	16.71 m	(PAK)	16.41 m
Discus throw	(IND)	53.77 m	(IND)	53.55 m	(PAK)	51.35 m
Hammer throw	(PAK)	62.88 m	(PAK)	62.85 m	(IND)	62.77 m
Javelin throw	(IND)	75.71 m	(PAK)	74.67 m	(PAK)	71.10 m

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Jani Chathurangani Silva (SRI)	11.81	(IND)	11.96	(IND)	11.98
200 metres	Susanthika Jayasinghe (SRI)	23.49	(SRI)	24.31	(IND)	24.76
400 metres	(IND)	52.25	Chitra Soman (IND)	52.43	(BAN)	55.46
800 metres	Madhuri Singh (IND)	2:07.61	(SRI)	2:07.84	(PAK)	2:09.49.
1500 metres	Madhuri Singh (IND)	4:31.16	(PAK)	4:31.41 NR	Preeja Sreedharan (IND)	4:32.24
100 metre hurdles	Sriyani Kulawansa (SRI)	13.37	(IND)	13.84	(IND)	13.88
4×100 metres relay	Sri Lanka (SRI) Jani Chathurangani Silva Sriyani Kulawansa Sujani Menaka	46.13	India (IND)	46.21	Bangladesh (BAN)	47.92
4×400 metres relay	India (IND)	3:33.49	Sri Lanka (SRI)	3:44.12	Pakistan (PAK)	3:46.10
High jump	Sangeetha Mohan (IND)	1.81 m GR	Sahana Kumari (IND)	1.75 m	(SRI)	1.69 m
Long jump	(IND)	6.30 m	Foujia Huda (BAN)	6.07 m	(IND)	5.82 m
Shot put	(IND)	15.36 m	(IND)	14.48 m	(PAK)	13.47 m
Discus throw	Seema Antil (IND)	57.03 m GR	(IND)	49.13 m	(SRI)	42.31 m
Javelin throw	(SRI)	51.37 m	Gurmeet Kaur (IND)	51.27 m	(IND)	50.58 m

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Pakistan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India (IND)	15	12	14	41
2	Sri Lanka (SRI)	12	9	3	24
3	Pakistan (PAK)*	5	8	12	25
4	Nepal (NEP)	0	2	1	3
5	Bangladesh (BAN)	0	1	2	3
6	Afghanistan (AFG)	0	0	0	0
	Bhutan (BHU)	0	0	0	0
	Maldives (MDV)	0	0	0	0
Totals (8 nations)		32	32	32	96

References[]

General

• South Asian (Federation) Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
• Weerawansa, Dinesh (2004-04-02). South Asian Games - Day One. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
• Weerawansa, Dinesh (2004-04-03). Jayasinghe takes 200m - South Asian Games - Day Two. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
• Weerawansa, Dinesh (2004-04-04). Cooray wins men’s Marathon - 2:16:38 - South Asian Games, Day 3. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
• Weerawansa, Dinesh (2004-04-05). India upsets Sri Lanka in men's 100m final - South Asian Games - Day Four. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.
• Weerawansa, Dinesh (2004-04-06). Third gold for Kumar - South Asian Games - Final Day. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-03-04.

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