Athletics at the 2019 South Asian Games

Athletics at the 2019 South Asian Games
Venue	Dasarath Stadium, Kathmandu
Dates	3–7 December 2019
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Athletics or track and field will be among the sports to be contested at the 2019 South Asian Games.^[1] Athletics will be hosted in the Dasarath Stadium. This stadium will also host the games' Opening and Closing Ceremony.

Hassan Saaid of the Maldives, won his country's first ever South Asian Games gold medal.^[2] Sri Lanka topped the medal count, winning a total of 15 gold medals, marking the first time since the 1993 games where the country has topped the athletics medal table.^[3]

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation ()

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sri Lanka (SRI)	15	13	8	36
2	India (IND)	14	21	14	49
3	Pakistan (PAK)	3	2	4	9
4	(NEP)*	3	1	4	8
5	Maldives (MDV)	1	0	1	2
6	Bangladesh (BAN)	0	1	3	4
Totals (6 nations)		36	38	34	108

Men's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Hassan Saaid  Maldives	10.49	Himasha Eashan  Sri Lanka	10.50	Pakistan	10.71
200 m	Pakistan	21.15	Vinoj Suranjaya  Sri Lanka	21.19	Hassan Saaid  Maldives	21.22
400 m	Aruna Darshana  Sri Lanka	46.69	Sri Lanka	46.79	K. S. Jeevan  India	47.42
800 m	Indunil Herath  Sri Lanka	1:50.52	India	1:51.25		1:51.44
1500 m	Ajay Kumar Saroj  India	3:54.18	India	3:57.18		3:59.20
5000 m		14:54.20	India	14:55.21	Hari Rimal	14:57.05
10000 m	India	29:33:61	Sri Lanka	30:49:30		30:50:06
110 m hurdles	India	14.37	Sri Lanka	14.42	India	14.56
400 m hurdles	India	51.42	India	51.98	Sri Lanka	54.33
4 × 100 m relay	Sri Lanka (SRI) Himasha Eashan Vinoj Suranjaya Yupun Priyadarshana	39.14 GR	India (IND) Amiya Kumar Mallick	39.97	Bangladesh (BAN)	40.76
4 × 400 m relay	Sri Lanka (SRI) Aruna Darshana	3:08.04	India (IND) K. S. Jeevan M. P. Jabir	3:08.21	Bangladesh (BAN)	3:15.50
Marathon		2:21:17	India	2:21:57	India	2:22:07
High jump	India	2.21m GR	[fr]  India  Bangladesh	2.16m	Not awarded as there was a tie for silver.
Long jump	India	7.87m	India	7.77m	Al Amin  Bangladesh	7.60m
Triple jump	India	16.47m	India	16.16m	Sri Lanka	15.95m
Shot put	Tejinder Pal Singh Toor  India	20.03m GR	Om Prakash Karhana  India	17.31m	Sri Lanka	15.55m
Discus throw	India	57.88m	India	53.57m	Pakistan	44.31m
Javelin throw	Arshad Nadeem  Pakistan	86.29m GR	Shivpal Singh  India	84.16m	Sumeda Ranasinghe  Sri Lanka	74.97m

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Archana Suseendran  India	11.80	Sri Lanka	11.82	Sri Lanka	11.84
200 m	Archana Suseendran  India	23.66	Najma Parveen  Pakistan	23.69 NR	India	24.27
400 m	Dilshi Kumarasinghe  Sri Lanka	53.40	India	54.31	Sahib-e-Asra  Pakistan	54.58
800 m	Dilshi Kumarasinghe  Sri Lanka	2:06.18	Gayanthika Abeyratne  Sri Lanka	2:08.52	India	2:08.97
1500 m	Sri Lanka	4:34.34	India	4:34.51	P. U. Chitra  India	4:35.46
5000 m	Sri Lanka	16:55.18	India	16:57.49	India	17:09.32
10000 m		35:07.94	India	35:07.95	Sri Lanka	35:09.02
100 m hurdles	Sri Lanka	13.68	India	14.13	Sri Lanka	14.18
400 m hurdles	Najma Parveen  Pakistan	1:00.35 NR	Sri Lanka	1:00.40	India	1:01.38
4 × 100 m relay	Sri Lanka (SRI)	44.89	India (IND) Himashree Roy Archana Suseendran	45.36	Pakistan (PAK) Sahib-e-Asra Najma Parveen	46.74
4 × 400 m relay	Sri Lanka (SRI) Gayanthika Abeyratne Dilshi Kumarasinghe	3:41.10	Pakistan (PAK) Sahib-e-Asra Rabia Ashiq Najma Parveen	3:41.74	India (IND)	3:41.81
Marathon	Hiruni Wijayaratne  Sri Lanka	2:41:27		2:50:11 NR	India	2:52:44
High jump	India	1.73m	India  Sri Lanka	1.69m	Not awarded as there was a tie for silver.
Long jump	Sri Lanka	6.38m	Sri Lanka	6.11m	India	6.02m
Triple jump	Sri Lanka	13.21m	Vidusha Lakshani  Sri Lanka	13.14m	India	12.77m
Shot put	India	15.32m	Sri Lanka	14.35m	India	13.66m
Discus throw	Navjeet Dhillon  India	49.85m	India	47.31m	Sri Lanka	41.29m
Javelin throw	Dilhani Lekamge  Sri Lanka	55.02m	Nadeeka Lakmali  Sri Lanka	54.41m	India	53.64m

See also[]

Doping at the 2019 South Asian Games

References[]