1979 Asian Athletics Championships

The third Asian Athletics Championships were held in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan.

1979 Asian Championships
Dates	May 31-June 3
Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	National Olympic Stadium
Participation	at least 10 nations
← Seoul 1975 Tokyo 1981 →

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s)	Suchart Chairsuvaparb Thailand	10.63	Suh Mei-Guh South Korea	10.75	Akira Harada Japan	10.80
200 metres (wind: -1.7 m/s)	Yasuhiro Harada Japan	21.34	Shunzo Shito Japan	21.34	Toshio Toyota Japan	21.39
400 metres	Shoichi Handa Japan	47.45	Abbas Al-Aibi Iraq	47.47	Fahim Sada Iraq	47.51
800 metres	Falah Naji Jarallah Iraq	1:49.5a	Toshifumi Shigenari Japan	1:49.6a	Sant Kumar India	1:50.1a
1500 metres	Ratan Singh Bhadouria India	3:49.8a	Takashi Ishii Japan	3:50.1a	Toshifumi Shigenari Japan	3:50.9a
5000 metres	Hideki Kita Japan	13:55.3a	Takao Nakamura Japan	13:59.8a	Gopal Singh Saini India	13:59.8a
10,000 metres	Toshihiko Seko Japan	28:59.2a	Kunimitsu Ito Japan	29:00.2a	Takeshi So Japan	29:02.5a
3000 metre steeplechase	Masanari Shintaku Japan	8:40.8a	Hitoshi Iwabuchi Japan	8:57.2a	Gopal Singh Saini India	9:12.4a
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Yoshifumi Fujimori Japan	14.29	Satbir Singh India	14.53	Jabbar Rahima Iraq	14.72
400 metres hurdles	Hussein Kadhum Iraq	51.18	Takashi Nagao Japan	51.53	Yukihiro Yoshimatsu Japan	52.14
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan Yasuhiro Harada Junichi Usui Shunzo Shito Akira Harada	39.70	Thailand Somsak Boontud Suchart Chairsuvaparb Anat Ratanapol Prasit Boonprasert	40.20	India Adille Sumariwalla Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran O.L. Thomas Thamizharasan	40.41
4 × 400 metres relay	Iraq Hussein Ali Nasayyif Heitham Nadim Fahim Abdul-Sada Abbas Al-Aibi	3:08.8a	Japan Eiji Natori Yasuhiro Harada Takayuki Isobe Takashi Nagao	3:08.9a	India P.V. Kamaraj Piara Singh Harkamaljit Singh Uday Krishna Prabhu	3:11.8a
20 kilometre road walk	Hakam Singh India	1:35:40	Wang Qiang People's Republic of China	1:35:48	Vellasamy Subramaniam Malaysia	1:36:27
High jump	Kazunori Koshikawa Japan	2.15	Takao Sakamoto Japan	2.15	Takashi Katamine Japan	2.15
Pole vault	Itsuo Takanezawa Japan	5.20	Tomomi Takahashi Japan	5.10	Yosuhiro Kigawa Japan	5.00
Long jump	Junichi Usui Japan	7.97	Suresh Babu India	7.94	Toshihisa Yoshimoto Japan	7.91w
Triple jump	Zhou Zhenxian People's Republic of China	17.02	Motokuni Hiratani Japan	16.52w	Masami Nakanishi Japan	16.50w
Shot put	Mohammed Al-Zinkawi Kuwait	17.78	Zhao Baoqin People's Republic of China	17.50	Bahadur Singh Chouhan India	17.47
Discus throw	Kiyotaka Kawasaki Japan	55.34	Li Weinan People's Republic of China	54.64	Michio Kita Japan	53.06
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi Japan	66.73	Masayuki Kawata Japan	65.94	Raghubir Singh Bal India	61.52
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao People's Republic of China	86.50	Toshihiro Yamada Japan	78.46	Masahiko Takita Japan	78.46
Decathlon	Atsushi Kasai Japan	7096	Toshikazu Kobayashi Japan	6983	Jin Xuewei People's Republic of China	6975

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s)	Emiko Konishi Japan	12.09	Ying Yaping People's Republic of China	12.10	Mo Myung-Hee South Korea	12.11
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Sumiko Kaibara Japan	24.45	Mo Myung-Hee South Korea	24.49	Emiko Konishi Japan	24.72
400 metres	Chung Byong-Soon South Korea	54.33	Rita Sen India	54.99	Yumiko Aoi Japan	55.66
800 metres	Chung Byong-Soon South Korea	2:06.1a	Chang Yong-Ae North Korea	2:10.2a	Takako Sanda Japan	2:11.8a
1500 metres	Kim Ok-Sun North Korea	4:25.0a	Kim Chun-Hwa North Korea	4:29.1a	Lü Hongxiang People's Republic of China	4:31.3a
3000 metres	Kim Ok-Sun North Korea	9:24.9a	Yang Yenying People's Republic of China	9:30.8a	Kim Chun-Hwa North Korea	9:31.4a
100 metres hurdles (wind: +1.2 m/s)	Emi Akimoto Japan	14.17	Dai Jianhua People's Republic of China	14.33	Tamie Motegi Japan	14.45
400 metres hurdles	Yumiko Aoi Japan	60.46	Marina Chin Leng Sim Malaysia	61.63	Zhan Xin People's Republic of China	61.84
4 × 100 metre relay	Japan Yukiko Osako Sumiko Kaihara Emiko Konishi Emi Akimoto-Sasaki	45.85	Thailand Buspranee Ratanapol Usanee Laopinkarn Pusadee Sangvijit Walapa Pinij	46.03	India Veena Chandola Rita Sen Angel Mary Joseph Srirupa Chatterjee	46.93
4 × 400 metre relay	Japan Yoshie Iizuka Masae Kiguchi Hiromi Hatano Yumiko Aoi	3:45.9a	Malaysia Marina Chin Zaiton Othman Vengadasalam Angamah Saik Oik Cum	3:46.3a	Philippines Mirna Ayo Carmen Torres Lorena Morcilla Lydia De Vega	3:57.5a
High jump	Zheng Dazhen People's Republic of China	1.87	Tamami Yagi Japan	1.81	Hisayo Fukumitsu Japan	1.81
Long jump	Sumie Awara Japan	6.42w	Zou Wa People's Republic of China	6.27w	Kazuko Ishizu Japan	6.05w
Shot put	Shen Lijuan People's Republic of China	17.48	Yukari Seo Japan	14.78	Yumiko Asari Japan	14.12
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui People's Republic of China	58.62	Yukari Seo Japan	46.64	Yumiko Asari Japan	44.16
Javelin throw	Li Xia People's Republic of China	58.44	Yao Juiying People's Republic of China	54.82	Naomi Shibusawa Japan	51.16
Pentathlon	Ye Peisu People's Republic of China	4139	Tomoko Uchida Japan	3753	Sachie Sekiguchi Japan	3706

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	20	18	21	59
2	People's Republic of China	7	8	3	18
3	Iraq (IRQ)	3	1	2	6
4	India (IND)	2	3	8	13
5	North Korea (PRK)	2	2	1	5
	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	1	5
7	Thailand (THA)	1	2	0	3
8	Kuwait (KUW)	1	0	0	1
9	Malaysia (MAS)	0	2	1	3
10	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		38	38	38	114

External links

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