1989 Asian Athletics Championships

The 1989 Asian Athletics Championships was the eighth edition of the international outdoor athletics competition between Asian nations, organised by the Asian Athletics Association. The six-day competition was held from 14–19 November at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, India. It featured 40 events, 22 for men and 18 for women, with the steeplechase, pole vault, triple jump and hammer throw competitions being for men only. China comfortably topped the medal table, winning over half the events with 21 golds among a total of 42. The host nation, India, was clear runner-up with eight golds and 22 medals, while Japan (14 medals) was the only other nation to breach double figures. A total of 19 nations reached the medal table.

1989 Asian Championships
Dates	14–19 November
Host city	New Delhi, India
Venue	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Events	40
Participation	at least 19 nations
← Singapore 1987 Kuala Lumpur 1991 →

India's P. T. Usha was the stand-out athlete of the tournament with four gold medals and one silver. She won the 200 metres, 400 metres, 400 metres hurdles and 4 × 400 metres relay, as well as being the 100 metres runner-up. Another Indian runner, Shiny Abraham, won the 800 metres and was second in the 400 m. China's Zhong Huandi claimed a distance double in the women's 3000 metres and 10,000 metres.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Zheng Chen China	10.35	Li Tao China	10.42	Takayuki Nakamichi Japan	10.48
200 metres	Yoshiyuki Okuyama Japan	20.80	Khalid Jouma Ibrahim Bahrain	21.07	Cai Jianming China	21.18
400 metres	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah Qatar	45.6	Mohammed Al-Malki Oman	45.62	Zhao Cunlin China	46.68
800 metres	Faramarz Roustaeifar Iran	1:51.36	Yoshikazu Tachi Japan	1:51.42	Vijaya Kumaran India	1:51.85
1500 metres	Bahadur Prasad India	3:45.77	Ram Niwas India	3:46.53	Mohamed Suleiman Qatar	3:47.95
5000 metres	Zhang Guowei China	13:52.37	Bahadur Prasad India	13:58.93	Ryu Ok-hyon North Korea	14:02.39
10,000 metres	Ryu Ok-hyon North Korea	29:07.93	Zhang Guowei China	29:14.01	Muhammad Mousa Pakistan	29:18.78
3000 metres steeplechase	Deena Ram India	8:48.46	Mohammed al-Dosari Saudi Arabia	8:48.77	Mohamed Suleiman Qatar	8:49.35
110 metres hurdles	Yu Zhicheng China	14.18	Nagi Ghazi Iraq	14.20	Osamu Matsue Japan	14.36
400 metres hurdles	Hwang Hong-cheol South Korea	50.29	Takashi Kiyokawa Japan	50.94	Suleiman Houielah Syria	51.26
4 × 100 metres relay	China Li Tao Cai Jianming Li Feng Zheng Chen	39.28	Japan Naotaka Momota Takayuki Nakamichi Yoshihiro Kato Yoshiyuki Okuyama	39.64	Qatar Talal Mansour Saad Muftah Mubarak Al-Kuwari Rashid Sheban Marzouk Jaseem Mahboob	39.89
4 × 400 metres relay	Japan Isamu Murata Shigeaki Matsunaga Seiichi Ibe Yoshikazu Tachi	3:07.20	India Arjun Devaiah P.V. Raju Ayyapan Durai C. Muralidharan	3:07.22	Malaysia Mohamed Nordin Jadi Kenny Martin Ramasamy Haridas Hamdi Jaafar	3:11.08
20 kilometres race walk	Hirofumi Sakai Japan	1:33:41	Chen Helin China	1:34:19	Baldev Singh India	1:35:52
High jump	Cho Hyun-wook South Korea	2.19	Liu Yunpeng China	2.17	Abdullah Mohamed Al-Sheib Qatar	2.14
Pole vault	Liang Xueren China	5.40	Huang Weiping China	5.20	Ku Chin-shui Chinese Taipei	5.20
Long jump	Nai Hui-fang Chinese Taipei	8.07w	Chen Zunrong China	7.88	Kim Won-jin South Korea	7.83
Triple jump	Chen Yanping China	16.95	Du Benzhong China	16.68	Nai Hui-fang Chinese Taipei	16.65
Shot put	Balwinder Singh India	18.16	Khalid Salman Al-Khalidi Saudi Arabia	17.76	Shirappa D. Eashan India	17.71
Discus throw	Zhang Jinglong China	57.12	Hu Tao China	56.02	Shakti Singh India	55.60
Hammer throw	Bi Zhong China	68.94	Nobuhiro Todoroki Japan	66.04	Xie Yingqi China	65.72
Javelin throw	Wang Wenzhong China	76.38	Ghanem Mabrouk Zaid Johar Kuwait	72.38	Wang Yao-Tsung Chinese Taipei	71.94
Decathlon	Lee Fu-an Chinese Taipei	7703	Gong Guohua China	7649	Peng Huang-shu Chinese Taipei	7119

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Zhang Caihua China	11.65	P. T. Usha India	11.74	Wang Huei-chen Chinese Taipei	11.84
200 metres	P. T. Usha India	23.27	Ashwini Nachappa India	23.54	Zhang Xiaoqiong China	23.88
400 metres	P. T. Usha India	51.90	Shiny Abraham India	52.40	Josephine Mary Singarayar Malaysia	52.65
800 metres	Shiny Abraham India	2:04.76	Rosa Kutty India	2:07.75	Haruko Hashimoto Japan	2:09.78
1500 metres	Khin Khin Htwe Myanmar	4:21.06	Kim Chun-Mae North Korea	4:23.75	Feng Yanbo China	4:23.86
3000 metres	Zhong Huandi China	9:05.20	Kim Chun-Mae North Korea	9:11.55	Khin Khin Htwe Myanmar	9:22.80
10,000 metres	Zhong Huandi China	32:25.57	Mun Gyong-ae North Korea	33:23.91	Paek Do-Jong North Korea	34:00.38
100 metres hurdles	Liu Huajin China	13.30	Feng Yinghua China	13.54	Naomi Jojima Japan	13.97
400 metres hurdles	P. T. Usha India	56.14	Chen Yuying China	56.24	Chen Dongmei China	57.46
4 × 100 metres relay	China Li Shuxiang Liu Huajin Zhang Caihua Zhang Xiaoqiong	44.84	India Kutty Saramma PT Usha Ashwini Nachappa Sany Joseph	44.87	Thailand Nednapa Chommuak Ratjai Sripet Pornpim Srisurat Rewadee Srithoa	45.58
4 × 400 metres relay	India PT Usha Shiny Abraham Mercy Matthews-Kuttan Kutty Saramma	3:32.95	China Sun Sumei Zhang Xiaoqiong Chen Juying Chen Dongmei	3:37.13	Japan Chizuko Akimoto Kozue Tanaka Haruko Hashimoto Kimiko Yokoyama	3:45.18
10,000 metres race walk	Chen Yueling China	48:59.86	Kavita Garari India	50:30.90	Ma Kyin Lwan Myanmar	50:32.92
High jump	Jin Ling China	1.89	Kim Hui-seon South Korea	1.87	Su Cun-Yueh Chinese Taipei	1.81
Long jump	Liu Shuzhen China	6.36	Elma Muros Philippines	6.17	Reeth Abraham India	6.15
Shot put	Huang Zhihong China	19.69	Sui Xinmei China	19.29	Chong Chun-Hwa North Korea	14.53
Discus throw	Yu Hourun China	61.92	Ikuko Kitamori Japan	51.78	Pak In-Ok North Korea	47.12
Javelin throw	Xin Xiaoli China	58.30	Xu Demei China	57.32	Emi Matsui Japan	55.30
Heptathlon	Dong Yuping China	6042	Ma Miaolan China	6021	Ma Chun-ping Chinese Taipei	5149

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	21	15	6	42
2	India (IND)	8	9	5	22
3	Japan (JPN)	3	5	6	14
4	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	1	4
5	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	2	0	7	9
6	North Korea (PRK)	1	3	4	8
7	Qatar (QAT)	1	0	4	5
8	Myanmar (MYA)	1	0	2	3
9	Iran (IRN)	1	0	0	1
10	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	2	0	2
11	Bahrain (BHR)	0	1	0	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	1	0	1
	Kuwait (KUW)	0	1	0	1
	Oman (OMN)	0	1	0	1
	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	0	1
16	Malaysia (MAS)	0	0	2	2
17	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		40	40	40	120

See also

• 1989 in athletics (track and field)

References

• Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2019-08-21.