Athletics at the 1958 Asian Games

Athletics was contested at the 1958 Asian Games in National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan from May 25 to May 29.

Athletics at the 1958 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	25–29 May

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Abdul Khaliq  Pakistan	10.9	Kyohei Ushio  Japan	11.0	Isaac Gomez  Philippines	11.1
200 m	Milkha Singh  India	21.6 =GR	Abdul Khaliq  Pakistan	21.7	Enrique Bautista  Philippines	22.2
400 m	Milkha Singh  India	47.0	Pablo Somblingo  Philippines	48.5	Abdul Rahim Ahmad  Malaya	48.8
800 m	Yoshitaka Muroya  Japan	1:52.1 GR	Mahmoud Khaligh Razavi  Iran	1:52.2	Sim Sang-ok  South Korea	1:52.3
1500 m	Mahmoud Khaligh Razavi  Iran	3:57.6	Michio Okayama  Japan	3:58.2	Sim Sang-ok  South Korea	3:59.1
5000 m	Osamu Inoue  Japan	14:39.4 GR	Han Sung-chul  South Korea	14:41.8	Ali Baghbanbashi  Iran	14:43.0
10,000 m	Takashi Baba  Japan	30:48.4 GR	Mubarak Shah  Pakistan	30:49.8	Ali Baghbanbashi  Iran	30:50.4
110 m hurdles	Ghulam Raziq  Pakistan	14.4 GR	Yang Chuan-kwang  Republic of China	14.8	Hirokazu Yasuda  Japan	14.8
400 m hurdles	Tsai Cheng-fu  Republic of China	52.4 GR	Keiji Ogushi  Japan	52.8	Yang Chuan-kwang  Republic of China	53.0
3000 m steeplechase	Mubarak Shah  Pakistan	9:03.0 GR	Masayuki Nunogami  Japan	9:04.2	Susumu Takahashi  Japan	9:05.8
4 × 100 m relay	Philippines Remegio Vista Isaac Gomez Pedro Subido Enrique Bautista	41.4	Japan Kyohei Ushio Masaru Kamata Yoshiaki Hara Yasuhiro Yanagi	41.4	Pakistan Muhammad Sharif Butt Ghulam Raziq Muhammad Ramzan Ali Abdul Khaliq	41.5
4 × 400 m relay	Japan Kanji Akagi Keiji Ogushi Takejiro Hayashi Yoshitaka Muroya	3:13.9 GR	Republic of China Tsai Cheng-fu Chen Huey-kuen Chen Lo-chen Chen Ying-lang	3:18.0	Philippines Erasma Arellano Aparicio Mequi Antonio Suplido Pablo Somblingo	3:18.2
Marathon	Lee Chang-hoon  South Korea	2:32:55 GR	Myitung Naw  Burma	2:42:46	Nobuyoshi Sadanaga  Japan	2:43:44
High jump	Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam  Ceylon	2.03 GR	Noboru Kasamatsu  Japan	2.00	Yukio Ishikawa  Japan	1.95
Pole vault	Noriaki Yasuda  Japan	4.20 GR	Kozo Akasaka  Japan	4.20 =GR	Allah Ditta  Pakistan	4.20 =GR
Long jump	Suh Yong-joo  South Korea	7.54 GR	Yang Chuan-kwang  Republic of China	7.49	Muhammad Ramzan Ali  Pakistan	7.30
Triple jump	Mohinder Singh  India	15.62 GR	Koji Sakurai  Japan	15.41	Tomio Ota  Japan	15.19
Shot put	Parduman Singh Brar  India	15.04 GR	Hitoshi Goto  Japan	14.80	Uri Zohar  Israel	14.75
Discus throw	Balkar Singh  India	47.66 GR	Muhammad Ayub  Pakistan	46.01	Parduman Singh Brar  India	45.67
Hammer throw	Muhammad Iqbal  Pakistan	60.97 GR	Masaru Urushibata  Japan	57.88	Malik Noor  Pakistan	54.03
Javelin throw	Muhammad Nawaz  Pakistan	69.41 GR	Jalal Khan  Pakistan	66.00	Baruch Feinberg  Israel	63.78
Decathlon	Yang Chuan-kwang  Republic of China	7101 GR	Kiyoshi Katsuki  Japan	5968	Shosuke Suzuki  Japan	5939

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Inocencia Solis  Philippines	12.5 =GR	Sakura Fukuyama  Japan	12.7	Yuko Kobayashi  Japan	12.7
200 m	Yuko Kobayashi  Japan	25.9	Stephie D'Souza  India	26.2	Hiroko Shiojiri  Japan	26.3
80 m hurdles	Michiko Iwamoto  Japan	11.6 GR	Francisca Sanopal  Philippines	11.6 =GR	Manolita Cinco  Philippines	12.1
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Sakura Fukuyama Yoshie Fujii Ikuko Yoda Yuko Kobayashi	48.6 GR	Philippines Inocencia Solis Rogelia Ferrer Irene Penuela Francisca Sanopal	49.0	India Christine Brown Violet Peters Stephie D'Souza Mary Leela Rao	49.4
High jump	Emiko Kamiya  Japan	1.58 GR	Lolita Lagrosas  Philippines	1.56	Yumiko Kondo  Japan	1.54
Long jump	Visitacion Badana  Philippines	5.64	Mikiko Tazaki  Japan	5.49	Huang Hsing  Republic of China	5.32
Shot put	Seiko Obonai  Japan	13.26 GR	Motoko Yoshida  Japan	13.07	Wu Jin-yun  Republic of China	11.46
Discus throw	Hiroko Uchida  Japan	41.90	Seiko Obonai  Japan	40.29	Huang Chun-mien  Republic of China	33.65
Javelin throw	Yoriko Shida  Japan	47.15 GR	Elizabeth Davenport  India	46.07	Karnah Soekarta  Indonesia	45.03

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	12	15	9	36
2	Pakistan (PAK)	5	4	4	13
3	India (IND)	5	2	2	9
4	Philippines (PHI)	3	4	4	11
5	Republic of China (ROC)	2	3	4	9
6	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	2	5
7	Iran (IRN)	1	1	2	4
8	Ceylon (CEY)	1	0	0	1
9	Burma (BIR)	0	1	0	1
10	Israel (ISR)	0	0	2	2
11	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	1	1
	Malaya (MAL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		31	31	31	93

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.