1983 Asian Athletics Championships

The fifth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in November 1983 in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Suchart Chairsuvaparb Thailand	10.47	Sumet Promna Thailand	10.52	Mohamed Purnomo Indonesia	10.60
200 metres (wind: -4.2 m/s)	Sumet Promna Thailand	21.39	Mohamed Purnomo Indonesia	21.64	Jang Jae-keun South Korea	21.70
400 metres	Isidro del Prado Philippines	46.24	Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Iraq	46.74	Mohamed Nordin Jadi Malaysia	46.76
800 metres	Najem Abdullah Mutlaq Kuwait	1:49.43	Khalid Khalifa Kuwait	1:49.97	Wang Lung-hua Chinese Taipei	1:49.98
1500 metres	Suresh Yadav Template:Flagu	3:44.74	Susumu Yoshida Template:Flagu	3:45.67	Najem Abdullah Mutlaq Kuwait	3:45.77
5000 metres	Zhang Guowei Template:Flagu	14:07.72	Raj Kumar Template:Flagu	14:22.56	Park Kyung-Duk South Korea	14:25.85
10,000 metres	Zhang Guowei Template:Flagu	29:45.41	Park Kyung-Duk South Korea	30:04.89	Mohammad Vojdanzadeh Iran	30:20.88
3000 metre steeplechase	Template:Ill Chinese Taipei	8:54.85	Hector Begeo Philippines	8:55.57	Anokh Singh Template:Flagu	9:05.80
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Wu Chin-jing Chinese Taipei	13.90	Yu Zhicheng Template:Flagu	14.16	Ahmed Hamada Jassim Bahrain	14.24 (NR)
400 metres hurdles	Ahmed Hamada Jassim Bahrain	49.43	Shigenori Ohmori Template:Flagu	50.69	Lin Cheng-jih Chinese Taipei	51.09
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagu Cai Jianming He Baodong Yu Zhuanghui Yuan Guoqiang	40.16	Thailand Prasit Boonprasert Somsak Boontud Suchart Chairsuvaparb Sumet Promna	40.25	South Korea Kim Yong-il Sung Nak-kun Choi Yong-joon Park Sung-jun	40.60
4 × 400 metres relay	Iraq Fahim Abdul-Sada Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Abbas Ali Lafta Heitham Nadim	3:07.98	Template:Flagu Ghulam Kibria Charanjit Singh Bajwa Pavittar Singh Rajinder Sharma	3:11.02	Philippines Isidro Del Prado Honesto Larce Leopoldo Arnillo Renato Unso	3:11.09
20 kilometre road walk	Chand Ram Template:Flagu	1:30:14	Zhang Fuzin Template:Flagu	1:32:14	Buta Singh Template:Flagu	1:43:19
High jump	Zhu Jianhua Template:Flagu	2.31	Qassim Mohammed Iraq	2.10	Chin Yi-Shik South Korea	2.05
Pole vault	Zhang Chen Template:Flagu	5.00	Ku Chin-shui Chinese Taipei	4.80	Sunder Singh Tanwar Template:Flagu	4.50
Long jump	Liu Yuhuang Template:Flagu	7.97	Lee Bou-chai Chinese Taipei	7.70	Koji Umemoto Template:Flagu	7.60
Triple jump	Mai Guoqiang Template:Flagu	16.25	Yasushi Ueta Template:Flagu	16.10	Park Yeong-jun South Korea	15.80
Shot put	Mohammed Al-Zinkawi Kuwait	17.90	Balwinder Singh Template:Flagu	16.89	Iqbal Singh Template:Flagu	16.72
Discus throw	Li Weinan Template:Flagu	55.40	Ajmer Singh Template:Flagu	52.30	Nejim Abdulrazak Kuwait	51.00
Hammer throw	Xie Yingqi Template:Flagu	65.78	Masayuki Kawata Template:Flagu	65.60	Raghubir Singh Bal Template:Flagu	60.52
Javelin throw	Masami Yoshida Template:Flagu	79.50	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi Template:Flagu	70.16	Chen Hung-yen Chinese Taipei	68.20
Decathlon	Lee Fu-an Chinese Taipei	7641	Ku Chin-shui Chinese Taipei	7438	Takeshi Kojo Template:Flagu	7277

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Lydia de Vega Philippines	11.82	Valapa Pinij Thailand	12.01	Shen Su-Feng Chinese Taipei	12.07
200 metres (wind: -2.9 m/s)	Lydia de Vega Philippines	24.07	P.T. Usha Template:Flagu	24.68	Mo Myung-Hee South Korea	24.72
400 metres	P.T. Usha Template:Flagu	54.20	Junko Yoshida Template:Flagu	54.65	Lydia de Vega Philippines	55.66
800 metres	Huo Lianzhu Template:Flagu	2:08.92	Im Chun-Sil North Korea	2:09.20	Geng Xiuquan Template:Flagu	2:10.02
1500 metres	Geng Xiuquan Template:Flagu	4:30.72	Gao Suju Template:Flagu	4:31.10	Kim Lyong-Soon North Korea	4:31.13
3000 metres	Kim Lyong-Soon North Korea	9:39.64	Kim Chun-Hwa North Korea	9:41.34	Kim Soon-Hwa South Korea	9:47.19
100 metres hurdles (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Emi Sasaki (Akimoto) Template:Flagu	13.63	Liu Huajin Template:Flagu	13.82	Lin Yueh-Hsiang Chinese Taipei	14.04
400 metres hurdles	Yoko Sato Template:Flagu	59.89	Chizuko Akimoto Template:Flagu	59.95	Agrifina de la Cruz Philippines	61.26
4 × 100 metres relay	Thailand Jaree Patarach Sarinee Phenglaor Walapa Pinij Wanna Popirom	46.12	Chinese Taipei Shen Su-feng Lin Ruei-er Jen Yui-chu Lin Li-shui	46.42	Template:Flagu Template:Ill Chizuko Akimoto Junko Yoshida Emi Akimoto-Sasaki	46.47
4 × 400 metres relay	Thailand Ratjai Sripet Walapa Tangjitnusorn Usa Chanaphani Reim Sriteingtrong	3:48.62	Chinese Taipei Shen Su-feng Lin Ruei-er Jen Yui-chu Lin Li-shui	3:58.52	Jordan Khadija Al-Matari Wannas Abu Kartoumah Faten Al-Omari Amneh Odeh Mershed	4:17.41
High jump	Zheng Dazhen Template:Flagu	1.84	Ge Ping Template:Flagu	1.84	Kim Hee-sun South Korea	1.81
Long jump	Liao Wenfen Template:Flagu	6.21	Elma Muros Philippines	6.09	Huang Donghuo Template:Flagu	6.08
Shot put	Lu Cheng Template:Flagu	17.38	So Bok-Hui North Korea	14.61	Woo Kyon-Sun South Korea	14.12
Discus throw	Jiao Yunxiang Template:Flagu	53.00	Chun Hwa-Kyung South Korea	47.20	Jeanette Ayoub Lebanon	37.06
Javelin throw	Xin Xiaoli Template:Flagu	53.48	Lee Huei-Cheng Chinese Taipei	42.48	–	–
Heptathlon	Hisako Hashimoto Template:Flagu	5486	Ye Lianying Template:Flagu	5394	Chen Jin-Yun Chinese Taipei	5075

See also

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

References

• GBR Athletics