1979 Asian Athletics Championships

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

Medal summary

Men

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

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s)	Emiko Konishi Template:Flagu	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 Template:Flagu	24.45	Mo Myung-Hee South Korea	24.49	Emiko Konishi Template:Flagu	24.72
400 metres	Chung Byong-Soon South Korea	54.33	Rita Sen Template:Flagu	54.99	Yumiko Aoi Template:Flagu	55.66
800 metres	Chung Byong-Soon South Korea	2:06.1a	Chang Yong-Ae North Korea	2:10.2a	Takako Sanda Template:Flagu	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 Template:Flagu	14.17	Dai Jianhua People's Republic of China	14.33	Tamie Motegi Template:Flagu	14.45
400 metres hurdles	Yumiko Aoi Template:Flagu	60.46	Marina Chin Leng Sim Malaysia	61.63	Zhan Xin People's Republic of China	61.84
4 × 100 metre relay	Template:Flagu Yukiko Osako Sumiko Kaihara Emiko Konishi Emi Akimoto-Sasaki	45.85	Thailand Buspranee Ratanapol Usanee Laopinkarn Pusadee Sangvijit Walapa Pinij	46.03	Template:Flagu Veena Chandola Rita Sen Angel Mary Joseph Srirupa Chatterjee	46.93
4 × 400 metre relay	Template:Flagu 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 Template:Flagu	1.81	Hisayo Fukumitsu Template:Flagu	1.81
Long jump	Sumie Awara Template:Flagu	6.42w	Zou Wa People's Republic of China	6.27w	Kazuko Ishizu Template:Flagu	6.05w
Shot put	Shen Lijuan People's Republic of China	17.48	Yukari Seo Template:Flagu	14.78	Yumiko Asari Template:Flagu	14.12
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui People's Republic of China	58.62	Yukari Seo Template:Flagu	46.64	Yumiko Asari Template:Flagu	44.16
Javelin throw	Li Xia People's Republic of China	58.44	Yao Juiying People's Republic of China	54.82	Naomi Shibusawa Template:Flagu	51.16
Pentathlon	Ye Peisu People's Republic of China	4139	Tomoko Uchida Template:Flagu	3753	Sachie Sekiguchi Template:Flagu	3706

External links

• GBR Athletics