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.

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

Women

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

See also

• 1989 in athletics (track and field)

References

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