1998 Asian Athletics Championships

1998 Asian Championships
Dates	July 19–22
Host city	Fukuoka, Japan
Venue	Hakatanomori Athletic Stadium
Participation	at least 16 nations
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The 12th Asian Championships in Athletics were held in Fukuoka, Japan in July 1998.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Zhou Wei China	10.39	Watson Nyambek Malaysia	10.42	Hiroyasu Tsuchie Japan	10.44
200 m (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Koji Ito Japan	20.70	Han Chaoming China	20.77	Gennadiy Chernovol Kazakhstan	20.92
400 m	Sugath Tillakaratne Sri Lanka	44.61 CR	Masayoshi Kan Japan	45.64	Kenji Tabata Japan	45.69
800 m	Cheng Bing China	1:47.71	Abdulhassan Abdulrahman Qatar	1:47.74	Mahmoud Al-Kheirat Syria	1:48.16
1500 m	Mohammed Sulaiman Qatar	3:43.70	Kiyonari Shibata Japan	3:44.38	Cheng Bing China	3:44.92
5000 m	Toshinari Takaoka Japan	13:54.34	Gulab Chand India	13:55.40	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar	13:58.35
10,000 m	Baek Seung-do South Korea	30:12.26	Toshihiro Iwasa Japan	30:12.57	Gulab Chand India	30:14.69
3000 m St.	Saad Shadad Al-Asmari Saudi Arabia	8:31.13	Yasunori Uchitomi Japan	8:33.40	Hamid Sajjadi Iran	8:37.88
110 m H (wind: +1.9 m/s)	Chen Yanhao China	13.53 CR	Qi Zhen China	13.74	Andrey Sklyarenko Kazakhstan	13.86
400 m H	Mubarak Al-Nubi Qatar	48.71 CR	Hideaki Kawamura Japan	49.69	Kazuhiko Yamazaki Japan	49.81
20 km Walk	Li Zewen China	1:27:58	Yoshima Hara Japan	1:28:16	Valeriy Borisov Kazakhstan	1:29:05
4 x 100 m	China Zhou Wei Lin Wei Yin Hanzhao Han Chaoming	39.03	Japan Tatsuhiko Watanabe Tatsuo Sugimoto Hiroyasu Tsuchie Koji Ito	39.30	Qatar Jamal Abbas Hamed Al-Dosari Jamal Suleiman Saad Mubarak	39.43
4 x 400 m	Japan Kenji Tabata Jun Osakada Shunji Karube Masayoshi Kan	3:02.61	South Korea Kim Jae-da Shon Ju-il Kim Ho Kim Yong-hwan	3:04.44 NR	Sri Lanka Ranga Wimalawansa Vellasamy Ratnakumara Rohan Pradeep Kumara Sugath Thilakaratne	3:05.79
High jump	Zhou Zhongge China	2.30	Lee Jin-taek South Korea	2.27	Loo Kum Zee Malaysia	2.23
Pole vault	Igor Potapovich Kazakhstan	5.55	Aleksandr Korchagin Kazakhstan	5.40	Hideji Suzuki Japan	5.20
Long jump	Masaki Morinaga Japan	8.08	Liu Hongning China	7.97	Shigeru Tagawa Japan	7.96
Triple jump	Duan Qifeng China	16.79	Takanori Sugibayashi Japan	16.50	Takashi Komatsu Japan	16.38
Shot put	Bilal Saad Mubarak Qatar	19.17 CR	Liu Hao China	18.86	Shakti Singh India	18.40
Discus	Li Shaojie China	60.28	Dashdendev Makhashiri Mongolia	57.00	Ajit Bhaduria India	55.46
Hammer	Andrey Abduvaliyev Uzbekistan	76.67 CR	Koji Murofushi Japan	74.17	Nikolay Davydov Kyrgyzstan	70.31
Javelin	Zhang Lianbiao China	77.61	Li Rongxiang China	77.48	Mikio Tamura Japan	75.71
Decathlon	Toru Yasui Japan	7439 pts CR	Tomokazu Sugama Japan	7347 pts	Ivan Yarkin Kazakhstan	7239 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Yan Jiankui China	11.39	Cui Dangfeng China	11.42	Shanti Govindasamy Malaysia	11.60
200 m (wind: +1.7 m/s)	Yan Jiankui China	23.00 =CR	Huang Mei China	23.21	P.T. Usha India	23.27
400 m	Damayanthi Dharsha Sri Lanka	51.23 =CR	Svetlana Bodritskaya Kazakhstan	52.46	P.T. Usha India	52.55
800 m	Zhang Jian China	2:01.16 CR	Liu Jing China	2:01.85	Jyotirmoy Sikdar India	2:02.65
1500 m	Liu Jing China	4:12.76 CR	Wang Chunmei China	4:13.45	Jyotirmoy Sikdar India	4:14.32
5000 m	Wang Chunmei China	15:49.48	Liu Shixiang China	15:53.76	Megumi Tanaka Japan	15:55.10
10,000 m	Liu Shixiang China	32:28.49	Chiemi Takahashi Japan	32:32.99	Aki Fujikawa Japan	32:48.05
100 m H (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Olga Shishigina Kazakhstan	13.04 CR	Feng Yun China	13.10	Sriyani Kulawansa Sri Lanka	13.16
400 m H	Li Rui China	55.80 CR	Natalya Torshina Kazakhstan	56.34	Hsu Pei-Ching Chinese Taipei	57.09
10,000 m road walk	Li Yuxin China	46:41	Rie Mitsumori Japan	46:42	Yuka Mitsumori Japan	47:01
4 x 100 m	India P. T. Usha Rachita Mistry E. B. Shyla Saraswati Dey	44.43	Japan Kaori Yoshida Yuka Fujii Asami Nagashima Motoka Arai	44.45	Thailand Reawadee Srithoa-Watanasin Naparat Suajongprue Savitree Srichure Supawadee Khawpeag	44.85
4 x 400 m	China Huang Mei Li Jing Chen Yuxiang Li Rui	3:33.48	India M.K. Asha Rosa Kutty Jyotirmoyee Sikdar P.T. Usha	3:34.04	Japan Sachiko Kiso Kazue Kakinuma Sakie Nobuoka Satomi Kasashima	3:35.71
High jump	Miki Imai Japan	1.94 CR	Yoko Ota Japan	1.91	Jin Ling China	1.88
Pole vault	Peng Xiaoming China	4.00 CR	Masumi Ono Japan	3.80	Chie Miyoshi Japan	3.70
Long jump	Guan Yingnan China	6.83 CR	Yu Yiqun China	6.74	Yelena Pershina Kazakhstan	6.50w
Triple jump	Ren Ruiping China	14.11 CR	Wang Kuo-Huei Chinese Taipei	13.30	Maho Hanaoka Japan	13.24
Shot put	Li Meisu China	18.63	Yu Juan China	18.12	Lee Myung-Sun South Korea	17.66
Discus	Yu Xin China	57.47	Neelam Jaswant Singh India	56.81	Xiao Yanling China	53.32
Hammer	Gu Yuan China	61.86	Aya Suzuki Japan	56.12	Eriko Kubota Japan	48.48
Javelin	Li Lei China	60.12	Harumi Yamamoto Japan	55.41	Gurmeet Kaur India	55.35
Heptathlon	Ding Ying China	5846 pts	Svetlana Kazanina Kazakhstan	5779 pts	Ma Chun-Ping Chinese Taipei	5489 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	26	13	3	42
2	Japan (JPN)	6	17	14	37
3	Qatar (QAT)	3	1	2	6
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	4	5	11
5	Sri Lanka (SRI)	2	0	2	4
6	India (IND)	1	3	8	12
7	South Korea (KOR)	1	2	1	4
8	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	0	0	1
10	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	2	3
	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	2	3
12	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	0	1
13	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		43	43	43	129

See also

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics