Athletics at the 1974 Asian Games

Athletics ; at the 1974 Asian Games
Venue	Aryamehr Stadium
Dates	9–15 September

The athletics at the 1974 Asian Games were held in Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran, Iran. This was the first time that China competed in these games and also the last time that Israel competed.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Anat Ratanapol Thailand	10.42	Masahide Jinno Japan	10.55	Suchart Jairsuraparp Thailand	10.59
200 m	Anat Ratanapol Thailand	21.09 GR	Takao Ishizawa Japan	21.60	Nusrat Iqbal Sahi Pakistan	21.79
400 m	Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa Sri Lanka	46.21 GR	Reza Entezari Iran	46.69	Yoshiharu Tomonaga Japan	46.77
800 m	Sriram Singh India	1:47.57 GR	Reza Entezari Iran	1:48.50	Muhammad Siddique Pakistan	1:48.64
1500 m	Muhammad Younis Pakistan	3:49.30	Susumu Noro Japan	3:51.17	Park Suk-kwan South Korea	3:52.74
5000 m	Shivnath Singh India	14:20.50 GR	Yuval Wischnitzer Israel	14:21.50	Kenichi Ozawa Japan	14:22.15
10,000 m	Yasunori Hamada Japan	30:49.87	Shivnath Singh India	30:51.61	Makoto Hattori Japan	31:03.84
110 m hurdles	Cui Lin China	14.26 GR	Ishtiaq Mubarak Malaysia	14.49	Nasser Sultan Iraq	14.63
400 m hurdles	Talib Faisal Iraq	51.69 GR	Abdullatif Abbas Kuwait	52.32	Lehmber Singh India	52.49
3000 m steeplechase	Takaharu Koyama Japan	8:57.95	Gurmej Singh India	9:04.00	Li Wenliang China	9:06.10
4 × 100 m relay	Thailand Kanoksak Chaisanont Anat Ratanapol Somsak Boontud Suchart Jairsuraparp	40.14 GR	China Cui Lin Feng Zhenren Yu Weili Luo Guoming	40.20	Singapore Ong Yoke Phee Tan Say Leong Yeo Kian Chai C. Kunalan	40.34
4 × 400 m relay	Sri Lanka Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa Sunil Gunawardene Kosala Sahabandu Appunidage Premachandra	3:07.40 GR	India Lehmber Singh Sriram Singh Sucha Singh P. C. Punappa	3:08.73	Iran Fakhroddin Alamshah Reza Entezari Houshang Arshadi Ghasem Koveitipour	3:10.10
High jump	Teymour Ghiasi Iran	2.21 GR	Ni Zhiqin China	2.16	Yoshikazu Okuda Japan	2.08
Pole vault	Yasuhiro Kigawa Japan	5.00 GR	Cai Zhangxi China	5.00 =GR	Jiang Yubin China	4.85
Long jump	T. C. Yohannan India	8.07 GR	Takayoshi Kawagoe Japan	7.77	Satish Pillai India	7.58
Triple jump	Toshiaki Inoue Japan	16.45 GR	Mohinder Singh Gill India	16.25	Faramarz Asef Iran	15.97
Shot put	Jalal Keshmiri Iran	18.04 GR	Bahadur Singh Chouhan India	17.94	Jugraj Singh India	17.64
Discus throw	Jalal Keshmiri Iran	56.82 GR	Praveen Kumar India	53.64	Salman Hesam Iran	52.32
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi Japan	66.54	Nirmal Singh Grewal India	60.02	Kim Myong-geun North Korea	59.80
Javelin throw	Toshihiro Yamada Japan	76.12 GR	Minoru Onda Japan	76.04	Zhang Bao China	73.64
Decathlon	Vijay Singh Chauhan India	7375 GR	Junichi Onizuka Japan	7294	Suresh Babu India	6836

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Esther Roth Israel	11.90	He Zufen China	12.10	Keiko Yamada Japan	12.42
200 m	Esther Roth Israel	23.79	He Zufen China	24.41	Emiko Konishi Japan	24.94
400 m	Chee Swee Lee Singapore	55.08 GR	Nobuko Kawano Japan	55.59	Junaidah Aman Malaysia	55.78
800 m	Nobuko Kawano Japan	2:08.05	Miyako Inoue Japan	2:08.99	Li Dan China	2:09.89
1500 m	Song Meihua China	4:28.68	Yang Yanying China	4:29.17	Hana Shezifi Israel	4:31.00
100 m hurdles	Esther Roth Israel	13.31 GR	Tomomi Hayashida Japan	14.28	Miyuki Iioka Japan	14.32
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Keiko Yamada Emiko Konishi Sayo Yamoto Tomomi Hayashida	46.62 GR	China Meng Yuqiong He Zufen Xiao Zinong Kang Yueli	46.76	Singapore Eng Chiew Quay Chee Swee Lee Glory Barnabas Maimoon Azlan	47.10
4 × 400 m relay	Japan Yuko Kitabayashi Motsuko Otsuka Miyako Inoue Nobuko Kawano	3:43.52 GR	Singapore Glory Barnabas Lee Tai Jong Maimoon Azlan Chee Swee Lee	3:43.85	Burma Than Than Mar Mar Min Nwe Nwe Yee Than Than Htay	3:45.06
High jump	Orit Abramovitz Israel	1.78 GR	Mikiko Sone Japan	1.78 =GR	Wu Fushan China	1.74
Long jump	Xiao Jieping China	6.31 GR	Kang Yueli China	6.26	Hiroko Yamashita Japan	6.15
Shot put	Paik Ok-ja South Korea	16.28 GR	Gao Yukui China	15.22	Kayoko Hayashi Japan	15.06
Discus throw	Gao Yukui China	51.84 GR	Dashzevegiin Namjilmaa Mongolia	47.32	Matsuko Takahashi Japan	47.04
Javelin throw	Zhou Maojia China	53.06 GR	Mieko Takasaka Japan	52.02	Keiko Myogai Japan	47.96
Pentathlon	Kyoko Shimizu Japan	3890	Sun Yuxiang China	3849	Zhang Yumei China	3783

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	10	11	11	32
2	China (CHN)	5	10	6	21
3	India (IND)	4	7	4	15
4	Israel (ISR)	4	1	1	6
5	Iran (IRN)	3	2	3	8
6	Thailand (THA)	3	0	1	4
7	Sri Lanka (SRI)	2	0	0	2
8	Singapore (SIN)	1	1	2	4
9	Pakistan (PAK)	1	0	2	3
10	Iraq (IRQ)	1	0	1	2
10	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
12	Malaysia (MAL)	0	1	1	2
13	Kuwait (KUW)	0	1	0	1
13	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	0	1
15	Burma (BIR)	0	0	1	1
15	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 nations)		35	35	35	105

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.