1973 Asian Athletics Championships

1973 Asian Championships
1973 Asian Championships
Dates	November 18–23
Host city	Marikina, Rizal, Philippines
Venue	Rodriguez Sports Center
Participation	at least 14 nations
	Seoul 1975 →

The inaugural Asian Athletics Championships were held in 1973 at the Rodriguez Sports Center in Marikina, Rizal, Philippines from November 18–23, 1973.^[1]^[2]

Medal summary edit

Men's events edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.5 m/s)	Anat Ratanapol Thailand	10.4	Suchart Chairsuvaparb Thailand	10.5	Takao Ishizawa Japan	10.6
200 metres (wind: +0.2 m/s)	Anat Ratanapol Thailand	21.0	Soo Wen-Ho Taiwan	21.2	Tokal Mokalam Philippines	21.6
400 metres	Yoshiharu Tomonaga Japan	46.8	Koiiro Shika Japan	47.6	Ho Mun Cheong Singapore	47.8
800 metres	Muhammad Younis Pakistan	1:51.2	Sri Ram Singh India	1:51.5	Kazuyoshi Mizuno Japan	1:52.2
1500 metres	Kazuyoshi Mizuno Japan	3:47.4	Muhammad Younis Pakistan	3:48.2	Dashondha Singh India	3:50.4
5000 metres	Ichio Sato Japan	14:16.9	Shivnath Singh India	14:17.0	Katsuaki Isohata Japan	14:18.2
10,000 metres	Ichio Sato Japan	29:54.4	Shivnath Singh India	29:54.8	Katsuaki Isohata Japan	29:55.8
Marathon	Cho Je-Hyung South Korea	2:27:31	Park Chang-Yuel South Korea	2:33:45	Jit Bahadur Chetri Nepal	2:35:38
3000 metre steeplechase	Takaharu Koyama Japan	9:04.0	Shibib Dagher Al-Lami Iraq	9:10.9	Mohammad Vojdanzadeh Iran	9:22.0
110 metres hurdles (wind: -2.9 m/s)	Shigeo Oki Japan	14.3	Ahmad Ishtiaq Mubarak Malaysia	14.3	Marcelo Benauro Philippines	14.4
400 metres hurdles	Abdulkadir Guiapar Philippines	52.2	Talib Faisal Al-Saffar Iraq	52.7	Tai Shi-Yan Taiwan	53.1
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan Takao Ishizawa Kazuo Iwamoto Susumu Shimizu Yoshiharu Tomonaga	40.0	Thailand Suchart Chairsuvaparb Somsak Boontud Prasit Boonprasert Anat Ratanapol	40.0	India Abdul Aziz Adrian Kennedy K. Natarajan A.P. Ramaswamy	40.3
4 × 400 metre relay	Japan Susumu Shimizu Yoshiharu Tomonaga Kazuyoshi Mizuno Koiiro Shika	3:10.2	Philippines Abdulkadir Guiapar Clemente Lupangco Santos Magno Ernesto Tabayan	3:12.8	Singapore Ho Mun Cheong Godfrey Jalleh Canagasabai Kunalan Cheah Kim Tech	3:13.2
20 kilometre road walk	Yoshio Morikawa Japan	1:11:31	Francis Xavier India		Khoo Chong Beng Malaysia
High jump	Teymour Ghiassi Iran	2.15	Kazunori Koshikawa Japan	2.15	Yon Ismail Malaysia	2.05
Pole vault	Hisaki Suzuki Japan	4.36	Hong Sang-pyo South Korea	4.36
Long jump	Chen Chin-long Taiwan	7.82w	Soo Wen-Ho Taiwan	7.57w	Satish Pillai India	7.53w
Triple jump	Mohinder Singh Gill India	15.96w	Cheng Ming-chi Taiwan	15.31	T.C. Yohannan India	14.96
Shot put	Jagraj Singh Mann India	17.00	Gurdeep Singh India	16.37	Bahadur Singh Chouhan India	15.75
Discus throw	Jalal Keshmiri Iran	51.20	Praveen Kumar India	49.08	Toji Hayashi Japan	48.04
Hammer throw	Ajmer Singh India	60.42	Jeung Sub-kil South Korea	49.20	Oumvan Narith Khmer Republic	41.24
Javelin throw	Allah Dad Pakistan	63.58	Nashatar Singh Sidhu Malaysia	63.28	Gopal Kidyoor India	58.28
Decathlon	Vijay Singh Chauhan India	7245	Junichi Onizuka Japan	7076	Chen Chin-long Taiwan	6752

Women's events edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +2.3 m/s)	Amelita Alanes Philippines	11.6w	Michiko Morita Japan	12.0w	Sayo Yamato Japan	12.0w
200 metres (wind: +1.1 m/s)	Michiko Morita Japan	24.7	Amelita Alanes Philippines	25.0	Satomi Fukuda Japan	25.2
400 metres	Nobuko Kawano Japan	55.2	Keiko Ikoma Japan	56.1	Maimoon Azlan Singapore	56.1
800 metres	Nobuko Kawano Japan	2:08.1	Chee Swee Lee Singapore	2:08.1	Harumi Fugimoto Japan	2:09.6
1500 metres	Miyako Inoue Japan	4:26.8	Lee Chiu-Hsia Taiwan	4:28.0	Rachel Halle Israel	4:34.6
100 metres hurdles (wind: +4.3 m/s)	Tomomi Hayashida Japan	13.6w	Lin Yet-Hsiang Taiwan	13.9w	Gan Bee Wah Singapore	14.2w
200 metres hurdles (wind: +3.5 m/s)	Tomomi Hayashida Japan	27.6w	Heather Merican Singapore	28.5w	Lin Yet-Hsiang Taiwan	28.6w
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan Sayo Yamato Satomi Fukuda Keiko Ikoma Michiko Morita	46.7	Singapore Glory Barnabas Gan Bee Wah Heather Merican Shirley Fernando	47.0	Philippines ? Aida Mantawel Carmen Torres Amelita Alanes	47.7
4 × 400 metres relay	Philippines Amelita Alanes Aida Mantawel Carmen Torres Rosalinda Yumol	3:48.9	Singapore Maimoon Azlan Glory Barnabas Chee Swee Lee Hua Kim Chew	3:50.1	Taiwan Chi Cheng Puang Chiu-ging Lin Chun-yu Lee Chiu-hsia	3:57.8
High jump	Orit Abramovich Israel	1.68	Gladys Chai Ng Mei Malaysia	1.58	Maryam Sedarati Iran	1.58
Long jump	Kumi Kawada Japan	6.07	Lin Yet-Hsiang Taiwan	5.84	Li Hua-Wa Taiwan	5.71
Shot put	Paik Ok-Ja South Korea	15.05	Kayoko Hayashi Japan	13.63	Chen Fu-Mei Taiwan	12.93
Discus throw	Josephine de la Viña Philippines	50.74	Kayoko Hayashi Japan	45.28	Paik Ok-Ja South Korea	44.52
Javelin throw	Mieko Takasaka Japan	49.74	Erlinda Lavandia Philippines	45.38	Proch Thin Kampuchea	43.48
Pentathlon	Lin Chun-Yu Taiwan	4025	Kumi Kawada Japan	3963	Li Hua-Wa Taiwan	3578

Medal table edit


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	18	8	8	34
2	India (IND)	4	5	6	15
3	Philippines (PHI)	4	3	3	10
4	Taiwan (TWN)	2	6	7	15
5	South Korea (KOR)	2	3	1	6
6	Thailand (THA)	2	2	0	4
7	Pakistan (PAK)	2	1	0	3
8	Iran (IRN)	2	0	2	4
9	Israel (ISR)	1	0	1	2
10	Singapore (SIN)	0	4	4	8
11	Malaysia (MAS)	0	3	1	4
12	Iraq (IRQ)	0	2	0	2
13	Cambodia (CAM)	0	0	2	2
14	Nepal (NEP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		37	37	36	110

External links edit

GBR Athletics

References edit

^ "Patafa to send self-funded team to Asian meet". GMA News. 23 October 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
^ "Proclamation No. 432, s. 2003". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. Retrieved 18 June 2015.

[1] "Patafa to send self-funded team to Asian meet". GMA News. 23 October 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2015.

[2] "Proclamation No. 432, s. 2003". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines. Retrieved 18 June 2015.

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