Athletics was contested at the 1951 Asian Games in National Stadium, New Delhi, India from 8 March to 11 March.

Athletics
at the 1951 Asian Games
VenueNational Stadium
Dates8–11 March
Nations11
1954 →

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Lavy Pinto
  India
10.8
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Toshihiro Ohashi
  Japan
11.0 Tomio Hosoda
  Japan
11.1
200 m
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Lavy Pinto
  India
22.0
GR
Marian Gabriel
  India
22.5 Tomio Hosoda
  Japan
22.6
400 m
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Eitaro Okano
  Japan
50.7
GR
Amit Singh Bakshi
  India
50.8 Govind Singh
  India
51.4
800 m
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Ranjit Singh
  India
1:59.3
GR
Kulwant Singh
  India
1:59.7 Kikuo Moriya
  Japan
2:00.6
1500 m
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Nikka Singh
  India
4:04.1
GR
Susumu Takahashi
  Japan
4:04.4 Kikuo Moriya
  Japan
4:05.4
5000 m
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Ali Baghbanbashi
  Iran
15:54.2
GR
Pritam Singh
  India
15:57.8 Soichi Tamoi
  Japan
15:59.0
10,000 m
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Soichi Tamoi
  Japan
33:49.3
GR
Ryosuke Takasugi
  Japan
34:32.0 Gurbachan Singh
  India
34:58.8
110 m hurdles
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Ng Liang Chiang
  Singapore
15.2
GR
Michitaka Kinami
  Japan
15.3 Lloyd Valberg
  Singapore
15.7
400 m hurdles
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Eitaro Okano
  Japan
54.2
GR
Teja Singh
  India
56.9 Ng Liang Chiang
  Singapore
57.6
3000 m steeplechase
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Susumu Takahashi
  Japan
9:30.4
GR
Ali Baghbanbashi
  Iran
9:31.8 Ajit Singh
  India
9:37.8
4 × 100 m relay
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  Japan
Masaji Tajima
Toshihiro Ohashi
Tomio Hosoda
Kazuta Ikoma
42.7
GR
  India
Lavy Pinto
Marian Gabriel
Ram Swaroop
Alfred Shamin
42.8   Philippines
Genaro Cabrera
Tito Almagro
Jovencio Ardina
Bernabe Lovina
43.9
4 × 400 m relay
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  India
Amit Singh Bakshi
Govind Singh
Balwant Singh
Karan Singh
3:24.2
GR
  Japan
Yorio Mizuyoke
Ichiro Tao
Fumio Nishiuchi
Eitaro Okano
3:24.4   Philippines
Bienvenido Llaneta
Bernabe Lovina
Tomas Bennet
Genaro Cabrera
3:35.8
Marathon
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Chhota Singh
  India
2:42:58.6
GR
Katsuo Nishida
  Japan
2:49:03.0 Surat Singh Mathur
  India
2:53:49.8
10,000 m walk
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Mahabir Prasad
  India
52:31.4
GR
Takeo Sato
  Japan
52:34.8 Kesar Singh
  India
52:54.0
50 km walk
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Bakhtawar Singh
  India
5:44:07.4
GR
B. Das
  India
5:44:14.6 Takeo Sato
  Japan
5:54:47.4
High jump
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Andres Franco
  Philippines
1.93
GR
Yukio Ishikawa
  Japan
1.91 Maram Sudarmodjo
  Indonesia
1.89
Pole vault
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Bunkichi Sawada
  Japan
4.11
GR
M. A. Akbar
  Ceylon
3.69 Shuhei Nishida
  Japan
3.61
Long jump
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Masaji Tajima
  Japan
7.14
GR
Baldev Singh
  India
6.99 Takashi Aso
  Japan
6.98
Triple jump
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Yoshio Iimuro
  Japan
15.18
GR
Takashi Aso
  Japan
14.25 Hendarsin
  Indonesia
14.24
Shot put
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Madan Lal
  India
13.78
GR
Sukeo Denda
  Japan
13.40 Norimi Sato
  Japan
12.83
Discus throw
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Makhan Singh
  India
39.92
GR
Norimi Sato
  Japan
39.29 Aurelio Amante
  Philippines
38.14
Hammer throw
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Fumio Kamamoto
  Japan
46.65
GR
Somnath Chopra
  India
43.35 Kishen Singh
  India
42.32
Javelin throw
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Haruo Nagayasu
  Japan
63.97
GR
Parsa Singh
  India
50.38 Matulessy
  Indonesia
48.99
Decathlon
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Fumio Nishiuchi
  Japan
6324
GR
Bunkichi Sawada
  Japan
5860 Khurshid Ahmed
  India
5099

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Kiyoko Sugimura
  Japan
12.6 Roshan Mistry
  India
12.8 Kimiko Okamoto
  Japan
12.9
200 m
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Kimiko Okamoto
  Japan
26.0
GR
Laura Dowdswell
  Singapore
27.2 Mary D'Souza
  India
28.0
80 m hurdles
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Kyoko Yoneda
  Japan
12.8
GR
Laura Dowdswell
  Singapore
13.2 Taeko Sato
  Japan
13.5
4 × 100 m relay
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  Japan
Kimiko Okamoto
Taeko Sato
Ayako Yoshikawa
Kiyoko Sugimura
51.4
GR
  India
Mary D'Souza
Roshan Mistry
Banoo Gulzar
Pat Mendonca
51.9   Indonesia
Triwulan
Darwati
Surjowati
Lie Djiang Nio
54.4
High jump
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Kyoko Yoneda
  Japan
1.49
GR
Taeko Sato
  Japan
1.44 Marie Semoes
  India
1.37
Long jump
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Kiyoko Sugimura
  Japan
5.91
GR
Ayako Yoshikawa
  Japan
5.18 Sylvia Gauntlet
  India
4.52
Shot put
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Toyoko Yoshino
  Japan
11.90
GR
Fumi Kojima
  Japan
10.42 Barbara Webster
  India
9.02
Discus throw
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Toyoko Yoshino
  Japan
42.10
GR
Fumi Kojima
  Japan
35.51 Annie Salamun
  Indonesia
25.43
Javelin throw
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Toyoko Yoshino
  Japan
36.25
GR
Miyoko Kato
  Japan
35.33 Barbara Webster
  India
26.70

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Japan (JPN)20171148
2  India (IND)10121234
3  Singapore (SIN)1225
4  Iran (IRN)1102
5  Philippines (PHI)1034
6  Ceylon (CEY)0101
7  Indonesia (INA)0055
Totals (7 entries)33333399

Participating nations

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References

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