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.

Athletics
at the 1974 Asian Games
VenueAryamehr Stadium
Dates9–15 September
← 1970
1978 →

Medalists

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

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Esther Roth
  Israel
11.90 He Zufen
  China
12.10 Keiko Yamada
  Japan
12.42
200 m
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Esther Roth
  Israel
23.79 He Zufen
  China
24.41 Emiko Konishi
  Japan
24.94
400 m
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Chee Swee Lee
  Singapore
55.08
GR
Nobuko Kawano
  Japan
55.59 Junaidah Aman
  Malaysia
55.78
800 m
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Nobuko Kawano
  Japan
2:08.05 Miyako Inoue
  Japan
2:08.99 Li Dan
  China
2:09.89
1500 m
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Song Meihua
  China
4:28.68 Yang Yanying
  China
4:29.17 Hana Shezifi
  Israel
4:31.00
100 m hurdles
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Esther Roth
  Israel
13.31
GR
Tomomi Hayashida
  Japan
14.28 Miyuki Iioka
  Japan
14.32
4 × 100 m relay
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  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
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  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
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Orit Abramovitz
  Israel
1.78
GR
Mikiko Sone
  Japan
1.78
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Wu Fushan
  China
1.74
Long jump
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Xiao Jieping
  China
6.31
GR
Kang Yueli
  China
6.26 Hiroko Yamashita
  Japan
6.15
Shot put
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Paik Ok-ja
  South Korea
16.28
GR
Gao Yukui
  China
15.22 Kayoko Hayashi
  Japan
15.06
Discus throw
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Gao Yukui
  China
51.84
GR
Dashzevegiin Namjilmaa
  Mongolia
47.32 Matsuko Takahashi
  Japan
47.04
Javelin throw
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Zhou Maojia
  China
53.06
GR
Mieko Takasaka
  Japan
52.02 Keiko Myogai
  Japan
47.96
Pentathlon
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Kyoko Shimizu
  Japan
3890 Sun Yuxiang
  China
3849 Zhang Yumei
  China
3783

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Japan (JPN)10111132
2  China (CHN)510621
3  India (IND)47415
4  Israel (ISR)4116
5  Iran (IRN)3238
6  Thailand (THA)3014
7  Sri Lanka (SRI)2002
8  Singapore (SIN)1124
9  Pakistan (PAK)1023
10  Iraq (IRQ)1012
  South Korea (KOR)1012
12  Malaysia (MAL)0112
13  Kuwait (KUW)0101
  Mongolia (MGL)0101
15  Burma (BIR)0011
  North Korea (PRK)0011
Totals (16 entries)353535105

References

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