Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games

The athletics competition at the 1998 Asian Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand between 13 and 20 December.[1]

Athletics
at the 1998 Asian Games
VenueThammasat Stadium
Dates6–20 December
Competitors451 from 37 nations
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Medalists edit

Men edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Koji Ito
  Japan
10.05 Reanchai Seeharwong
  Thailand
10.31 Yasukatsu Otsuki
  Japan
10.31
200 m
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Koji Ito
  Japan
20.25
GR
Han Chaoming
  China
20.70 Sugath Thilakaratne
  Sri Lanka
20.83
400 m
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Sugath Thilakaratne
  Sri Lanka
44.99 Ibrahim Ismail Muftah
  Qatar
45.32 Paramjit Singh
  India
45.93
800 m
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Lee Jin-il
  South Korea
1:46.56 Kim Soon-hyung
  South Korea
1:46.61 Abdulrahman Hassan Abdullah
  Qatar
1:47.10
1500 m
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Mohamed Suleiman
  Qatar
3:40.03 Kim Soon-hyung
  South Korea
3:40.56 Bahadur Prasad
  India
3:41.48
5000 m
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Mohamed Suleiman
  Qatar
13:55.79 Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama
  Qatar
13:56.65 Baek Seung-do
  South Korea
13:57.11
10,000 m
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Kenji Takao
  Japan
28:45.66 Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama
  Qatar
28:46.55 Gulab Chand
  India
29:10.53
110 m hurdles
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Chen Yanhao
  China
13.65 Andrey Sklyarenko
  Kazakhstan
13.86 Hamad Mubarak Al-Dosari
  Qatar
13.99
400 m hurdles
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Hideaki Kawamura
  Japan
49.59 Yoshihiko Saito
  Japan
49.94 Chen Tien-wen
  Chinese Taipei
50.46
3000 m steeplechase
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Yasunori Uchitomi
  Japan
8:41.00 Hamid Sajjadi
  Iran
8:42.53 Jafar Babakhani
  Iran
8:55.04
4 × 100 m relay
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  Japan
Yasukatsu Otsuki
Shin Kubota
Hiroyasu Tsuchie
Koji Ito
38.91
GR
  Thailand
Niti Piyapan
Vissanu Sophanich
Worasit Vechaphut
Reanchai Seeharwong
39.17   Oman
Ahmed Al-Moamari
Mohamed Al-Houti
Hamoud Al-Dalhami
Jahad Al-Sheikh
40.26
4 × 400 m relay
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  Japan
Jun Osakada
Kenji Tabata
Masayoshi Kan
Shunji Karube
3:01.70
GR
  India
Lijo David Thottan
Purukottam Ramachandran
Paramjit Singh
Jata Shankar
3:02.62   South Korea
Kim Jae-da
Kim Yong-hwan
Kim Ho
Shon Ju-il
3:05.72
Marathon
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Lee Bong-ju
  South Korea
2:12:32 Akira Manai
  Japan
2:13:25 Kim Jung-won
  North Korea
2:16:30
20 km walk
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Yu Guohui
  China
1:20:25
GR
Valeriy Borisov
  Kazakhstan
1:23:52 Li Zewen
  China
1:24:41
50 km walk
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Wang Yinhang
  China
3:59:26 Sergey Korepanov
  Kazakhstan
3:59:27 Fumio Imamura
  Japan
4:06:59
High jump
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Lee Jin-taek
  South Korea
2.27 Zhou Zhongge
  China
2.23 Shigeki Toyoshima
  Japan
2.19
Loo Kum Zee
  Malaysia
Pole vault
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Igor Potapovich
  Kazakhstan
5.55 Kim Chul-kyun
  South Korea
5.40 Fumiaki Kobayashi
  Japan
5.20
Long jump
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Masaki Morinaga
  Japan
8.10 Liu Hongning
  China
8.05 Abdulrahman Al-Nubi
  Qatar
7.99
Triple jump
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Sergey Arzamasov
  Kazakhstan
17.00 Duan Qifeng
  China
16.98 Nattaporn Namkanha
  Thailand
16.42
Shot put
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Liu Hao
  China
19.20 Shakti Singh
  India
18.81 Sergey Rubtsov
  Kazakhstan
18.79
Discus throw
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Li Shaojie
  China
64.58
GR
Anil Kumar
  India
58.43 Zhang Cunbiao
  China
57.28
Hammer throw
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Koji Murofushi
  Japan
78.57
GR
Andrey Abduvaliyev
  Uzbekistan
77.14 Nikolay Davydov
  Kyrgyzstan
68.10
Javelin throw
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Sergey Voynov
  Uzbekistan
79.70 Zhang Lianbiao
  China
78.58 Li Rongxiang
  China
78.57
Decathlon
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Oleg Veretelnikov
  Uzbekistan
8278
GR
Ramil Ganiyev
  Uzbekistan
7857 Toru Yasui
  Japan
7612

Women edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Li Xuemei
  China
11.05 Li Yali
  China
11.36 Rachita Mistry
  India
11.41
200 m
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Damayanthi Dharsha
  Sri Lanka
22.48
GR
Li Xuemei
  China
22.53 Yan Jiankui
  China
23.15
400 m
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Damayanthi Dharsha
  Sri Lanka
51.57 Chen Yuxiang
  China
52.50 Svetlana Bodritskaya
  Kazakhstan
53.00
800 m
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Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
  India
2:01.00 Rosa Kutty
  India
2:03.34 Wang Yuanping
  China
2:04.45
1500 m
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Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
  India
4:12.82 Wang Qingfen
  China
4:13.19 Sunita Rani
  India
4:13.66
5000 m
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Supriyati Sutono
  Indonesia
15:54.45
GR
Sunita Rani
  India
15:54.47 Michiko Shimizu
  Japan
15:55.36
10,000 m
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Yuko Kawakami
  Japan
32:01.25 Zheng Guixia
  China
32:18.81 Chiemi Takahashi
  Japan
32:20.68
100 m hurdles
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Olga Shishigina
  Kazakhstan
12.63
GR
Liu Jing
  China
12.89 Sriyani Kulawansa
  Sri Lanka
13.08
400 m hurdles
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Natalya Torshina
  Kazakhstan
55.33 Hsu Pei-ching
  Chinese Taipei
55.71 Li Yulian
  China
55.93
4 × 100 m relay
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  China
Liang Yi
Yan Jiankui
Li Yali
Li Xuemei
43.36
GR
  Uzbekistan
Elena Kviatkovskaya
Guzel Khubbieva
Lyudmila Dmitriadi
Lyubov Perepelova
44.38   Thailand
Savitree Srichure
Supavadee Khawpeag
Reawadee Watanasin
Natthaporn Wongtiprat
44.68
4 × 400 m relay
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  China
Zhang Henghua
Chen Yuxiang
Li Yulian
Zhang Hengyun
3:32.03   India
Jincy Phillip
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
Rosa Kutty
K. M. Beenamol
3:32.20   Kazakhstan
Svetlana Badrankova
Natalya Torshina
Svetlana Kazanina
Svetlana Bodritskaya
3:37.16
Marathon
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Naoko Takahashi
  Japan
2:21:47
AR
Kim Chang-ok
  North Korea
2:34:55 Tomoko Kai
  Japan
2:35:01
10,000 m walk
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Liu Hongyu
  China
43:57.28
GR
Rie Mitsumori
  Japan
44:29.82 Svetlana Tolstaya
  Kazakhstan
45:29.95
High jump
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Yoko Ota
  Japan
1.88 Jin Ling
  China
1.88 Anna Cherntsova
  Kyrgyzstan
1.84
Pole vault
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Cai Weiyan
  China
4.00
GR
Masumi Ono
  Japan
4.00
=GR
Sun Caiyun
  China
4.00
=GR
Long jump
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Guan Yingnan
  China
6.89 Yu Yiqun
  China
6.77 Yelena Pershina
  Kazakhstan
6.55
Triple jump
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Ren Ruiping
  China
14.27
GR
Wu Lingmei
  China
14.25 Wiktoriýa Brigadnaýa
  Turkmenistan
13.66
Shot put
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Li Meisu
  China
18.96 Cheng Xiaoyan
  China
18.55 Juttaporn Krasaeyan
  Thailand
18.24
Discus throw
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Luan Zhili
  China
63.43 Liu Fengying
  China
59.34 Neelam Jaswant Singh
  India
55.09
Javelin throw
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Lee Young-sun
  South Korea
62.09 Liang Lili
  China
60.11 Gurmeet Kaur
  India
59.00
Heptathlon
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Shen Shengfei
  China
5817 Svetlana Kazanina
  Kazakhstan
5775 Ma Chun-ping
  Chinese Taipei
5659

Medal table edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  China (CHN)1517739
2  Japan (JPN)124824
3  Kazakhstan (KAZ)44513
4  South Korea (KOR)4329
5  Sri Lanka (SRI)3025
6  India (IND)26715
7  Qatar (QAT)2338
8  Uzbekistan (UZB)2305
9  Indonesia (INA)1001
10  Thailand (THA)0235
11  Chinese Taipei (TPE)0123
12  Iran (IRI)0112
  North Korea (PRK)0112
14  Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)0022
15  Malaysia (MAS)0011
  Oman (OMA)0011
  Turkmenistan (TKM)0011
Totals (17 entries)454546136

Participating nations edit

A total of 451 athletes from 37 nations competed in athletics at the 1998 Asian Games:

References edit

External links edit