1998 Asian Athletics Championships Explained

The 12th Asian Championships in Athletics were held in Fukuoka, Japan in July 1998.

Medal summary

Men

100 m (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Zhou Wei	10.39	Watson Nyambek	10.42	Hiroyasu Tsuchie	10.44
200 m (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Koji Ito	20.70	Han Chaoming	20.77	Gennadiy Chernovol	20.92
400 m	Sugath Tillakaratne	44.61 CR	Masayoshi Kan	45.64	Kenji Tabata	45.69
800 m	Cheng Bing	1:47.71	Abdulhassan Abdulrahman	1:47.74	Mahmoud Al-Kheirat	1:48.16
1500 m	Mohammed Sulaiman	3:43.70	Kiyonari Shibata	3:44.38	Cheng Bing	3:44.92
5000 m	Toshinari Takaoka	13:54.34	Gulab Chand	13:55.40	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama	13:58.35
10,000 m	Baek Seung-do	30:12.26	Toshihiro Iwasa	30:12.57	Gulab Chand	30:14.69
3000 m St.	Saad Shadad Al-Asmari	8:31.13	Yasunori Uchitomi	8:33.40	Hamid Sajjadi	8:37.88
110 m H (wind: +1.9 m/s)	Chen Yanhao	13.53 CR	Qi Zhen	13.74	Andrey Sklyarenko	13.86
400 m H	Mubarak Al-Nubi	48.71 CR	Hideaki Kawamura	49.69	Kazuhiko Yamazaki	49.81
20 km Walk	Li Zewen	1:27:58	Yoshima Hara	1:28:16	Valeriy Borisov	1:29:05
4 x 100 m		39.03		39.30		39.43
4 x 400 m	Kenji Tabata Jun Osakada Shunji Karube Masayoshi Kan	3:02.61		3:04.44 NR		3:05.79
High jump	Zhou Zhongge	2.30	Lee Jin-taek	2.27	Loo Kum Zee	2.23
Pole vault	Igor Potapovich	5.55	Aleksandr Korchagin	5.40	Hideji Suzuki	5.20
Long jump	Masaki Morinaga	8.08	Liu Hongning	7.97	Shigeru Tagawa	7.96
Triple jump	Duan Qifeng	16.79	Takanori Sugibayashi	16.50	Takashi Komatsu	16.38
Shot put	Bilal Saad Mubarak	19.17 CR	Liu Hao	18.86	Shakti Singh	18.40
Discus	Li Shaojie	60.28	Dashdendev Makhashiri	57.00	Ajit Bhaduria	55.46
Hammer	Andrey Abduvaliyev	76.67 CR	Koji Murofushi	74.17	Nikolay Davydov	70.31
Javelin	Zhang Lianbiao	77.61	Li Rongxiang	77.48	Mikio Tamura	75.71
Decathlon	Toru Yasui	7439 pts CR	Tomokazu Sugama	7347 pts	Ivan Yarkin	7239 pts

Women

100 m (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Yan Jiankui	11.39	Cui Dangfeng	11.42	Shanti Govindasamy	11.60
200 m (wind: +1.7 m/s)	Yan Jiankui	23.00 =CR	Huang Mei	23.21	P.T. Usha	23.27
400 m	Damayanthi Dharsha	51.23 =CR	Svetlana Bodritskaya	52.46	P.T. Usha	52.55
800 m	Zhang Jian	2:01.16 CR	Liu Jing	2:01.85	Jyotirmoy Sikdar	2:02.65
1500 m	Liu Jing	4:12.76 CR	Wang Chunmei	4:13.45	Jyotirmoy Sikdar	4:14.32
5000 m	Wang Chunmei	15:49.48	Liu Shixiang	15:53.76	Megumi Tanaka	15:55.10
10,000 m	Liu Shixiang	32:28.49	Chiemi Takahashi	32:32.99	Aki Fujikawa	32:48.05
100 m H (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Olga Shishigina	13.04 CR	Feng Yun	13.10	Sriyani Kulawansa	13.16
400 m H	Li Rui	55.80 CR	Natalya Torshina	56.34	Hsu Pei-Ching	57.09
10,000 m road walk	Li Yuxin	46:41	Rie Mitsumori	46:42	Yuka Mitsumori	47:01
4 x 100 m		44.43		44.45		44.85
4 x 400 m		3:33.48		3:34.04		3:35.71
High jump	Miki Imai	1.94 CR	Yoko Ota	1.91	Jin Ling	1.88
Pole vault	Peng Xiaoming	4.00 CR	Masumi Ono	3.80	Chie Miyoshi	3.70
Long jump	Guan Yingnan	6.83 CR	Yu Yiqun	6.74	Yelena Pershina	6.50w
Triple jump	Ren Ruiping	14.11 CR	Wang Kuo-Huei	13.30	Maho Hanaoka	13.24
Shot put	Li Meisu	18.63	Yu Juan	18.12	Lee Myung-Sun	17.66
Discus	Yu Xin	57.47	Neelam Jaswant Singh	56.81	Xiao Yanling	53.32
Hammer	Gu Yuan	61.86	Aya Suzuki	56.12	Eriko Kubota	48.48
Javelin	Li Lei	60.12	Harumi Yamamoto	55.41	Gurmeet Kaur	55.35
Heptathlon	Ding Ying	5846 pts	Svetlana Kazanina	5779 pts	Ma Chun-Ping	5489 pts

See also

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics