Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games

Athletics at the XIII Asian Games
The host stadium for the athletics (shown in 2016)
Host city	Bangkok, Thailand
Date(s)	6–20 December
Main stadium	Thammasat Stadium
Participation	450 athletes from 38 nations
Events	45
← 1994 Hiroshima 2002 Busan → 1998 Asian Games

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

Medal summary

Men's events

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

• N.B. The Qatari 4×100 m men's relay team were initially the bronze medallists but were later disqualified.^[1]
•  Qatar (Jassim Abbas, Hamad Mubarak Al-Dosari, Sulaiman Jama Yusuf, Saad Al-Kuwari) – 39.85 seconds

Women's events

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	15	17	7	39
2	Japan	12	4	8	24
3	Kazakhstan	4	4	5	13
4	South Korea	4	3	2	9
5	Sri Lanka	3	0	2	5
6	India	2	6	7	15
7	Qatar	2	3	3	8
8	Uzbekistan	2	3	0	5
9	Indonesia	1	0	0	1
10	Thailand	0	2	3	5
11	Chinese Taipei	0	1	2	3
12	Iran	0	1	1	2
	North Korea	0	1	1	2
14	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	2	2
15	Oman	0	0	1	1
	Turkmenistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 nations)		45	45	45	135

Participating nations

See also

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

References

• Asian Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Results. China People. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Asian 13th Games. Sport Fieber. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.

External links

• Official meet results