2013 Asian Athletics Championships

The 2013 Asian Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the biennial athletics competition between Asian nations. It was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Balewadi, Pune, India between July 3–7.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Around 522 athletes from 42 nations competed at the event. It was the first time since 1989 that India had hosted the championships.[7]

2013 Asian Championships
DatesJuly 3–7
Host city Pune, India
VenueShiv Chhatrapati Stadium
Events42
Participation522 athletes from
42 nations

Prior to the competition, the election of the Asian Athletics Association president was convened in Pune. Qatar's Dahlan Jumaan al-Hamad (an IAAF vice-president) defeated the incumbent, Suresh Kalmadi of India, by a margin of 20 votes to 18.[8] Kalmadi, on bail for corruption charges stemming from the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, did not attend the championships.[9] The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, declared the event open at the championships opening ceremony

China, the traditional regional leader at the competition, easily took the top spot in the medal rankings with sixteen gold medals and 27 medals in total. This maintained its streak as the best nation of the tournament – a run dating back to the 1983 edition. Second-placed Bahrain took five golds and fifteen medals overall (although Ali Khamis Khamis, the 400 metres runner-up, was their only native-born medallist).[10] Japan placed third in the medal rankings with four golds and had the second greatest overall haul with 20 medals. In fifth place the hosts India had the next biggest haul, with 17 medals in total, although Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan had a greater number of gold medals.

The overall quality of the competition was reduced as several top Asian athletes were absent. Mutaz Essa Barshim was the only Asian 2012 Olympic medallist who intended to participate, but he withdrew due to a back injury.[9] Thirteen champions from 2011 were present and six of them (Su Bingtian, Yousef Masrahi, Dejene Regassa, Shitaye Eshete, Satomi Kubokura, and Wassanee Winatho) successfully defended their title.

A total of eight championships records were bettered at the competition: Shitaye Eshete broke the longest-standing of these by winning the women's 10,000 metres in 32:17.29 minutes, breaking Zhong Huandi's time from 1989. The organisers used a performance-based points system to assign the titles of best athlete at the championships: Saudi 400 metres champion Yousef Masrahi was the best male with 1172 points while Bahrain's steeplechase winner Ruth Jebet was the best female with 1142 points.[11]

The Athletics Federation of India withdrew an unnamed female shot putter from their squad for a failed doping test one day before the opening of the championships.[12]

Hosting issues

The competition was originally set to take place in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of the state, ordered the removal of Sri Lanka from the competition on the grounds of war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War. This request was ignored by the Athletics Federation of India and in February 2013 Chennai withdrew as hosts of the championships.[13]

The federation approached the state governments of Jharkhand and Delhi, with the venues of Ranchi and New Delhi being suggested, but both states refused the host duties. Finally, in May the Maharashtra government agreed to host the event in Pune on the same dates agreed for the Chennai event. Pune already had a suitable track and field stadium that had recently played host to the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2008. The budget given for the championships, however, was significantly reduced.[14]

Medal summary

Men

Su Bingtian of China, winner of the men's 100 metres.
Dmitriy Karpov of Kazakhstan, winner of the men's decathlon.
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Su Bingtian
 China
10.17 Samuel Francis
 Qatar
10.27 Barakat Al-Harthi
 Oman
10.30
200 metres
Xie Zhenye
 China
20.87 Fahhad Mohammed Al Subaie
 Saudi Arabia
20.92 Kei Takase
 Japan
20.92
400 metres
Yousef Masrahi
 Saudi Arabia
45.08 Ali Khamis Khamis
 Bahrain
45.65 Yuzo Kanemaru
 Japan
45.95
800 metres
Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla
 Qatar
1:46.92 Abdulaziz Ladan
 Saudi Arabia
1:47.01 Belal Mansoor Ali
 Bahrain
1:48.56
1500 metres
Emad Noor
 Saudi Arabia
3:39.51 Mohamad Al-Garni
 Qatar
3:40.75 Belal Mansoor Ali
 Bahrain
3:40.96
5000 metres
Dejene Regassa Mootoma
 Bahrain
13:53.25 Alemu Bekele Gebre
 Bahrain
13:57.23 Emad Noor
 Saudi Arabia
14:05.88
10,000 metres
Alemu Bekele Gebre
 Bahrain
28:47.26 Bilisuma Shugi
 Bahrain
28:58.67 Ratiram Saini
 India
29:35.42
110 metres hurdles
Jiang Fan
 China
13.61 Abdulaziz Al Mandeel
 Kuwait
13.78 Wataru Yazawa
 Japan
13.88
400 metres hurdles
Yasuhiro Fueki
 Japan
49.86 Cheng Wen
 China
50.07 Satinder Singh
 India
50.35
3000 metres steeplechase
Tareq Mubarak Taher
 Bahrain
8:34.77 Dejene Regassa Mootoma
 Bahrain
8:37.40 Tsuyoshi Takeda
 Japan
8:48.48
4×100 metres relay
 Hong Kong (HKG)
Tang Yik Chun
Lai Chun Ho
Ng Ka Fung
Tsui Chi Ho
38.94  Japan (JPN)
Kazuma Oseto
Kei Takase
Sota Kawatsura
Yuichi Kobayashi
39.11  China (CHN)
Guo Fan
Xie Zhenye
Su Bingtian
Chen Qiang
39.17
4×400 metres relay
 Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Mohammed Ali Al-Bishi
Fahhad Mohammed Al Subaie
Mohammed Al-Salhi
Yousef Masrahi
3:02.53 CR  Japan (JPN)
Yusuke Ishitsuka
Yuzo Kanemaru
Kazuya Watanabe
Hideyuki Hirose
3:04.46  Sri Lanka (SRI)
Chanaka Dulan Priyashantha
Dilan Aloka
Kasun Seneviratne
Anjana Madushan
3:04.92
High jump
Bi Xiaoliang
 China
2.21 m Jithin Thomas
 India
Keyvan Ghanbarzadeh
 Iran
2.21 m Not awarded
Pole vault
Xue Changrui
 China
5.60 m Lu Yao
 China
5.20 m Jin Min-Sub
 South Korea
5.20 m
Long jump
Wang Jianan
 China
7.95 m Kumaravel Premkumar
 India
7.92 m Tang Gongchen
 China
7.89 m
Triple jump
Cao Shuo
 China
16.77 m Renjith Maheshwary
 India
16.76 m Arpinder Singh
 India
16.58 m
Shot put
Sultan Al-Hebshi
 Saudi Arabia
19.68 m Chang Ming-huang
 Chinese Taipei
19.61 m Om Prakash Singh
 India
19.45 m
Discus throw
Vikas Gowda
 India
64.90 m Mohammad Samimi
 Iran
61.93 m Ahmed Mohamed Dheeb
 Qatar
60.82 m
Hammer throw
Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan
78.32 m Ali Al-Zinkawi
 Kuwait
74.70 m Qi Dakai
 China
74.19 m
Javelin throw
Ivan Zaytsev
 Uzbekistan
79.76 m Sachith Maduranga
 Sri Lanka
79.62 m NR Samarjit Singh
 India
75.03 m
Decathlon
Dmitriy Karpov
 Kazakhstan
8037 pts CR Akihiko Nakamura
 Japan
7620 pts Leonid Andreev
 Uzbekistan
7383 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Wei Yongli
 China
11.29 Chisato Fukushima
 Japan
11.53 Tao Yujia
 China
11.63
200 metres
Viktoriya Zyabkina
 Kazakhstan
23.62 Asha Roy
 India
23.71 Dutee Chand
 India
23.82
400 metres
Zhao Yanmin
 China
52.49 Poovamma Raju Machettira
 India
53.37 Gretta Taslakian
 Lebanon
53.43 NR
800 metres
Wang Chunyu
 China
2:02.47 Genzeb Shumi
 Bahrain
2:04.16 Tintu Luka
 India
2:04.48
1500 metres
Betlhem Desalegn
 United Arab Emirates
4:13.67 Mimi Belete
 Bahrain
4:14.04 Ayako Jinnouchi
 Japan
4:16.73
5000 metres
Betlhem Desalegn
 United Arab Emirates
15:12.84 CR NR Shitaye Eshete
 Bahrain
15:22.17 Tejitu Daba
 Bahrain
15:38.63
10,000 metres
Shitaye Eshete
 Bahrain
32:17.29
CR
Alia Saeed
 United Arab Emirates
32:39.39 Ayumi Hagiwara
 Japan
32.47.44
100 metres hurdles
Ayako Kimura
 Japan
13.25 Anastassiya Soprunova
 Kazakhstan
13.44 Jayapal Hemasree
 India
14.01
400 metres hurdles
Satomi Kubokura
 Japan
56.82 Manami Kira
 Japan
57.78 Jo Eun-Ju
 South Korea
58.21
3000 metres steeplechase
Ruth Jebet
 Bahrain
9:40.84 CR Sudha Singh
 India
9:56.27 Pak Kum Hyang
 North Korea
10:09.80
4×100 metres relay
 China (CHN)
Tao Yujia
Li Manyuan
Lin Huijun
Wei Yongli
44.01  Japan (JPN)
Saori Kitakaze
Chisato Fukushima
Mayumi Watanabe
Anna Fujimori
44.38  Thailand (THA)
Phatsorn Jaksuninkorn
Orranut Klomdee
Tassaporn Wannakit
Jintara Seangdee
44.44
4×400 metres relay
 India (IND)
Nirmla
Tintu Luka
Anu Mariam Jose
Poovamma Raju Machettira
3:32.26  China (CHN)
Chen Lin
Cheng Chong
Geng Qingyu
Zhao Yanmin
3:35.31  Japan (JPN)
Asami Chiba
Sayaka Aoki
Satomi Kubokura
Manami Kira
3:35.72
High jump
Nadiya Dusanova
 Uzbekistan
1.90 m Svetlana Radzivil
 Uzbekistan
1.88 m Marina Aitova
 Kazakhstan
1.88 m
Pole vault
Li Ling
 China
4.54 m CR Ren Mengqian
 China
4.40 m Sukanya Chomchuendee
 Thailand
4.15 m
Long jump
Sachiko Masumi
 Japan
6.55 m Anastasiya Juravleva
 Uzbekistan
6.36 m Mayookha Johny
 India
6.30 m
Triple jump
Anastasiya Juravleva
 Uzbekistan
14.18 m Aleksandra Kotlyarova
 Uzbekistan
13.89 m Irina Litvinenko Ektova
 Kazakhstan
13.75 m
Shot put
Liu Xiangrong
 China
18.67 m Leyla Rajabi
 Iran
18.18 m Gao Yang
 China
17.76 m
Discus throw
Su Xinyue
 China
55.88 m Jiang Fengjing
 China
55.70 m Li Tsai-Yi
 Chinese Taipei
55.32 m
Hammer throw
Wang Zheng
 China
72.78 m CR Liu Tingting
 China
67.16 m Masumi Aya
 Japan
63.41 m
Javelin throw
Li Lingwei
 China
60.65 m CR Nadeeka Lakmali
 Sri Lanka
60.16 m NR Risa Miyashita
 Japan
55.30 m
Heptathlon
Wassana Winatho
 Thailand
5818 pts Ekaterina Voronina
 Uzbekistan
5599 pts Chie Kiriyama
 Japan
5451 pts

Medal table

The host stadium in Pune

  *   Host nation (India)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China (CHN)166527
2 Bahrain (BHR)57315
3 Japan (JPN)461020
4 Saudi Arabia (KSA)4217
5 Uzbekistan (UZB)3418
6 India (IND)*26917
7 Kazakhstan (KAZ)2125
8 United Arab Emirates (UAE)2103
9 Qatar (QAT)1214
10 Thailand (THA)1023
11 Hong Kong (HKG)1001
 Tajikistan (TJK)1001
13 Iran (IRI)0303
14 Sri Lanka (SRI)0213
15 Kuwait (KUW)0202
16 Chinese Taipei (TPE)0112
17 South Korea (KOR)0022
18 Lebanon (LIB)0011
 North Korea (PRK)0011
 Oman (OMA)0011
Totals (20 nations)424341126

Participating nations

References

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Medal table
Results
  • Final Results. Athletics Federation of India. Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
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