Athletics at the 1997 West Asian Games

At the 1997 West Asian Games. the athletics events were held in Tehran, Iran in November 1997. It had a men's only programme containing twenty-two track and field events. All performances were affected by the altitude of the host city (3900 ft/1189 m).

Athletics
at the 1997 West Asian Games
VenueAzadi Stadium

The host nation dominated the proceedings, winning half of the gold medals on offer (11) and more than half of the total medals with its haul of 38 medals. Kuwait was a comfortable second with eight golds among its fifteen medals, while Jordan was a distant third with one gold in its total of five medals. Seven nations reached the medal table in the athletics competition.

The competition was of a relatively low standard for an international athletics meet. Virtually all the performances were closer to the level expected in elite women's competitions. Among the better performers were Maksim Smetanin, a 1996 Olympian from Kyrgyzstan who won the triple jump with 15.90 metres. Two young athletes in the throws discus thrower Abbas Samimi (aged 20), sprinter Fawzi Al-Shammari (aged 18) and hammer thrower Dilshod Nazarov (aged 15) secured their first major medals at an international meeting – all went on to claim multiple medals at the Asian Games and Asian Athletics Championships later in their careers.

Medalists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m Musaed Al-Azemi
 Kuwait
10.83 Abdolghaffar Saghar
 Iran
10.87 Fawzi Al-Shammari
 Kuwait
11.05
200 m Khaled Al-Johar
 Kuwait
21.34 Musaed Al-Azemi
 Kuwait
21.37 Maisam Delvarian
 Iran
22.05
400 m Khaled Al-Johar
 Kuwait
46.51 Fawzi Al-Shammari
 Kuwait
48.17 Mehdi Jelodarzadeh
 Iran
49.07
800 m Mohammad Reza Molaei
 Iran
1:54.40 Boris Kaveshnikov
 Kyrgyzstan
1:54.73 Mehdi Jelodarzadeh
 Iran
1:55.58
1500 m Ahmad Yazdanian
 Iran
3:57.74 Farhad Heidari
 Iran
3:58.24 Rasoul Mohammadbeigi
 Iran
4:14.33
5000 m Jafar Babakhani
 Iran
14:39.04 Awad Al-Hasini
 Jordan
14:43.94 Ahmad Zarekar
 Iran
14:45.57
10,000 m Ahmad Zarekar
 Iran
30:32.38 Awad Al-Hasini
 Jordan
30:56.80 Ebrahim Etaati
 Iran
31:15.01
110 m hurdles Bader Abbas
 Kuwait
14.42 Zeyad Abdulrazak
 Kuwait
14.70 Fadin Mohammadzadeh
 Iran
14.92
400 m hurdles Hamid Reza Fardinpour
 Iran
52.53 Majid Foroutannia
 Iran
53.49 Baýmyrat Aşirmyradow
 Turkmenistan
54.35
3000 m steeplechase Jafar Babakhani
 Iran
9:12.10 Abolfazl Mahmoudian
 Iran
9:12.17 Karim Seyedin
 Iran
10:25.26
4 × 100 m relay  Kuwait42.09  Iran43.87  Turkmenistan43.92
4 × 400 m relay  Kuwait3:11.63  Iran3:13.93  Turkmenistan3:32.37
10,000 m walk Gholamreza Zare
 Iran
45:34 Ahmad Fazeli
 Iran
46:55 Hamid Reza Kahrizi
 Iran
47:23
High jump Fakhredin Fouad
 Jordan
2.10 Hassan Banitorfi
 Iran
2.00 Juma Niýazow
 Turkmenistan
1.95
Alireza Ghiasi
 Iran
Pole vault Hassan Mirseifi
 Iran
4.20 Mehdi Mobini
 Iran
4.20 Abdolmajid Sotoudehnia
 Iran
4.10
Long jump Khaled Al-Bakheet
 Kuwait
7.35 Husein Al-Youhah
 Kuwait
7.19 Aleksandr Tumanow
 Turkmenistan
6.79
Triple jump Maksim Smetanin
 Kyrgyzstan
15.90 Mehrzad Charkhian
 Iran
15.75 Khaled Al-Bakheet
 Kuwait
15.35
Shot put Ali Rahmani
 Iran
16.97 Ali Sayyah
 Iran
16.51 Tareq Al-Najjar
 Jordan
15.80
Discus throw Abbas Samimi
 Iran
52.90 Tareq Al-Najjar
 Jordan
51.90 Fariborz Malek
 Iran
51.04
Hammer throw Naser Al-Jarallah
 Kuwait
64.06 Ghorban Salahi
 Iran
63.80 Dilshod Nazarov
 Tajikistan
59.94
Javelin throw Firas Al-Mahamid
 Syria
71.10 Ghanem Zaid
 Kuwait
65.94 Danghatar Yaghouti
 Iran
65.84
Decathlon Ali Feizi
 Iran
6213 Abdollah Hedayati
 Iran
5958 Hamid Asiabi
 Iran
5935

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Iran (IRI)11131438
2 Kuwait (KUW)85215
3 Jordan (JOR)1315
4 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)1102
5 Syria (SYR)1001
6 Turkmenistan (TKM)0055
7 Tajikistan (TJK)0011
Totals (7 nations)22222367

References

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