1998 Asian Athletics Championships

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

1998 Asian Championships
Dates	July 19–22
Host city	Fukuoka, Japan
Venue	Hakatanomori Athletic Stadium
Participation	at least 16 nations
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Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Zhou Wei  China	10.39	Watson Nyambek  Malaysia	10.42	Hiroyasu Tsuchie  Japan	10.44
200 m (wind: -0.6 m/s)	Koji Ito  Japan	20.70	Han Chaoming  China	20.77	Gennadiy Chernovol  Kazakhstan	20.92
400 m	Sugath Tillakaratne  Sri Lanka	44.61 CR	Masayoshi Kan  Japan	45.64	Kenji Tabata  Japan	45.69
800 m	Cheng Bing  China	1:47.71	Abdulhassan Abdulrahman  Qatar	1:47.74	Mahmoud Al-Kheirat  Syria	1:48.16
1500 m	Mohammed Sulaiman  Qatar	3:43.70	Kiyonari Shibata  Japan	3:44.38	Cheng Bing  China	3:44.92
5000 m	Toshinari Takaoka  Japan	13:54.34	Gulab Chand  India	13:55.40	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama  Qatar	13:58.35
10,000 m	Baek Seung-do  South Korea	30:12.26	Toshihiro Iwasa  Japan	30:12.57	Gulab Chand  India	30:14.69
3000 m St.	Saad Shadad Al-Asmari  Saudi Arabia	8:31.13	Yasunori Uchitomi  Japan	8:33.40	Hamid Sajjadi  Iran	8:37.88
110 m H (wind: +1.9 m/s)	Chen Yanhao  China	13.53 CR	Qi Zhen  China	13.74	Andrey Sklyarenko  Kazakhstan	13.86
400 m H	Mubarak Al-Nubi  Qatar	48.71 CR	Hideaki Kawamura  Japan	49.69	Kazuhiko Yamazaki  Japan	49.81
20 km Walk	Li Zewen  China	1:27:58	Yoshima Hara  Japan	1:28:16	Valeriy Borisov  Kazakhstan	1:29:05
4 x 100 m	China Zhou Wei Lin Wei Yin Hanzhao Han Chaoming	39.03	Japan Tatsuhiko Watanabe Tatsuo Sugimoto Hiroyasu Tsuchie Koji Ito	39.30	Qatar Jamal Abbas Hamed Al-Dosari Jamal Suleiman Saad Mubarak	39.43
4 x 400 m	Japan Kenji Tabata Jun Osakada Shunji Karube Masayoshi Kan	3:02.61	South Korea Kim Jae-da Shon Ju-il Kim Ho Kim Yong-hwan	3:04.44 NR	Sri Lanka Ranga Wimalawansa Vellasamy Ratnakumara Rohan Pradeep Kumara Sugath Thilakaratne	3:05.79
High jump	Zhou Zhongge  China	2.30	Lee Jin-taek  South Korea	2.27	Loo Kum Zee  Malaysia	2.23
Pole vault	Igor Potapovich  Kazakhstan	5.55	Aleksandr Korchagin  Kazakhstan	5.40	Hideji Suzuki  Japan	5.20
Long jump	Masaki Morinaga  Japan	8.08	Liu Hongning  China	7.97	Shigeru Tagawa  Japan	7.96
Triple jump	Duan Qifeng  China	16.79	Takanori Sugibayashi  Japan	16.50	Takashi Komatsu  Japan	16.38
Shot put	Bilal Saad Mubarak  Qatar	19.17 CR	Liu Hao  China	18.86	Shakti Singh  India	18.40
Discus	Li Shaojie  China	60.28	Dashdendev Makhashiri  Mongolia	57.00	Ajit Bhaduria  India	55.46
Hammer	Andrey Abduvaliyev  Uzbekistan	76.67 CR	Koji Murofushi  Japan	74.17	Nikolay Davydov  Kyrgyzstan	70.31
Javelin	Zhang Lianbiao  China	77.61	Li Rongxiang  China	77.48	Mikio Tamura  Japan	75.71
Decathlon	Toru Yasui  Japan	7439 pts CR	Tomokazu Sugama  Japan	7347 pts	Ivan Yarkin  Kazakhstan	7239 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Yan Jiankui  China	11.39	Cui Dangfeng  China	11.42	Shanti Govindasamy  Malaysia	11.60
200 m (wind: +1.7 m/s)	Yan Jiankui  China	23.00 =CR	Huang Mei  China	23.21	P.T. Usha  India	23.27
400 m	Damayanthi Dharsha  Sri Lanka	51.23 =CR	Svetlana Bodritskaya  Kazakhstan	52.46	P.T. Usha  India	52.55
800 m	Zhang Jian  China	2:01.16 CR	Liu Jing  China	2:01.85	Jyotirmoy Sikdar  India	2:02.65
1500 m	Liu Jing  China	4:12.76 CR	Wang Chunmei  China	4:13.45	Jyotirmoy Sikdar  India	4:14.32
5000 m	Wang Chunmei  China	15:49.48	Liu Shixiang  China	15:53.76	Megumi Tanaka  Japan	15:55.10
10,000 m	Liu Shixiang  China	32:28.49	Chiemi Takahashi  Japan	32:32.99	Aki Fujikawa  Japan	32:48.05
100 m H (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Olga Shishigina  Kazakhstan	13.04 CR	Feng Yun  China	13.10	Sriyani Kulawansa  Sri Lanka	13.16
400 m H	Li Rui  China	55.80 CR	Natalya Torshina  Kazakhstan	56.34	Hsu Pei-Ching  Chinese Taipei	57.09
10,000 m road walk	Li Yuxin  China	46:41	Rie Mitsumori  Japan	46:42	Yuka Mitsumori  Japan	47:01
4 x 100 m	India P. T. Usha Rachita Mistry E. B. Shyla Saraswati Dey	44.43	Japan Kaori Yoshida Yuka Fujii Asami Nagashima Motoka Arai	44.45	Thailand Reawadee Srithoa-Watanasin Naparat Suajongprue Savitree Srichure Supawadee Khawpeag	44.85
4 x 400 m	China Huang Mei Li Jing Chen Yuxiang Li Rui	3:33.48	India M.K. Asha Rosa Kutty Jyotirmoyee Sikdar P.T. Usha	3:34.04	Japan Sachiko Kiso Kazue Kakinuma Sakie Nobuoka Satomi Kasashima	3:35.71
High jump	Miki Imai  Japan	1.94 CR	Yoko Ota  Japan	1.91	Jin Ling  China	1.88
Pole vault	Peng Xiaoming  China	4.00 CR	Masumi Ono  Japan	3.80	Chie Miyoshi  Japan	3.70
Long jump	Guan Yingnan  China	6.83 CR	Yu Yiqun  China	6.74	Yelena Pershina  Kazakhstan	6.50w
Triple jump	Ren Ruiping  China	14.11 CR	Wang Kuo-Huei  Chinese Taipei	13.30	Maho Hanaoka  Japan	13.24
Shot put	Li Meisu  China	18.63	Yu Juan  China	18.12	Lee Myung-Sun  South Korea	17.66
Discus	Yu Xin  China	57.47	Neelam Jaswant Singh  India	56.81	Xiao Yanling  China	53.32
Hammer	Gu Yuan  China	61.86	Aya Suzuki  Japan	56.12	Eriko Kubota  Japan	48.48
Javelin	Li Lei  China	60.12	Harumi Yamamoto  Japan	55.41	Gurmeet Kaur  India	55.35
Heptathlon	Ding Ying  China	5846 pts	Svetlana Kazanina  Kazakhstan	5779 pts	Ma Chun-Ping  Chinese Taipei	5489 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	26	13	3	42
2	Japan (JPN)*	6	17	14	37
3	Qatar (QAT)	3	1	2	6
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	4	5	11
5	Sri Lanka (SRI)	2	0	2	4
6	India (IND)	1	3	8	12
7	South Korea (KOR)	1	2	1	4
8	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	1	0	0	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	0	0	1
10	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	2	3
	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	2	3
12	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	0	1
13	Iran (IRI)	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		43	43	43	129

See also

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics