2007 Asian Athletics Championships

The 17th Asian Athletics Championships were held on the Amman International Stadium in Amman, Jordan between 25 July and 29 July 2007. It was moved in the last minute from original host country Lebanon due to the unrest in that country.

2007 Asian Championships
Dates	July 25–29
Host city	Amman
Venue	Amman International Stadium
Events	44
Participation	34 nations
← Incheon 2005 Guangzhou 2009 →

Countries like China did not send their best athletes, instead choosing to prepare for the 2007 World Championships which were staged a month later.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Samuel Francis  Qatar	9.99 AR	Masahide Ueno  Japan	10.26	Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Waleed  Qatar	10.30
200 m details	Kenji Fujimitsu  Japan	20.85	Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Waleed  Qatar	20.98	Khalil Al-Hanahneh  Jordan	21.03
400 m details	Prasanna Sampath Amarasekara  Sri Lanka	46.71	Reza Bouazar  Iran	46.90	Mohammad Akefian  Iran	46.93
800 m details	Mohammed Obeid Al-Salhi  Saudi Arabia	1:51.73	Sajjad Moradi  Iran	1:52.22	Abubaker Ali Kamal  Qatar	1:52.22
1500 m details	Mohammed Othman Shaween  Saudi Arabia	3:46.85	Sajjad Moradi  Iran	3:47.01	Abubaker Ali Kamal  Qatar	3:47.22
5000 m details	Felix Kikwai Kibore  Qatar	14:07.12	Abdullah Ahmad Hassan  Qatar	14:08.66	Abedeen Isa Ishaq  Bahrain	14:18.47
10,000 m details	Abdullah Ahmad Hassan  Qatar	29:45.95	Sedam Ali Dawoud  Qatar	29:58.33	Hassan Mahboob Ali  Bahrain	30:05.12
110 m h details	Tasuku Tanonaka  Japan	13.51	Mohamed Issa Al-Thawadi  Qatar	13.55	Wu Youjia  China	13.68
400 m h details	Yevgeniy Meleshenko  Kazakhstan	50.01	Yosuke Tsushima  Japan	50.14	Joseph Abraham  India	50.28
3000 m st. details	Ali Ahmed Al-Amri  Saudi Arabia	8:40.25	Zakrya Ali Kamil  Qatar	8:40.49	Mustafa Ahmed Shebto  Qatar	8:47.99
20 km walk details	Cui Zhide  China	1:30:21.30	Shin Il-yong  South Korea	1:31:33.42	Rustam Kuvatov  Kazakhstan	1:32:37.56
4 x 100 m details	Thailand Taweesak Pooltong, Wachara Sondee, Sompote Suwannarangsri, Sittichai Suwonprateep	39.34	Qatar Saad Al-Shahwani, Samuel Francis, Areef Ibrahim Badar, Ibrahim Abdulla Al-Waleed	39.64	China Wen Yongti, Cao Jian, Zhang Yuan, Liang Jiahong	39.71
4 x 400 m details	Saudi Arabia Yonas Al-Hosah, Mohammed Shaween, Ismail Al-Sabani, Mohammed Obeid Al-Salhi	3:05.96	Sri Lanka Dulan Priyasu, Rohitha Pusup, Shivant Weerasuriya, Ashok Jayasundara	3:07.29	India Sarish Paul, Joseph Abraham, Mortaja Shake, K. M. Mathew	3:07.94
High jump details	Lee Hup Wei  Malaysia	2.24	Jean-Claude Rabbath  Lebanon	2.21	Satoru Kubota  Japan	2.21
Pole vault details	Mohammad Mohsen Rabbani  Iran	5.35	Kim Do-kyun  South Korea	5.25	Takafumi Suzuki  Japan	5.10
Long jump details	Mohamed Salman Al-Khuwalidi  Saudi Arabia	8.16w	Saleh Abdelaziz Al-Haddad  Kuwait	8.05w	Li Runrun  China	7.84w
Triple jump details	Renjith Maheswary  India	17.19w	Kim Deok-hyeon  South Korea	17.00	Bibu Mathew  India	16.64w
Shot put details	Navpreet Singh  India	19.70	Chang Ming-huang  Chinese Taipei	19.66	Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi  Qatar	19.51
Discus details	Ehsan Haddadi  Iran	65.38 CR	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari  Qatar	63.49	Abbas Samimi  Iran	61.29
Hammer details	Ali Al-Zinkawi  Kuwait	75.71	Dilshod Nazarov  Tajikistan	75.70	Hiroaki Doi  Japan	70.74
Javelin details	Chen Qi  China	78.07	Park Jae-myong  South Korea	75.77	Jung Sang-jin  South Korea	70.95
Decathlon details	Ahmad Hassan Moussa  Qatar	7678 pts	Hadi Sepehrzad  Iran	7667 pts	Pavel Andreev  Uzbekistan	7484 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 details	Susanthika Jayasinghe  Sri Lanka	11.19 w	Vu Thi Huong  Vietnam	11.33 w	Zou Yingting  China	11.54 w
200 m details	Susanthika Jayasinghe  Sri Lanka	22.99	Buddika Sujani  Sri Lanka	23.28	Vu Thi Huong  Vietnam	23.30 NR
400 m details	Chitra Soman  India	53.01	Asami Tanno  Japan	53.20	Menaka Wickramasinghe  Sri Lanka	54.11
800 m details	Truong Thanh Hang  Vietnam	2:04.77	Sinimole Paulose  India	2:06.15	Ayako Jinnouchi  Japan	2:08.75
1500 m details	Sinimole Paulose  India	4:12.69	Sara Yusuf Yaqoob Bekheet  Bahrain	4:26.21	Truong Thanh Hang  Vietnam	4:26.77
5000 m details	Kareema Saleh Jasim  Bahrain	16:40.87	Preeja Sreedharan  India	16:56.16	Kim Mi-gyong  North Korea	18:21.32
10,000 m details	Kareema Saleh Jasim  Bahrain	34:26.39	Preeja Sreedharan  India	36:04.54	Kim Mi-gyong  North Korea	38:29.90
100 m h details	Mami Ishino  Japan	13.26	He Liyuan  China	13.31	Lee Yeon-kyung  South Korea	13.50
400 m H details	Satomi Kubokura  Japan	56.74	Ruan Zhuofen  China	57.63	Galina Pedan  Kyrgyzstan	59.13
3000 m st. details	Zhao Yanni  China	10:48.18	Baraah Awadallah  Jordan	12:03.04	Leila Ebrahimi  Iran	12:12.40
20 km walk details	Jiang Qiuyan  China	1:36:15.9	Bai Yanmin  China	1:38:09.6	Svetlana Tolstaya  Kazakhstan	1:41:53.0
4 x 100 m details	Thailand Sangwan Jaksunin, Supavadee Khawpeag, Jutamass Tawoncharoen, Nongnuch Sanrat	44.31	Japan Tomoko Ishida, Momoko Takahashi, Sakie Nobuoka, Saori Kitakaze	45.06	Chinese Taipei Lin Wen-Wen, Lin Yi-chun, Chen Shu-chuan, Li Chen Yi Ru	46.48
4 x 400 m details	India Mandeep Kaur, Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, Chitra Soman	3:33.39	Japan Sayaka Aoki, Satomi Kubokura, Natsumi Watanabe, Asami Tanno	3:33.82	Kazakhstan Tatyana Khajimuradova, Margarita Matsko, Anna Gavryushenko, Marina Maslyonko	3:50.81
High jump details	Tatyana Efimenko  Kyrgyzstan	1.94 =CR	Yekaterina Yevseyeva  Kazakhstan	1.91	Anna Ustinova  Kazakhstan	1.91
Pole vault details	Rosalinda Samsu  Malaysia	4.20	Rachel Yang  Singapore	3.50	only two athletes cleared height
Long jump details	Olga Rypakova  Kazakhstan	6.66w	Anju Bobby George  India	6.65	Jung Soon-ok  South Korea	6.60w
Triple jump details	Olga Rypakova  Kazakhstan	14.69 CR	Li Sha  China	14.03w	Irina Litvinenko  Kazakhstan	13.80w
Shot put details	Liu Xiangrong  China	17.65	Lee Mi-young  South Korea	16.58	Lin Chia-Ying  Chinese Taipei	16.46
Discus details	Xu Shaoyang  China	61.30	Li Yanfeng  China	61.13	Krishna Poonia  India	55.38
Hammer details	Liao Xiaoyan  China	60.58	Kang Na-ru  South Korea	57.38	Huang Chi-Feng  Chinese Taipei	55.37
Javelin details	Buoban Phamang  Thailand	58.35	Gim Gyeong-ae  South Korea	53.01	Nadeeka Lakmali  Sri Lanka	52.59
Heptathlon details	Irina Naumenko  Kazakhstan	5617 pts	J. J. Shobha  India	5356 pts	Sushmitha Singha Roy  India	5154 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)

Medals table

  *   Host nation (Jordan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	7	5	4	16
2	India (IND)	5	5	5	15
3	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	5	0	0	5
4	Qatar (QAT)	4	7	5	16
5	Japan (JPN)	4	5	4	13
6	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	4	1	5	10
7	Sri Lanka (SRI)	3	2	2	7
8	Thailand (THA)	3	0	0	3
9	Iran (IRN)	2	4	3	9
10	Bahrain (BHR)	2	1	2	5
11	Malaysia (MYS)	2	0	0	2
12	Vietnam (VNM)	1	1	2	4
13	Kuwait (KUW)	1	1	0	2
14	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	1	0	1	2
15	South Korea (KOR)	0	7	3	10
16	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	3	4
17	Jordan (JOR)*	0	1	1	2
18	Lebanon (LBN)	0	1	0	1
	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	0	1
	Tajikistan (TJK)	0	1	0	1
21	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	2	2
22	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 entries)		44	44	43	131

Participating nations

• Afghanistan
•  Bahrain
•  Bangladesh
•  China
•  Chinese Taipei
•  Hong Kong
•  India
•  Indonesia
•  Iran
•  Japan
•  Jordan
•  Kazakhstan
•  Kuwait
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  Lebanon
•  Macau
•  Malaysia
•  Maldives
•  Nepal
•  North Korea
•  Pakistan
• Palestine
•  Philippines
•  Qatar
•  Saudi Arabia
•  Singapore
•  South Korea
•  Sri Lanka
• Syria
•  Tajikistan
•  Thailand
•  Uzbekistan
•  Vietnam
•  Yemen

See also

• 2007 in athletics (track and field)

References

Results

• Results, day 1 - Asian Athletics Association (archived)
• Results, day 2 - Asian Athletics Association (archived)
• Results, day 3 - Asian Athletics Association (archived)
• Results, day 4 - Asian Athletics Association (archived)
• Results, day 5 - Asian Athletics Association (archived)
• Asian Championships - GBR Athletics

Daily reports

• "Asian Championships - Day One". IAAF.org. 2007-07-26. Archived from the original on 2010-09-03. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
• "Asian Championships - Day Two". IAAF.org. 2007-07-27. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
• "Asian Championships - Day Three". IAAF.org. 2007-07-28. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
• "Asian Championships - Day Four". IAAF.org. 2007-07-29. Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
• "Asian Championships – Final Day". IAAF.org. 2007-07-30. Retrieved 2007-08-06.

External links

• Asian Athletics Association