2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

2012 Asian Indoor Championships
2012 Asian Indoor Championships
Dates	18–19 February
Host city	Hangzhou, China
Events	25
Participation	195 athletes from ; 26 nations
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The 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was the fifth edition of the international indoor athletics event between Asian nations. It took place at the Vocational and Technical College Athletics Hall in Hangzhou, China, between 18 and 19 February. A total of 26 nations sent athletes to compete at the championships, which featured 25 track and field events.^[1]

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China topped the medal table with 14 golds. Iran was second with three golds while Bahrain finished third with three golds.

The competition featured two Asian indoor records. Mutaz Essa Barshim broke the men's high jump record with a clearance of 2.37 m, bettering Zhu Jianhua's 26-year-ol standard. Li Ling beat the women's Asian indoor record in the pole vault with a mark of 4.50 m.^[2]

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Reza Ghasemi Iran	6.68	Lai Chun Ho Hong Kong	6.78	Hassan Heidarpour Iran	6.78
400 m	Reza Bouazar Iran	48.09	Chang Pengben China	48.47	Amin Ghelichi Iran	48.64
800 m	Mohammad Al-Azemi Kuwait	1:47.37 CR NR	Adnan Taes Iraq	1:49.42 NR	Yang Xiaofei China	1:50.32
1500 m	Mohammed Shaween Saudi Arabia	3:57.84 NR	Mohamed Al-Garni Qatar	3:58.04	Omar Al-Rasheedi Kuwait	3:59.83
3000 m	Bilisuma Shugi Bahrain	7:43.88	Mohamed Al-Garni Qatar	7:46.17	Alemu Bekele Bahrain	7:48.04
60 m hurdles	Jiang Fan China	7.74 CR	Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel Kuwait	7.82 NR	Ji Wei China	7.85
4 × 400 m relay	Event cancelled due to lack of entries
High jump	Mutaz Essa Barshim Qatar	2.37 m AR	Zhang Guowei China	2.28 m	Majed Al-Din Ghazal Syria	2.24 m
Pole vault	Yang Yansheng China	5.50 m	Zhang Wei China	5.40 m	Junya Nagata Japan	5.30 m
Long jump	Li Jinzhe China	7.98 m	Rikiya Saruyama Japan	7.63 m	Kumaravel Premkumar India	7.62 m
Triple jump	Dong Bin China	17.01 m CR	Cao Shuo China	17.01 m CR	Li Yanxi China	16.23
Shot put	Zhang Jun China	19.78 m CR	Wang Guangfu China	19.40 m	Wang Like China	19.09 m
Heptathlon	Dmitriy Karpov Kazakhstan	5928 pts CR	Keisuke Ushiro Japan	5590 pts	Hiromasa Tanaka Japan	5033 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)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Wei Yongli China	7.37	Tao Yujia China	7.40	Viktoriya Zyabkina Kazakhstan	7.44
400 m	Maryam Tousi Iran	53.85 NR	Chen Jingwen China	54.17	Tang Xiaoyin China	55.06
800 m	Zhao Jing China	2:04.15	Genzeb Shumi Bahrain	2:05.96	Song Tingting China	2:11.32
1500 m	Genzeb Shumi Bahrain	4:15.85	Betlhem Belayneh United Arab Emirates	4:16.97 NR	Liu Fang China	4:18.32
3000 m	Shitaye Eshete Bahrain	8:49.27 CR NR	Betlhem Belayneh United Arab Emirates	8:53.56 NR	Tejitu Daba Bahrain	8:53.75
60 m hurdles	Wu Shuijiao China	8.24 CR	Natalya Ivoninskaya Kazakhstan	8.29	Sun Yawei China	8.35
4 × 400 m relay	China Chen Yanmei Tang Xiaoyin Cheng Chong Chen Jingwen	3:40.34	Kazakhstan Natalya Tukova Yekaterina Yermak Margarita Kudinova Alexandra Kuzina	3:44.85	Kyrgyzstan Olesia Korovina Anna Bulanova Ksenia Kadkina Iuliia Khodykina	3:56.11 NR
High jump	Zheng Xingjuan China	1.92 m	Wang Yang China	1.88 m	Duong Thi Viet Anh Vietnam	1.84 m
Pole vault	Li Ling China	4.50 m AR	Choi Yun-Hee South Korea	4.30 m	Megumi Nakada Japan	4.15 m
Long jump	Lu Minjia China	6.33 m	Anastassiya Kudinova Kazakhstan	6.23 m	Wang Wupin China	6.22 m
Triple jump	Xie Limei China	14.06 m	Li Yanmei China	13.73 m	Lyudmila Grankovskaya Kazakhstan	13.22 m
Shot put	Liu Xiangrong China	18.37 m CR	Leila Rajabi Iran	17.51 m	Meng Qianqian China	16.13 m
Pentathlon	Irina Karpova Kazakhstan	4050 pts	Duong Thi Viet Anh Vietnam	3812 pts	Sepideh Tavakkoli Iran	3775 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)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	14	9	10	33
2	Iran (IRI)	3	1	3	7
3	Bahrain (BHR)	3	1	2	6
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	3	2	7
5	Qatar (QAT)	1	2	0	3
6	Kuwait (KUW)	1	1	1	3
7	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	1	0	0	1
8	Japan (JPN)	0	2	3	5
9	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	2	0	2
10	Vietnam (VIE)	0	1	1	2
11	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	0	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
14	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		25	25	25	75

2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

Results

Men

Women

Medal table

Participating nations

References

External links

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