2025 Asian Athletics Championships

The 2025 Asian Athletics Championships was the 26th edition of the Asian Athletics Championships. It was held from 27 to 31 May 2025 in Gumi, South Korea.^[1][2] This was the third time South Korea have hosted the championships after the 1975 and 2005 editions.

2025 Asian Championships
Dates	27–31 May
Host city	Gumi, South Korea
Venue	Gumi Civic Stadium
Events	45
Participation	1193 athletes from 43 nations
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Venue

The 26th edition of the Asian Athletics Championships was held at Gumi Civic Stadium, Gumi, South Korea.^[1]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	teams	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	19	9	4	32
2	India	8	10	6	24
3	Japan	5	11	12	28
4	Kazakhstan	3	1	2	6
	Qatar	3	1	2	6
6	South Korea*	2	1	1	4
7	Iran	2	1	0	3
8	Kuwait	1	0	0	1
	Pakistan	1	0	0	1
	Philippines	1	0	0	1
11	Thailand	0	4	3	7
12	Uzbekistan	0	2	1	3
13	Singapore	0	2	0	2
14	Chinese Taipei	0	1	4	5
15	Saudi Arabia	0	1	2	3
16	Bahrain	0	1	1	2
	Vietnam	0	1	1	2
18	Sri Lanka	0	0	3	3
19	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		45	46	44	135

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Hiroki Yanagita  Japan	10.20 [.194] SB	Puripol Boonson  Thailand	10.20 [.196]	Abdullah Abkar Mohammed  Saudi Arabia	10.30 [.296]
200 metres details	Towa Uzawa  Japan	20.12 CR	Abdulaziz Abdu Atafi  Saudi Arabia	20:31 PB	Animesh Kujur  India	20:32 NR, PB
400 metres details	Ammar Ibrahim  Qatar	45.33	Kentaro Sato  Japan	45.50	Kalinga Kumarage [de; fr]  Sri Lanka	45.55 SB
800 metres details	Ebrahim Alzofairi  Kuwait	1:44.59	Ali Amirian [de]  Iran	1:44.97 PB	Abubaker Haydar Abdalla  Qatar	1:45.20
1500 metres details	Kazuto Iizawa [de; ja]  Japan	3:42.56 PB	Jae-ung Lee  South Korea	3:42.79	Yoonus Shah  India	3:43.03
5000 metres details	Gulveer Singh  India	13:24.77 CR	Kieran Tuntivate  Thailand	13:24.97	Nagiya Mori  Japan	13:25.06
10,000 metres details	Gulveer Singh  India	28:38.63	Mebuki Suzuki [ja]  Japan	28:43.84	Albert Rop  Bahrain	28:46.82 SB
110 metres hurles details	Rachid Muratake  Japan	13.22	Liu Junxi  China	13.31	Qin Weibo  China	13.45 SB
400 metres hurdles details	Abderrahman Samba  Qatar	48.00	Bassem Hemeida  Qatar	49.44	Chung-Wei Lin  Chinese Taipei	49.73 SB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Avinash Sable  India	8:20.92 SB	Yutaro Niinae  Japan	8:24.41 SB	Zakaria al Alhlami  Qatar	8:27.12 PB
4×100 metres relay details	South Korea Minjun Seo Joeljin Nwamadi Lee Jae-seong [de] Junhyeok Lee	38.49 CR	Thailand Natawat Iamudom [de] Thawatchai Himaiad [de] Chayut Khongprasit [de] Puripol Boonson	38.78	Hong Kong Yat Lok Chan Lee Hong Kit [de] Chun Ting Kwok Magnus Johannsson	39.10 PB
4×400 metres relay details	Qatar Abderrahman Samba Bassem Hemeida Hatim Aitoulghazi Ammar Ibrahim	3:03.52	India Jay Kumar Dharmveer Choudhary Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi Manu Thekkinalil Saji	3:03.67 PB	China Liang Baotang Zhang Qing Ailixier Wumaier Fu Haoran	3:03.73 SB
20 km racewalk details	Wang Zhaozhao  China	1:20:36.90 CR	Kento Yoshikawa  Japan	1:20:44.90	Servin Sebasthiyan  India	1:21:13.60
High jump details	Sanghyeok Woo  South Korea	2.29 m	Tomohiro Shinno  Japan	2.26 m SB	Tawan Kaewkam [de]  Thailand	2.23 m SB
Pole vault details	Ernest John Obiena  Philippines	5.77 m	Huang Bokai  China	5.72 m SB	Patsapong Amsamarng  Thailand	5.67 m PB
Long jump details	Shu Heng  China	8.22 m	Lin Yu-tang  Chinese Taipei	8.20 m	Keito Yamaura  Japan	8.08 m SB
Triple jump details	Zhu Yaming  China	17.06 m	Praveen Chithravel  India	16.90 m	Yu Kyu-min [de]  South Korea	16.82 m SB
Shot put details	Mohammad Reza Tayyebi [de]  Iran	20.32 m	Xing Jialiang  China	19.97 m	Mohammed Tolo  Saudi Arabia	19.92 m
Discus throw details	Abuduaini Tuergong  China	63.47 m SB	Masateru Yugami [de; fr; ja]  Japan	60.38 m	Irfan Shamsuddin  Malaysia	58.82 m
Hammer throw details	Wang Qi  China	74.50 m	Tatsuto Nakagawa  Japan	71.97 m PB	Shota Fukuda [de]  Japan	71.89 m
Javelin throw details	Arshad Nadeem  Pakistan	86.40 m	Sachin Yadav  India	85.16 m PB	Yuta Sakiyama  Japan	83.75 m PB
Decathlon details	Fei Xiang  China	7634 pts	Tejaswin Shankar  India	7618 pts	Keisuke Okuda [de]  Japan	7602 pts

* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Liang Xiaojing  China	11.37	Shanti Pereira  Singapore	11.41	Trần Thị Nhi Yến [de; vi]  Vietnam	11.54
200 metres details	Chen Yujie  China	22.97 PB	Shanti Pereira  Singapore	22.98 SB	Li Yuting  China	23.23 SB
400 metres details	Nanako Matsumoto [de; ja; pl]  Japan	52.17 PB	Rupal Chaudhary  India	52.68	Jonbibi Hukmova  Uzbekistan	52.79 PB
800 metres details	Wu Hongjiao [de]  China	2:00.08 CR	Rin Kubo  Japan	2:00.42	Pooja Singh  India	2:01.89 PB
1500 metres details	Li Chunhui  China	4:10.58	Pooja Singh  India	4:10.83	Tomoka Kimura  Japan	4:11.56 SB
5000 metres details	Norah Jeruto  Kazakhstan	14:58.71 CR	Parul Chaudhary  India	15:15.33	Yuma Yamamoto  Japan	15:16.86
10,000 metres details	Daisy Jepkemei  Kazakhstan	30:48.44	Ririka Hironaka  Japan	30:56.32	Mikuni Yada [ja]  Japan	31:12.21
100 metres hurdles details	Jyoti Yarraji  India	12.96	Yumi Tanaka  Japan	13.07 [.061]	Wu Yanni  China	13.07 [.068]
400 metres hurdles details	Mo Jiadie  China	55.31	Kemi Adekoya  Bahrain	55.32	Vithya Ramraj  India	56:46
3000 metres steeplechase details	Norah Jeruto  Kazakhstan	9:10.46 CR	Parul Chaudhary  India	9:12.46 NR	Daisy Jepkemei  Kazakhstan	9:27.51
4×100 metres relay details	China Chen Yujie Li Yuting Zhu Junying Liang Xiaojing	43.28 SB	India Abinaya Rajarajan Sneha Sathyanarayana Shanuvalli Nithya Gandhe Srabani Nanda	43.86 SB	Thailand Jirapat Khanonta Supanich Poolkerd Sukanda Petraksa [de] Athicha Phetkun [de]	44.26 PB
4×400 metres relay details	India Jisna Mathew Rupal Chaudhary Rajitha Kunja Subha Venkatesan	3:34.18 SB	Vietnam Thi Ngoc Nguyen [de] Nguyen Thi Hang [de] Quách Thị Lan Hoang Thi Minh Hanh [de]	3:34.77	Sri Lanka Nadeesha Ramanayake Lakshima Mendis [de] Jayeshi Uththara [de] Harshani Fernando [de]	3:36.67
20 km racewalk details	Yin Hang  China	1:30:44	Ma Li  China	1:32:08	Yasmina Toxanbayeva  Kazakhstan	1:32:22
High jump details	Pooja Singh  India	1.89 m PB	Safina Sadullaeva  Uzbekistan Yelizaveta Matveyeva  Kazakhstan	1.86 m	Not awarded
Pole vault details	Niu Chunge  China	4.48	Xu Huiqin  China	4.23	Misaki Morota [de; ja]  Japan	4.13
Long jump details	Reihaneh Mobini [de; fa]  Iran	6.40 m	Ancy Sojan  India	6.33 m	Shaili Singh  India	6.30 m
Triple jump details	Li Yi [de]  China	13.80 m	Sharifa Davronova  Uzbekistan	13.74 m	Mariko Morimoto [de; fr; ja; no]  Japan	13.65 m SB
Shot put details	Ma Yue  China	18.26 m	Song Jiayuan  China	17.78 m	Ching Yuan Chiang  Chinese Taipei	17.42 m PB
Discus throw details	Feng Bin  China	61.90 m	Subenrat Insaeng  Thailand	57.68 m	Nanaka Kori  Japan	56.48 m
Hammer throw details	Ji Li [de]  China	72.98 m	Li Jiangyan [de; no]  China	69.13 m	Yu Ya-chien [de]  Chinese Taipei	64.25 m
Javelin throw details	Su Lingdan  China	63.29 m PB	Momone Ueda  Japan	59.39 m SB	Sae Takemoto [de]  Japan	58.94 m
Heptathlon details	Nandini Agasara  India	5941 pts PB	Liu Jingyi [de]  China	5869 pts PB	Chen Tsai-chuan [de]  Chinese Taipei	5608 pts

* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×400 metres relay details	India Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan Rupal Chaudhary Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi Subha Venkatesan	3:18.12	China Liang Baotang Wu Hongjiao [de] Ailixier Wumaier Liu Yinglan [de]	3:20.52 SB	Sri Lanka S.M.S.V Rajakaruna Lakshima Mendis [de] Kalinga Kumarage [de; fr] Harshani Fernando [de]	3:21.95

Participating nations

A total of 39 countries participated.^[3]

•  Bahrain (7)
•  Bangladesh (5)
•  Bhutan (4)
•  Cambodia (1)
•  China (66)
•  Chinese Taipei (31)
•  Hong Kong (41)
•  India (62)
•  Indonesia (21)
•  Iran (26)
•  Iraq (15)
•  Japan (71)
•  Jordan (5)
•  Kazakhstan (32)
•  Kuwait (22)
•  Kyrgyzstan (8)
•  Laos (2)
•  Lebanon (3)
•  Macau (11)
•  Malaysia (36)
•  Maldives (2)
•  Mongolia (5)
•  Myanmar (5)
•  Nepal (6)
•  Oman (5)
•  Pakistan (5)
•  Palestine (4)
•  Philippines (17)
•  Qatar (19)
•  Saudi Arabia (30)
•  Singapore (23)
•  South Korea (91)
•  Sri Lanka (21)
•  Tajikistan (5)
•  Thailand (34)
•  Turkmenistan (5)
•  United Arab Emirates (4)
•  Uzbekistan (36)
•  Vietnam (17)

Incidents

During the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, from May 27 to 31, two Iranian athletes and one coach were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 20-year-old South Korean woman on May 31 at a hotel where the Iranian delegation was staying. The woman reportedly met one of the athletes, identified as "K," at a bar in Gumi, near the athletes’ village, before being taken to the hotel where the assault occurred. South Korean police classified the incident as "Special Rape," a serious offense under local law, and detained the suspects following the woman’s complaint, with one individual present at the scene later released. The case triggered widespread public outrage in South Korea, with media outlets like Hankyoreh and Korea Times providing extensive coverage. Social media platforms saw an outpouring of anger from South Koreans, with many expressing shock, grief, and demands for harsh penalties, labeling the incident a violation of trust during an international event. Feminist groups and activists also voiced concerns, calling for stronger protections for women. The ongoing investigation continues to draw intense scrutiny and has sparked broader discussions on safety and accountability at global sporting events.^[4][5][6][7]

One of the three runners attempted suicide unsuccesfully while in custody.^[8] Another Iranian athlete was arrested for "stealing" and was released after paying a "fine" from Iran.^[9]

Iranian Minister of youth affairs and sports was called to appear before Iranian parliament for questioning.^[10]

Broadcasting

Territory	Broadcaster(s)	Reference
No restricted territory	STN SPORTS (YouTube channel)	Live & Event finals playlist on YouTube