Athletics at the 1970 Asian Games

The athletics events at the 1970 Asian Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 10 to 15 December.

Athletics at the 1970 Asian Games
Dates	10–15 December
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Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Masahide Jinno  Japan	10.5	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	10.5	C. Kunalan  Singapore	10.5
200 m details	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	21.1 GR	Masahide Jinno  Japan	21.5	C. Kunalan  Singapore	21.5
400 m details	Yoshiharu Tomonaga  Japan	46.6 =GR	Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa  Ceylon	46.7	Sucha Singh  India	47.2
800 m details	Jimmy Crampton  Burma	1:47.9 GR	Sriram Singh  India	1:48.3	Yoshitake Tsuchiya  Japan	1:48.7
1500 m details	Susumu Noro  Japan	3:53.0	Muhammad Younis  Pakistan	3:53.2	Jimmy Crampton  Burma	3:53.3
5000 m details	Lucien Rosa  Ceylon	14:32.2	Edward Sequeira  India	14:33.8	Yuval Wischnitzer  Israel	14:34.7
10,000 m details	Lucien Rosa  Ceylon	29:55.6 GR	Kenichi Otsuki  Japan	29:56.9	Park Bong-keun  South Korea	31:43.0
110 m hurdles details	Chikashi Watanabe  Japan	14.7	Roddy Lee  Republic of China	15.1	Bancha Ramarat  Thailand	15.8
400 m hurdles details	Yukitaka Shigeta  Japan	52.6	Roddy Lee  Republic of China	52.8	Norman Brinkworth  Pakistan	53.2
3000 m steeplechase details	Nobuyoshi Miura  Japan	8:48.8 GR	Susumu Noro  Japan	8:50.3	Gurmej Singh  India	8:53.2
4 × 100 m relay details	Thailand Anat Ratanapol Panus Ariyamongkol Kanoksak Chaisanont Somsak Thongsuk	40.4 GR	Japan Chiaki Miyakawa Masahide Jinno Kiyoshi Shimada Hiromitsu Inomata	40.7	India O. L. Thomas Kenneth Powell A. P. Ramaswamy Ramesh Tawde	40.9
4 × 400 m relay details	Japan Horishi Waku Kiyoshi Shimada Hiromitsu Inomata Yoshiharu Tomonaga	3:10.0	India Bhogeswar Baruah P. C. Punappa Sucha Singh Ajmer Singh	3:11.9	Malaysia Victor Asirvatham Hassan Osman Thambu Krishnan Jayabalan Karuppiah	3:13.0
Marathon details	Kenji Kimihara  Japan	2:21:03 GR	Yoshiro Mifune  Japan	2:24:21	Kang Myung-kwang  South Korea	2:26:48
High jump details	Teymour Ghiasi  Iran	2.06	Hidehiko Tomizawa  Japan	2.06	Bhim Singh  India	2.03
Pole vault details	Kyoichiro Inoue  Japan	4.80 GR	Masanori Araya  Japan	4.60	Hong Sang-pyo  South Korea	4.30
Long jump details	Shinji Ogura  Japan	7.62 GR	Hiroomi Yamada  Japan	7.52	Labh Singh  India	7.45
Triple jump details	Mohinder Singh Gill  India	16.11 GR	Labh Singh  India	15.82	Tsai Teng-long  Republic of China	15.79
Shot put details	Joginder Singh  India	17.09 GR	Jalal Keshmiri  Iran	16.96	Masazumi Aoki  Japan	16.59
Discus throw details	Praveen Kumar  India	52.32	Jalal Keshmiri  Iran	51.40	Toji Hayashi  Japan	48.94
Hammer throw details	Shigenobu Murofushi  Japan	67.08 GR	Yoshihisa Ishida  Japan	64.34	Yusaf Malik  Pakistan	51.38
Javelin throw details	Hisao Yamamoto  Japan	71.24	Park Soo-kwon  South Korea	67.98	Nashatar Singh Sidhu  Malaysia	67.34
Decathlon details	Junichi Onizuka  Japan	7073	M. G. Shetty  India	6582	Wang Ying-shih  Republic of China	6556

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Chi Cheng  Republic of China	11.6 =GR	Keiko Yamada  Japan	12.1	Carolina Rieuwpassa  Indonesia	12.4
200 m details	Keiko Yamada  Japan	25.0	Amelita Alanes  Philippines	25.2	Carolina Rieuwpassa  Indonesia	25.4
400 m details	Kamaljeet Sandhu  India	57.3	Aviva Balas  Israel	57.3	Nobuko Kawano  Japan	57.4
800 m details	Hana Shezifi  Israel	2:06.5 GR	Nobuko Kawano  Japan	2:11.7	Isabel Cruz  Philippines	2:13.5
1500 m details	Hana Shezifi  Israel	4:25.1 GR	Miyako Inoue  Japan	4:40.2	Lee Chiu-hsia  Republic of China	4:41.4
100 m hurdles details	Esther Shahamorov  Israel	14.0 GR	Ayako Natsume  Japan	14.0 =GR	Lin Yueh-hsiang  Republic of China	14.6
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Emiko Konishi Keiko Tsuchida Ritsuko Sato Keiko Yamada	47.2	Singapore Schushila Wadhumal Gan Bee Wah Maimoon Abu Bakar Glory Barnabas	48.0	Republic of China Liang Su-chiao Hung Mei-yu Huang Pi-yun Lin Chun-yu	48.1
High jump details	Michiyo Inaoka  Japan	1.70 GR	Kumie Suzuki  Japan	1.66	Lolita Lagrosas  Philippines	1.56
Long jump details	Hiroko Yamashita  Japan	6.02 GR	Esther Shahamorov  Israel	5.94	Keiko Tsuchida  Japan	5.75
Shot put details	Paik Ok-ja  South Korea	14.57 GR	Satoe Matsuzaki  Japan	14.07	Yoko Saito  Japan	13.86
Discus throw details	Teruko Yagishita  Japan	47.70 GR	Yoko Saito  Japan	44.42	Paik Ok-ja  South Korea	44.02
Javelin throw details	Nobuko Morita  Japan	49.84 GR	Sakiko Hara  Japan	48.12	Lee Bok-soon  South Korea	43.70
Pentathlon details	Esther Shahamorov  Israel	4530 GR	Lin Chun-yu  Republic of China	4382	Lolita Lagrosas  Philippines	4020

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	19	17	6	42
2	India (IND)	4	5	5	14
3	Israel (ISR)	4	2	1	7
4	Thailand (THA)	2	1	1	4
5	Ceylon (CEY)	2	1	0	3
6	Republic of China (ROC)	1	3	5	9
7	Iran (IRN)	1	2	0	3
8	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	5	7
9	Burma (BIR)	1	0	1	2
10	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	3	4
11	Pakistan (PAK)	0	1	2	3
	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	2	3
13	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	2	2
	Malaysia (MAL)	0	0	2	2
Totals (14 entries)		35	35	35	105

References

• Asian Games Results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Women's relay medallists^[usurped]. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Men's relay medallists^[usurped]. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.