1979 Asian Athletics Championships

The third Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Suchart Chairsuvaparb  Thailand	10.63	Suh Mei-Guh  South Korea	10.75	Akira Harada  Japan	10.80
200 metres	Yasuhiro Harada  Japan	21.34	Shunzo Shito  Japan	21.34	Toshio Toyota  Japan	21.39
400 metres	Shoichi Handa  Japan	47.45	Abbas Al-Aibi  Iraq	47.47	Fahim Sada  Iraq	47.51
800 metres	Falah Naji Jarallah  Iraq	1:49.5a	Toshifumi Shigenari  Japan	1:49.6a	Sant Kumar  India	1:50.1a
1500 metres	Rattan Singh  India	3:49.8a	Takashi Ishii  Japan	3:50.1a	Toshifumi Shigenari  Japan	3:50.9a
5000 metres	Hideki Kita  Japan	13:55.3a	Takao Nakamura  Japan	13:59.8a	Gopal Singh Saini  India	13:59.8a
10000 metres	Toshihiko Seko  Japan	28:59.2a	Kunimitsu Ito  Japan	29:00.2a	Takeshi So  Japan	29:02.5a
3000 metre steeplechase	Masanari Shintaku  Japan	8:40.8a	Hitoshi Iwabuchi  Japan	8:57.2a	Gopal Singh Saini  India	9:12.4a
110 metres hurdles	Yoshifumi Fujimori  Japan	14.29	Satbir Singh  India	14.53	Jabbar Rahima  Iraq	14.72
400 metres hurdles	Hussein Kadhum  Iraq	51.18	Takashi Nagao  Japan	51.53	Yukihiro Yoshimatsu  Japan	52.14
High jump	Kazunori Koshikawa  Japan	2.15	Takao Sakamoto  Japan	2.15	Takashi Katamine  Japan	2.15
Pole vault	Itsuo Takanezawa  Japan	5.20	Tomomi Takahashi  Japan	5.10	Yosuhiro Kigawa  Japan	5.00
Long jump	Junichi Usui  Japan	7.97	Suresh Babu  India	7.94	Toshihisa Yoshimoto  Japan	7.91w
Triple jump	Zhou Zhenxian  People's Republic of China	17.02	Motokuni Hiratani  Japan	16.52w	Masami Nakanishi  Japan	16.50w
Shot put	Mohammed Al-Zinkawi  Kuwait	17.78	Zhao Baoqin  People's Republic of China	17.50	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	17.47
Discus throw	Kiyotaka Kawasaki  Japan	55.34	Li Weinan  People's Republic of China	54.64	Michio Kita  Japan	53.06
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi  Japan	66.73	Masayuki Kawata  Japan	65.94	Raghubir Singh Bal  India	61.52
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao  People's Republic of China	86.50	Toshihiro Yamada  Japan	78.46	Masahiko Takita  Japan	78.46
Decathlon	Atsushi Kasai  Japan	7096	Toshikazu Kobayashi  Japan	6983	Jin Xuewei  People's Republic of China	6975
20 kilometre road walk	Hakam Singh  India	1:35:40	Wang Qiang  People's Republic of China	1:35:48	Vellasamy Subramaniam  Malaysia	1:36:27
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan	39.70	Thailand	40.20	India	40.41
4 × 400 metres relay	Iraq	3:08.8a	Japan	3:08.9a	India	3:11.8a

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Emiko Konishi  Japan	12.09	Ying Yaping  People's Republic of China	12.10	Mo Myung-Hee  South Korea	12.11
200 metres	Sumiko Kaibara  Japan	24.45	Mo Myung-Hee  South Korea	24.49	Emiko Konishi  Japan	24.72
400 metres	Chung Byong-Soon  South Korea	54.33	Rita Sen  India	54.99	Yumiko Aoi  Japan	55.66
800 metres	Chung Byong-Soon  South Korea	2:06.1a	Chang Yong-Ae  North Korea	2:10.2a	Takako Sanda  Japan	2:11.8a
1500 metres	Kim Ok-Sun  North Korea	4:25.0a	Kim Chun-Hwa  North Korea	4:29.1a	Lü Hongxiang  People's Republic of China	4:31.3a
3000 metres	Kim Ok-Sun  North Korea	9:24.9a	Yang Yenying  People's Republic of China	9:30.8a	Kim Chun-Hwa  North Korea	9:31.4a
100 metres hurdles	Emi Akimoto  Japan	14.17	Dai Jianhua  People's Republic of China	14.33	Tamie Motegi  Japan	14.45
400 metres hurdles	Yumiko Aoi  Japan	60.46	Marina Chin Leng Sim  Malaysia	61.63	Zhan Xin  People's Republic of China	61.84
High jump	Zheng Dazhen  People's Republic of China	1.87	Tamami Yagi  Japan	1.81	Hisayo Fukumitsu  Japan	1.81
Long jump	Sumie Awara  Japan	6.42w	Zou Wa  People's Republic of China	6.27w	Kazuko Ishizu  Japan	6.05w
Shot put	Shen Lijuan  People's Republic of China	17.48	Yukari Seo  Japan	14.78	Yumiko Asari  Japan	14.12
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui  People's Republic of China	58.62	Yukari Seo  Japan	46.64	Yumiko Asari  Japan	44.16
Javelin throw	Li Xia  People's Republic of China	58.44	Yao Juiying  People's Republic of China	54.82	Naomi Shibusawa  Japan	51.16
Pentathlon	Ye Peisu  People's Republic of China	4139	Tomoko Uchida  Japan	3753	Sachie Sekiguchi  Japan	3706
4 × 100 metre relay	Japan	45.85	Thailand	46.03	India	46.93
4 × 400 metre relay	Japan	3:45.9a	Malaysia	3:46.3a	Philippines	3:57.5a

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	20	18	21	59
2	People's Republic of China	7	8	3	18
3	Iraq	3	1	2	6
4	India	2	3	8	13
5	South Korea	2	2	1	5
5	North Korea	2	2	1	5
7	Thailand	1	2	0	3
8	Kuwait	1	0	0	1
9	Malaysia	0	2	1	3
10	Philippines	0	0	1	1

External links

• GBR Athletics