2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

2014 Asian Indoor Championships
Host city Hangzhou, China
Date(s) 15–16 February
Participation 227 athletes from
28 nations
Events 26
Records set 4 CRs


The 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was the sixth 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 15 and 16 February.[1] The city was confirmed as the host in September 2013 at the 77th Council Meeting of the Asian Athletics Association.[2] This was the second time the city held the event, successively following on from the 2012 Championships.[3] A total of 28 nations were represented at the tournament comprising 26 track and field events.[4]

Qatar won the most gold medals – its contingent of African-born athletes won four of the five men's running events. Its sole native medallist, Mutaz Essa Barshim, gave one of the best performances of the meet with 2.36 m in the men's high jump (one centimetre short of his Asian record) to take his third consecutive title. The host nation China won the most medals overall, with four golds in a haul of twenty. Most of China's medals came from the field events, where it had at least one medallist in each event on the men's and women's sides. Kazakhstan ranked a clear third with four champions and twelve medals in total. From the fifteen nations at reached the medal table, Uzbekistan, Kuwait, Japan and Iran were others that frequently featured on the podium.[4]

Four championship records were improved during the course of the two-day competition. Kazakhstan's men's 4×400 m relay team knocked a second off Saudi Arabia's mark from 2008. Maryam Jamal's time in the women's 3000 metres was a six-second improvement from the previous record by compatriot Shitaye Eshete. China's Wu Shuijiao improved her own record from 2012 with a run of 8.02 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles, which was also a Chinese indoor record. Svetlana Radzivil raised the women's high jump best to 1.96 m, erasing Marina Aitova's height of 1.93 m that had stood since 2006.[5]

Four athletes successfully defended their titles from 2012: Dmitriy Karpov in the men's heptathlon, Maryam Tousi in the women's 400 metres, Mutaz Essa Barshim in the men's high jump, and Wu Shuijiao in the women's 60 m hurdles. Mohamad Al-Garni and Maryam Jamal were the only two competitors who won two individual golds, each of them completing a 1500/3000 metres double. Betlhem Desalegn was the women's runner-up in both those events, and sprinter Maryam Tousi was the only other runner to take multiple individual medals.

Results

For more details on this topic, see 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships – Results.

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres  Samuel Francis (QAT) 6.61  Femi Ogunode (QAT) 6.62  Reza Ghasemi (IRI) 6.68
400 metres  Mehdi Zamani (IRI) 48.25  Sergey Zaykov (KAZ) 48.37  Ahmed Mubarak Saleh (OMA) 48.51
800 metres  Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT) 1:50.27  Ibrahim Renoud Al-Zafairi (KUW) 1:50.86  Yasuhiro Nakamura (JPN) 1:50.94
1500 metres  Mohamad Al-Garni (QAT) 3:48.79  Hamza Driouch (QAT) 3:49.55  Omar Al-Rasheedi (KUW) 3:50.79
3000 metres  Mohamad Al-Garni (QAT) 8:08.65  Abubaker Ali Kamal (QAT) 8:09.48  Tetsuya Yoroizaka (JPN) 8:11.73
60 metres hurdles  Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel (KUW) 7.80  Yaqoub Mohamed Al-Youha (KUW) 7.90  Huang Hao (CHN) 7.90
4×400 m relay  Kazakhstan
Dmitriy Korabelnikov
Igor Kondratyev
Omirserik Bekenov
Sergey Zaikov 		3:12.94 NR/CR  China
Zhang Huadong
Qin Jian
Chen Jianxin
Zhu Chenbin 		3:13.43  Oman
Obaid Al-Quraini
Ahmed Al-Marjabi
Othman Al-Busaidi
Ahmed Mubarak Salah 		3:13.49
High jump  Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) 2.36 m  Majededdin Ghazal (SYR) 2.20 m  Zhang Guowei (CHN) 2.20 m
Pole vault  Hsieh Chia-Han (TPE) 5.15 m  Zhou Bo (CHN) 5.15 m  Ryo Tanaka (JPN) 5.15 m
Long jump  Saleh Abdelaziz Al-Haddad (KUW) 7.94 m NR  Mohammad Arzandeh (IRI) 7.80 m NR  Jie Lei (CHN) 7.76 m
Triple jump  Fu Haitao (CHN) 16.21 m  Roman Valiyev (KAZ) 16.16 m  Ruslan Kurbanov (UZB) 16.00 m
Shot put  Om Prakash Karhana (IND) 19.07 m  Wang Guangfu (CHN) 18.64 m  Li Jun (CHN) 18.52 m
Heptathlon  Dmitriy Karpov (KAZ) 5752 pts  Akihiko Nakamura (JPN) 5693 pts NR  Leonid Andreev (UZB) 5561 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres  Tao Yujia (CHN) 7.36  Olga Safronova (KAZ) 7.41  Maryam Tousi (IRI) 7.50
400 metres  Maryam Tousi (IRI) 54.24  Yuliya Rakhmanova (KAZ) 54.37  Olga Andreyeva (KAZ) 55.74
800 metres  Tatyana Yurchenko (KAZ) 2:14.20  Kseniya Faiskanova (KGZ) 2:14.47  Tatyana Neroznak (KAZ) 2:14.61
1500 metres  Maryam Jamal (BHR) 4:19.42  Betlhem Desalegn (UAE) 4:19.83  Viktoria Poludina (KGZ) 4:25.36
3000 metres  Maryam Jamal (BHR) 8:43.16 NR/CR  Betlhem Desalegn (UAE) 8:46.54 NR  Alia Saeed Mohammed (UAE) 8:56.78
60 metres hurdles  Wu Shuijiao (CHN) 8.02 NR/CR  Anastassiya Soprunova (KAZ) 8.27  Sun Yawei (CHN) 8.37
4×400 m relay  Kazakhstan
Elina Mikhina
Tatyana Yurchenko
Olga Andreyeva
Yuliya Rakhmanova 		3:42.45  Thailand
Karat Srimuang
Atchima Eng-Chuan
Pornpan Hoemhuk
Treewadee Yongphan 		3:42.55  China
Zhou Yanling
Chen Jingwen
Li Manyuan
Wang Huan 		3:43.89
High jump  Svetlana Radzivil (UZB) 1.96 m NR/CR  Zheng Xingjuan (CHN) 1.91 m  Zhao Jian (CHN) 1.80 m
Pole vault  Tomomi Abiko (JPN) 4.30 m  Xu Huiqin (CHN)
 Ren Mengqian (CHN) 		4.15 m Not awarded
Long jump  Yurina Hiraka (JPN) 6.34 m  Darya Reznichenko (UZB) 6.30 m  Jiang Yanfei (CHN) 6.22 m
Triple jump  Anastasiya Juravleva (UZB) 13.60 m  Aleksandra Kotlyarova (UZB) 13.45 m  Li Xiaohong (CHN) 13.43 m
Shot put  Sofiya Burkhanova (UZB) 16.80 m  Bian Ka (CHN) 16.60 m  Lin Chia-Ying (TPE) 16.52 m
Pentathlon  Wang Qingling (CHN) 4246 pts  Yuliya Tarasova (UZB) 3985 pts  Irina Karpova (KAZ) 3951 pts

Medal table

Mutaz Essa Barshim's gold medal in the high jump helped Qatar top the medal table.
Key
  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Qatar 5 3 0 8
2  China 4 7 9 20
3  Kazakhstan 4 5 3 12
4  Uzbekistan 3 3 2 8
5  Kuwait 2 2 1 5
6  Japan 2 1 3 6
7  Iran 2 1 2 5
8  Bahrain 2 0 0 2
9  Chinese Taipei 1 0 1 2
10  India 1 0 0 1
11  United Arab Emirates 0 2 1 3
12  Kyrgyzstan 0 1 1 2
13=  Thailand 0 1 0 1
13=  Syria 0 1 0 1
15  Oman 0 0 2 2
Total 26 27 25 78

Participating nations

National records

A total of 20 national records were set at the championships. Non-medalling national record performances are listed below.[8]

Gender Event Athlete Nation Mark
Men 60 metres Eric Cray Philippines 6.75/6.77
Men 400 metres Chan Ka Chun Hong Kong 49.00
Men 800 metres Jian Yong Leo Fang Singapore 1:55.63
Men 60 m hurdles Arumugam Suresh India 8.08
Men 60 m hurdles Rio Maholtra Indonesia 8.25
Men Triple jump Mohamed Youssef Al-Sahabi Bahrain 15.97
Women 60 metres Fong Yee Pui Hong Kong 7.55/7.55
Women 60 metres Shanti Veronica Pereira Singapore 7.61/7.62
Women Long jump Maria Natalia Londa Indonesia 6.18

See also

References

  1. ↑ （体育）（3）田径——2014亚洲室内田径锦标赛在杭州开幕 (Chinese). Xinmin (2014-02-15). Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
  2. ↑ 77th Asian Athletics Council Meeting, Wuhan- Report. Asian Athletics Association (2013-09-23). Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
  3. ↑ Krishnan, Ram. Murali (2012-02-19). Barshim soars 2.37m Asian record in Hangzhou as Asian Indoor champs conclude. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
  4. 1 2 Medal Table 2014 Asian Indoor Championships. Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
  5. ↑ Jalava, Mirko (2014-02-16). Barshim over 2.36m at the Asian Indoor Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
  6. ↑ Indian Athletics News
  7. ↑ Singapore Athletics News
  8. ↑ 6th Asian Indoor Championships. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
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