Athletics at the 1997 West Asian Games

Athletics at the I West Asian Games
Host city Tehran, Iran
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At the 1997 West Asian Games. the athletics events were held in Tehran, Iran in November 1997. It had a men's only programme containing twenty-two track and field events. All performances were affected by the altitude of the host city (3900 ft/1189 m).

The host nation dominated the proceedings, winning half of the gold medals on offer (11) and more than half of the total medals with its haul of 38 medals. Kuwait was a comfortable second with eight golds among its fifteen medals, while Jordan was a distant third with one gold in its total of five medals. Seven nations reached the medal table in the athletics competition.

The competition was of a relatively low standard for an international athletics meet. Virtually all the performances were closer to the level expected in elite women's competitions. Among the better performers were Maxim Smetanin, a 1996 Olympian from Kyrgyzstan who won the triple jump with 15.90 metres. Two young athletes in the throws discus thrower Abbas Samimi (aged 20), sprinter Fawzi Al-Shammari (aged 18) and hammer thrower Dilshod Nazarov (aged 15) secured their first major medals at an international meeting – all went on to claim multiple medals at the Asian Games and Asian Athletics Championships later in their careers.

Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Massoud Al-Azemi (KUW) 10.83  Abdolghafar Saghar (IRI) 10.87  Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW) 11.05
200 metres  Khaled Atiq Al-Johar (KUW) 21.34  Massoud Al-Azemi (KUW) 21.37  Maisam Delvarian (IRI) 22.05
400 metres  Khaled Atiq Al-Johar (KUW) 46.51  Fawzi Al-Shammari (KUW) 48.17  Mehdi Jelodarzadeh (IRI) 49.07
800 metres  Mohammadreza Molai (IRI) 1:54.40  Boris Kaveshnikov (KGZ) 1:54.73  Mehdi Jelodarzadeh (IRI) 1:55.58
1500 metres  Ahmad Yazdanian (IRI) 3:57.74  Farhad Heidari (IRI) 3:58.24  Rasoul Mohammadbeigi (IRI) 4:14.33
5000 metres  Jafar Babakhani (IRI) 14:39.04  Awad Hassani Sress (JOR) 14:43.94  Ahmad Zarekar (IRI) 14:45.57
10,000 metres  Ahmad Zarekar (IRI) 30:32.38  Awad Hassani Sress (JOR) 30:56.80  Ebrahim Etaati (IRI) 31:15.01
110 metres hurdles  Badr Abbas (KUW) 14.42  Zeid Abdolrazagh (IRI) 14.70  Fadin Mohammadzadeh (IRI) 14.92
400 metres hurdles  Hamidreza Fardinpour (IRI) 52.53  Madjid Frotannia (IRI) 53.49  Baimurat Ashirmuradov (TKM) 54.35
3000 metres steeplechase  Jafar Babakhani (IRI) 9:12.10  Abolfazi Mahmoudian (IRI) 9:12.17  Karim Seyedin (IRI) 10:25.26
4×100 metres relay  Kuwait (KUW)42.09  Iran (IRI)43.87  Turkmenistan (TKM)43.92
4×400 metres relay  Kuwait (KUW)3:11.63  Iran (IRI)3:13.93  Turkmenistan (TKM)3:32.37
10 km walk  Gholamreza Aaeri (IRI) 45:34  Ahmad Fazeli (IRI) 46:55  Hamidreza Kahrizi (IRI) 47:23
High jump  Fakhredin Fouad (JOR) 2.10 m  Hassan Banitorfi (IRI) 2.00 m  Djuma Niiazov (TKM)
 Alireza Ghiazi (IRI)
1.95 m
Pole vault  Hassan Mirsyfi (IRI) 4.20 m  Mehdi Mobini (IRI) 4.20 m  Abdolmadjid Sutudenia (IRI) 4.10 m
Long jump  Khaled Farham Al-Bekheet (KUW) 7.35 m  Hussain Al-Yoha (KUW) 7.19 m  Aleksandr Tumanov (TKM) 6.79 m
Triple jump  Maxim Smetanin (KGZ) 15.90 m  Mehrzad Charkhian (IRI) 15.75 m  Khaled Farham Al-Bekheet (KUW) 15.35 m
Shot put  Ali Barwiz Rahmani (IRI) 16.97 m  Ali Saiah (IRI) 16.51 m  Tarek Al-Najjar (JOR) 15.80 m
Discus throw  Abbas Samimi (IRI) 52.90 m  Tarek Al-Najjar (JOR) 51.90 m  Fariborz Malek (IRI) 51.04 m
Hammer throw  Naser Abdullah Al-Jarallah (KUW) 64.06 m  Ghorban Salahi (IRI) 63.80 m  Dilshod Nazarov (TJK) 59.94 m
Javelin throw  Firas Zaal Al-Mohammed (SYR) 71.10 m  Ghanem Mabrouk Zaid Johar (KUW) 65.94 m  Danghatar Yaghouti (IRI) 65.84 m
Decathlon  Ali Ahmad Feizi (IRI) 6213 pts  Abdullah Hedayati (KUW) 5958 pts  Hamid Asiabi (IRI) 5935 pts

Medal table

Key
  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue
Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Iran 11 13 14 38
2  Kuwait 8 5 2 15
3  Jordan 1 3 1 5
4  Kyrgyzstan 1 1 0 2
5  Syria 1 0 0 1
6  Turkmenistan 0 0 5 5
7  Tajikistan 0 0 1 1
Total 22 22 23 67

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