2023 Asian Athletics Championships

2023 Asian Championships
2023 Asian Championships
Dates	12–16 July
Host city	Bangkok, Thailand
Venue	National Stadium
Events	45
Participation	625 athletes from ; 40 nations
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The 2023 Asian Athletics Championships was the 25th edition of the Asian Athletics Championships. It was held from 12 to 16 July 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand.^[1]^[2] It was the first time that Thailand hosted this event since 1973. Held at the Supachalasai National Stadium in Bangkok, it also served as a qualification stage for athletes to participate at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The previous edition that should have been held in Hangzhou, China, in May 2021 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Venue

The 25th edition of the Asian Athletics Championships was held at Supachalasai National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand.^[3]

Medal table

* Host nation (Thailand)


Rank	teams	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	16	11	10	37
2	China	8	8	6	22
3	India	6	12	9	27
4	Sri Lanka	3	2	3	8
5	Qatar	2	1	1	4
6	Philippines	2	0	0	2
6	Singapore	2	0	0	2
8	Kazakhstan	1	2	1	4
8	Uzbekistan	1	2	1	4
10	Thailand*	1	1	4	6
11	Chinese Taipei	1	1	0	2
12	South Korea	1	0	2	3
13	Vietnam	1	0	1	2
14	Iran	0	2	1	3
14	Saudi Arabia	0	2	1	3
16	Kuwait	0	1	2	3
17	Malaysia	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		45	45	45	135

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Hiroki Yanagita Japan	10.02	Abdullah Abkar Mohammed Saudi Arabia	10.19	Hassan Taftian Iran	10.23
200 metres	Towa Uzawa Japan	20.23 CR	Yang Chun-Han Chinese Taipei	20.48	Koki Ueyama Japan	20.53
400 metres	Kentaro Sato Japan	45.00	Fuga Sato Japan	45.13	Yousef Ahmed Masrahi Saudi Arabia	45.19
800 metres	Abubaker Haydar Abdalla Qatar	1:45.33	Krishan Kumar India	1:45.88	Ebrahim Alzofairi Kuwait	1:46.11
1500 metres	Ajay Kumar Saroj India	3:41.51	Yusuke Takahashi Japan	3:42.04	Liu Dezhu China	3:42.30
5000 metres	Hyuga Endo Japan	13:34.94	Kazuya Shiojiri Japan	13:43.92	Gulveer Singh India	13:48.33
10,000 metres	Ren Tazawa Japan	29:18.44	Shadrack Kimutai Koech Kazakhstan	29:31.63	Abhishek Pal India	29:33.26
110 metres hurles	Shunya Takayama Japan	13.29	Xu Zhuoyi China	13.39	Yaqoub Alyouha Kuwait	13.56
400 metres hurdles	Bassem Hemeida Qatar	48.64	Yusaku Kodama Japan	48.96	Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan India	49.09
3000 metres steeplechase	Ryoma Aoki Japan	8:34.91	Yaser Salem Bagharab Qatar	8:37.11	Seiya Sunada Japan	8:39.17
4×100 metres relay	Thailand Natawat Iamudom Soraoat Dapbang Chayut Khongprasit Puripol Boonson	38.55 CR, NR	China Wu Zhiqiang Xie Zhenye Chen Jiapeng Chen Guanfeng	38.87	South Korea Simon Lee Ko Seung-hwan Shin Min-kyu Park Won-jin	38.99
4×400 metres relay	Sri Lanka Aruna Dharshana Rajitha Niranjan Pabasara Niku Kalinga Kumarage Pasindu Kodikara*	3:01.56 CR, NR	India Amoj Jacob Muhammed Variyathodi Mijo Kurian Rajesh Ramesh Rahul Kadam* Nihal William*	3:01.80	Qatar Bassem Hemeida Abubaker Abdalla Ismail Abakar Ashraf Osman Abdirahman Hassan* Doudai Oumar*	3:04.26 SB
20 km racewalk	Yutaro Murayama Japan	1:24:40	Wang Kaihua China	1:25:29	Vikash Singh India	1:29:32
High jump	Woo Sanghyeok South Korea	2.28 m	Sarvesh Anil Kushare India	2.26 m	Tawan Kaeodam Thailand	2.26 m
Pole vault	Ernest John Obiena Philippines	5.91 m CR	Hussain Asim Alhizam Saudi Arabia	5.56 m	Huang Bokai China	5.51 m
Long jump	Lin Yu-tang Chinese Taipei	8.40 m CR	Murali Sreeshankar India	8.37 m	Zhang Mingkun China	8.08 m
Triple jump	Abdulla Aboobacker India	16.92 m	Hikaru Ikehata Japan	16.73 m	Kim Jang-woo South Korea	16.59 m
Shot put	Tajinderpal Singh Toor India	20.23 m	Mehdi Saberi Iran	19.98 m	Ivan Ivanov Kazakhstan	19.87 m
Discus throw	Abuduaini Tuergong China	61.19 m	Eissa Zankawi Kuwait	60.23 m	Muhammad Irfan Bin Shamshuddin Malaysia	59.63 m
Hammer throw	Wang Qi China	72.13 m	Sukhrob Khodjaev Uzbekistan	71.83 m	Shota Fukuda Japan	71.80 m
Javelin throw	Genki Dean Japan	83.15 m	Manu Devarakeshavi Prakasha India	81.01 m	Muhammad Yasir Pakistan	79.93 m
Decathlon	Yuma Maruyama Japan	7745 pts	Sutthisak Singkhon Thailand	7626 pts	Tejaswin Shankar India	7527 pts

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

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Shanti Pereira Singapore	11.20 NR	Farzaneh Fasihi Iran	11.39	Ge Manqi China	11.40
200 metres	Shanti Pereira Singapore	22.70 CR	Jyothi Yarraji India	23.13	Li Yuting China	23.25
400 metres	Nadeesha Ramanayaka Sri Lanka	52.61 PB	Aishwarya Kailash Mishra India	53.07^[a]	Haruna Kuboyama Japan	53.80
800 metres	Tharushi Karunarathna Sri Lanka	2:00.66 CR, NR	K.M. Chanda India	2:01.58	Gayanthika Artigala Sri Lanka	2:03.25
1500 metres	Nozomi Tanaka Japan	4:06.75 CR	Yume Goto Japan	4:13.25	Gayanthika Artigala Sri Lanka	4:14.39
5000 metres	Yuma Yamamoto Japan	15:51.16	Parul Chaudhary India	15:52.35	Ankita India	16:03.33
10,000 metres	Haruka Kokai Japan	32:59.36	Momoka Kawaguchi Japan	33:18.72	Bayartsogt Munkhzaya Mongolia	33:24.79 NR
100 metres hurdles	Jyothi Yarraji India	13.08	Asuka Terada Japan	13.13	Masumi Aoki Japan	13.26
400 metres hurdles	Robyn Lauren Brown Philippines	57.50	Eri Utsunomiya Japan	57.73	Ami Yamamoto Japan	57.80
3000 metres steeplechase	Parul Chaudhary India	9:38.76	Xu Shuangshuang China	9:44.54	Reimi Yoshimura Japan	9:48.48
4×100 metres relay	China Liang Xiaojing Wei Yongli Yuan Qiqi Ge Manqi	43.35	Japan Miu Kurashige Arisa Kimishima Remi Tsuruta Midori Mikase	43.95	Thailand Supawan Thipat Supanich Poolkerd On-Uma Chattha Athicha Phetkun	44.56
4×400 metres relay	Vietnam Nguyễn Thị Ngoc Hoàng Thị Minh Hành Nguyễn Thị Huyền Nguyễn Thị Hằng	3:32.36	Sri Lanka Nadeesha Ramanayaka Lakshima Mendis Nishendra Harshani Fernando Tharushi Dissanayaka	3:33.27 NR	India Rezoana Mallick Heena Aishwarya Kailash Mishra Jyothika Sri Dandi Subha Venkatesan	3:33.73
20 km racewalk	Yang Liujing China	1:32:37	Priyanka Goswami India	1:34:24	Yukiko Umeno Japan	1:36:17
High jump	Kristina Ovchinnikova Kazakhstan	1.86 m	Yelizaveta Matveyeva Kazakhstan	1.86 m	Svetlana Radzivil Uzbekistan	1.83 m
Pole vault	Li Ling China	4.66 m =CR	Niu Chunge China	4.51 m	Chayanisa Chomchuendee Thailand	4.10 m
Long jump	Sumire Hata Japan	6.97 m CR, NR	Shaili Singh India	6.54 m	Zhong Jiawei China	6.46 m
Triple jump	Mariko Morimoto Japan	14.06 m	Zeng Rui China	14.01 m	Nguyễn Thị Hường Vietnam	13.68 m
Shot put	Song Jiayuan China	18.88 m	Abha Khatua India	18.06 m	Manpreet Kaur India	17.00 m
Discus throw	Feng Bin China	66.42 m CR	Wang Fang China	58.49 m	Subenrat Insaeng Thailand	55.80 m
Hammer throw	Zhao Jie China	69.39 m	Joy McArthur Japan	66.56 m	Raika Murakami Japan	64.17 m
Javelin throw	Marina Saito Japan	61.67 m	Liu Shiying China	61.51 m	Dilhani Lekamge Sri Lanka	60.93 m NR
Heptathlon	Ekaterina Voronina Uzbekistan	6098	Swapna Barman India	5840	Yuki Yamasaki Japan	5696

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×400 metres relay	India Rajesh Ramesh Aishwarya Kailash Mishra Amoj Jacob Subha Venkatesan	3:14.70 CR, NR	Sri Lanka Aruna Dharshana Tharushi Dissanayaka Kalinga Kumarage Nadeesha Ramanayaka	3:15.41 NR	Japan Kenki Imaizumi Haruna Kuboyama Fuga Sato Nanako Matsumoto	3:15.71

Participating nations

A total of 42 countries participated.^[5]

India (51)
Afghanistan (2)
Bangladesh (5)
Bhutan (1)
Cambodia (3)
China (45)
Chinese Taipei (30)
Hong Kong (33)
Indonesia (16)
Iran (10)
Iraq (6)
Japan (74)
Jordan (5)
Kazakhstan (30)
Kuwait (4)
Kyrgyzstan (4)
Laos (6)
Lebanon (4)
Macau (5)
Malaysia (27)
Maldives (13)
Mongolia (4)
Myanmar (2)
Nepal (8)
Oman (13)
Pakistan (3)
Palestine (4)
Philippines (21)
Qatar (16)
Saudi Arabia (15)
Singapore (15)
South Korea (19)
Sri Lanka (13)
Tajikistan (3)
Thailand (62)
Timor-Leste (2)
Turkmenistan (5)
Uzbekistan (25)
Vietnam (19)
Yemen (2)

References

^ Com, The Phuket News (9 March 2023). "Thailand Sport: Thailand to host Asian Athletics Championships". The Phuket News Com. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
^ Rajendran, Ashwathy. "AFI announces qualification standard for Asian Athletics Championships 2023". Khel Now. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
^ Com, The Phuket News (9 March 2023). "Thailand to host Asian Athletics Championships". The Phuket News Com. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
^ "Aishwarya Mishra's Asian Athletics Championships 2023 bronze in 400m set to be upgraded".
^ "Welcome over 1,500 athletes and teams from 42 countries". Retrieved 16 July 2023.

Notes

^ In April 2024, it was revealed that silver medallist Fairda Soliyeva of Uzbekistan, who originally clocked 52.95 seconds, failed a test for meldonium, disqualifying her from the competition and promoting the other competitors.^[4]

External links

[1] Com, The Phuket News (9 March 2023). "Thailand Sport: Thailand to host Asian Athletics Championships". The Phuket News Com. Retrieved 1 June 2023.

[2] Rajendran, Ashwathy. "AFI announces qualification standard for Asian Athletics Championships 2023". Khel Now. Retrieved 1 June 2023.

[3] Com, The Phuket News (9 March 2023). "Thailand to host Asian Athletics Championships". The Phuket News Com. Retrieved 11 July 2023.

[4] "Aishwarya Mishra's Asian Athletics Championships 2023 bronze in 400m set to be upgraded".

[6] "Welcome over 1,500 athletes and teams from 42 countries". Retrieved 16 July 2023.

[5] In April 2024, it was revealed that silver medallist Fairda Soliyeva of Uzbekistan, who originally clocked 52.95 seconds, failed a test for meldonium, disqualifying her from the competition and promoting the other competitors.^[4]

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