2025 Asian Athletics Championships
| 2025 Asian Championships | |
|---|---|
| Dates | 27–31 May |
| Host city | Gumi, South Korea |
| Venue | Gumi Civic Stadium |
| Events | 45 |
| Participation | 2000+ athletes from 43 nations |
Xiamen 2027 → | |
The 2025 Asian Athletics Championships was the 26th edition of the Asian Athletics Championships. It was held from 27 to 31 May 2025 in Gumi, South Korea.[1][2] This was the third time South Korea have hosted the championships after the 1975 and 2005 editions.
Venue
The 26th edition of the Asian Athletics Championships was held at Gumi Civic Stadium, Gumi, South Korea.[1]
Medal table
* Host nation (South Korea)
| Rank | teams | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 19 | 9 | 4 | 32 |
| 2 | India | 8 | 10 | 6 | 24 |
| 3 | Japan | 5 | 11 | 12 | 28 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Qatar | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |
| 6 | South Korea* | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Iran | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Kuwait | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Pakistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Philippines | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 11 | Thailand | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 12 | Uzbekistan | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | Singapore | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 15 | Saudi Arabia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 16 | Bahrain | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Vietnam | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 18 | Sri Lanka | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 19 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (20 entries) | 45 | 46 | 44 | 135 | |
Medalists
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres |
Hiroki Yanagita Japan |
10.20 [.194] SB | Puripol Boonson Thailand |
10.20 [.196] | Abdullah Abkar Mohammed Saudi Arabia |
10.30 [.296] |
| 200 metres |
Towa Uzawa Japan |
20.12 CR | Abdulaziz Abdu Atafi Saudi Arabia |
20:31 PB | Animesh Kujur India |
20:32 NR, PB |
| 400 metres |
Ammar Ibrahim Qatar |
45.33 | Kentaro Sato Japan |
45.50 | Kalinga Kumarage Sri Lanka |
45.55 SB |
| 800 metres |
Ebrahim Alzofairi Kuwait |
1:44.59 | Ali Amirian Iran |
1:44.97 PB | Abubaker Haydar Abdalla Qatar |
1:45.20 |
| 1500 metres |
Kazuto Iizawa Japan |
3:42.56 PB | Jae-ung Lee South Korea |
3:42.79 | Yoonus Shah India |
3:43.03 |
| 5000 metres |
Gulveer Singh India |
13:24.77 CR | Kieran Tuntivate Thailand |
13:24.97 | Nagiya Mori Japan |
13:25.06 |
| 10,000 metres |
Gulveer Singh India |
28:38.63 | Mebuki Suzuki Japan |
28:43.84 | Albert Rop Bahrain |
28:46.82 SB |
| 110 metres hurles |
Rachid Muratake Japan |
13.22 | Liu Junxi China |
13.31 | Qin Weibo China |
13.45 SB |
| 400 metres hurdles |
Abderrahman Samba Qatar |
48.00 | Bassem Hemeida Qatar |
49.44 | Chung-Wei Lin Chinese Taipei |
49.73 SB |
| 3000 metres steeplechase |
Avinash Sable India |
8:20.92 SB | Yutaro Niinae Japan |
8:24.41 SB | Zakaria al Alhlami Qatar |
8:27.12 PB |
| 4×100 metres relay |
South Korea Minjun Seo Joeljin Nwamadi Lee Jae-seong Junhyeok Lee |
38.49 CR | Thailand Natawat Iamudom Thawatchai Himaiad Chayut Khongprasit Puripol Boonson |
38.78 | Hong Kong Yat Lok Chan Lee Hong Kit Chun Ting Kwok Magnus Johannsson |
39.10 PB |
| 4×400 metres relay |
Qatar Abderrahman Samba Bassem Hemeida Hatim Aitoulghazi Ammar Ibrahim |
3:03.52 | India Jay Kumar Dharmveer Choudhary Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi Manu Thekkinalil Saji |
3:03.67 PB | China Liang Baotang Zhang Qing Ailixier Wumaier Fu Haoran |
3:03.73 SB |
| 20 km racewalk |
Wang Zhaozhao China |
1:20:36.90 CR | Kento Yoshikawa Japan |
1:20:44.90 | Servin Sebasthiyan India |
1:21:13.60 |
| High jump |
Sanghyeok Woo South Korea |
2.29 m | Tomohiro Shinno Japan |
2.26 m SB | Tawan Kaewkam Thailand |
2.23 m SB |
| Pole vault |
Ernest John Obiena Philippines |
5.77 m | Huang Bokai China |
5.72 m SB | Patsapong Amsamarng Thailand |
5.67 m PB |
| Long jump |
Shu Heng China |
8.22 m | Lin Yu-tang Chinese Taipei |
8.20 m | Keito Yamaura Japan |
8.08 m SB |
| Triple jump |
Zhu Yaming China |
17.06 m | Praveen Chithravel India |
16.90 m | Yu Kyu-min South Korea |
16.82 m SB |
| Shot put |
Mohammad Reza Tayyebi Iran |
20.32 m | Xing Jialiang China |
19.97 m | Mohammed Tolo Saudi Arabia |
19.92 m |
| Discus throw |
Abuduaini Tuergong China |
63.47 m SB | Masateru Yugami Japan |
60.38 m | Irfan Shamsuddin Malaysia |
58.82 m |
| Hammer throw |
Wang Qi China |
74.50 m | Tatsuto Nakagawa Japan |
71.97 m PB | Shota Fukuda Japan |
71.89 m |
| Javelin throw |
Arshad Nadeem Pakistan |
86.40 m | Sachin Yadav India |
85.16 m PB | Yuta Sakiyama Japan |
83.75 m PB |
| Decathlon |
Fei Xiang China |
7634 pts | Tejaswin Shankar India |
7618 pts | Keisuke Okuda Japan |
7602 pts |
* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals
Women
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres |
Liang Xiaojing China |
11.37 | Shanti Pereira Singapore |
11.41 | Trần Thị Nhi Yến Vietnam |
11.54 |
| 200 metres |
Chen Yujie China |
22.97 PB | Shanti Pereira Singapore |
22.98 SB | Li Yuting China |
23.23 SB |
| 400 metres |
Nanako Matsumoto Japan |
52.17 PB | Rupal Chaudhary India |
52.68 | Jonbibi Hukmova Uzbekistan |
52.79 PB |
| 800 metres |
Wu Hongjiao China |
2:00.08 CR | Rin Kubo Japan |
2:00.42 | Pooja India |
2:01.89 PB |
| 1500 metres |
Li Chunhui China |
4:10.58 | Pooja India |
4:10.83 | Tomoka Kimura Japan |
4:11.56 SB |
| 5000 metres |
Norah Jeruto Kazakhstan |
14:58.71 CR | Parul Chaudhary India |
15:15.33 | Yuma Yamamoto Japan |
15:16.86 |
| 10,000 metres |
Daisy Jepkemei Kazakhstan |
30:48.44 | Ririka Hironaka Japan |
30:56.32 | Mikuni Yada Japan |
31:12.21 |
| 100 metres hurdles |
Jyoti Yarraji India |
12.96 | Yumi Tanaka Japan |
13.07 [.061] | Wu Yanni China |
13.07 [.068] |
| 400 metres hurdles |
Mo Jiadie China |
55.31 | Kemi Adekoya Bahrain |
55.32 | Vithya Ramraj India |
56:46 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase |
Norah Jeruto Kazakhstan |
9:10.46 CR | Parul Chaudhary India |
9:12.46 NR | Daisy Jepkemei Kazakhstan |
9:27.51 |
| 4×100 metres relay |
China Chen Yujie Li Yuting Zhu Junying Liang Xiaojing |
43.28 SB | India Abinaya Rajarajan Sneha Sathyanarayana Shanuvalli Nithya Gandhe Srabani Nanda |
43.86 SB | Thailand Jirapat Khanonta Supanich Poolkerd Sukanda Petraksa Athicha Phetkun |
44.26 PB |
| 4×400 metres relay |
India Jisna Mathew Rupal Chaudhary Rajitha Kunja Subha Venkatesan |
3:34.18 SB | Vietnam Thi Ngoc Nguyen Nguyen Thi Hang Quách Thị Lan Hoang Thi Minh Hanh |
3:34.77 | Sri Lanka Nadeesha Ramanayake Lakshima Mendis Jayeshi Uththara Harshani Fernando |
3:36.67 |
| 20 km racewalk |
Yin Hang China |
1:30:44 | Ma Li China |
1:32:08 | Yasmina Toxanbayeva Kazakhstan |
1:32:22 |
| High jump |
Pooja Singh India |
1.89 m PB | Safina Sadullaeva Uzbekistan Yelizaveta Matveyeva Kazakhstan |
1.86 m | Not awarded | |
| Pole vault |
Niu Chunge China |
4.48 | Xu Huiqin China |
4.23 | Misaki Morota Japan |
4.13 |
| Long jump |
Reihaneh Mobini Iran |
6.40 m | Ancy Sojan India |
6.33 m | Shaili Singh India |
6.30 m |
| Triple jump |
Li Yi China |
13.80 m | Sharifa Davronova Uzbekistan |
13.74 m | Mariko Morimoto Japan |
13.65 m SB |
| Shot put |
Ma Yue China |
18.26 m | Song Jiayuan China |
17.78 m | Ching Yuan Chiang Chinese Taipei |
17.42 m PB |
| Discus throw |
Feng Bin China |
61.90 m | Subenrat Insaeng Thailand |
57.68 m | Nanaka Kori Japan |
56.48 m |
| Hammer throw |
Ji Li China |
72.98 m | Li Jiangyan China |
69.13 m | Yu Ya-chien Chinese Taipei |
64.25 m |
| Javelin throw |
Su Lingdan China |
63.29 m PB | Momone Ueda Japan |
59.39 m SB | Sae Takemoto Japan |
58.94 m |
| Heptathlon |
Nandini Agasara India |
5941 pts PB | Liu Jingyi China |
5869 pts PB | Chen Tsai-chuan Chinese Taipei |
5608 pts |
* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals
Mixed
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4×400 metres relay |
India Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan Rupal Chaudhary Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi Subha Venkatesan |
3:18.12 | China Liang Baotang Wu Hongjiao Ailixier Wumaier Liu Yinglan |
3:20.52 SB | Sri Lanka S.M.S.V Rajakaruna Lakshima Mendis Kalinga Kumarage Harshani Fernando |
3:21.95 |
Participating nations
A total of 39 countries participated.[3]
- Bahrain (7)
- Bangladesh (5)
- Bhutan (4)
- Cambodia (1)
- China (66)
- Chinese Taipei (31)
- Hong Kong (41)
- India (62)
- Indonesia (21)
- Iran (26)
- Iraq (15)
- Japan (71)
- Jordan (5)
- Kazakhstan (32)
- Kuwait (22)
- Kyrgyzstan (8)
- Laos (2)
- Lebanon (3)
- Macau (11)
- Malaysia (36)
- Maldives (2)
- Mongolia (5)
- Myanmar (5)
- Nepal (6)
- Oman (5)
- Pakistan (5)
- Palestine (4)
- Philippines (17)
- Qatar (19)
- Saudi Arabia (30)
- Singapore (23)
- South Korea (91)
- Sri Lanka (21)
- Tajikistan (5)
- Thailand (34)
- Turkmenistan (5)
- United Arab Emirates (4)
- Uzbekistan (36)
- Vietnam (17)
Incidents
During the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, from May 27 to 31, two Iranian athletes and one coach were arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 20-year-old South Korean woman on May 31 at a hotel where the Iranian delegation was staying. The woman reportedly met one of the athletes, identified as "K," at a bar in Gumi, near the athletes’ village, before being taken to the hotel where the assault occurred. South Korean police classified the incident as "Special Rape," a serious offense under local law, and detained the suspects following the woman’s complaint, with one individual present at the scene later released. The case triggered widespread public outrage in South Korea, with media outlets like Hankyoreh and Korea Times providing extensive coverage. Social media platforms saw an outpouring of anger from South Koreans, with many expressing shock, grief, and demands for harsh penalties, labeling the incident a violation of trust during an international event. Feminist groups and activists also voiced concerns, calling for stronger protections for women. The ongoing investigation continues to draw intense scrutiny and has sparked broader discussions on safety and accountability at global sporting events.[4][5][6][7]
One of the three runners attempted suicide unsuccesfully while in custody.[8] Another Iranian athlete was arrested for "stealing" and was released after paying a "fine" from Iran.[9]
Iranian Minister of youth affairs and sports was called to appear before Iranian parliament for questioning.[10]
Broadcasting
| Territory | Broadcaster(s) | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| No restricted territory | STN SPORTS (YouTube channel) |
Live & Event finals playlist on YouTube |
References
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