1983 Asian Athletics Championships

The fifth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1983 in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Suchart Chairsuvaparb Thailand	10.47	Sumet Promna Thailand	10.52	Mohammed Purnomo Indonesia	10.60
200 metres	Sumet Promna Thailand	21.39	Mohammed Purnomo Indonesia	21.64	Chang Jae-Keun South Korea	21.70
400 metres	Isidro del Prado Philippines	46.24	Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Iraq	46.74	Mohamed Nordin Jadi Malaysia	46.76
800 metres	Najem Abdullah Mutlaq Kuwait	1:49.43	Khalid Khalifa Kuwait	1:49.97	Wang Lung-Hua Chinese Taipei	1:49.98
1500 metres	Suresh Yadav India	3:44.74	Susumu Yoshida Japan	3:45.67	Najem Abdullah Mutlaq Kuwait	3:45.77
5000 metres	Zhang Guowei China	14:07.72	Raj Kumar India	14:22.56	Park Kyung-Duk South Korea	14:25.85
10000 metres	Zhang Guowei China	29:45.41	Park Kyung-Duk South Korea	30:04.89	Mohammad Vojdanzadeh Iran	30:20.88
3000 metre steeplechase	Hwang Wen-Cheng Chinese Taipei	8:54.85	Hector Begeo Philippines	8:55.57	Anokh Singh India	9:05.80
110 metres hurdles	Wu Ching-Jing Chinese Taipei	13.90	Yu Zhicheng China	14.16	Ahmed Hamada Jassim Bahrain	14.24 (NR)
400 metres hurdles	Ahmed Hamada Jassim Bahrain	49.43	Shigenori Ohmori Japan	50.69	Lin Cheng-Jih Chinese Taipei	51.09
High jump	Zhu Jianhua China	2.31	Qassim Mohammed Iraq	2.10	Chin Yi-Shik South Korea	2.05
Pole vault	Zhang Chen China	5.00	Ku Chin-shui Chinese Taipei	4.80	Sunder Singh Tanwar India	4.50
Long jump	Liu Yuhuang China	7.97	Lee Bou-Chai Chinese Taipei	7.70	Koji Umemoto Japan	7.60
Triple jump	Mai Guoqiang China	16.25	Yasushi Ueta Japan	16.10	Park Young-Jun South Korea	15.80
Shot put	Mohammed Al-Zinkawi Kuwait	17.90	Balwinder Singh India	16.89	Iqbal Singh India	16.72
Discus throw	Li Weinan China	55.40	Ajmer Singh India	52.30	Nejim Abdulrazak Kuwait	51.00
Hammer throw	Xie Yingqi China	65.78	Masayuki Kawata Japan	65.60	Raghubir Singh Bal India	60.52
Javelin throw	Masami Yoshida Japan	79.50	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi Japan	70.16	Chen Hung-Yen Chinese Taipei	68.20
Decathlon	Lee Fu-an Chinese Taipei	7641	Ku Chin-shui Chinese Taipei	7438	Takeshi Kojo Japan	7277
20 kilometre road walk	Chand Ram India	1:30:14	Zhang Fuzin China	1:32:14	Buta Singh India	1:43:19
4 × 100 metres relay	China	40.16	Thailand	40.25	South Korea	40.60
4 × 400 metres relay	Iraq	3:07.98	India	3:11.02	Philippines	3:11.09

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lydia de Vega Philippines	11.82	Valapa Pinij Thailand	12.01	Shen Su-Feng Chinese Taipei	12.07
200 metres	Lydia de Vega Philippines	24.07	P.T. Usha India	24.68	Mo Myung-Hee South Korea	24.72
400 metres	P.T. Usha India	54.20	Junko Yoshida Japan	54.65	Lydia de Vega Philippines	55.66
800 metres	Huo Lianzhu China	2:08.92	Im Chun-Sil North Korea	2:09.20	Geng Xiuquan China	2:10.02
1500 metres	Geng Xiuquan China	4:30.72	Gao Suju China	4:31.10	Kim Lyong-Soon North Korea	4:31.13
3000 metres	Kim Lyong-Soon North Korea	9:39.64	Kim Chun-Hwa North Korea	9:41.34	Kim Soon-Hwa South Korea	9:47.19
100 metres hurdles	Emi Sasaki (Akimoto) Japan	13.63	Liu Huajin China	13.82	Lin Yueh-Hsiang Chinese Taipei	14.04
400 metres hurdles	Yoko Sato Japan	59.89	Chizuko Akimoto Japan	59.95	Agrifina de la Cruz Philippines	61.26
High jump	Zheng Dazhen China	1.84	Ge Ping China	1.84	Kim Hee-sun South Korea	1.81
Long jump	Liao Wenfen China	6.21	Elma Muros Philippines	6.09	Huang Donghuo China	6.08
Shot put	Lu Cheng China	17.38	So Bok-Hui North Korea	14.61	Woo Kyon-Sun South Korea	14.12
Discus throw	Jiao Yunxiang China	53.00	Chun Hwa-Kyung South Korea	47.20	Jeanette Ayoub Lebanon	37.06
Javelin throw	Xin Xiaoli China	53.48	Lee Huei-Cheng Chinese Taipei	42.48	–	-
Heptathlon	Hisako Hashimoto Japan	5486	Ye Lianying China	5394	Chen Jin-Yun Chinese Taipei	5075
4 × 100 metres relay	Thailand	46.12	Chinese Taipei	46.42	Japan	46.47
4 × 400 metres relay	Thailand	3:48.62	Chinese Taipei	3:58.52	Jordan	4:17.41

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	16	6	2	24
2	Japan	4	7	3	14
3	Thailand	4	3	0	7
4	Chinese Taipei	3	6	6	15
5	India	3	5	5	13
6	Philippines	3	2	3	8
7	Kuwait	2	1	2	5
8	North Korea	1	3	1	5
9	Iraq	1	2	0	3
10	Bahrain	1	0	1	2
11	South Korea	0	2	9	11
12	Indonesia	0	1	1	2
13	Malaysia	0	0	1	1
13	Iran	0	0	1	1
13	Jordan	0	0	1	1
13	Lebanon	0	0	1	1

See also

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

References

• GBR Athletics