1991 Asian Athletics Championships

1991 Asian Championships
DatesOctober 19–23
Host cityMalaysia Kuala Lampur, Malaysia
VenueStadium Merdeka
Participationat least 17 nations

The ninth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1991 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Medal summary

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Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
(wind: 0.0 m/s)
Talal Mansour
 Qatar
10.29 Chen Wenzhong
 China
10.45 Khalid Jouma Ibrahim
 Bahrain
10.56
200 metres
(wind: -1.3 m/s)
Zhao Cunlin
 China
20.75 Ibrahim Ismail Muftah
 Qatar
20.96 Hiroki Fuwa
 Japan
21.00
400 metres Ibrahim Ismail Muftah
 Qatar
45.66 Aktawat Sakoolchan
 Thailand
46.52 Koji Ito
 Japan
46.64
800 metres Lee Jin-il
 South Korea
1:51.42 Nadir Khan
 Pakistan
1:51.68 Ismail Yousef
 Qatar
1:51.70
1500 metres Mohammed Sulaiman
 Qatar
3:42.64 Kim Bong-yu[nb1]
 South Korea
3:45.01 Nadir Khan
 Pakistan
3:46.47
5000 metres Mohammed Sulaiman
 Qatar
14:03.35 Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama
 Qatar
14:04.45 Wang Helin
 China
14:04.68
10,000 metres Hwang Young-Jo
 South Korea
29:50.37 Wang Helin
 China
29:57.26 Kim Jae-Ryong
 South Korea
30:05.48
3000 metre steeplechase Hamid Sajjadi
 Iran
8:33.89 Gao Shuhei
 China
8:34.32 Saleh Mohammed Habib
 Syria
8:34.66
(NR)
110 metres hurdles
(wind: -1.4 m/s)
Nur Herman Majid
 Malaysia
14.04 Zheng Jinsuo
 China
14.05 Toshihiko Iwasaki
 Japan
14.18
400 metres hurdles Yoshihiko Saito
 Japan
50.46 Ghulam Abbas
 Pakistan
50.77 Zid Abou Hamed
 Syria
51.15
4 × 100 metre relay  China
Zhang Hong
Zhao Cunlin
Chen Wenzhong
Zheng Chen
39.20  Thailand
Seaksarn Boonrat
Niti Piyapan
Pongsak Wacharakupt
Visut Watanasin
39.26  Japan
Koji Ito
Masahito Horiuchi
Tetsuya Yamashita
Hiroki Fuwa
39.74
4 × 400 metre relay  Japan
Hidekazu Katsuki
Yoshihiko Saito
Masayoshi Kan
Koji Ito
3:05.22  Thailand
Yuttana Thonglek
Anucha Santirangsimant
Sarapong Kumsup
Aktawat Sakoolchan
3:05.81  Malaysia
Azhar Hashim
Vellabouy Samson
Mohamed Yazid Parlan
Nordin Mohamed Jadi
3:06.64 NR
20 kilometre road walk Bu Lintang
 China
1:31:36 Hideharu Fuchida
 Japan
1:34:02 Suchá Singh
 India
1:37:01
High jump Lee Jin-Taek
 South Korea
2.22 Shigeki Toyoshima
 Japan
2.19 Phaitoon Hearnthong
 Thailand
2.16
Pole vault Hideyuki Takei
 Japan
5.25 Ge Yun
 China
5.10 Ku Chin-shui
 Chinese Taipei
5.10
Long jump Chen Zunrong
 China
8.10 Masaki Morinaga
 Japan
8.02 Nai Hui-Fang
 Chinese Taipei
7.85
Triple jump Chen Yanping
 China
17.22 Zou Sixin
 China
16.95 Marzouk Abdullah Al-Yoha
 Kuwait
16.48
Shot put Cheng Shaobo
 China
18.11 Bilal Saad Mubarak
 Qatar
17.78 Yuji Okano
 Japan
17.65
Discus throw Yu Wenge
 China
62.20 Shakti Singh
 India
53.26 Yuji Yamazaki
 Japan
51.76
Hammer throw Bi Zhong
 China
69.90 Nobuhiro Todoroki
 Japan
64.56 Waleed Al-Bekheet
 Kuwait
60.74
Javelin throw Zhang Lianbiao
 China
81.52 Masami Yoshida
 Japan
80.44 Kim Ki-Hoon
 South Korea
76.32
Decathlon Gong Guohua
 China
7652 Cai Min
 China
7573 Katsuhiko Matsuda
 Japan
7364
  • nb1 Some English-language sources, such as GBR Athletics,[1] erroneously state that Kim Bok-joo was 1991 Asian Championships runner-up in the men's 1500 m. Contemporary English and Korean sources indicate it was his similarly-named teammate Kim Bong-yu who achieved these feats.[2]

Women's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
(wind: -2.1 m/s)
Tian Yumei
 China
11.54 Pei Fang
 China
11.62 Wang Huei-Chen
 Chinese Taipei
11.69
200 metres
(wind: -2.0 m/s)
Chen Zhaojing
 China
23.39 Wang Huei-Chen
 Chinese Taipei
23.44 Xiao Yehua
 China
23.48
400 metres Shiny Wilson
 India
53.46 Josephine Mary Singarayar
 Malaysia
53.50 Kalawati "Kutty" Saramma
 India
53.51
800 metres Qu Yunxia
 China
2:04.65 Shiny Wilson
 India
2:05.18 Yumiko Tokuda
 Japan
2:05.48
1500 metres Qu Yunxia
 China
4:26.01 Khin Khin Htwe
 Myanmar
4:26.08 Kim Song-Hwa
 North Korea
4:27.15
3000 metres Zhong Huandi
 China
9:10.27 Molly Chacko
 India
9:14.07 Khin Khin Htwe
 Myanmar
9:19.36
10,000 metres Zhong Huandi
 China
33:42.77 Lukose Leelamma
 India
35:38.90 Marija Suryati
 Indonesia
38:00.33
100 metres hurdles
(wind: +0.5 m/s)
Zhang Yu
 China
13.37 Naomi Jojima
 Japan
13.63 Kim Sun-Jin
 South Korea
13.77
400 metres hurdles Huang Yanhong
 China
57.29 Reawadee Srithoa
 Thailand
57.35 Junko Hasegawa
 Japan
59.37
4 × 100 metres relay  China
Pei Fang
Tian Yumei
Chen Zhaojing
Xiao Yehua
43.41 CR  Thailand
Wanna Popirom
Reawadee Watanasin
Ratjai Sripet
Pronpim Srisurat
44.86  Japan
Kaori Yoshida
Kazue Kakinuma
Toshie Kitada
Ayako Nomura
45.25
4 × 400 metres relay  India
Shiny Abraham-Wilson
Dhana Laksmi
Kutty Saramma
Ashwini Nachappa
3:33.50  China
Chen Zhaojing
Huang Yanhong
Qu Yunxia
Pei Fang
3:36.71  Thailand
Noodang Phimphoo
Sukanya Sang-nguen
Saleerat Srimek
Reawadee Srithoa
3:37.52
10,000 metre track walk Li Jingxue
 China
49:14.82 Tomoko Uchida
 Japan
49:40.18 Ma Kyin Lwan
 Myanmar
51:27.72
High jump Yoko Ota
 Japan
1.83 Lin Suh-Chi
 Chinese Taipei
1.83 Jaruwan Jenjudkarn
 Thailand
1.80
Long jump Li Yong-Ae
 North Korea
6.79 (NR) Liu Shuzhen
 China
6.66 Hiroko Okumura
 Japan
6.29
Shot put Huang Zhihong
 China
17.51 Min Chunfeng
 China
16.91 Aya Suzuki
 Japan
15.22
Discus throw Min Chunfeng
 China
61.74 Aye Aye Nwe
 Myanmar
48.48 Chu Hsui-Chen
 Chinese Taipei
43.80
Javelin throw Xu Demei
 China
59.84 Lee Young-Sun
 South Korea
55.06 Vijita P. Amarasekara
 Sri Lanka
50.90
Heptathlon Zhu Yuqing
 China
6231 Ghada Shouaa
 Syria
5425 Wang Shu-Hwa
 Chinese Taipei
5388

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China (CHN)2411237
2 Japan (JPN)471223
3 Qatar (QAT)4318
4 South Korea (KOR)3238
5 India (IND)2428
6 Malaysia (MAS)1113
7 North Korea (PRK)1012
8 Iran (IRN)1001
9 Thailand (THA)0538
10 Chinese Taipei (TPE)0257
11 Myanmar (MYA)0224
12 Pakistan (PAK)0213
13 Syria (SYR)0123
14 Kuwait (KUW)0022
15 Bahrain (BHR)0011
 Indonesia (INA)0011
 Sri Lanka (SRI)0011
Totals (17 entries)404040120

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
  2. ^ "金奉猷 1,500m 銀그쳐". The Dong-a Ilbo. 23 October 1991.
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