| 1973 Asian Championships | |
| Size: | 180 |
| Host City: | Marikina, Rizal, Philippines |
| Nations Participating: | at least 14 |
| Dates: | November 18–23 |
| Stadium: | Rodriguez Sports Center |
| Next: | Seoul 1975 |
The inaugural Asian Athletics Championships were held in 1973 at the Rodriguez Sports Center in Marikina, Rizal, Philippines from November 18–23, 1973.[1] [2]
| 100 metres (wind: -0.5 m/s) | Anat Ratanapol | 10.4 | Suchart Chairsuvaparb | 10.5 | Takao Ishizawa | 10.6 | |
| 200 metres (wind: +0.2 m/s) | Anat Ratanapol | 21.0 | Soo Wen-Ho | 21.2 | Tokal Mokalam | 21.6 | |
| 400 metres | Yoshiharu Tomonaga | 46.8 | Koiiro Shika | 47.6 | Ho Mun Cheong | 47.8 | |
| 800 metres | Muhammad Younis | 1:51.2 | Sri Ram Singh | 1:51.5 | Kazuyoshi Mizuno | 1:52.2 | |
| 1500 metres | Kazuyoshi Mizuno | 3:47.4 | Muhammad Younis | 3:48.2 | Dashondha Singh | 3:50.4 | |
| 5000 metres | Ichio Sato | 14:16.9 | Shivnath Singh | 14:17.0 | Katsuaki Isohata | 14:18.2 | |
| 10,000 metres | Ichio Sato | 29:54.4 | Shivnath Singh | 29:54.8 | Katsuaki Isohata | 29:55.8 | |
| Marathon | Cho Je-Hyung | 2:27:31 | Park Chang-Yuel | 2:33:45 | Jit Bahadur Chetri | 2:35:38 | |
| 3000 metre steeplechase | Takaharu Koyama | 9:04.0 | Shibib Dagher Al-Lami | 9:10.9 | Mohammad Vojdanzadeh | 9:22.0 | |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: -2.9 m/s) | Shigeo Oki | 14.3 | Ahmad Ishtiaq Mubarak | 14.3 | Marcelo Benauro | 14.4 | |
| 400 metres hurdles | Abdulkadir Guiapar | 52.2 | Talib Faisal Al-Saffar | 52.7 | Tai Shi-Yan | 53.1 | |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Takao Ishizawa Kazuo Iwamoto Susumu Shimizu Yoshiharu Tomonaga | 40.0 | Suchart Chairsuvaparb Somsak Boontud Prasit Boonprasert Anat Ratanapol | 40.0 | Abdul Aziz Adrian Kennedy K. Natarajan A.P. Ramaswamy | 40.3 | |
| 4 × 400 metre relay | Susumu Shimizu Yoshiharu Tomonaga Kazuyoshi Mizuno Koiiro Shika | 3:10.2 | Abdulkadir Guiapar Clemente Lupangco Santos Magno Ernesto Tabayan | 3:12.8 | Ho Mun Cheong Godfrey Jalleh Canagasabai Kunalan Cheah Kim Tech | 3:13.2 | |
| 20 kilometre road walk | Yoshio Morikawa | 1:11:31 | Francis Xavier | Khoo Chong Beng | |||
| High jump | Teymour Ghiassi | 2.15 | Kazunori Koshikawa | 2.15 | Yon Ismail | 2.05 | |
| Pole vault | Hisaki Suzuki | 4.36 | Hong Sang-pyo | 4.36 | |||
| Long jump | Chen Chin-long | 7.82w | Soo Wen-Ho | 7.57w | Satish Pillai | 7.53w | |
| Triple jump | Mohinder Singh Gill | 15.96w | Cheng Ming-chi | 15.31 | T.C. Yohannan | 14.96 | |
| Shot put | Jagraj Singh Mann | 17.00 | Gurdeep Singh | 16.37 | Bahadur Singh Chouhan | 15.75 | |
| Discus throw | Jalal Keshmiri | 51.20 | Praveen Kumar | 49.08 | Toji Hayashi | 48.04 | |
| Hammer throw | Ajmer Singh | 60.42 | Jeung Sub-kil | 49.20 | Oumvan Narith Khmer Republic | 41.24 | |
| Javelin throw | Allah Dad | 63.58 | Nashatar Singh Sidhu | 63.28 | Gopal Kidyoor | 58.28 | |
| Decathlon | Vijay Singh Chauhan | 7245 | Junichi Onizuka | 7076 | Chen Chin-long | 6752 |
| 100 metres (wind: +2.3 m/s) | Amelita Alanes | 11.6w | Michiko Morita | 12.0w | Sayo Yamato | 12.0w | |
| 200 metres (wind: +1.1 m/s) | Michiko Morita | 24.7 | Amelita Alanes | 25.0 | Satomi Fukuda | 25.2 | |
| 400 metres | Nobuko Kawano | 55.2 | Keiko Ikoma | 56.1 | Maimoon Azlan | 56.1 | |
| 800 metres | Nobuko Kawano | 2:08.1 | Chee Swee Lee | 2:08.1 | Harumi Fugimoto | 2:09.6 | |
| 1500 metres | Miyako Inoue | 4:26.8 | Lee Chiu-Hsia | 4:28.0 | Rachel Halle | 4:34.6 | |
| 100 metres hurdles (wind: +4.3 m/s) | Tomomi Hayashida | 13.6w | Lin Yet-Hsiang | 13.9w | Gan Bee Wah | 14.2w | |
| 200 metres hurdles (wind: +3.5 m/s) | Tomomi Hayashida | 27.6w | Heather Merican | 28.5w | Lin Yet-Hsiang | 28.6w | |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Sayo Yamato Satomi Fukuda Keiko Ikoma Michiko Morita | 46.7 | Glory Barnabas Gan Bee Wah Heather Merican Shirley Fernando | 47.0 | ? Aida Mantawel Carmen Torres Amelita Alanes | 47.7 | |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Amelita Alanes Aida Mantawel Carmen Torres Rosalinda Yumol | 3:48.9 | Maimoon Azlan Glory Barnabas Chee Swee Lee Hua Kim Chew | 3:50.1 | Chi Cheng Puang Chiu-ging Lin Chun-yu Lee Chiu-hsia | 3:57.8 | |
| High jump | Orit Abramovich | 1.68 | Gladys Chai Ng Mei | 1.58 | Maryam Sedarati | 1.58 | |
| Long jump | Kumi Kawada | 6.07 | Lin Yet-Hsiang | 5.84 | Li Hua-Wa | 5.71 | |
| Shot put | Paik Ok-Ja | 15.05 | Kayoko Hayashi | 13.63 | Chen Fu-Mei | 12.93 | |
| Discus throw | Josephine de la Viña | 50.74 | Kayoko Hayashi | 45.28 | Paik Ok-Ja | 44.52 | |
| Javelin throw | Mieko Takasaka | 49.74 | Erlinda Lavandia | 45.38 | Proch Thin Kampuchea | 43.48 | |
| Pentathlon | Lin Chun-Yu | 4025 | Kumi Kawada | 3963 | Li Hua-Wa | 3578 |