1983 Asian Athletics Championships Explained

1983 Asian Championships
Size:	180
Host City:	Kuwait City, Kuwait
Nations Participating:	at least 16
Dates:	November 3–9
Stadium:	Kuwait National Stadium
Previous:	Tokyo 1981
Next:	Jakarta 1985

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

Medal summary

Men's events

100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Suchart Chairsuvaparb Thailand	10.47	Sumet Promna Thailand	10.52	Mohamed Purnomo Indonesia	10.60
200 metres (wind: -4.2 m/s)	Sumet Promna Thailand	21.39	Mohamed Purnomo Indonesia	21.64	Jang Jae-keun	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	1:49.98
1500 metres	Suresh Yadav	3:44.74	Susumu Yoshida	3:45.67	Najem Abdullah Mutlaq Kuwait	3:45.77
5000 metres	Zhang Guowei	14:07.72	Raj Kumar	14:22.56	Park Kyung-Duk	14:25.85
10,000 metres	Zhang Guowei	29:45.41	Park Kyung-Duk	30:04.89	Mohammad Vojdanzadeh	30:20.88
3000 metre steeplechase		8:54.85	Hector Begeo Philippines	8:55.57	Anokh Singh	9:05.80
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Wu Chin-jing	13.90	Yu Zhicheng	14.16	Ahmed Hamada Jassim Bahrain	14.24 (NR)
400 metres hurdles	Ahmed Hamada Jassim Bahrain	49.43	Shigenori Ohmori	50.69	Lin Cheng-jih	51.09
4 × 100 metres relay	Cai Jianming He Baodong Yu Zhuanghui Yuan Guoqiang	40.16	Thailand Prasit Boonprasert Somsak Boontud Suchart Chairsuvaparb Sumet Promna	40.25	Kim Yong-il Sung Nak-kun Choi Yong-joon Park Sung-jun	40.60
4 × 400 metres relay	Iraq Fahim Abdul-Sada Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Abbas Ali Lafta Heitham Nadim	3:07.98	Ghulam Kibria Charanjit Singh Bajwa Pavittar Singh Rajinder Sharma	3:11.02	Philippines Isidro Del Prado Honesto Larce Leopoldo Arnillo Renato Unso	3:11.09
20 kilometre road walk	Chand Ram	1:30:14	Zhang Fuzin	1:32:14	Buta Singh	1:43:19
High jump	Zhu Jianhua	2.31	Qassim Mohammed Iraq	2.10	Chin Yi-Shik	2.05
Pole vault	Zhang Chen	5.00	Ku Chin-shui	4.80	Sunder Singh Tanwar	4.50
Long jump	Liu Yuhuang	7.97	Lee Bou-chai	7.70	Koji Umemoto	7.60
Triple jump	Mai Guoqiang	16.25	Yasushi Ueta	16.10	Park Yeong-jun	15.80
Shot put	Mohammed Al-Zinkawi Kuwait	17.90	Balwinder Singh	16.89	Iqbal Singh	16.72
Discus throw	Li Weinan	55.40	Ajmer Singh	52.30	Nejim Abdulrazak Kuwait	51.00
Hammer throw	Xie Yingqi	65.78	Masayuki Kawata	65.60	Raghubir Singh Bal	60.52
Javelin throw	Masami Yoshida	79.50	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi	70.16	Chen Hung-yen	68.20
Decathlon	Lee Fu-an	7641	Ku Chin-shui	7438	Takeshi Kojo	7277

Women's events

100 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Lydia de Vega Philippines	11.82	Valapa Pinij Thailand	12.01	Shen Su-Feng	12.07
200 metres (wind: -2.9 m/s)	Lydia de Vega Philippines	24.07	P.T. Usha	24.68	Mo Myung-Hee	24.72
400 metres	P.T. Usha	54.20	Junko Yoshida	54.65	Lydia de Vega Philippines	55.66
800 metres	Huo Lianzhu	2:08.92	Im Chun-Sil	2:09.20	Geng Xiuquan	2:10.02
1500 metres	Geng Xiuquan	4:30.72	Gao Suju	4:31.10	Kim Lyong-Soon	4:31.13
3000 metres	Kim Lyong-Soon	9:39.64	Kim Chun-Hwa	9:41.34	Kim Soon-Hwa	9:47.19
100 metres hurdles (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Emi Sasaki (Akimoto)	13.63	Liu Huajin	13.82	Lin Yueh-Hsiang	14.04
400 metres hurdles	Yoko Sato	59.89	Chizuko Akimoto	59.95	Agrifina de la Cruz Philippines	61.26
4 × 100 metres relay	Thailand Jaree Patarach Sarinee Phenglaor Walapa Pinij Wanna Popirom	46.12	Shen Su-feng Lin Ruei-er Jen Yui-chu Lin Li-shui	46.42	Chizuko Akimoto Junko Yoshida Emi Akimoto-Sasaki	46.47
4 × 400 metres relay	Thailand Ratjai Sripet Walapa Tangjitnusorn Usa Chanaphani Reim Sriteingtrong	3:48.62	Shen Su-feng Lin Ruei-er Jen Yui-chu Lin Li-shui	3:58.52	Jordan Khadija Al-Matari Wannas Abu Kartoumah Faten Al-Omari Amneh Odeh Mershed	4:17.41
High jump	Zheng Dazhen	1.84	Ge Ping	1.84	Kim Hee-sun	1.81
Long jump	Liao Wenfen	6.21	Elma Muros Philippines	6.09	Huang Donghuo	6.08
Shot put	Lu Cheng	17.38	So Bok-Hui	14.61	Woo Kyon-Sun	14.12
Discus throw	Jiao Yunxiang	53.00	Chun Hwa-Kyung	47.20	Jeanette Ayoub Lebanon	37.06
Javelin throw	Xin Xiaoli	53.48	Lee Huei-Cheng	42.48	–	–
Heptathlon	Hisako Hashimoto	5486	Ye Lianying	5394	Chen Jin-Yun	5075

See also

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

References

• GBR Athletics