1991 Asian Athletics Championships Explained

1991 Asian Championships
Size:	180
Host City:	Kuala Lampur, Malaysia
Nations Participating:	at least 17
Dates:	October 19–23
Stadium:	Stadium Merdeka
Previous:	New Delhi 1989
Next:	Manila 1993

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

Medal summary

Men's events

100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Talal Mansour Qatar	10.29	Chen Wenzhong	10.45	Khalid Jouma Ibrahim Bahrain	10.56
200 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s)	Zhao Cunlin	20.75	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah Qatar	20.96	Hiroki Fuwa	21.00
400 metres	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah Qatar	45.66	Aktawat Sakoolchan Thailand	46.52	Koji Ito	46.64
800 metres	Lee Jin-il	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	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	14:04.68
10,000 metres	Hwang Young-Jo	29:50.37	Wang Helin	29:57.26	Kim Jae-Ryong	30:05.48
3000 metre steeplechase	Hamid Sajjadi	8:33.89	Gao Shuhei	8:34.32	Saleh Mohammed Habib	8:34.66 (NR)
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.4 m/s)	Nur Herman Majid Malaysia	14.04	Zheng Jinsuo	14.05	Toshihiko Iwasaki	14.18
400 metres hurdles	Yoshihiko Saito	50.46	Ghulam Abbas Pakistan	50.77	Zid Abou Hamed	51.15
4 × 100 metre relay	Zhang Hong Zhao Cunlin Chen Wenzhong Zheng Chen	39.20	Thailand Seaksarn Boonrat Niti Piyapan Pongsak Wacharakupt Visut Watanasin	39.26	Koji Ito Masahito Horiuchi Tetsuya Yamashita Hiroki Fuwa	39.74
4 × 400 metre relay	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	1:31:36	Hideharu Fuchida	1:34:02	Suchá Singh	1:37:01
High jump	Lee Jin-Taek	2.22	Shigeki Toyoshima	2.19	Phaitoon Hearnthong Thailand	2.16
Pole vault	Hideyuki Takei	5.25	Ge Yun	5.10	Ku Chin-shui	5.10
Long jump	Chen Zunrong	8.10	Masaki Morinaga	8.02	Nai Hui-Fang	7.85
Triple jump	Chen Yanping	17.22	Zou Sixin	16.95	Marzouk Abdullah Al-Yoha Kuwait	16.48
Shot put	Cheng Shaobo	18.11	Bilal Saad Mubarak Qatar	17.78	Yuji Okano	17.65
Discus throw	Yu Wenge	62.20	Shakti Singh	53.26	Yuji Yamazaki	51.76
Hammer throw	Bi Zhong	69.90	Nobuhiro Todoroki	64.56	Waleed Al-Bekheet Kuwait	60.74
Javelin throw	Zhang Lianbiao	81.52	Masami Yoshida	80.44	Kim Ki-Hoon	76.32
Decathlon	Gong Guohua	7652	Cai Min	7573	Katsuhiko Matsuda	7364

• 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

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

See also

• 1991 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics

Notes and References

1. http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/asc.htm Asian Championships
2. News: 金奉猷 1,500m 銀그쳐. The Dong-a Ilbo. 23 October 1991.