2011 Asian Athletics Championships Explained

2011 Asian Championships
Size:	180
Host City:	Kobe, Japan
Nations Participating:	40
Athletes Participating:	464
Events:	42
Dates:	July 7–10
Stadium:	Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium
Previous:	Guangzhou 2009
Next:	Pune 2013

The 19th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Kobe, Japan between July 7–10, 2011 at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium.^[1] The tournament had 507 athletes from forty Asian nations competing in the 42 track and field events over the four-day competition.^[2]

Two countries dominated the events: the host nation Japan won the most medals at the competition (32 overall, 11 golds), closely followed by China's eleven golds and 27 overall medal haul. The next most successful countries were Bahrain (which won five golds on the track through its former Ethiopian and Kenyan runners) and India, which won twelve medals.

A total of eight Championship records were equalled or beaten at the competition. India's Mayookha Johny won the long jump and also broke the Indian record to take bronze in the triple jump. Twenty-year-old Mutaz Essa Barshim cleared 2.35 metres in the high jump.^[3] Liu Xiang won his fourth consecutive 110 metres hurdles title with a championship record mark.^[4] Kuwait's Mohammad Al-Azemi completed an 800/1500 metres double with Iranian Sajjad Moradi finishing as runner-up both times. On the women's side, Truong Thanh Hang of Vietnam won the 800 m and was the 1500 m silver medallist.

Gretta Taslakian of Lebanon and Iraqi Gulustan Ieso won their countries' first medals in the women's section, while the traditionally male-only United Arab Emirates sent their first female athlete to the competition (Betlhem Desalegn).^[5] Ieso and Olga Tereshkova both failed doping tests at the competition, thus losing their individual medals and also their team relay medals.

Medal summary

Men

100 metres		10.21		10.28		10.30
200 metres		20.41 =CR		20.75		20.97
400 metres		45.79		46.03		46.38
800 metres		1:46.14		1:46.35		1:46.46
1500 metres		3:42.49		3:43.30		3:44.01
5000 metres		13:39.71 CR		13:40.78		13:41.93
10,000 metres		28:35.49		28:36.30		28:40.63
110 m hurdles		13.22 CR		13.56		13.66
400 m hurdles		49.64		50.22		50.39
3000 m steeplechase		8:30.23		8:35.11		8:45.47
relay	Sota Kawatsura Masashi Eriguchi Shinji Takahira Hitoshi Saito	39.18	Tang Yik Chun Lai Chun Ho Ng Ka Fung Chi Ho Tsui	39.26	Wang Wen-tang Liu Yuan-kai Tsai Meng-lin Yi Wei-che	39.30
relay	Yusuke Ishitsuka Kei Takase Hideyuki Hirose Yuzo Kanemaru	3:04.72	Mohammed Ali Albishi Hamed Al-Bishi Y.I. Alhezam Yousef Ahmed Masrahi	3:08.03	Peyman Rajabi Amin Ghelichi Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei Sajjad Hashemi	3:08.58
High jump		2.35 m NR		2.28 m NR		2.26 m
Pole vault		5.50 m		5.40 m		5.40 m
Long jump		8.19 m		8.05 m NJR		8.05 m
Triple jump		16.91 m		16.70 m		16.62 m
Shot put		20.14 m CR		19.77 m		19.47 m
Discus throw		62.27 m		61.58 m		56.61 m
Hammer throw		73.73 m		70.89 m		70.69 m
Javelin throw		83.27 m CR		80.19 m		79.22 m
Decathlon		7506 pts		7478 pts		7358 pts

Women

100 metres		11.39		11.70		11.74
200 metres		23.49		24.01		24.06
400 metres^[6]		52.89		53.35		54.08
800 metres		2:01.41		2:02.46		2:02.55
1500 metres		4:15.91		4:18.40		4:21.41
5000 metres		15:22.48 CR		15:34.19		15:42.59
10,000 metres		32:47.80		32:50.70		33:15.55
100 m hurdles		13.04		13.11		13.15
400 m hurdles		56.52		56.69		57.30
3000 m steeplechase		9:52.42 CR		10:08.52		10:14.94
relay	Nao Okabe Momoko Takahashi Chisato Fukushima Saori Imai	44.05	Tao Yujia Liang Qiuping Jiang Lan Wei Yongli	44.23	Phatsorn Jaksuninkorn Orranut Klomdee Laphassaporn Tawoncharoen Nongnuch Sanrat	44.62
relay	Sayaka Aoki Chisato Tanaka Satomi Kubokura Miho Shingu	3:35.00	Mrudula Korada Jhuma Khatun Jaisha Orchatteri Puthiya Tintu Luka	3:44.17	Not awarded
High jump		1.92 m		1.92 m		1.89 m
Pole vault		4.35 m		4.30 m		4.00 m
Long jump		6.56 m		6.52 m		6.51 m
Triple jump		14.58 m		14.14 m		14.11 m NR
Shot put		18.31 m PB		18.30 m		16.60 m
Discus throw		60.89 m		59.67 m		57.99 m
Hammer throw		67.19 m		65.42 m		62.50 m
Javelin throw		58.05 m		55.80 m		54.16 m
Heptathlon		5710 pts		5491 pts		5442 pts

Note: The original gold and silver medallists, Kazakhstan's Olga Tereshkova and Iraq's Gulustan Ieso, were later disqualified after testing positive for testosterone and methylhexaneamine, respectively. Initial bronze medallist Chen Jingwen of China was elevated to the gold medal position, while fourth and fifth placed runners Chandrika Subashini and Chisato Tanaka moved into the minor medal positions. The Kazakhstan and Iraqi relay quartets were also disqualified as a result. India were promoted to silver medallists and the bronze was vacated as only four teams participated.^[6]

Medal table

The medal changes due to doping disqualifications in the women's 400 m individual and relay events meant that China edged Japan to the top of the table. Kazakhstan fell from sixth to eighth place. Sri Lanka moved up from 19th to 15th place. Iraq received no medals.

Participating countries

464 athletes from 40 nations competed

References

Results

AsC Kobe JPN 7 - 10 July 19th Asian Championships. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-08-13.

External links

Notes and References

Web site: General Information . asianathletics.org . Asian Athletics Association . July 7, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726153339/http://www.asianathletics.org/AAC2011/aac2011-information.pdf . 2011-07-26 . dead .
http://www.jaaf.or.jp/aac19/en/outline.html 19th Asian Athletics Championships Hyogo・Kobe－Japan
http://www.iaaf.org/news/newsid=60806.html Barshim improves to 2.35m in Kobe - Asian champs, day 3
http://www.iaaf.org/news/newsid=60855.html Liu Xiang clocks 13.22 championships in Kobe - Asian champs, final day
http://www.iaaf.org/news/newsid=60702.html Su Bingtian takes Asian 100m title in Kobe - Asian champs, Day 2
http://www.thehindu.com/sport/athletics/article2978909.ece Silver for India in relay