| Event: | Athletics |
| Games: | 1982 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium |
| Prev: | 1978 |
| Next: | 1986 |
The athletics at the 1982 Asian Games were held in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, India.
| 100 m | 10.68 | 10.72 | 10.76 | ||||
| 200 m | 20.89 | 21.13 | 21.25 | ||||
| 400 m | 46.65 | 47.27 | 47.36 | ||||
| 800 m | 1:46.81 | 1:47.55 | 1:47.73 | ||||
| 1500 m | 3:43.49 | 3:45.26 | 3:45.62 | ||||
| 5000 m | 13:53.74 | 13:58.09 | 13:59.90 | ||||
| 10,000 m | 29:37.56 | 29:37.71 | 29:38.17 | ||||
| 110 m hurdles | 14.09 | 14.51 | 14.52 | ||||
| 400 m hurdles | 50.60 | 50.83 | 50.99 | ||||
| 3000 m steeplechase | 8:47.36 | 8:50.28 | 8:52.40 | ||||
| 4 × 100 m relay | Wang Shaoming He Baodong Yu Zhuanghui Yuan Guoqiang | 39.82 | Somsak Boontud Suchart Jairsuraparp Prasit Boonprasert Sumet Promna | 39.92 | Yoshihiro Shimizu Junichi Usui Kazunori Asaba Toshio Toyota | 39.97 | |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Kazunori Asaba Shigenori Omori Hiromi Kawasumi Junichi Usui | 3:06.75 | Hussein Ali Abbas Laibi Hussein Ali Aouf Abdul-Rahman | 3:08.34 | Yuan Guoqiang He Baodong Tan Honghai Guo Shunqi | 3:09.57 | |
| Marathon | 2:22:21 | 2:24:09 | 2:25:07 | ||||
| 20 km walk | 1:29:29 | 1:29:50 | 1:33:34 | ||||
| 50 km walk | 4:09:36 | 4:19:43 | 4:39:41 | ||||
| High jump | 2.33 | 2.22 | 2.14 | ||||
| Pole vault | 5.30 | 5.11 | 5.00 | ||||
| Long jump | 7.94 | 7.89 | 7.87 | ||||
| Triple jump | 16.80 | 16.23 | 16.14 | ||||
| Shot put | 18.54 | 17.56 | 17.44 | ||||
| Discus throw | 58.50 | 53.50 | 53.34 | ||||
| Hammer throw | 71.14 | 66.96 | 64.48 | ||||
| Javelin throw | 75.04 | 73.62 | 71.58 | ||||
| Decathlon | 7431 | 7232 | 7009 |
| 100 m | 11.76 | 11.95 | 11.99 | ||||
| 200 m | 24.22 | 24.32 | 24.49 | ||||
| 400 m | 54.43 | 54.75 | 55.14 | ||||
| 800 m | 2:05.69 | 2:05.77 | 2:06.59 | ||||
| 1500 m | 4:18.40 | 4:23.22 | 4:26.58 | ||||
| 3000 m | 9:30.22 | 9:32.36 | 9:34.44 | ||||
| 100 m hurdles | 13.63 | 13.98 | 14.00 | ||||
| 400 m hurdles | 58.47 | 59.08 | 59.42 | ||||
| 4 × 100 m relay | Emiko Konishi Hiromi Isozaki Emi Akimoto Junko Yoshida | 45.13 | Walapa Tangjitnusorn Jaree Patarach Sumalee Poosup Pusadee Sangvijit | 45.97 | Mo Myung-hee Chun Jung-shik Park Mi-sun Chun Kyung-mi | 46.27 | |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Hitomi Koshimoto Junko Yoshida Izumi Takahata Hiromi Isozaki | 3:37.44 | Rita Sen Hamida Banu M. D. Valsamma Padmini Thomas | 3:38.32 | Liang Yueling Liu Guihua Guo Guimei Gao Yanqing | 3:39.84 | |
| High jump | 1.89 | 1.87 | 1.85 | ||||
| Long jump | 6.41 | 6.26 | 6.20 | ||||
| Shot put | 17.77 | 17.25 | 13.90 | ||||
| Discus throw | 57.24 | 52.20 | 47.20 | ||||
| Javelin throw | 60.52 | 58.12 | 54.70 | ||||
| Heptathlon | 5594 | 5493 | 5423 |