2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was an international indoor athletics event took place in Doha, Qatar, between 14 and 16 February.

2008 Asian Indoor Championships
Dates	February 14–16
Host city	Doha, Qatar
Venue	ASPIRE Dome
Events	26
Participation	202 athletes from 29 nations
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Results

Further information: 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships – Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Samuel Francis  Qatar	6.62 CR	Leung Chun Wai  Hong Kong	6.79	Vyacheslav Muravyev  Kazakhstan	6.79
400 m	Liu Xiaosheng  China	47.82 CR	Sergey Zaikov  Kazakhstan	48.12	Ali Shirook  United Arab Emirates	48.24 NR
800 m	Yusuf Saad Kamel  Bahrain	1:48.03 =CR	Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei  Iran	1:48.68	Masato Yokota  Japan	1:49.30
1500 m	Thamer Kamal Ali  Qatar	3:40.86 CR	Chatholi Hamza  India	3:41.18 NR	Abubaker Ali Kamal  Qatar	3:42.50
3000 m	Sultan Khamis Zaman  Qatar	7:49.31	Surendra Singh  India	7:49.47 NR	James Kwalia  Qatar	7:50.76
60 m hurdles	Ji Wei  China	7.79	Abdul Rashid  Pakistan	7.98	Muhammad Sajjad  Pakistan	8.01
4×400 m relay	Saudi Arabia Yonas Al-Hosah Ali Al-Deraan Ismail Al-Sabiani Edrees Hawsawi	3:14.25 CR	India V. B. Bineesh Gurvinder Pal Singh Virender Kumar Pankaj Thannickkal Aboobcker	3:16.53	Qatar Mohamed Sagayroon Adam Ali Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla Azmy Sulaiman	3:17.93
High jump	Sergey Zasimovich  Kazakhstan	2.24 CR	Majed Al-Din Ghazal  Syria	2.21	Rashid Al-Mannai  Qatar	2.18
Pole vault	Daichi Sawano  Japan	5.45	Takafumi Suzuki  Japan	5.35	Leonid Andreev  Uzbekistan	5.35
Long jump	Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi  Saudi Arabia	8.24 AR	Saleh Al-Haddad  Kuwait	7.88 NR	Hussein Al-Sabee  Saudi Arabia	7.72
Triple jump	Roman Valiyev  Kazakhstan	16.32	Amarjeet Singh  India	16.24 NR	Theerayut Philakong  Thailand	16.04 NR
Shot put	Ahmad Gholoum  Kuwait	18.55 CR	Om Prakash Karhana  India	18.37	Yao Yongguang  China	18.16
Heptathlon	P. J. Vinod  India	5561 pts =NR	Hadi Sepehrzad  Iran	5515 pts NR	Hiromasa Tanaka  Japan	5306 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Roqaya Al-Gassra  Bahrain	7.40 CR, NR	Wang Yingju  China	7.47	Nongnuch Sanrat  Thailand	7.49
400 m	Roqaya Al-Gassra  Bahrain	53.28 CR, NR	Marina Maslyonko  Kazakhstan	53.38	Mandeep Kaur  India	54.28
800 m	Sinimol Paulose  India	2:03.43 CR, NR	Sushma Devi  India	2:04.66	Margarita Matsko  Kazakhstan	2:04.85
1500 m	Sinimol Paulose  India	4:15.42 CR, NR	Sushma Devi  India	4:21.78	Sara Bakheet  Bahrain	4:26.70
3000 m	Preeja Sreedharan  India	9:12.26 CR, NR	Kavita Raut  India	9:26.01	Sara Bakheet  Bahrain	9:40.47
60 m hurdles	Liu Jing  China	8.31 CR	Anastassiya Soprunova  Kazakhstan	8.34	Leelavathi Veerappan  India	9.21
4×400 m relay	India Mandeep Kaur Manjit Kaur Sini Jose Chitra K. Soman	3:37.46 AR	Kazakhstan Tatyana Azarova Marina Maslyonko Viktoriya Yalovtseva Anna Gavriushenko	3:38.10	Thailand Jutamass Tawoncharoen Saowalee Kaewchuay Kanya Harnthong Treewadee Yongphan	3:43.22
High jump	Tatyana Efimenko  Kyrgyzstan	1.91	Anna Ustinova  Kazakhstan	1.91	Yekaterina Yevseyeva  Kazakhstan	1.88
Pole vault	Ikuko Nishikori  Japan	4.10	Roslinda Samsu  Malaysia	4.10	Takayo Kondo  Japan	4.10
Long jump	Chen Yaling  China	6.39	Anju Bobby George  India	6.38	M. A. Prajusha  India	6.09
Triple jump	Olga Rypakova  Kazakhstan	14.23 CR	Li Qian  China	13.76	Liu Yanan  China	13.39
Shot put	Gong Lijiao  China	18.12 CR	Iolanta Ulyeva  Kazakhstan	15.99	Juttaporn Krasaeyan  Thailand	14.73
Pentathlon	Irina Naumenko  Kazakhstan	4235 pts	Wassana Winatho  Thailand	4184 pts NR	Olga Lapina  Kazakhstan	3906 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India	5	9	3	17
2	China	5	2	2	9
3	Kazakhstan	4	6	4	14
4	Qatar	3	0	4	7
5	Bahrain	3	0	2	5
6	Japan	2	1	3	6
7	Saudi Arabia	2	0	1	3
8	Kuwait	1	1	0	2
9	Kyrgyzstan	1	0	0	1
10	Iran	0	2	0	2
11	Thailand	0	1	4	5
12	Pakistan	0	1	1	2
13	Hong Kong	0	1	0	1
	Malaysia	0	1	0	1
	Syria	0	1	0	1
16	United Arab Emirates	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		26	26	26	78

Participating nations

A total of 29 nations were represented by athletes competing at the 2008 championships.

•  Bahrain (10)
•  China (16)
•  Chinese Taipei (3)
•  Hong Kong (6)
•  India (31)
•  Indonesia (3)
•  Iran (5)
•  Iraq (3)
•  Japan (12)
•  Jordan (2)
•  Kazakhstan (23)
•  Kuwait (8)
•  Kyrgyzstan (4)
•  Laos (2)
•  Lebanon (2)
•  Macau (1)
•  Malaysia (3)
•  Maldives (2)
•  Oman (3)
•  Pakistan (5)
•  Palestine (1)
•  Qatar (19)
•  Saudi Arabia (11)
•  Singapore (3)
•  Syria (3)
•  Tajikistan (3)
•  Thailand (12)
•  United Arab Emirates (3)
•  Uzbekistan (3)