2023 Asian Athletics Championships

The 2023 Asian Athletics Championships was the 25th edition of the Asian Athletics Championships. It was held from 12 to 16 July 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand.^[1][2] It was the first time that Thailand hosted this event since 1973. Held at the Supachalasai National Stadium in Bangkok, it also served as a qualification stage for athletes to participate at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The previous edition that should have been held in Hangzhou, China, in May 2021 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^{[citation needed]}

2023 Asian Championships
Dates	12–16 July
Host city	Bangkok, Thailand
Venue	National Stadium
Events	45
Participation	625 athletes from 40 nations
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Venue

The 25th edition of the Asian Athletics Championships was held at Supachalasai National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand.^[3]

Supachalasai National Stadium in Bangkok during the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Thailand)

Rank	teams	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	16	11	10	37
2	China	8	8	6	22
3	India	6	12	9	27
4	Sri Lanka	3	2	3	8
5	Qatar	2	1	1	4
6	Philippines	2	0	0	2
	Singapore	2	0	0	2
8	Kazakhstan	1	2	1	4
	Uzbekistan	1	2	1	4
10	Thailand*	1	1	4	6
11	Chinese Taipei	1	1	0	2
12	South Korea	1	0	2	3
13	Vietnam	1	0	1	2
14	Iran	0	2	1	3
	Saudi Arabia	0	2	1	3
16	Kuwait	0	1	2	3
17	Malaysia	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		45	45	45	135

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Hiroki Yanagita  Japan	10.02	Abdullah Abkar Mohammed  Saudi Arabia	10.19	Hassan Taftian  Iran	10.23
200 metres details	Towa Uzawa  Japan	20.23 CR	Yang Chun-Han  Chinese Taipei	20.48	Koki Ueyama  Japan	20.53
400 metres details	Kentaro Sato  Japan	45.00	Fuga Sato  Japan	45.13	Yousef Ahmed Masrahi  Saudi Arabia	45.19
800 metres details	Abubaker Haydar Abdalla  Qatar	1:45.33	Krishan Kumar  India	1:45.88	Ebrahim Alzofairi  Kuwait	1:46.11
1500 metres details	Ajay Kumar Saroj  India	3:41.51	Yusuke Takahashi  Japan	3:42.04	Liu Dezhu  China	3:42.30
5000 metres details	Hyuga Endo  Japan	13:34.94	Kazuya Shiojiri  Japan	13:43.92	Gulveer Singh  India	13:48.33
10,000 metres details	Ren Tazawa  Japan	29:18.44	Shadrack Kimutai Koech  Kazakhstan	29:31.63	Abhishek Pal  India	29:33.26
110 metres hurles details	Shunya Takayama  Japan	13.29	Xu Zhuoyi  China	13.39	Yaqoub Alyouha  Kuwait	13.56
400 metres hurdles details	Bassem Hemeida  Qatar	48.64	Yusaku Kodama  Japan	48.96	Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan  India	49.09
3000 metres steeplechase details	Ryoma Aoki  Japan	8:34.91	Yaser Salem Bagharab  Qatar	8:37.11	Seiya Sunada  Japan	8:39.17
4×100 metres relay details	Thailand Natawat Iamudom Soraoat Dapbang Chayut Khongprasit Puripol Boonson	38.55 CR, NR	China Wu Zhiqiang Xie Zhenye Chen Jiapeng Chen Guanfeng	38.87	South Korea Simon Lee Ko Seung-hwan Shin Min-kyu Park Won-jin	38.99
4×400 metres relay details	Sri Lanka Aruna Dharshana Rajitha Niranjan Pabasara Niku Kalinga Kumarage Pasindu Kodikara*	3:01.56 CR, NR	India Amoj Jacob Muhammed Variyathodi Mijo Kurian Rajesh Ramesh Rahul Kadam* Nihal William*	3:01.80	Qatar Bassem Hemeida Abubaker Abdalla Ismail Abakar Ashraf Osman Abdirahman Hassan* Doudai Oumar*	3:04.26 SB
20 km racewalk details	Yutaro Murayama  Japan	1:24:40	Wang Kaihua  China	1:25:29	Vikash Singh  India	1:29:32
High jump details	Woo Sanghyeok  South Korea	2.28 m	Sarvesh Anil Kushare  India	2.26 m	Tawan Kaeodam  Thailand	2.26 m
Pole vault details	Ernest John Obiena  Philippines	5.91 m CR	Hussain Asim Alhizam  Saudi Arabia	5.56 m	Huang Bokai  China	5.51 m
Long jump details	Lin Yu-tang  Chinese Taipei	8.40 m CR	Murali Sreeshankar  India	8.37 m	Zhang Mingkun  China	8.08 m
Triple jump details	Abdulla Aboobacker  India	16.92 m	Hikaru Ikehata  Japan	16.73 m	Kim Jang-woo  South Korea	16.59 m
Shot put details	Tajinderpal Singh Toor  India	20.23 m	Mehdi Saberi  Iran	19.98 m	Ivan Ivanov  Kazakhstan	19.87 m
Discus throw details	Abuduaini Tuergong  China	61.19 m	Eissa Zankawi  Kuwait	60.23 m	Muhammad Irfan Bin Shamshuddin  Malaysia	59.63 m
Hammer throw details	Wang Qi  China	72.13 m	Sukhrob Khodjaev  Uzbekistan	71.83 m	Shota Fukuda  Japan	71.80 m
Javelin throw details	Genki Dean  Japan	83.15 m	Manu Devarakeshavi Prakasha  India	81.01 m	Muhammad Yasir  Pakistan	79.93 m
Decathlon details	Yuma Maruyama  Japan	7745 pts	Sutthisak Singkhon  Thailand	7626 pts	Tejaswin Shankar  India	7527 pts

* Indicates the athletes only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Shanti Pereira  Singapore	11.20 NR	Farzaneh Fasihi  Iran	11.39	Ge Manqi  China	11.40
200 metres details	Shanti Pereira  Singapore	22.70 CR	Jyothi Yarraji  India	23.13	Li Yuting  China	23.25
400 metres details	Nadeesha Ramanayaka  Sri Lanka	52.61 PB	Aishwarya Kailash Mishra  India	53.07[a]	Haruna Kuboyama  Japan	53.80
800 metres details	Tharushi Karunarathna  Sri Lanka	2:00.66 CR, NR	K.M. Chanda  India	2:01.58	Gayanthika Artigala  Sri Lanka	2:03.25
1500 metres details	Nozomi Tanaka  Japan	4:06.75 CR	Yume Goto  Japan	4:13.25	Gayanthika Artigala  Sri Lanka	4:14.39
5000 metres details	Yuma Yamamoto  Japan	15:51.16	Parul Chaudhary  India	15:52.35	Ankita  India	16:03.33
10,000 metres details	Haruka Kokai  Japan	32:59.36	Momoka Kawaguchi  Japan	33:18.72	Bayartsogt Munkhzaya  Mongolia	33:24.79 NR
100 metres hurdles details	Jyothi Yarraji  India	13.08	Asuka Terada  Japan	13.13	Masumi Aoki  Japan	13.26
400 metres hurdles details	Robyn Lauren Brown  Philippines	57.50	Eri Utsunomiya  Japan	57.73	Ami Yamamoto  Japan	57.80
3000 metres steeplechase details	Parul Chaudhary  India	9:38.76	Xu Shuangshuang  China	9:44.54	Reimi Yoshimura  Japan	9:48.48
4×100 metres relay details	China Liang Xiaojing Wei Yongli Yuan Qiqi Ge Manqi	43.35	Japan Miu Kurashige Arisa Kimishima Remi Tsuruta Midori Mikase	43.95	Thailand Supawan Thipat Supanich Poolkerd On-Uma Chattha Athicha Phetkun	44.56
4×400 metres relay details	Vietnam Nguyễn Thị Ngoc Hoàng Thị Minh Hành Nguyễn Thị Huyền Nguyễn Thị Hằng	3:32.36	Sri Lanka Nadeesha Ramanayaka Lakshima Mendis Nishendra Harshani Fernando Tharushi Dissanayaka	3:33.27 NR	India Rezoana Mallick Heena Aishwarya Kailash Mishra Jyothika Sri Dandi Subha Venkatesan	3:33.73
20 km racewalk details	Yang Liujing  China	1:32:37	Priyanka Goswami  India	1:34:24	Yukiko Umeno  Japan	1:36:17
High jump details	Kristina Ovchinnikova  Kazakhstan	1.86 m	Yelizaveta Matveyeva  Kazakhstan	1.86 m	Svetlana Radzivil  Uzbekistan	1.83 m
Pole vault details	Li Ling  China	4.66 m =CR	Niu Chunge  China	4.51 m	Chayanisa Chomchuendee  Thailand	4.10 m
Long jump details	Sumire Hata  Japan	6.97 m CR, NR	Shaili Singh  India	6.54 m	Zhong Jiawei  China	6.46 m
Triple jump details	Mariko Morimoto  Japan	14.06 m	Zeng Rui  China	14.01 m	Nguyễn Thị Hường  Vietnam	13.68 m
Shot put details	Song Jiayuan  China	18.88 m	Abha Khatua  India	18.06 m	Manpreet Kaur  India	17.00 m
Discus throw details	Feng Bin  China	66.42 m CR	Wang Fang [de]  China	58.49 m	Subenrat Insaeng  Thailand	55.80 m
Hammer throw details	Zhao Jie  China	69.39 m	Joy McArthur  Japan	66.56 m	Raika Murakami  Japan	64.17 m
Javelin throw details	Marina Saito  Japan	61.67 m	Liu Shiying  China	61.51 m	Dilhani Lekamge  Sri Lanka	60.93 m NR
Heptathlon details	Ekaterina Voronina  Uzbekistan	6098	Swapna Barman  India	5840	Yuki Yamasaki  Japan	5696

Mixed

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
4×400 metres relay details	India Rajesh Ramesh Aishwarya Kailash Mishra Amoj Jacob Subha Venkatesan	3:14.70 CR, NR	Sri Lanka Aruna Dharshana Tharushi Dissanayaka Kalinga Kumarage Nadeesha Ramanayaka	3:15.41 NR	Japan Kenki Imaizumi Haruna Kuboyama Fuga Sato Nanako Matsumoto	3:15.71

Participating nations

A total of 42 countries participated.^[5]

•  India (51)
•  Afghanistan (2)
•  Bangladesh (5)
•  Bhutan (1)
•  Cambodia (3)
•  China (45)
•  Chinese Taipei (30)
•  Hong Kong (33)
•  Indonesia (16)
•  Iran (10)
•  Iraq (6)
•  Japan (74)
•  Jordan (5)
•  Kazakhstan (30)
•  Kuwait (4)
•  Kyrgyzstan (4)
•  Laos (6)
•  Lebanon (4)
•  Macau (5)
•  Malaysia (27)
•  Maldives (13)
•  Mongolia (4)
•  Myanmar (2)
•  Nepal (8)
•  Oman (13)
•  Pakistan (3)
•  Palestine (4)
•  Philippines (21)
•  Qatar (16)
•  Saudi Arabia (15)
•  Singapore (15)
•  South Korea (19)
•  Sri Lanka (13)
•  Tajikistan (3)
•  Thailand (62)
•  Timor-Leste (2)
•  Turkmenistan (5)
•  Uzbekistan (25)
•  Vietnam (19)
•  Yemen (2)

See also

• 2023 World Athletics Championships
• 2023 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
• 2023 Asian Cross Country Championships