1985 Asian Championships
Dates	25–29 September
Host city	Jakarta, Indonesia
Venue	Senayan Madya Stadium
Participation	at least 16 nations
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The sixth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in September 1985 at the Senayan Madya Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.8 m/s)	Zheng Chen  China	10.28	Mohammed Purnomo  Indonesia	10.33	Jang Jae-keun  South Korea	10.35
200 metres (wind: +1.5 m/s)	Jang Jae-keun  South Korea	20.57	Mohammed Purnomo  Indonesia	21.19	Li Feng  China	21.20
400 metres	Isidro del Prado  Philippines	45.61	Mohammed Al-Malki  Oman	46.45	Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef  Iraq	46.67
800 metres	Batumalai Rajakumar  Malaysia	1:47.37 NR	Charles Borromeo  India	1:47.99	Ryu Tae-kyung  South Korea	1:48.18
1500 metres	Bagicha Singh  India	3:56.85	Suresh Yadav  India	3:56.90	Hussein Darwish  Iraq	3:57.07
5000 metres	Kozu Akutsu  Japan	14:22.11	Haruo Urata  Japan	14:22.42	Lee Sang-geun  South Korea	14:23.02
10,000 metres	Zhang Guowei  China	29:58.73	Lee Sang-geun  South Korea	30:10.05	Vinod Kumar Pokhriyal  India	32:09.62
Marathon	Ling Jong-hyen  North Korea	2:20:29	Tomio Sueyoshi  Japan	2:24:26	Choe Il-sop  North Korea	2:24:52
3000 metre steeplechase	Shigeyuki Aikyo  Japan	8:46.96	Hwang Wen-cheng  Chinese Taipei	8:47.53	Shanmugin Pitchaiah  India	8:48.14
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Yu Zhicheng  China	13.94	Masahiko Sugi  Japan	14.20	Li Jieqiang  China	14.23
400 metres hurdles	Ahmed Hamada Jassim  Bahrain	49.88	Jasem Al-Douwaila  Kuwait	50.81	Hiroshi Kakimori  Japan	50.85
4 × 100 metres relay	China Cai Jianming Yu Zhuanghui Li Tao Zheng Chen	39.34	Qatar Saad Muftah Mubarak Al-Kuwari Jamal Abdallah Sulaiman Faraj Marzouk Talal Mansour	39.81	South Korea Jang Jae-keun Kim Bok-Seop Shim Duk-sup Sung Nak-kun	39.85
4 × 400 metres relay	Iraq Fahim Abdul-Sada Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Abbas Ali Lafta Heitham Nadim	3:07.68	Japan Takeo Suzuki Hiromitsu Suzuki Kenji Yamauchi Sen-ya Suzuki	3:07.92	Philippines Isidro Del Prado Romeo Gido Honesto Larce Leopoldo Arnillo	3:09.95
20 kilometre road walk	Liu Jianli  China	1:26:52	Chand Ram  India	1:27:20	Wang Zhicheng  China	1:31:12
High jump	Shuji Ujino  Japan	2.24	Takao Sakamoto  Japan	2.22	Liu Yunpeng  China	2.22
Pole vault	Ji Zebiao  China	5.30	Toshiyuki Hashioka  Japan	5.20	Liang Xueren  China	5.10
Long jump	Liu Yuhuang  China	8.00	Pang Yan  China	7.95	Junichi Usui  Japan	7.72
Triple jump	Tian Hongxin  China	16.38	Park Young-jun  South Korea	16.35	Yasushi Ueta  Japan	15.96
Shot put	Balwinder Singh  India	17.88	Gong Yitian  China	17.80	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	17.21
Discus throw	Li Weinan  China	55.30	Wang Daoming  China	54.62	Kuldip Singh  India	52.36
Hammer throw	Raghubir Singh Bal  India	64.34	Xie Yingqi  China	63.44	Waleed Al-Bekheet  Kuwait	60.62
Javelin throw	Pubu Ciren  China	76.56	Kim Sun-yun  South Korea	76.22	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi  Japan	74.90
Decathlon	Ku Chin-shui  Chinese Taipei	7538	Lee Fu-an  Chinese Taipei	7469	Wang Kangqiang  China	7357

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s)	P.T. Usha  India	11.64	Ratjai Sripet  Thailand	11.95	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	11.96
200 metres (wind: +3.4 m/s)	P.T. Usha  India	23.05w	Reawadee Srithoa  Thailand	23.70w	Vandana Rao  India	23.79w
400 metres	P.T. Usha  India	52.62	Shiny Abraham  India	53.32	Emma Tahapary  Indonesia	55.08
800 metres	Shiny Abraham  India	2:03.16	Sasithorn Chantanuhong  Thailand	2:03.46 (NR)	Yang Liuxia  China	2:05.07
1500 metres	Yang Liuxia  China	4:19.11	Choi Ok-soon  North Korea	4:21.62	Choi Jong-hui  North Korea	4:26.35
3000 metres	Kim Lyong-soon  North Korea	9:27.75	Li Xiuxia  China	9:29.88	Suman Rawat  India	9:36.97
10,000 metres	Paek Do-jong  North Korea	35:17.35	Wang Huabi  China	35:35.77	Kim Myong-hui  North Korea	35:49.33
Marathon	Asha Aggarwal  India	2:48:53	Yuko Gordon  Hong Kong	2:54:16	Ki Sun-bok  North Korea	2:57:28
100 metres hurdles (wind: +1.0 m/s)	Liu Huajin  China	13.22	Chen Kemei  China	13.48	Chen Wen-ying  Chinese Taipei	13.59
400 metres hurdles	P.T. Usha  India	56.64	M. D. Valsamma  India	57.81	Agrifina de la Cruz  Philippines	59.59
4 × 100 metres relay	Thailand Reawadee Srithoa Ratjai Sripet Walapa Tangjitsusorn Jaree Patarach	45.07	China Liu Huajin Tian Yumei Zhang Jiangmei Pan Weixin	45.20	India M. D. Valsamma Ashwini Nachappa Vandana Rao P.T. Usha	45.22
4 × 400 metres relay	India Vandana Rao Ashwini Nachappa Shiny Abraham P.T. Usha	3:34.10	Japan Hitomi Koshimoto Hiromi Isozaki Takako Kitamura Yoko Sato	3:39.51	Chinese Taipei Shen Su-feng Hsu Yi-ling Cheng Fei-ju Lai Lee-jiao	3:39.88 (NR)
10,000 metre track walk	Rian Bingyie  China	50:38.81	Xiong Yan  China	51:04.66	Iece Magdalena Siregar  Indonesia	53:55.46
High jump	Yang Wenqin  China	1.90	Ni Xiuling  China	1.90	Wu Wei-chun  Chinese Taipei	1.81
Long jump	Huang Donghuo  China	6.60	Liao Wenfen  China	6.57	Kim Mi-sook  South Korea	6.25
Shot put	Cong Yuzhen  China	18.36	Li Meisu  China	17.64	Han Yun-sook  South Korea	14.12
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui  China	58.38	Yu Hourun  China	51.44	Ikuko Kitamori  Japan	50.48
Javelin throw	Zhu Hongyang  China	56.84	Wang Jin  China	53.44	Emi Matsui  Japan	53.28
Heptathlon	Ye Lianying  China	5319	Dong Yuping  China	5198	Tung Fung-gao  Chinese Taipei	5117

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Host nation)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	19	15	7	41
2	India (IND)	10	5	7	22
3	Japan (JPN)	3	7	6	16
4	North Korea (PRK)	3	1	4	8
5	South Korea (KOR)	1	3	6	10
6	Thailand (THA)	1	3	0	4
7	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	2	4	7
8	Philippines (PHI)	1	0	3	4
9	Iraq (IRQ)	1	0	2	3
10	Bahrain (BHR)	1	0	0	1
	Malaysia (MAS)	1	0	0	1
12	Indonesia (INA)*	0	2	2	4
13	Kuwait (KUW)	0	1	1	2
14	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	0	1
	Oman (OMN)	0	1	0	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	0	1
Totals (16 entries)		42	42	42	126

See also

• 1985 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics