1987 Asian Championships
Dates	July 22-26
Host city	Singapore, Singapore
Venue	National Stadium
Participation	at least 14 nations
← Jakarta 1985 New Delhi 1989 →

The seventh Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1987 in Singapore.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Talal Mansour  Qatar	10.41	Cheng Hsin-fu  Chinese Taipei	10.56	Li Tao  China	10.57
200 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s)	Talal Mansour  Qatar	20.71	Li Feng  China	21.12	Cheng Hsin-Fu  Chinese Taipei	21.21
400 metres	Mohammed Al-Malki  Oman	45.77	Mohamed Nordin Jadi  Malaysia	47.05	Yoshito Toshida  Japan	47.32
800 metres	Ismail Yousef  Qatar	1:47.81	Ryu Tae-Kyung  South Korea	1:48.00	Ramasamy Haridas  Malaysia	1:48.27
1500 metres	Duan Xiuquan  China	3:45.11	Shigeki Nakayama  Japan	3:45.41	Yutaka Hoshino  Japan	3:45.76
5000 metres	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama  Qatar	14:09.29	Yoshiaki Iwasa  Japan	14:10.91	Cai Shangyan  China	14:11.30
10,000 metres	Cai Shangyan  China	29:47.85	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama  Qatar	30:03.02	Lee Sang-Geun  South Korea	30:06.79
3000 metre steeplechase	Masashi Otokita  Japan	9:04.21	Ali Ahmed Saleh  Qatar	9:08.03	Kim Hyun-Hwa  South Korea	9:08.76
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Yang Guang  China	14.04	Yu Zhicheng  China	14.06	Nagi Ghazi  Iraq	14.30
400 metres hurdles	Shigenori Ohmori  Japan	50.09	Jasem Al-Douwaila  Kuwait	50.46	Nasser Mohammed  Qatar	51.15
4 × 100 metres relay	Qatar Jamal Abdallah Sulaiman Faraj Marzouk Saad Muftah Talal Mansour	39.20	China Cai Jianming Li Feng Li Tao Zheng Chen	39.40	Chinese Taipei Chang Yih-yuan Cheng Hsin-fu Lai Cheng-chuan Lee Shin-long	39.68
4 × 400 metres relay	Japan Yuji Yoshioka Seiichi Ibe Yoshito Toyota Ritsuo Hayasaka	3:09.31	Malaysia Joseph Phan Ramasamy Haridas Ismail Hashim Mohamed Nordin Jadi	3:09.72	Chinese Taipei Hsu Ruo-ta Lee Shin-long Lin Kuan-liang Lin Tsai-tien	3:09.86
20 kilometre road walk	Liu Jianli  China	1:33:16	Jung Pil-Hwa  South Korea	1:37:49	Yoshihiro Oie  Japan	1:39:44
High jump	Liu Yunpeng  China	2.24	Cho Hyun-wook  South Korea	2.22	Ramjit Nairulal  Malaysia	2.10
Pole vault	Liang Xueren  China	5.35	Teruhisa Kamiya  Japan	5.15	Ku Chin-shui  Chinese Taipei	5.10
Long jump	Kim Won-jin  South Korea	8.00	Liu Yuhuang  China	7.98	Wang Shijie  China	7.91
Triple jump	Park Young-Jun  South Korea	16.37	Du Benzhong  China	16.37	Noboru Sasano  Japan	15.82
Shot put	Ma Yongfeng  China	18.32	Gong Yitian  China	18.05	Balwinder Singh  India	17.56
Discus throw	Li Weinan  China	56.10	Wang Daoming  China	54.48	Mansour Ghorbani  Iran	53.00
Hammer throw	Xie Yingqi  China	66.36	Akiyoshi Ikeda  Japan	65.98	Yu Guangming  China	65.74
Javelin throw	Takahiro Yamada  Japan	72.62	Frans Mahuse  Indonesia	72.30	Ji Zhanzheng  China	70.80
Decathlon	Gong Guohua  China	7848	Chen Zebin  China	7554	Lee Fu-an  Chinese Taipei	7515

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.4 m/s)	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	11.43	P.T. Usha  India	11.74	Tian Yumei  China	11.76
200 metres (wind: -0.8 m/s)	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	23.38	Pan Weixin  China	24.06	Hiromi Isozaki  Japan	24.18
400 metres	P.T. Usha  India	52.31	Vandana Shanbagh  India	53.22	Xie Zhiling  China	54.16
800 metres	Choi Se-Bum  South Korea	2:05.11	Jiang Shuling  China	2:05.21	Lim Chun-Ae  South Korea	2:05.39
1500 metres	Yang Liuxia  China	4:19.29	Noe Hye-Soon  South Korea	4:23.52	Kim Ryon-Sun  North Korea	4:25.44
3000 metres	Kim Chun-Mae  North Korea	9:17.19	Zhang Xiuyun  China	9:17.61	Kim Ryon-Sun  North Korea	9:18.76
10,000 metres	Wang Huabi  China	34:56.34	Keiko Honma  Japan	35:31.04	Kim Gun-Hui  North Korea	37:04.12
100 metres hurdles (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Feng Yinghua  China	13.56	Chen Wen-Ying  Chinese Taipei	13.68	Wang Shu-Hwa  Chinese Taipei	14.05
400 metres hurdles	P.T. Usha  India	56.48	Chang Feng-Hua  Chinese Taipei	58.62	Hitomi Koshimoto  Japan	59.18
4 × 100 metres relay	China Tian Yumei Zhang Xiaoqiong Pan Weixin Shao Liwei	45.20	India Vandana Shanbagh Vandana Rao Sany Joseph P.T. Usha	45.49	Chinese Taipei Chen Ya-li Jen Yui-chu Huang Kuei-ying Chen Wen-ying	45.66
4 × 400 metres relay	India Ashwini Nachappa Vandana Rao Sany Joseph P.T. Usha	3:34.50	Japan Fumiko Ono Kimika Tateno Mikako Eguchi Hiromi Isozaki	3:39.70	Chinese Taipei Chang Feng-hua Chen Wen-ying Hsu Yi-ling Cheng Fei-ju	3:40.32
10000 metre track walk	An Limei  China	52:40.21	Yuki Nanbu  Japan	53:01.37	Park Hyun-Joo  South Korea	53:56.86
High jump	Ni Xiuling  China	1.92	Kim Hee-sun  South Korea	1.90	Ye Peisu  China	1.86
Long jump	Wang Zhihui  China	6.70	Liao Wenfen  China	6.51	Li Yong-Ae  North Korea	6.23
Shot put	Cong Yuzhen  China	18.17	Choi Mi-Sun  South Korea	13.88	Lee Jing-Hua  Chinese Taipei	13.33
Discus throw	Xing Ailan  China	58.08	Juliana Effendi  Indonesia	43.94	Li Sin-Gum  North Korea	43.86
Javelin throw	Li Baolian  China	60.12	Lee Huei-Cheng  Chinese Taipei	52.60	Naomi Tokuyama  Japan	50.14
Heptathlon	Dong Yuping  China	6036	Ma Miaolan  China	5460	Wang Shu-Hwa  Chinese Taipei	5293

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	21	13	8	42
2	Qatar (QAT)	5	2	1	8
3	Japan (JPN)	4	7	7	18
4	South Korea (KOR)	3	6	4	13
5	India (IND)	3	3	1	7
6	Philippines (PHI)	2	0	0	2
7	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	5	6
8	Oman (OMN)	1	0	0	1
9	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	4	10	14
10	Malaysia (MAS)	0	2	2	4
11	Indonesia (INA)	0	2	0	2
12	Kuwait (KUW)	0	1	0	1
13	Iran (IRN)	0	0	1	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		40	40	40	120

See also

• 1987 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics