2011 Asian Championships
DatesJuly 7–10
Host cityJapan Kobe, Japan
VenueKobe Universiade Memorial Stadium
Events42
Participation464 athletes from
40 nations

The 19th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Kobe, Japan between July 7–10, 2011 at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium.[1] The tournament had 507 athletes from forty Asian nations competing in the 42 track and field events over the four-day competition.[2]

Two countries dominated the events: the host nation Japan won the most medals at the competition (32 overall, 11 golds), closely followed by China's eleven golds and 27 overall medal haul. The next most successful countries were Bahrain (which won five golds on the track through its former Ethiopian and Kenyan runners) and India, which won twelve medals.

A total of eight Championship records were equalled or beaten at the competition. India's Mayookha Johny won the long jump and also broke the Indian record to take bronze in the triple jump. Twenty-year-old Mutaz Essa Barshim cleared 2.35 metres in the high jump.[3] Liu Xiang won his fourth consecutive 110 metres hurdles title with a championship record mark.[4] Kuwait's Mohammad Al-Azemi completed an 800/1500 metres double with Iranian Sajjad Moradi finishing as runner-up both times. On the women's side, Truong Thanh Hang of Vietnam won the 800 m and was the 1500 m silver medallist.

Gretta Taslakian of Lebanon and Iraqi Gulustan Ieso won their countries' first medals in the women's section, while the traditionally male-only United Arab Emirates sent their first female athlete to the competition (Betlhem Desalegn).[5] Ieso and Olga Tereshkova both failed doping tests at the competition, thus losing their individual medals and also their team relay medals.[6]

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Su Bingtian
 China
10.21 Masashi Eriguchi
 Japan
10.28 Sota Kawatsura
 Japan
10.30
200 metres
Femi Seun Ogunode
 Qatar
20.41 =CR Hitoshi Saito
 Japan
20.75 Omar Jouma Al-Salfa
 United Arab Emirates
20.97
400 metres
Yousef Ahmed Masrahi
 Saudi Arabia
45.79 Hideyuki Hirose
 Japan
46.03 Yūzō Kanemaru
 Japan
46.38
800 metres
Mohammad Al-Azemi
 Kuwait
1:46.14 Sajjad Moradi
 Iran
1:46.35 Ghamnda Ram
 India
1:46.46
1500 metres
Mohammad Al-Azemi
 Kuwait
3:42.49 Sajjad Moradi
 Iran
3:43.30 Chaminda Wijekoon
 Sri Lanka
3:44.01
5000 metres
Dejenee Mootumaa
 Bahrain
13:39.71 CR Yuki Sato
 Japan
13:40.78 Alemu Bekele Gebre
 Bahrain
13:41.93
10,000 metres
Ali Hasan Mahboob
 Bahrain
28:35.49 Bilisuma Shugi Gelasa
 Bahrain
28:36.30 Akinobu Murasawa
 Japan
28:40.63
110 m hurdles
Liu Xiang
 China
13.22 CR Shi Dongpeng
 China
13.56 Park Tae-kyong
 South Korea
13.66
400 m hurdles
Takatoshi Abe
 Japan
49.64 Yuta Imazeki
 Japan
50.22 Chen Chieh
 Chinese Taipei
50.39
3000 m steeplechase
Abubaker Ali Kamal
 Qatar
8:30.23 Artem Kosinov
 Kazakhstan
8:35.11 Tareq Mubarak Taher
 Bahrain
8:45.47
4 × 100 m relay
 Japan
Sota Kawatsura
Masashi Eriguchi
Shinji Takahira
Hitoshi Saito
39.18  Hong Kong
Tang Yik Chun
Lai Chun Ho
Ng Ka Fung
Chi Ho Tsui
39.26  Chinese Taipei
Wang Wen-tang
Liu Yuan-kai
Tsai Meng-lin
Yi Wei-che
39.30
4 × 400 m relay
 Japan
Yusuke Ishitsuka
Kei Takase
Hideyuki Hirose
Yuzo Kanemaru
3:04.72  Saudi Arabia
Mohammed Ali Albishi
Hamed Al-Bishi
Y.I. Alhezam
Yousef Ahmed Masrahi
3:08.03  Iran
Peyman Rajabi
Amin Ghelichi
Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei
Sajjad Hashemi
3:08.58
High jump
Mutaz Essa Barshim
 Qatar
2.35 m NR Majd Eddin Ghazal
 Syria
2.28 m NR Wang Chen
 China
2.26 m
Pole vault
Daichi Sawano
 Japan
5.50 m Hiroki Ogita
 Japan
5.40 m Yang Yansheng
 China
5.40 m
Long jump
Su Xiongfeng
 China
8.19 m Supanara Sukhasvasti
 Thailand
8.05 m NJR Rikiya Saruyama
 Japan
8.05 m
Triple jump
Yevgeniy Ektov
 Kazakhstan
16.91 m Li Yanxi
 China
16.70 m Roman Valiyev
 Kazakhstan
16.62 m
Shot put
Chang Ming-huang
 Chinese Taipei
20.14 m CR Zhang Jun
 China
19.77 m Om Prakash Karhana
 India
19.47 m
Discus throw
Ehsan Haddadi
 Iran
62.27 m Vikas Gowda
 India
61.58 m Wu Jian
 China
56.61 m
Hammer throw
Ali Al-Zinkawi
 Kuwait
73.73 m Hiroshi Noguchi
 Japan
70.89 m Hiroaki Doi
 Japan
70.69 m
Javelin throw
Yukifumi Murakami
 Japan
83.27 m CR Park Jae-myong
 South Korea
80.19 m Ivan Zaitcev
 Uzbekistan
79.22 m
Decathlon
Hadi Sepehrzad
 Iran
7506 pts Akihiko Nakamura
 Japan
7478 pts Bharatinder Singh
 India
7358 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Guzel Khubbieva
 Uzbekistan
11.39 Wei Yongli
 China
11.70 Tao Yujia
 China
11.74
200 metres
Chisato Fukushima
 Japan
23.49 Gretta Taslakian
 Lebanon
24.01 Saori Imai
 Japan
24.06
400 metres[6]
Chen Jingwen
 China
52.89 Chandrika Subashini
 Sri Lanka
53.35 Chisato Tanaka
 Japan
54.08
800 metres
Truong Thanh Hang
 Vietnam
2:01.41 Margarita Matsko
 Kazakhstan
2:02.46 Tintu Luka
 India
2:02.55
1500 metres
Genzeb Shumi Regasa
 Bahrain
4:15.91 Truong Thanh Hang
 Vietnam
4:18.40 O. P. Jaisha
 India
4:21.41
5000 metres
Tejitu Daba Chalchissa
 Bahrain
15:22.48 CR Hitomi Niiya
 Japan
15:34.19 Yuriko Kobayashi
 Japan
15:42.59
10,000 metres
Shitaye Eshete
 Bahrain
32:47.80 Kareema Saleh Jasim
 Bahrain
32:50.70 Preeja Sreedharan
 India
33:15.55
100 m hurdles
Sun Yawei
 China
13.04 Jung Hye-Lim
 South Korea
13.11 Natalya Ivoninskaya
 Kazakhstan
13.15
400 m hurdles
Satomi Kubokura
 Japan
56.52 Qi Yang
 China
56.69 Christine Merrill
 Sri Lanka
57.30
3000 m steeplechase
Minori Hayakari
 Japan
9:52.42 CR Sudha Singh
 India
10:08.52 Thi Phuong Nguyen
 Vietnam
10:14.94
4 × 100 m relay
 Japan
Nao Okabe
Momoko Takahashi
Chisato Fukushima
Saori Imai
44.05  China
Tao Yujia
Liang Qiuping
Jiang Lan
Wei Yongli
44.23  Thailand
Phatsorn Jaksuninkorn
Orranut Klomdee
Laphassaporn Tawoncharoen
Nongnuch Sanrat
44.62
4 × 400 m relay[6]
 Japan
Sayaka Aoki
Chisato Tanaka
Satomi Kubokura
Miho Shingu
3:35.00  India
Mrudula Korada
Jhuma Khatun
Jaisha Orchatteri Puthiya
Tintu Luka
3:44.17 Not awarded
High jump
Zheng Xingjuan
 China
1.92 m Svetlana Radzivil
 Uzbekistan
1.92 m Marina Aitova
 Kazakhstan
1.89 m
Pole vault
Wu Sha
 China
4.35 m Li Ling
 China
4.30 m Choi Yun-Hee
 South Korea
4.00 m
Long jump
Mayookha Johny
 India
6.56 m Lu Minjia
 China
6.52 m Saeko Okayama
 Japan
6.51 m
Triple jump
Xie Limei
 China
14.58 m Valeriya Kanatova
 Uzbekistan
14.14 m Mayookha Johny
 India
14.11 m NR
Shot put
Meng Qianqian
 China
18.31 m PB Liu Xiangrong
 China
18.30 m Leila Rajabi
 Iran
16.60 m
Discus throw
Sun Taifeng
 China
60.89 m Ma Xuejun
 China
59.67 m Harwant Kaur
 India
57.99 m
Hammer throw
Masumi Aya
 Japan
67.19 m Liu Tingting
 China
65.42 m Yuka Murofushi
 Japan
62.50 m
Javelin throw
Liu Chunhua
 China
58.05 m Wang Ping
 China
55.80 m Yuka Sato
 Japan
54.16 m
Heptathlon
Wassana Winatho
 Thailand
5710 pts Humie Takehara
 Japan
5491 pts Chie Kiriyama
 Japan
5442 pts
  • Note: The original gold and silver medallists, Kazakhstan's Olga Tereshkova and Iraq's Gulustan Ieso, were later disqualified after testing positive for testosterone and methylhexaneamine, respectively. Initial bronze medallist Chen Jingwen of China was elevated to the gold medal position, while fourth and fifth placed runners Chandrika Subashini and Chisato Tanaka moved into the minor medal positions. The Kazakhstan and Iraqi 4 × 400 m relay quartets were also disqualified as a result. India were promoted to silver medallists and the bronze was vacated as only four teams participated.[6]

Medal table

Shot putter Chang Ming-Huang claimed Chinese Taipei's only gold.
Chisato Fukushima won 200 m and relay golds for the hosts.

  *   Host nation (Japan)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China (CHN)1112427
2 Japan (JPN)*11101233
3 Bahrain (BHR)5229
4 Kuwait (KUW)3003
 Qatar (QAT)3003
6 Iran (IRN)2226
7 India (IND)13812
8 Kazakhstan (KAZ)1236
9 Uzbekistan (UZB)1214
10 Thailand (THA)1113
 Vietnam (VIE)1113
12 Saudi Arabia (KSA)1102
13 Chinese Taipei (TPE)1023
14 South Korea (KOR)0224
15 Sri Lanka (SRI)0123
16 Hong Kong (HKG)0101
 Lebanon (LIB)0101
 Syria (SYR)0101
19 United Arab Emirates (UAE)0011
Totals (19 entries)424241125
  • The medal changes due to doping disqualifications in the women's 400 m individual and relay events meant that China edged Japan to the top of the table. Kazakhstan fell from sixth to eighth place. Sri Lanka moved up from 19th to 15th place. Iraq received no medals.

Participating countries

464 athletes from 40 nations competed

References

  1. "General Information" (PDF). asianathletics.org. Asian Athletics Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-26. Retrieved July 7, 2011.
  2. 19th Asian Athletics Championships Hyogo・Kobe-Japan. JAAF. Retrieved on 2011-08-13.
  3. Barshim improves to 2.35m in Kobe - Asian champs, day 3. IAAF (2011-07-10). Retrieved on 2011-08-13.
  4. Liu Xiang clocks 13.22 championships in Kobe - Asian champs, final day. IAAF (2011-07-11). Retrieved on 2011-08-13.
  5. Su Bingtian takes Asian 100m title in Kobe - Asian champs, Day 2. IAAF (2011-07-09). Retrieved on 2011-08-13.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Silver for India in relay. The Hindu (2012-03-09). Retrieved on 2012-03-31.
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