The athletics competition at the 1973 SEAP Games were held at the National Stadium, Singapore. Athletics events was held between 2 September to 5 September.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Anat Ratanapol	10.5	Suchart Jairsuraparp	10.5	Samphon Mao	10.7
200 m	Anat Ratanapol	21.6	Sinnayah Sabapathy	22.3	Samphon Mao	22.3
400 m	Baba Singhe Peyadesa	48.2	Savin Chem	48.5	Sayan Paratanavong	48.9
800 m	Jimmy Crampton	1:51.4	Ramasamy Subramaniam	1:52.9	Serjit Singh	1:58.0
1500 m	Jimmy Crampton	3:52.8	Ramasamy Subramaniam	3:54.1	K. Kumarasan	3:55.5
5000 m	Aung Than	14:55.0	P. C. Suppiah	15:10.6	A. Mahalingam	15:15.8
10,000 m	Aung Than	31:02.8 CR	Ko Ko	32:02.8	A. Malayandy	32:06.55
Marathon	Ko Ko	2:26:04.2	Hla Thein	2:34:06.3	Solaimuthu	2:42:03.6
110 m hurdles	Ishtiaq Mubarak	14.6	Hpone Myint	14.9	Bala Merican	15.1
400 m hurdles	Tongchai Tipyamatee	53.5	Karu Selvaratnam	53.7	Gyee Ngwe	53.9
3000 m steeplechase	Aung Than	9:14.2	S.P. Kannu	9:18.8	A. Manickan	9:23.2
4 × 100 m relay	Thailand Anat Ratanapol Suchart Jairsuraparp Panus Ariyamongkol Surapong Ariyamongkol	40.7 CR	Singapore Andrew Chee Yeo Kian Chye Ong Yoke Phee Loh Chan Pew	41.6	Malaysia Janun Abdullah Maarof Hussein V. Sridaran Sinnayah Sabapathy	41.9
4 × 400 m relay	Malaysia Baba Singhe Peyadesa Sinnayah Sabapathy Harun Rasheed Othman Victor Asirvatham	3:11.2	Singapore Ho Mun Cheong Cheah Kim Teck Canagasabai Kunalan Godfrey Jallah	3:11.3	Thailand Anat Ratanapol S. Paratanawong ? ?	3:18.1
20 km walk	Khoo Chong Beng	1:44:31.8	Nadarajan Rengasamy	1:46:54.2	Kyaw Mying	1:50:57.8
50 km walk	Kyaw Mying	4:53:16.2 CR	Aziz Khalil	5:10:41.8	S. Dorairaj	5:19:43.6
Pole vault	Kyaw Zaw	4.50	Wong Chong Sai P. Munha	4.20
High jump	Nor Azhar Hamid	2.12 m CR	Yon bin Ismail	2.00	Sitha Sin	1.99
Long jump	Thant Zin	7.29 m	Lim Hong Kang	7.09	Shazan Amir Rahman	7.07
Triple jump	Shahlan Tahir	14.83 m	Chaiyasit Suriyachan	14.78	Thant Zin	14.78
Shot put	Saw Sarlawla	14.64 m	Thien Win	13.50	Lim Choong Watt	12.95
Discus throw	Nhem Yeav	43.74 m	Zaw Weik	43.42	Samai Chartmontri	41.60
Hammer throw	Muthiah Dattaya	44.40 m	Eknath Mane	43.62	Ghenda Singh	41.22
Javelin throw	Nashatar Singh Sidhu	65.60 m	Ballang Lasung	62.10	Jaw Tee Jang	60.48
Decathlon	Janardhanan Vijayan	6,237 pts	Tang Ngai Kin	6,044	Win WIn	6,023

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Eng Chiew Guay	12.50	Than Than	12.55	Aye Shwe	12.59
200 m	Glory Barnabas	25.63	Than Than Lwin	25.68	Aye Shwe	25.7
400 m	Than Than	55.3 CR	Chee Swee Lee	56.0	Mar Mar Min	56.2
800 m	Mar Mar Min	2:12.7 CR	Chee Swee Lee	2:12.8	Yamunah Ramasamy	3:14.3
1500 m	Nwe Nwe Yee	4:28.2	Yamunah Ramasamy	4:41.2	Mirnigar Begum	4:41.8
100 m hurdles	Heather Merican	14.80 CR	Nwe Nwe Yee	15.4	C. Kiewlongya	15.8
200 m hurdles	Heather Merican	28.8 sec	Gan Bee Wah	29.1	Nwe Nwe Yee	29.9
4 × 100 m relay	Singapore Eng Chiew Guay Sheila Fernando Glory Barnabas Gan Bee Wah	47.5	Myanmar Than Than Aye Shwe Nwe Nwe Yee ?	47.8	Malaysia Yamunah Nair Irene Wan Esther Thaddaus Noreen Pereira	48.0
4 × 400 m relay	Burma Than Than Than Than Htay Aye Shwe Mar Mar Min	3:38.7	Singapore Chee Swee Lee C. Madathi Chew Kim Hua Maimoon Azlan	3:48.8	Malaysia Esther Thaddaus Marina Chin Junaidah Aman Noraisah Wajib	4:00.1
10 km walk	Su Su Yee	55:03.20 CR	Margaret Tan	55:41.7	Cheah Bee Tin	55:54.00
High jump	Gladys Chai	1.65 m CR	Goh Li Kian Eileen Chit	1.56
Long jump	Aye Shwe	5.74 m CR	Gladys Chai	5.57	Koh Hong Phang	5.53
Shot put	Jennifer Tinlay	13.7 m	K. Yientrong	11.51	Paw Shwee	11.4
Discus throw	Jennifer Tinlay	41.60 m	Paw Shwee	39.86	Uch Lay	37.54
Javelin throw	Proch Thin	41.18 m	Chua Kim Tee	35.80	Kok Yin Ping	33.56

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Burma (BIR)	18	11	9	38
2	Malaysia (MAS)	9	11	14	34
3	Singapore (SIN)	6	13	6	25
4	Thailand (THA)	4	5	4	13
5	Cambodia (KHM)	2	1	4	7
Totals (5 entries)		39	41	37	117

References

• Yesterday's results - The Straits Times, 3 September 1973, Page 24
• Yesterday's results - The Straits Times, 4 September 1973, Page 24
• Yesterday's results - The Straits Times, 5 September 1973, Page 24
• Yesterday's results - The Straits Times, 6 September 1973, Page 24
• 1973 South-East Asian Games (SEA Games), intersportstats.com
• Southeast Asian Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-08.