Athletics at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Doha Corniche Khalifa International Stadium
Dates	7–12 December
Competitors	530 from 41 nations

An Athletics competition was contested at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 7 to December 12. Twenty-three events were contested for the men while 22 were on the slate for the women. Only the 3000 Meter Steeplechase was not contested for by the women. All track and field events were held at Khalifa International Stadium, and the racewalking and marathon took place at the Doha Corniche. A total of 530 athletes (comprising 331 men and 199 women) from 41 nations took part in the competition. Bhutan, Brunei, Indonesia and Myanmar were the only nations without a representative in the events.

Schedule

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Yahya Habeeb  Saudi Arabia	10.32	Naoki Tsukahara  Japan	10.34	Wachara Sondee  Thailand	10.39
200 m	Shingo Suetsugu  Japan	20.60	Yang Yaozu  China	20.71	Shinji Takahira  Japan	20.81
400 m	Hamdan Al-Bishi  Saudi Arabia	45.64	Brandon Simpson  Bahrain	45.68	Fawzi Al-Shammari  Kuwait	46.35
800 m	Yusuf Saad Kamel  Bahrain	1:45.74	Mohammad Al-Azemi  Kuwait	1:46.25	Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei  Iran	1:47.43
1500 m	Daham Najim Bashir  Qatar	3:38.06 GR	Belal Mansoor Ali  Bahrain	3:38.08	Rashid Ramzi  Bahrain	3:38.91
5000 m	James Kwalia  Qatar	13:38.90	Mushir Salem Jawher  Bahrain	13:41.10	Sultan Khamis Zaman  Qatar	13:45.91
10,000 m	Hasan Mahboob  Bahrain	27:58.88 GR	Essa Ismail Rashed  Qatar	27:59.15	Aadam Ismaeel Khamis  Bahrain	28:02.08
110 m hurdles	Liu Xiang  China	13.15 GR	Shi Dongpeng  China	13.28	Masato Naito  Japan	13.60
400 m hurdles	Kenji Narisako  Japan	48.78	Meng Yan  China	49.26	Naohiro Kawakita  Japan	50.19
3000 m steeplechase	Tareq Mubarak Taher  Bahrain	8:26.85 GR	Gamal Belal Salem  Qatar	8:29.10	Lin Xiangqian  China	8:30.49
4 × 100 m relay	Thailand Seksan Wongsala Wachara Sondee Ekkachai Janthana Sittichai Suwonprateep	39.21	Japan Naoki Tsukahara Shingo Suetsugu Yusuke Omae Shinji Takahira	39.21	China Wen Yongyi Pang Guibin Yang Yaozu Hu Kai	39.62
4 × 400 m relay	Saudi Arabia Ismail Al-Sabiani Hamed Al-Bishi Mohammed Al-Salhi Hamdan Al-Bishi	3:05.31	India Aboo Backer Joseph Abraham Bhupinder Singh K. M. Binu	3:06.65	Sri Lanka Rohan Pradeep Kumara Rohitha Pushpakumara Prasanna Amarasekara Ashoka Jayasundara	3:06.97
Marathon	Mubarak Hassan Shami  Qatar	2:12:44	Khalid Kamal Yaseen  Bahrain	2:15:36	Satoshi Osaki  Japan	2:15:36
20 km walk	Han Yucheng  China	1:21:41	Kim Hyun-sub  South Korea	1:23:12	Koichiro Morioka  Japan	1:23:17
High jump	Jean-Claude Rabbath  Lebanon	2.23	Sergey Zasimovich  Kazakhstan	2.23	Naoyuki Daigo  Japan	2.23
Pole vault	Daichi Sawano  Japan	5.60	Leonid Andreev  Uzbekistan	5.55	Yang Yansheng  China	5.50
Long jump	Hussein Al-Sabee  Saudi Arabia	8.02	Saleh Al-Haddad  Kuwait	7.88	Ahmed Faiz  Saudi Arabia	7.85
Triple jump	Li Yanxi  China	17.06	Roman Valiyev  Kazakhstan	16.98	Kim Deok-hyeon  South Korea	16.87
Shot put	Sultan Al-Hebshi  Saudi Arabia	20.42 GR	Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi  Qatar	20.05	Chang Ming-huang  Chinese Taipei	19.45
Discus throw	Ehsan Haddadi  Iran	63.79	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari  Qatar	62.11	Sultan Al-Dawoodi  Saudi Arabia	60.82
Hammer throw	Dilshod Nazarov  Tajikistan	74.43	Ali Al-Zenkawi  Kuwait	73.14	Hiroaki Doi  Japan	69.45
Javelin throw	Park Jae-myong  South Korea	79.30	Yukifumi Murakami  Japan	78.15	Li Rongxiang  China	76.13
Decathlon	Dmitriy Karpov  Kazakhstan	8384 GR	Vitaliy Smirnov  Uzbekistan	7769	Kim Kun-woo  South Korea	7665

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Guzel Khubbieva  Uzbekistan	11.27	Susanthika Jayasinghe  Sri Lanka	11.34	Ruqaya Al-Ghasra  Bahrain	11.40
200 m	Ruqaya Al-Ghasra  Bahrain	23.19	Guzel Khubbieva  Uzbekistan	23.30	Susanthika Jayasinghe  Sri Lanka	23.42
400 m	Olga Tereshkova  Kazakhstan	51.86	Manjeet Kaur  India	52.17	Asami Tanno  Japan	53.04
800 m	Maryam Yusuf Jamal  Bahrain	2:01.79	Viktoriya Yalovtseva  Kazakhstan	2:03.19	Zamira Amirova  Uzbekistan	2:03.56
1500 m	Maryam Yusuf Jamal  Bahrain	4:08.63	Yuriko Kobayashi  Japan	4:14.96	Sinimole Paulose  India	4:15.09
5000 m	Xue Fei  China	15:40.12	Kayo Sugihara  Japan	15:40.87	O. P. Jaisha  India	15:41.91
10,000 m	Kayoko Fukushi  Japan	31:29.38	Kareema Saleh Jasim  Bahrain	32:17.14	Hiromi Ominami  Japan	32:18.02
100 m hurdles	Liu Jing  China	12.93	Feng Yun  China	13.10	Lee Yeon-kyung  South Korea	13.23
400 m hurdles	Huang Xiaoxiao  China	55.41	Satomi Kubokura  Japan	56.49	Noraseela Mohd Khalid  Malaysia	56.85
4 × 100 m relay	China Wang Jing Chen Jue Han Ling Qin Wangping	44.33	Japan Tomoko Ishida Momoko Takahashi Takarako Nakamura Sakie Nobuoka	44.87	Chinese Taipei Lin Yi-chun Chuang Shu-chuan Chen Ying-ru Yu Sheue-an	45.86
4 × 400 m relay	India Sathi Geetha Pinki Pramanik Chitra Soman Manjeet Kaur	3:32.95	Kazakhstan Marina Maslyonko Viktoriya Yalovtseva Tatyana Azarova Olga Tereshkova	3:33.86	China Han Ling Huang Xiaoxiao Tang Xiaoyin Li Xueji	3:33.92
Marathon	Zhou Chunxiu  China	2:27:03	Kiyoko Shimahara  Japan	2:30:34	Kayoko Obata  Japan	2:30:38
20 km walk	Liu Hong  China	1:32:19 GR	Ryoko Sakakura  Japan	1:33:19	He Dan  China	1:34:24
High jump	Marina Aitova  Kazakhstan	1.93	Tatyana Efimenko  Kyrgyzstan	1.91	Shared silver
			Zheng Xingjuan  China
Pole vault	Gao Shuying  China	4.30	Roslinda Samsu  Malaysia	4.30	Ikuko Nishikori  Japan	4.15
					Zhao Yingying  China
Long jump	Kumiko Ikeda  Japan	6.81	Anju Bobby George  India	6.52	Olga Rypakova  Kazakhstan	6.49
Triple jump	Xie Limei  China	14.37 GR	Anastasiya Juravleva  Uzbekistan	14.26	Li Qian  China	13.78
Shot put	Li Ling  China	18.42	Li Meiju  China	18.08	Lin Chia-ying  Chinese Taipei	16.70
Discus throw	Song Aimin  China	63.52	Ma Xuejun  China	62.43	Krishna Poonia  India	61.53
Hammer throw	Zhang Wenxiu  China	74.15 AR	Gu Yuan  China	65.13	Masumi Aya  Japan	62.67
Javelin throw	Buoban Pamang  Thailand	61.31 GR	Ma Ning  China	57.53	Yuki Ebihara  Japan	57.47
Heptathlon	Olga Rypakova  Kazakhstan	5955	Soma Biswas  India	5675	J. J. Shobha  India	5662

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	14	9	8	31
2	Bahrain (BRN)	6	5	3	14
3	Japan (JPN)	5	9	13	27
4	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	5	0	2	7
5	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	4	4	1	9
6	Qatar (QAT)	3	4	1	8
7	Thailand (THA)	2	0	1	3
8	India (IND)	1	4	4	9
9	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	4	1	6
10	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	3	5
11	Iran (IRI)	1	0	1	2
12	Lebanon (LIB)	1	0	0	1
	Tajikistan (TJK)	1	0	0	1
14	Kuwait (KUW)	0	3	1	4
15	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	1	2	3
16	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	1	2
17	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	1	0	1
18	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	3	3
Totals (18 entries)		45	46	45	136

Participating nations

A total of 530 athletes from 41 nations competed in athletics at the 2006 Asian Games:^[1]

References

• Negash, Elshadai (2006-12-07). Chinese sweep Race Walk titles - Asian Games, Day One. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
• Negash, Elshadai (2006-12-08). Zhang throws Asian Hammer Record - Asian Games, Day Two. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
• Negash, Elshadai (2006-12-09). Jamal on course for double, while track debutant takes 10,000m title - Asian Games, Day Three. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
• Negash, Elshadai (2006-12-10). Ramzi and Simpson defeated in Doha - Asian Games, Day Four. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
• Negash, Elshadai (2006-12-11). Perfect tactics give Kamel 800m victory - Asian Games, Day Five. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.
• Negash, Elshadai (2006-12-12). Xiang 13.15, while Jamal completes double - Asian Games, Day Six. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-18.

External links

• "Athletics Competition Schedule". Archived from the original on 2006-12-05. Retrieved 2006-11-23. at the official website for the 2006 Doha Games