1975 Asian Championships in Athletics
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Men's events

100 metres
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Anat Ratanapol
 Thailand
10.87 Masahide Jinno
 Japan
10.90 Ramaswamy Gnanasekharan
 India
11.18
200 metres
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

Anat Ratanapol
 Thailand
21.28 Susumu Shimizu
 Japan
21.66 Kazuhiko Sakuma
 Japan
21.70
400 metres
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

Sri Ram Singh
 India
47.03 Ku Boon-Chil
 South Korea
47.29 Yoshiharu Tomonaga
 Japan
47.30
800 metres
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

Sri Ram Singh
 India
1:47.8a Takashi Ishii
 Japan
1:48.4a Pratap Kumar
 India
1:48.5a
1500 metres
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

Takashi Ishii
 Japan
3:48.6a Triguna Mani Tiwari
 India
3:49.4a Tang Kuang-Chia
 Republic of China
3:49.5a
5000 metres
5000 metres
The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...

Kunimitsu Ito
Kunimitsu Ito
is a retired long-distance runner from Japan, who finished second in the 1981 edition of the Fukuoka Marathon on December 6, 1981.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Japan
14:00.8a Shivnath Singh
Shivnath Singh
Shivnath Singh was one of the few great long-distance runners that India has produced. Singh represented India in the Asian games and twice at the Summer Olympics . Born in Manjoria, Buxar, Bihar he placed 11th in the 1976 Olympic Men's Marathon...


 India
14:01.2a Hari Chand
Hari Chand
Hari Chand is one of the few great distance runners that India has produced. In the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he came 8th in the 10,000 metre run with a time of 28:48.72, this however was a national record for an Indian athlete and was only beaten 32 years later by Surendra Singh. In the...


 India
14:02.4a
10000 metres
10000 metres
The 10,000 metres or 10K is a common long distance running event. As "10,000 metres" it is a track event, and appears in athletics events such as the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics; as "10K" it is a roadrace or cross country running event...

Hari Chand
Hari Chand
Hari Chand is one of the few great distance runners that India has produced. In the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he came 8th in the 10,000 metre run with a time of 28:48.72, this however was a national record for an Indian athlete and was only beaten 32 years later by Surendra Singh. In the...


 India
29:12.0a Shivnath Singh
Shivnath Singh
Shivnath Singh was one of the few great long-distance runners that India has produced. Singh represented India in the Asian games and twice at the Summer Olympics . Born in Manjoria, Buxar, Bihar he placed 11th in the 1976 Olympic Men's Marathon...


 India
29:14.6a Kenji Tajima
 Japan
29:31.6a
Marathon
Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

Sueki Tanaka
 Japan
2:32:06 Susumu Sato
 Japan
2:37:51 Jit Bahadur Chetri
 Nepal
2:39:06
3000 metre steeplechase Harbeil Singh
 India
8:46.6a Hitoshi Iwabuchi
 Japan
8:56.6a Noriyuki Nakamura
 Japan
8:57.8a
110 metres hurdles
110 metres hurdles
The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...

Tai Shi-Yan
 Republic of China
14.24 Ahmad Ishtiaq Mubarak
 Malaysia
14.45 Shigeo Oki
 Japan
14.45
400 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

Tai Shi-Yan
 Republic of China
51.15 Abdulatif Yousef Hashim
 Kuwait
51.94 Akira Nishimura
 Japan
52.18
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Teymour Ghiassi
 Iran
2.14 Yoshikazu Okuda
 Japan
2.14 Takeyoshi Sawa
 Japan
2.11
Pole vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

Yoshiomi Iwama
 Japan
5.20 Michio Shimazu
 Japan
4.80 Hong Sang-Pyo
 South Korea
4.20
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

T.C. Yohannan
 India
7.65 Kazuaki Norioka
 Japan
7.49 Lee Pyong-Song
 South Korea
7.47
Triple jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...

Toshihisa Yashimoto
 Japan
15.87 Hironobu Kobayashi
 Japan
15.83 Chen Chin-Long
 Republic of China
15.82
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Bahadur Singh Chouhan
Bahadur Singh Chouhan
Bahadur Singh is a former Indian athlete who won gold medal in shot put in 1978 and 1982 Asian Games. He was honoured with Arjuna award and Padma Shri. He is a recipient of Dronacharya Award , by the government of India.Presently He is working as a chief coach of Indian athletics team....


 India
17.70 Jagraj Singh Mann
 India
17.47 Yoshihisa Ishida
Yoshihisa Ishida
is a retired male shot putter and hammer thrower from Japan. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics. He set his personal best in the hammer throw event on 5 August 1972 in Sapporo....


 Japan
15.57
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Praveen Kumar
 India
54.78 Jalal Keshmiri
 Iran
53.78 Kiyotaka Kawasaki
 Japan
50.44
Hammer throw
Hammer throw
The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...

Yoshihisa Ishida
Yoshihisa Ishida
is a retired male shot putter and hammer thrower from Japan. He twice competed for his native country at the Summer Olympics. He set his personal best in the hammer throw event on 5 August 1972 in Sapporo....


 Japan
62.84 Nobuyuki Ifuku
 Japan
60.28 Raghubir Singh Bal
 India
58.80
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Toshihiro Yamada
 Japan
74.92 Toshiyuki Shimada
 Japan
72.68 Chen Ping-Huang
 Republic of China
70.04
Decathlon
Decathlon
The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...

Suresh Babu
Suresh Babu
Suresh Babu was an Indian long jumper from Kerala who had held the national titles in the long, triple, and high jump events, in addition to the decathlon...


 India
6931 Hisashi Iwai
 Japan
6912 Masanori Ikuta
 Japan
6816
20 kilometre road walk Khoo Chong Beng
 Malaysia
1:40:43 Baldev Singh
 India
1:44:17 Nobu Nakamichi
 Japan
1:45:26
4 x 100 metres relay
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

 Japan 40.38  Singapore 41.14  India 41.35
4 x 400 metres relay
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...

 India 3:08.2a  Japan 3:08.9a  Sri Lanka 3:13.4a

Women's events

100 metres
100 metres
The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...

Esther Rot
 Israel
11.91 Carolina Rieuwpassa
 Indonesia
12.09 Yukiko Osako
 Japan
12.13
200 metres
200 metres
A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...

Esther Rot
 Israel
23.72 Yukiko Osako
 Japan
24.46 Carolina Rieuwpassa
 Indonesia
24.52
400 metres
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...

Kim Kyung-Sook
 North Korea
56.24 Chee Swee Lee
 Singapore
56.41 Keiko Nagasawa
 Japan
57.93
800 metres
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...

Lee Chiu-Hsia
 Republic of China
2:08.1a Masae Namba
 Japan
2:09.9a Kumiko Nishi
 Japan
2:10.8a
1500 metres
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

Lee Chiu-Hsia
 Republic of China
4:23.0a Kumiko Nishi
 Japan
4:26.4a Hannah Shezifi
 Israel
4:27.2a
3000 metres
3000 metres
The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...

Lee Chiu-Hsia
 Republic of China
9:39.8a Kwon Nam-Soon
 South Korea
9:46.8a Hannah Shezifi
 Israel
9:55.2a
100 metres hurdles
100 metres hurdles
The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...

Tomoko Dazai
 Japan
14.25 Lin Yet-Hsiang
 Republic of China
14.25 Fumiko Yamane
 Japan
14.52
400 metres hurdles
400 metres hurdles
The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...

Woo Seun-Sook
 South Korea
62.89 Marina Chin Leng Sim
 Malaysia
63.89 Ting Chun-Yi
 Republic of China
64.13
High jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....

Hisao Tsuchiya
 Japan
1.74 Michiyo Inaoka
 Japan
1.74 Ruth Tslochenko
 Israel
1.74
Long jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...

Keiko Ogawa
 Japan
6.15 Kyoko Shimizu
 Japan
5.93 Lin Yet-Hsiang
 Republic of China
5.82
Shot put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....

Paik Ok-Ja
 South Korea
16.39 Chen Fu-Mei
 Republic of China
13.52 Yukari Seo
 Japan
13.50
Discus throw
Discus throw
The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...

Paik Ok-Ja
 South Korea
47.74 Matsuko Takahashi
 Japan
46.34 Mikiko Tokita
 Japan
45.90
Javelin throw
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...

Keiko Myogai
 Japan
53.48 Naomi Shibusawa
 Japan
51.40 Lee Bok-Soon
 South Korea
49.48
Pentathlon
Pentathlon
A pentathlon is a contest featuring five different events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words pente and -athlon . The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of the Ancient Olympic Games...

Kyoko Shimizu
 Japan
4064 Ruth Tslochenko
 Israel
3687 Hotsumi Harada
 Japan
3667
4 x 100 metres relay
4 x 100 metres relay
The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...

 Japan 46.73  South Korea "A" 48.13  South Korea "B" 48.28
4 x 400 metres relay
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...

 Japan 3:40.4a  South Korea 3:53.1a  Singapore 3:54.0a

Medal table

1  Japan 15 20 18 53
2  India 9 5 5 19
3  Republic of China 5 2 5 12
4  South Korea 3 4 4 11
5  Israel 2 1 3 6
6  Thailand 2 0 0 2
7  Malaysia 1 2 0 3
8  Iran 1 1 0 2
9  North Korea 1 0 0 1
10  Singapore 0 2 1 3
11  Indonesia 0 1 1 2
12  Kuwait 0 1 0 1
13  Nepal 0 0 1 1
13  Sri Lanka 0 0 1 1

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