Athletics at the 1974 Asian Games

The athletics at the 1974 Asian Games were held in Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran, Iran. This was the first time that China competed in these games and also the last time that Israel competed.

Medal summary

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m  Anat Ratanapol
Thailand (THA)		10.42  Masahide Jinno
Japan (JPN)		10.55  Suchart Jairsuraparp
Thailand (THA)		10.59
200 m  Anat Ratanapol
Thailand (THA)		21.09  Takao Ishizawa
Japan (JPN)		21.60  Nusrat Iqbal Sahi
Pakistan (PAK)		21.79
400 m  Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa
Sri Lanka (SRI)		46.21  Reza Entezari
Iran (IRI)		46.69  Yoshiharu Tomonaga
Japan (JPN)		46.77
800 m  Sriram Singh
India (IND)		1:47.57  Reza Entezari
Iran (IRI)		1:48.50  Muhammad Siddiq
Pakistan (PAK)		1:48.64
1500 m  Muhammad Younis
Pakistan (PAK)		3:49.30  Susumu Noro
Japan (JPN)		3:51.17  Park Suk-kwan
South Korea (KOR)		3:52.74
5000 m  Shivnath Singh
India (IND)		14:20.50  Yuval Wischnitzer
Israel (ISR)		14:21.50  Kenichi Ozawa
Japan (JPN)		14:22.15
10,000 m  Yasunori Hamada
Japan (JPN)		30:49.87  Shivnath Singh
India (IND)		30:51.61  Makoto Hattori
Japan (JPN)		31:03.84
110 m hurdles  Cui Lin
China (CHN)		14.26  Ishtiaq Mubarak
Malaysia (MAS)		14.49  Nasser Sultan
Iraq (IRQ)		14.63
400 m hurdles  Talib Faisal
Iraq (IRQ)		51.69  Abdullatif Abbas
Kuwait (KUW)		52.32  Lehan Singh
India (IND)		52.49
3000 m steeplechase  Takaharu Koyama
Japan (JPN)		8:57.95  Gurmej Singh
India (IND)		9:04.00  Li Wenliang
China (CHN)		9:06.10
4×100 m relay  Thailand (THA)
Kanoksakdi Chantasanont
Anat Ratanapol
Somsakdi Boontud
Suchart Jairsuraparp 		40.14  China (CHN)
Cui Lin
Feng Chenjen
Yu Weili
Lo Kuoling 		40.20  Singapore (SIN)
Ong Yoke Phee
Tan Say Leong
Yeo Kian Chai
Canagasabai Kunalan		 40.34
4×400 m relay  Sri Lanka (SRI)
Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa
Sunil Gunawardene
Kosala Sahabandu
Agampudige Premachandra 		3:07.40  India (IND)
Lehmber Singh
Sriram Singh
Sucha Singh
P. C. Punappa 		3:08.73  Iran (IRI)
Fakhroddin Alamshah
Reza Entezari
Houshang Arshadi
Ghasem Koveitipour		 3:10.10
High jump  Teymour Ghiasi
Iran (IRI)		2.21  Ni Zhiqin
China (CHN)		2.16  Yoshikazu Okuda
Japan (JPN)		2.08
Pole vault  Yasuhiro Kigawa
Japan (JPN)		5.00  Cai Zhangxi
China (CHN)		5.00  Jiang Yubin
China (CHN)		4.85
Long jump  T. C. Yohannan
India (IND)		8.07  Takayoshi Kawagoe
Japan (JPN)		7.77  Satish Pillai
India (IND)		7.58
Triple jump  Toshiaki Inoue
Japan (JPN)		16.45  Mohinder Singh Gill
India (IND)		 16.25  Faramarz Asef
Iran (IRI)		15.97
Shot put  Jalal Keshmiri
Iran (IRI)		18.04  Bahadur Singh Chouhan
India (IND)		17.94  Jagraj Singh Mann
India (IND)		17.64
Discus throw  Jalal Keshmiri
Iran (IRI)		56.82  Praveen Kumar
India (IND)		53.64  Salman Hesam
Iran (IRI)		52.32
Hammer throw  Shigenobu Murofushi
Japan (JPN)		66.54  Nirmal Singh
India (IND)		60.02  Kim Myong-geun
North Korea (PRK)		59.80
Javelin throw  Toshihiro Yamada
Japan (JPN)		76.12  Minoru Onda
Japan (JPN)		76.04  Zhang Bao
China (CHN)		73.64
Decathlon  Vijay Singh Chauhan
India (IND)		7375  Junichi Onizuka
Japan (JPN)		7294  Suresh Babu
India (IND)		6836

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m  Esther Roth
Israel (ISR)		11.90  He Zufen
China (CHN)		12.10  Keiko Yamada
Japan (JPN)		12.42
200 m  Esther Roth
Israel (ISR)		23.79  He Zufen
China (CHN)		24.41  Emiko Konishi
Japan (JPN)		24.94
400 m  Chee Swee Lee
Singapore (SIN)		55.08  Nobuko Kawano
Japan (JPN)		55.59  Junaidah Aman
Malaysia (MAS)		55.78
800 m  Nobuko Kawano
Japan (JPN)		2:08.05  Miyako Inoue
Japan (JPN)		2:08.99  Li Dan
China (CHN)		2:09.89
1500 m  Song Meihua
China (CHN)		4:28.68  Yang Yanying
China (CHN)		4:29.17  Hannah Shezifi
Israel (ISR)		4:31.00
100 m hurdles  Esther Roth
Israel (ISR)		13.31  Toshimi Hayashida
Japan (JPN)		14.28  Miyuki Iioka
Japan (JPN)		14.32
4×100 m relay  Japan (JPN)
Keiko Yamada
Emiko Konishi
Sayo Yamoto
Toshimi Hayashida 		46.62  China (CHN)
Meng Yuchiung
He Zufen
Hsiao Tsunung
Kang Yulee 		46.76  Singapore (SIN)
Maimoon Bakar Azlan
Chee Swee Lee
Glory Barnabas
Eng Chiew Quay		 47.10
4×400 m relay  Japan (JPN)
Nobuko Kawano
Miyako Inoue
Motsuko Otsuka
Yuko Kitabayashi 		3:43.52  Singapore (SIN)
Maimoon Bakar Azlan
Glory Barnabas
Lee Tai Jong
Chee Swee Lee		 3:43.85  Burma (BIR)
Mar Mar Min
Nwe Nwe Yee
Than Than
Than Than Htay 		3:45.06
High jump  Orit Abramovitz
Israel (ISR)		1.78  Mikiko Sone
Japan (JPN)		1.78  Wu Fushan
China (CHN)		1.74
Long jump  Xiao Jieping
China (CHN)		6.31  Kang Yueli
China (CHN)		6.26  Hiroko Yamashita
Japan (JPN)		6.15
Shot put  Paik Ok-ja
South Korea (KOR)		16.28  Gao Yukui
China (CHN)		15.22  Kayoko Hayashi
Japan (JPN)		15.06
Discus throw  Gao Yukui
China (CHN)		51.84  Dashzevegiin Namjilmaa
Mongolia (MGL)		47.32  Matsuko Takahashi
Japan (JPN)		47.04
Javelin throw  Zhou Maojia
China (CHN)		53.06  Mieko Takasaka
Japan (JPN)		52.02  Keiko Myogai
Japan (JPN)		47.96
Pentathlon  Kyoko Shimizu
Japan (JPN)		3890  Sun Yuxiang
China (CHN)		3849  Zhang Yumei
China (CHN)		3783

Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Japan (JPN) 10 11 11 32
2  China (CHN) 5 10 6 21
3  India (IND) 4 7 4 15
4  Israel (ISR) 4 1 1 6
5  Iran (IRI) 3 2 3 8
6  Thailand (THA) 3 0 1 4
7  Sri Lanka (SRI) 2 0 0 2
8  Singapore (SIN) 1 1 2 4
9  Pakistan (PAK) 1 0 2 3
10  Iraq (IRQ) 1 0 1 2
 South Korea (KOR) 1 0 1 2
12  Malaysia (MAS) 0 1 1 2
13  Kuwait (KUW) 0 1 0 1
 Mongolia (MGL) 0 1 0 1
15  Burma (BIR) 0 0 1 1
 North Korea (PRK) 0 0 1 1
Total 35 35 35 105

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