1983 Asian Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

1983 Asian Championships

Dates| November 3–9
Host city|  Kuwait City, Kuwait
Venue| Kuwait National Stadium
Participation| at least 16 nations

<- Tokyo 1981

Jakarta 1985 ->

The fifth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in November 1983 in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

## Medal summary

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### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
(wind: 0.0 m/s) | Suchart Chairsuvaparb
Thailand | 10.47  | Sumet Promna
Thailand | 10.52  | Mohamed Purnomo
Indonesia | 10.60
200 metres
(wind: -4.2 m/s) | Sumet Promna
Thailand | 21.39  | Mohamed Purnomo
Indonesia | 21.64  | Jang Jae-keun
South Korea | 21.70
400 metres | Isidro del Prado
Philippines | 46.24  | Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef
Iraq | 46.74  | Mohamed Nordin Jadi
Malaysia | 46.76
800 metres | Najem Abdullah Mutlaq
Kuwait | 1:49.43  | Khalid Khalifa
Kuwait | 1:49.97  | Wang Lung-hua
Chinese Taipei | 1:49.98
1500 metres | Suresh Yadav
India | 3:44.74  | Susumu Yoshida
Japan | 3:45.67  | Najem Abdullah Mutlaq
Kuwait | 3:45.77
5000 metres | Zhang Guowei
China | 14:07.72  | Raj Kumar
India | 14:22.56  | Park Kyung-Duk
South Korea | 14:25.85
10,000 metres | Zhang Guowei
China | 29:45.41  | Park Kyung-Duk
South Korea | 30:04.89  | Mohammad Vojdanzadeh
Iran | 30:20.88
3000 metre steeplechase | Hwang Wen-cheng [zh]
Chinese Taipei | 8:54.85  | Hector Begeo
Philippines | 8:55.57  | Anokh Singh
India | 9:05.80
110 metres hurdles
(wind: -1.0 m/s) | Wu Chin-jing
Chinese Taipei | 13.90  | Yu Zhicheng
China | 14.16  | Ahmed Hamada Jassim
Bahrain | 14.24
(NR)
400 metres hurdles | Ahmed Hamada Jassim
Bahrain | 49.43  | Shigenori Ohmori
Japan | 50.69  | Lin Cheng-jih
Chinese Taipei | 51.09
4 × 100 metres relay |  China
Cai Jianming
He Baodong
Yu Zhuanghui
Yuan Guoqiang | 40.16  |  Thailand
Prasit Boonprasert
Somsak Boontud
Suchart Chairsuvaparb
Sumet Promna | 40.25  |  South Korea
Kim Yong-il
Sung Nak-kun
Choi Yong-joon
Park Sung-jun | 40.60
4 × 400 metres relay |  Iraq
Fahim Abdul-Sada
Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef
Abbas Ali Lafta
Heitham Nadim | 3:07.98  |  India
Ghulam Kibria
Charanjit Singh Bajwa
Pavittar Singh
Rajinder Sharma | 3:11.02  |  Philippines
Isidro Del Prado
Honesto Larce
Leopoldo Arnillo
Renato Unso | 3:11.09
20 kilometre road walk | Chand Ram
India | 1:30:14  | Zhang Fuzin
China | 1:32:14  | Buta Singh
India | 1:43:19
High jump | Zhu Jianhua
China | 2.31  | Qassim Mohammed
Iraq | 2.10  | Chin Yi-Shik
South Korea | 2.05
Pole vault | Zhang Chen
China | 5.00  | Ku Chin-shui
Chinese Taipei | 4.80  | Sunder Singh Tanwar
India | 4.50
Long jump | Liu Yuhuang
China | 7.97  | Lee Bou-chai
Chinese Taipei | 7.70  | Koji Umemoto
Japan | 7.60
Triple jump | Mai Guoqiang
China | 16.25  | Yasushi Ueta
Japan | 16.10  | Park Yeong-jun
South Korea | 15.80
Shot put | Mohammed Al-Zinkawi
Kuwait | 17.90  | Balwinder Singh
India | 16.89  | Iqbal Singh
India | 16.72
Discus throw | Li Weinan
China | 55.40  | Ajmer Singh
India | 52.30  | Nejim Abdulrazak
Kuwait | 51.00
Hammer throw | Xie Yingqi
China | 65.78  | Masayuki Kawata
Japan | 65.60  | Raghubir Singh Bal
India | 60.52
Javelin throw | Masami Yoshida
Japan | 79.50  | Kazuhiro Mizoguchi
Japan | 70.16  | Chen Hung-yen
Chinese Taipei | 68.20
Decathlon | Lee Fu-an
Chinese Taipei | 7641  | Ku Chin-shui
Chinese Taipei | 7438  | Takeshi Kojo
Japan | 7277

### Women's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
(wind: -2.0 m/s) | Lydia de Vega
Philippines | 11.82  | Valapa Pinij
Thailand | 12.01  | Shen Su-Feng
Chinese Taipei | 12.07
200 metres
(wind: -2.9 m/s) | Lydia de Vega
Philippines | 24.07  | P.T. Usha
India | 24.68  | Mo Myung-Hee
South Korea | 24.72
400 metres | P.T. Usha
India | 54.20  | Junko Yoshida
Japan | 54.65  | Lydia de Vega
Philippines | 55.66
800 metres | Huo Lianzhu
China | 2:08.92  | Im Chun-Sil
North Korea | 2:09.20  | Geng Xiuquan
China | 2:10.02
1500 metres | Geng Xiuquan
China | 4:30.72  | Gao Suju
China | 4:31.10  | Kim Lyong-Soon
North Korea | 4:31.13
3000 metres | Kim Lyong-Soon
North Korea | 9:39.64  | Kim Chun-Hwa
North Korea | 9:41.34  | Kim Soon-Hwa
South Korea | 9:47.19
100 metres hurdles
(wind: -2.0 m/s) | Emi Sasaki (Akimoto)
Japan | 13.63  | Liu Huajin
China | 13.82  | Lin Yueh-Hsiang
Chinese Taipei | 14.04
400 metres hurdles | Yoko Sato
Japan | 59.89  | Chizuko Akimoto
Japan | 59.95  | Agrifina de la Cruz
Philippines | 61.26
4 × 100 metres relay |  Thailand
Jaree Patarach
Sarinee Phenglaor
Walapa Pinij
Wanna Popirom | 46.12  |  Chinese Taipei
Shen Su-feng
Lin Ruei-er
Jen Yui-chu
Lin Li-shui | 46.42  |  Japan
Arisa Aman [ja]
Chizuko Akimoto
Junko Yoshida
Emi Akimoto-Sasaki | 46.47
4 × 400 metres relay |  Thailand
Ratjai Sripet
Walapa Tangjitnusorn
Usa Chanaphani
Reim Sriteingtrong | 3:48.62  |  Chinese Taipei
Shen Su-feng
Lin Ruei-er
Jen Yui-chu
Lin Li-shui | 3:58.52  |  Jordan
Khadija Al-Matari
Wannas Abu Kartoumah
Faten Al-Omari
Amneh Odeh Mershed | 4:17.41
High jump | Zheng Dazhen
China | 1.84  | Ge Ping
China | 1.84  | Kim Hee-sun
South Korea | 1.81
Long jump | Liao Wenfen
China | 6.21  | Elma Muros
Philippines | 6.09  | Huang Donghuo
China | 6.08
Shot put | Lu Cheng
China | 17.38  | So Bok-Hui
North Korea | 14.61  | Woo Kyon-Sun
South Korea | 14.12
Discus throw | Jiao Yunxiang
China | 53.00  | Chun Hwa-Kyung
South Korea | 47.20  | Jeanette Ayoub
Lebanon | 37.06
Javelin throw | Xin Xiaoli
China | 53.48  | Lee Huei-Cheng
Chinese Taipei | 42.48  | – | –
Heptathlon | Hisako Hashimoto
Japan | 5486  | Ye Lianying
China | 5394  | Chen Jin-Yun
Chinese Taipei | 5075

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  China (CHN)| 16| 6| 2| 24
2|  Japan (JPN)| 4| 7| 3| 14
3|  Thailand (THA)| 4| 3| 0| 7
4|  Chinese Taipei (TPE)| 3| 6| 6| 15
5|  India (IND)| 3| 5| 5| 13
6|  Philippines (PHI)| 3| 2| 3| 8
7|  Kuwait (KUW)| 2| 1| 2| 5
8|  North Korea (PRK)| 1| 3| 1| 5
9|  Iraq (IRQ)| 1| 2| 0| 3
10|  Bahrain (BHR)| 1| 0| 1| 2
11|  South Korea (KOR)| 0| 2| 9| 11
12|  Indonesia (INA)| 0| 1| 1| 2
13|  Iran (IRN)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Jordan (JOR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Lebanon (LIB)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Malaysia (MAS)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (16 entries)| 38| 38| 37| 113

## See also

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* 1983 in athletics (track and field)

## References

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* GBR Athletics

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