1998 Asian Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

1998 Asian Championships

Dates| July 19–22
Host city|  Fukuoka, Japan
Venue| Hakatanomori Athletic Stadium
Participation| at least 16 nations

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The 12th Asian Championships in Athletics were held in Fukuoka, Japan in July 1998.

## Medal summary

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### Men

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
(wind: -0.6 m/s) | Zhou Wei
China | 10.39  | Watson Nyambek
Malaysia | 10.42  | Hiroyasu Tsuchie
Japan | 10.44
200 m
(wind: -0.6 m/s) | Koji Ito
Japan | 20.70  | Han Chaoming
China | 20.77  | Gennadiy Chernovol
Kazakhstan | 20.92
400 m | Sugath Tillakaratne
Sri Lanka | 44.61 CR  | Masayoshi Kan
Japan | 45.64  | Kenji Tabata
Japan | 45.69
800 m | Cheng Bing
China | 1:47.71  | Abdulhassan Abdulrahman
Qatar | 1:47.74  | Mahmoud Al-Kheirat
Syria | 1:48.16
1500 m | Mohammed Sulaiman
Qatar | 3:43.70  | Kiyonari Shibata
Japan | 3:44.38  | Cheng Bing
China | 3:44.92
5000 m | Toshinari Takaoka
Japan | 13:54.34  | Gulab Chand
India | 13:55.40  | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama
Qatar | 13:58.35
10,000 m | Baek Seung-do
South Korea | 30:12.26  | Toshihiro Iwasa
Japan | 30:12.57  | Gulab Chand
India | 30:14.69
3000 m St. | Saad Shadad Al-Asmari
Saudi Arabia | 8:31.13  | Yasunori Uchitomi
Japan | 8:33.40  | Hamid Sajjadi
Iran | 8:37.88
110 m H
(wind: +1.9 m/s) | Chen Yanhao
China | 13.53 CR  | Qi Zhen
China | 13.74  | Andrey Sklyarenko
Kazakhstan | 13.86
400 m H | Mubarak Al-Nubi
Qatar | 48.71 CR  | Hideaki Kawamura
Japan | 49.69  | Kazuhiko Yamazaki
Japan | 49.81
20 km Walk | Li Zewen
China | 1:27:58  | Yoshima Hara
Japan | 1:28:16  | Valeriy Borisov
Kazakhstan | 1:29:05
4 x 100 m |  China
Zhou Wei
Lin Wei
Yin Hanzhao
Han Chaoming | 39.03  |  Japan
Tatsuhiko Watanabe
Tatsuo Sugimoto
Hiroyasu Tsuchie
Koji Ito | 39.30  |  Qatar
Jamal Abbas
Hamed Al-Dosari
Jamal Suleiman
Saad Mubarak | 39.43
4 x 400 m |  Japan
Kenji Tabata
Jun Osakada
Shunji Karube
Masayoshi Kan | 3:02.61  |  South Korea
Kim Jae-da
Shon Ju-il
Kim Ho
Kim Yong-hwan | 3:04.44 NR  |  Sri Lanka
Ranga Wimalawansa
Vellasamy Ratnakumara
Rohan Pradeep Kumara
Sugath Thilakaratne | 3:05.79
High jump | Zhou Zhongge
China | 2.30  | Lee Jin-taek
South Korea | 2.27  | Loo Kum Zee
Malaysia | 2.23
Pole vault | Igor Potapovich
Kazakhstan | 5.55  | Aleksandr Korchagin
Kazakhstan | 5.40  | Hideji Suzuki
Japan | 5.20
Long jump | Masaki Morinaga
Japan | 8.08  | Liu Hongning
China | 7.97  | Shigeru Tagawa
Japan | 7.96
Triple jump | Duan Qifeng
China | 16.79  | Takanori Sugibayashi
Japan | 16.50  | Takashi Komatsu
Japan | 16.38
Shot put | Bilal Saad Mubarak
Qatar | 19.17 CR  | Liu Hao
China | 18.86  | Shakti Singh
India | 18.40
Discus | Li Shaojie
China | 60.28  | Dashdendev Makhashiri
Mongolia | 57.00  | Ajit Bhaduria
India | 55.46
Hammer | Andrey Abduvaliyev
Uzbekistan | 76.67 CR  | Koji Murofushi
Japan | 74.17  | Nikolay Davydov
Kyrgyzstan | 70.31
Javelin | Zhang Lianbiao
China | 77.61  | Li Rongxiang
China | 77.48  | Mikio Tamura
Japan | 75.71
Decathlon | Toru Yasui
Japan | 7439 pts CR  | Tomokazu Sugama
Japan | 7347 pts  | Ivan Yarkin
Kazakhstan | 7239 pts

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

### Women

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
(wind: -0.1 m/s) | Yan Jiankui
China | 11.39  | Cui Dangfeng
China | 11.42  | Shanti Govindasamy
Malaysia | 11.60
200 m
(wind: +1.7 m/s) | Yan Jiankui
China | 23.00 =CR  | Huang Mei
China | 23.21  | P.T. Usha
India | 23.27
400 m | Damayanthi Dharsha
Sri Lanka | 51.23 =CR  | Svetlana Bodritskaya
Kazakhstan | 52.46  | P.T. Usha
India | 52.55
800 m | Zhang Jian
China | 2:01.16 CR  | Liu Jing
China | 2:01.85  | Jyotirmoy Sikdar
India | 2:02.65
1500 m | Liu Jing
China | 4:12.76 CR  | Wang Chunmei
China | 4:13.45  | Jyotirmoy Sikdar
India | 4:14.32
5000 m | Wang Chunmei
China | 15:49.48  | Liu Shixiang
China | 15:53.76  | Megumi Tanaka
Japan | 15:55.10
10,000 m | Liu Shixiang
China | 32:28.49  | Chiemi Takahashi
Japan | 32:32.99  | Aki Fujikawa
Japan | 32:48.05
100 m H
(wind: -0.9 m/s) | Olga Shishigina
Kazakhstan | 13.04 CR  | Feng Yun
China | 13.10  | Sriyani Kulawansa
Sri Lanka | 13.16
400 m H | Li Rui
China | 55.80 CR  | Natalya Torshina
Kazakhstan | 56.34  | Hsu Pei-Ching
Chinese Taipei | 57.09
10,000 m road walk | Li Yuxin
China | 46:41  | Rie Mitsumori
Japan | 46:42  | Yuka Mitsumori
Japan | 47:01
4 x 100 m |  India
P. T. Usha
Rachita Mistry
E. B. Shyla
Saraswati Dey | 44.43  |  Japan
Kaori Yoshida
Yuka Fujii
Asami Nagashima
Motoka Arai | 44.45  |  Thailand
Reawadee Srithoa-Watanasin
Naparat Suajongprue
Savitree Srichure
Supawadee Khawpeag | 44.85
4 x 400 m |  China
Huang Mei
Li Jing
Chen Yuxiang
Li Rui | 3:33.48  |  India
M.K. Asha
Rosa Kutty
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar
P.T. Usha | 3:34.04  |  Japan
Sachiko Kiso
Kazue Kakinuma
Sakie Nobuoka
Satomi Kasashima | 3:35.71
High jump | Miki Imai
Japan | 1.94 CR  | Yoko Ota
Japan | 1.91  | Jin Ling
China | 1.88
Pole vault | Peng Xiaoming
China | 4.00 CR  | Masumi Ono
Japan | 3.80  | Chie Miyoshi
Japan | 3.70
Long jump | Guan Yingnan
China | 6.83 CR  | Yu Yiqun
China | 6.74  | Yelena Pershina
Kazakhstan | 6.50w
Triple jump | Ren Ruiping
China | 14.11 CR  | Wang Kuo-Huei
Chinese Taipei | 13.30  | Maho Hanaoka
Japan | 13.24
Shot put | Li Meisu
China | 18.63  | Yu Juan
China | 18.12  | Lee Myung-Sun
South Korea | 17.66
Discus | Yu Xin
China | 57.47  | Neelam Jaswant Singh
India | 56.81  | Xiao Yanling
China | 53.32
Hammer | Gu Yuan
China | 61.86  | Aya Suzuki
Japan | 56.12  | Eriko Kubota
Japan | 48.48
Javelin | Li Lei
China | 60.12  | Harumi Yamamoto
Japan | 55.41  | Gurmeet Kaur
India | 55.35
Heptathlon | Ding Ying
China | 5846 pts  | Svetlana Kazanina
Kazakhstan | 5779 pts  | Ma Chun-Ping
Chinese Taipei | 5489 pts

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  China (CHN)| 26| 13| 3| 42
2|  Japan (JPN)| 6| 17| 14| 37
3|  Qatar (QAT)| 3| 1| 2| 6
4|  Kazakhstan (KAZ)| 2| 4| 5| 11
5|  Sri Lanka (SRI)| 2| 0| 2| 4
6|  India (IND)| 1| 3| 8| 12
7|  South Korea (KOR)| 1| 2| 1| 4
8|  Saudi Arabia (KSA)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Uzbekistan (UZB)| 1| 0| 0| 1
10|  Chinese Taipei (TPE)| 0| 1| 2| 3
Malaysia (MAS)| 0| 1| 2| 3
12|  Mongolia (MGL)| 0| 1| 0| 1
13|  Iran (IRI)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Syria (SYR)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Thailand (THA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (16 entries)| 43| 43| 43| 129

## See also

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* 1998 in athletics (track and field)

## External links

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* GBR Athletics

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