2013 Asian Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

2013 Asian Championships

Dates| 3–7 July
Host city|  Pune, India
Venue| Shiv Chhatrapati Stadium
Events| 42
Participation| 522 athletes from
42 nations

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The 2013 Asian Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the biennial athletics competition between Asian nations. It was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Balewadi, Pune, India between 3–7 July.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Around 522 athletes from 42 nations competed at the event. It was the first time since 1989 that India had hosted the championships.[7]

Prior to the competition, the election of the Asian Athletics Association president was convened in Pune. Qatar's Dahlan Jumaan al-Hamad (an IAAF vice-president) defeated the incumbent, Suresh Kalmadi of India, by a margin of 20 votes to 18.[8] Kalmadi, on bail for corruption charges stemming from the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, did not attend the championships.[9] The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, declared the event open at the championships opening ceremony

China, the traditional regional leader at the competition, easily took the top spot in the medal rankings with sixteen gold medals and 27 medals in total. This maintained its streak as the best nation of the tournament – a run dating back to the 1983 edition. Second-placed Bahrain took five golds and fifteen medals overall (although Ali Khamis Khamis, the 400 metres runner-up, was their only native-born medallist).[10] Japan placed third in the medal rankings with four golds and had the second greatest overall haul with 20 medals. In fifth place the hosts India had the next biggest haul, with 17 medals in total, although Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan had a greater number of gold medals.

The overall quality of the competition was reduced as several top Asian athletes were absent. Mutaz Essa Barshim was the only Asian 2012 Olympic medallist who intended to participate, but he withdrew due to a back injury.[9] Thirteen champions from 2011 were present and six of them (Su Bingtian, Yousef Masrahi, Dejene Regassa, Shitaye Eshete, Satomi Kubokura, and Wassanee Winatho) successfully defended their title.

A total of eight championships records were bettered at the competition: Shitaye Eshete broke the longest-standing of these by winning the women's 10,000 metres in 32:17.29 minutes, breaking Zhong Huandi's time from 1989. The organisers used a performance-based points system to assign the titles of best athlete at the championships: Saudi 400 metres champion Yousef Masrahi was the best male with 1172 points while Bahrain's steeplechase winner Ruth Jebet was the best female with 1142 points.[11]

The Athletics Federation of India withdrew an unnamed female shot putter from their squad for a failed doping test one day before the opening of the championships.[12]

## Hosting issues

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The competition was originally set to take place in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of the state, ordered the removal of Sri Lanka from the competition on the grounds of war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War. This request was ignored by the Athletics Federation of India and in February 2013 Chennai withdrew as hosts of the championships.[13]

The federation approached the state governments of Jharkhand and Delhi, with the venues of Ranchi and New Delhi being suggested, but both states refused the host duties. Finally, in May the Maharashtra government agreed to host the event in Pune on the same dates agreed for the Chennai event. Pune already had a suitable track and field stadium that had recently played host to the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2008. The budget given for the championships, however, was significantly reduced.[14]

## Medal summary

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### Men

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Su Bingtian of China, winner of the men's 100 metres. Dmitriy Karpov of Kazakhstan, winner of the men's decathlon. Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details | Su Bingtian
China | 10.17  | Samuel Francis
Qatar | 10.27  | Barakat Al-Harthi
Oman | 10.30
200 metres
details | Xie Zhenye
China | 20.87  | Fahhad Mohammed Al Subaie
Saudi Arabia | 20.92  | Kei Takase
Japan | 20.92
400 metres
details | Yousef Masrahi
Saudi Arabia | 45.08  | Ali Khamis Khamis
Bahrain | 45.65  | Yuzo Kanemaru
Japan | 45.95
800 metres
details | Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla
Qatar | 1:46.92  | Abdulaziz Ladan
Saudi Arabia | 1:47.01  | Belal Mansoor Ali
Bahrain | 1:48.56
1500 metres
details | Emad Noor
Saudi Arabia | 3:39.51  | Mohamad Al-Garni
Qatar | 3:40.75  | Belal Mansoor Ali
Bahrain | 3:40.96
5000 metres
details | Dejene Regassa Mootoma
Bahrain | 13:53.25  | Alemu Bekele Gebre
Bahrain | 13:57.23  | Emad Noor
Saudi Arabia | 14:05.88
10,000 metres
details | Alemu Bekele Gebre
Bahrain | 28:47.26  | Bilisuma Shugi
Bahrain | 28:58.67  | Ratiram Saini
India | 29:35.42
110 metres hurdles
details | Jiang Fan
China | 13.61  | Abdulaziz Al Mandeel
Kuwait | 13.78  | Wataru Yazawa
Japan | 13.88
400 metres hurdles
details | Yasuhiro Fueki
Japan | 49.86  | Cheng Wen
China | 50.07  | Satinder Singh
India | 50.35
3000 metres steeplechase
details | Tareq Mubarak Taher
Bahrain | 8:34.77  | Dejene Regassa Mootoma
Bahrain | 8:37.40  | Tsuyoshi Takeda
Japan | 8:48.48
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  Hong Kong (HKG)
Tang Yik Chun
Lai Chun Ho
Ng Ka Fung
Tsui Chi Ho | 38.94  |  Japan (JPN)
Kazuma Oseto
Kei Takase
Sota Kawatsura
Yuichi Kobayashi | 39.11  |  China (CHN)
Guo Fan
Xie Zhenye
Su Bingtian
Chen Qiang | 39.17
4 × 400 metres relay
details |  Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Mohammed Ali Al-Bishi
Fahhad Mohammed Al Subaie
Mohammed Al-Salhi
Yousef Masrahi | 3:02.53 CR |  Japan (JPN)
Yusuke Ishitsuka
Yuzo Kanemaru
Kazuya Watanabe
Hideyuki Hirose | 3:04.46  |  Sri Lanka (SRI)
Chanaka Dulan Priyashantha
Dilan Aloka
Kasun Seneviratne
Anjana Madushan | 3:04.92
High jump
details | Bi Xiaoliang
China | 2.21 m  | Jithin Thomas
India

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Keyvan Ghanbarzadeh
Iran | 2.21 m  | Not awarded
Pole vault
details | Xue Changrui
China | 5.60 m  | Lu Yao
China | 5.20 m  | Jin Min-Sub
South Korea | 5.20 m
Long jump
details | Wang Jianan
China | 7.95 m  | Kumaravel Premkumar
India | 7.92 m  | Tang Gongchen
China | 7.89 m
Triple jump
details | Cao Shuo
China | 16.77 m  | Renjith Maheshwary
India | 16.76 m  | Arpinder Singh
India | 16.58 m
Shot put
details | Sultan Al-Hebshi
Saudi Arabia | 19.68 m  | Chang Ming-huang
Chinese Taipei | 19.61 m  | Om Prakash Singh
India | 19.45 m
Discus throw
details | Vikas Gowda
India | 64.90 m  | Mohammad Samimi
Iran | 61.93 m  | Ahmed Mohamed Dheeb
Qatar | 60.82 m
Hammer throw
details | Dilshod Nazarov
Tajikistan | 78.32 m  | Ali Al-Zinkawi
Kuwait | 74.70 m  | Qi Dakai
China | 74.19 m
Javelin throw
details | Ivan Zaytsev
Uzbekistan | 79.76 m  | Sachith Maduranga
Sri Lanka | 79.62 m NR | Samarjit Singh
India | 75.03 m
Decathlon
details | Dmitriy Karpov
Kazakhstan | 8037 pts CR | Akihiko Nakamura
Japan | 7620 pts  | Leonid Andreev
Uzbekistan | 7383 pts

### Women

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details | Wei Yongli
China | 11.29  | Chisato Fukushima
Japan | 11.53  | Tao Yujia
China | 11.63
200 metres
details | Viktoriya Zyabkina
Kazakhstan | 23.62  | Asha Roy
India | 23.71  | Dutee Chand
India | 23.82
400 metres
details | Zhao Yanmin
China | 52.49  | Poovamma Raju Machettira
India | 53.37  | Gretta Taslakian
Lebanon | 53.43 NR
800 metres
details | Wang Chunyu
China | 2:02.47  | Genzeb Shumi
Bahrain | 2:04.16  | Tintu Luka
India | 2:04.48
1500 metres
details | Betlhem Desalegn
United Arab Emirates | 4:13.67  | Mimi Belete
Bahrain | 4:14.04  | Ayako Jinnouchi
Japan | 4:16.73
5000 metres
details | Betlhem Desalegn
United Arab Emirates | 15:12.84 CR NR | Shitaye Eshete
Bahrain | 15:22.17  | Tejitu Daba
Bahrain | 15:38.63
10,000 metres
details | Shitaye Eshete
Bahrain | 32:17.29
CR | Alia Saeed
United Arab Emirates | 32:39.39  | Ayumi Hagiwara
Japan | 32.47.44
100 metres hurdles
details | Ayako Kimura
Japan | 13.25  | Anastassiya Soprunova
Kazakhstan | 13.44  | Jayapal Hemasree
India | 14.01
400 metres hurdles
details | Satomi Kubokura
Japan | 56.82  | Manami Kira
Japan | 57.78  | Jo Eun-Ju
South Korea | 58.21
3000 metres steeplechase
details | Ruth Jebet
Bahrain | 9:40.84 CR | Sudha Singh
India | 9:56.27  | Pak Kum Hyang
North Korea | 10:09.80
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  China (CHN)
Tao Yujia
Li Manyuan
Lin Huijun
Wei Yongli | 44.01  |  Japan (JPN)
Saori Kitakaze
Chisato Fukushima
Mayumi Watanabe
Anna Fujimori | 44.38  |  Thailand (THA)
Phatsorn Jaksuninkorn
Orranut Klomdee
Tassaporn Wannakit
Jintara Seangdee | 44.44
4 × 400 metres relay
details |  India (IND)
Nirmla
Tintu Luka
Anu Mariam Jose
Poovamma Raju Machettira | 3:32.26  |  China (CHN)
Chen Lin
Cheng Chong
Geng Qingyu
Zhao Yanmin | 3:35.31  |  Japan (JPN)
Asami Chiba
Sayaka Aoki
Satomi Kubokura
Manami Kira | 3:35.72
High jump
details | Nadiya Dusanova
Uzbekistan | 1.90 m  | Svetlana Radzivil
Uzbekistan | 1.88 m  | Marina Aitova
Kazakhstan | 1.88 m
Pole vault
details | Li Ling
China | 4.54 m CR | Ren Mengqian
China | 4.40 m  | Sukanya Chomchuendee
Thailand | 4.15 m
Long jump
details | Sachiko Masumi
Japan | 6.55 m  | Anastasiya Juravleva
Uzbekistan | 6.36 m  | Mayookha Johny
India | 6.30 m
Triple jump
details | Anastasiya Juravleva
Uzbekistan | 14.18 m  | Aleksandra Kotlyarova
Uzbekistan | 13.89 m  | Irina Litvinenko Ektova
Kazakhstan | 13.75 m
Shot put
details | Liu Xiangrong
China | 18.67 m  | Leyla Rajabi
Iran | 18.18 m  | Gao Yang
China | 17.76 m
Discus throw
details | Su Xinyue
China | 55.88 m  | Jiang Fengjing
China | 55.70 m  | Li Tsai-Yi
Chinese Taipei | 55.32 m
Hammer throw
details | Wang Zheng
China | 72.78 m CR | Liu Tingting
China | 67.16 m  | Masumi Aya
Japan | 63.41 m
Javelin throw
details | Li Lingwei
China | 60.65 m CR | Nadeeka Lakmali
Sri Lanka | 60.16 m NR | Risa Miyashita
Japan | 55.30 m
Heptathlon
details | Wassana Winatho
Thailand | 5818 pts  | Ekaterina Voronina
Uzbekistan | 5599 pts  | Chie Kiriyama
Japan | 5451 pts

## Medal table

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The host stadium in Pune

*   Host nation (India)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  China (CHN)| 16| 6| 5| 27
2|  Bahrain (BHR)| 5| 7| 3| 15
3|  Japan (JPN)| 4| 6| 10| 20
4|  Saudi Arabia (KSA)| 4| 2| 1| 7
5|  Uzbekistan (UZB)| 3| 4| 1| 8
6|  India (IND)*| 2| 6| 9| 17
7|  Kazakhstan (KAZ)| 2| 1| 2| 5
8|  United Arab Emirates (UAE)| 2| 1| 0| 3
9|  Qatar (QAT)| 1| 2| 1| 4
10|  Thailand (THA)| 1| 0| 2| 3
11|  Hong Kong (HKG)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Tajikistan (TJK)| 1| 0| 0| 1
13|  Iran (IRI)| 0| 3| 0| 3
14|  Sri Lanka (SRI)| 0| 2| 1| 3
15|  Kuwait (KUW)| 0| 2| 0| 2
16|  Chinese Taipei (TPE)| 0| 1| 1| 2
17|  South Korea (KOR)| 0| 0| 2| 2
18|  Lebanon (LIB)| 0| 0| 1| 1
North Korea (PRK)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Oman (OMA)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (20 entries)| 42| 43| 41| 126

## Participating nations

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* Afghanistan (5)
*  Bahrain (20)
*  Bangladesh (5)
*  Brunei (2)
*  Cambodia (2)
*  China (43)
*  Chinese Taipei (17)
*  Hong Kong (16)
*  India (101)
*  Indonesia (4)
*  Iran (20)
*  Iraq (5)
*  Japan (51)
*  Jordan (1)
*  Kazakhstan (24)
*  Kuwait (6)
*  Kyrgyzstan (5)
*  Laos (2)
*  Lebanon (4)
*  Macau (5)
*  Malaysia (7)
*  Maldives (5)
*  Mongolia (2)
*  Nepal (4)
*  North Korea (3)
*  Oman (5)
*  Pakistan (5)
* Palestine (1)
*  Philippines (14)
*  Qatar (17)
*  Saudi Arabia (14)
*  Singapore (4)
*  South Korea (18)
*  Sri Lanka (18)
* Syria (3)
*  Tajikistan (3)
*  Thailand (22)
*  Timor-Leste (3)
*  United Arab Emirates (5)
*  Uzbekistan (19)
*  Vietnam (8)
*  Yemen (5)

## References

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1. ^ Competition Calendar Archived 2013-07-07 at the Wayback Machine. Athletics Asia. Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
2. ^ Four more gold medals and two championship records for China at Asian Champs. IAAF (2013-07-07). Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
3. ^ Chinese sprinters take away 100m titles at Asian Championships. IAAF (2013-07-04). Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
4. ^ Eshete sets 10,000m championship record at Asian Championships. IAAF (2013-07-04). Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
5. ^ Two championship records while China's hurdles legacy continues at the Asian Championships. IAAF (2013-07-06). Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
6. ^ Desalegn lands distance double at Asian Championships. IAAF (2013-07-07). Retrieved on 2013-07-13.
7. ^ Fourteen Asian athletes coming to defend their title at Pune Archived 2013-07-04 at the Wayback Machine. Asian Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
8. ^ Dahlan ousts Kalmadi as Asian athletics chief. Gulf Times (2013-07-01). Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
9. ^ a b Kalmadi gives it a miss - Asian Track and Field Championships is shorn of big names. The Calcutta Telegraph (2013-07-03). Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
10. ^ Brahme, Chinmay (2013-07-06). Without formal coaching Bahrain’s teen star sprints his way to silver. Indian Express. Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
11. ^ Championship & Best Athletes[permanent dead link]. Athletics Federation of India. Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
12. ^ Doping hits Indian athletics ahead of Asian Championships. Times of India (2013-07-05). Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
13. ^ J’lalithaa cancels Asian Athletic Games over Sri Lanka’s participation Archived 2013-06-22 at the Wayback Machine. The Nation (Sri Lanka) (2013-02-21). Retrieved on 2013-07-07.
14. ^ Pune confirmed as Asian championships venue. The Hindu (2013-05-30). Retrieved on 2013-07-07.

Medal table

* Medal Table Rankings. Athletics Federation of India. Retrieved on 2013-07-07.

Results

* Final Results[permanent dead link]. Athletics Federation of India. Retrieved on 2013-07-07.

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