Athletics at the 1966 Asian Games

Athletics
at the 1966 Asian Games

Venue| National Stadium
Dates| 10–15 December

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The Athletics events at the 1966 Asian Games were contested at the National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand from 10 to 15 December.

## Medalists

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### Men

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details | Mani Jegathesan
Malaysia | 10.5  | C. Kunalan
Singapore | 10.5  | Hideo Iijima
Japan | 10.5
200 m
details | Mani Jegathesan
Malaysia | 21.5  | Ajmer Singh
India | 21.5  | Thambu Krishnan
Malaysia | 21.6
400 m
details | Ajmer Singh
India | 47.1  | Yoshinori Sakai
Japan | 47.4  | Masami Yoshida
Japan | 47.5
800 m
details | Bhogeswar Baruah
India | 1:49.4
GR | Subramaniam Ramasamy
Malaysia | 1:49.5  | Mamoru Morimoto
Japan | 1:49.6
1500 m
details | Keisuke Sawaki
Japan | 3:47.3
GR | Subramaniam Ramasamy
Malaysia | 3:48.0  | Satsuo Iwashita
Japan | 3:48.1
5000 m
details | Keisuke Sawaki
Japan | 14:22.0
GR | Kazuo Tsuchiya
Japan | 14:23.1  | Lucien Rosa
Ceylon | 14:56.0
10,000 m
details | Kazuo Tsuchiya
Japan | 30:27.8  | Sunao Shirai
Japan | 30:36.8  | Lucien Rosa
Ceylon | 31:06.6
110 m hurdles
details | Ghulam Raziq
Pakistan | 14.4  | Yoshinobu Hamada
Japan | 14.5  | Ishtiaq Mubarak
Malaysia | 14.7
400 m hurdles
details | Kiyoo Yui
Japan | 51.7
GR | Kazuhiko Itagaki
Japan | 52.3  | Nathan Andyappan
Malaysia | 53.0
3000 m steeplechase
details | Taketsugu Saruwatari
Japan | 8:53.6
GR | Ahmad Mirhosseini
Iran | 8:56.5  | Nobuyoshi Matsuda
Japan | 9:05.2
4 × 100 m relay
details |  Malaysia
Thambu Krishnan
Mohd Ariffin Ahmad
Rajalingam Gunaratnam
Mani Jegathesan | 40.6
GR |  Indonesia
Soepardi
Agus Sugiri
Bambamg Wahjudi
Jootje Pesak Oroh | 41.0  |  Philippines
Rogelio Onofre
Remegio Vista
Arnulfo Valles
William Mordeno | 41.3
4 × 400 m relay
details |  Japan
Toru Honda
Masami Yoshida
Yoshinori Sakai
Kiyoo Yui | 3:09.1
GR |  Malaysia
Victor Asirvatham
Rengan Pakkri
Nathan Andyappan
Thambu Krishnan | 3:13.1  |  Singapore
Bava Natahar
Ho Mun Cheong
Gunasena Migale
C. Kunalan | 3:13.4
Marathon
details | Kenji Kimihara
Japan | 2:33:23  | Morio Shigematsu
Japan | 2:35:04  | Lee Sang-hoon
South Korea | 2:40:56
High jump
details | Bhim Singh
India | 2.05  | Osamu Shimizu
Japan | 2.03  | Teymour Ghiasi
Iran | 2.00
Pole vault
details | Tetsuo Hirota
Japan | 4.70
GR | Yoshizo Uryu
Japan | 4.60  | Hong Sang-pyo
South Korea | 4.40
Long jump
details | Hiroomi Yamada
Japan | 7.48  | Takayuki Okazaki
Japan | 7.39  | Su Wen-ho
Republic of China | 7.31
Triple jump
details | Kosei Gushiken
Japan | 15.61  | Satoshi Shimo
Japan | 15.54  | Labh Singh
India | 15.49
Shot put
details | Joginder Singh
India | 16.22
GR | Yoshihisa Ishida
Japan | 16.13  | Jalal Keshmiri
Iran | 16.02
Discus throw
details | Praveen Kumar
India | 49.62
GR | Jalal Keshmiri
Iran | 49.30  | Balkar Singh
India | 47.64
Hammer throw
details | Takeo Sugawara
Japan | 62.90  | Shigenobu Murofushi
Japan | 60.02  | Praveen Kumar
India | 57.18
Javelin throw
details | Nashatar Singh Sidhu
Malaysia | 72.92  | Takeshi Ikeda
Japan | 68.24  | Yumio Miyoshi
Japan | 67.86
Decathlon
details | Wu Ah-min
Republic of China | 7003  | Yukio Nogami
Japan | 6613  | Hiroomi Yamada
Japan | 6553

### Women

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details | Miho Sato
Japan | 12.3  | Ritsuko Sukegawa
Japan | 12.4  | Debra Marcus
Israel | 12.5
200 m
details | Debra Marcus
Israel | 25.3  | Miyoko Tsujishita
Japan | 25.3  | Kishiko Ikeda
Japan | 25.7
400 m
details | Mary Rajamani
Malaysia | 56.3
GR | Han Myung-hee
South Korea | 57.5  | Yasuyo Mishima
Japan | 57.7
800 m
details | Hana Shezifi
Israel | 2:10.5
GR | Yoko Miyamoto
Japan | 2:12.7  | Yasuyo Mishima
Japan | 2:13.6
80 m hurdles
details | Ritsuko Sukegawa
Japan | 11.2
=GR | Takako Abe
Japan | 11.4  | Manjit Walia
India | 11.4
4 × 100 m relay
details |  Japan
Ritsuko Sukegawa
Miho Sato
Kishiko Ikeda
Miyoko Tsujishita | 47.1
GR |  Republic of China
Chi Cheng
Yeh Chu-mei
Tien Ah-mei
Huang Pi-yun | 47.8  |  Malaysia
Mary Rajamani
Cheryl Dorall
Jacqueline Kleinman
Rajemah Sheikh Ahmad | 48.8
High jump
details | Mami Takeda
Japan | 1.60
=GR | Lolita Lagrosas
Philippines | 1.58  | Cheong Wai Hing
Singapore | 1.55
Long jump
details | Chi Cheng
Republic of China | 5.95
=GR | Emiko Komaru
Japan | 5.83  | Christine Forage
India | 5.69
Shot put
details | Ryoko Sugiyama
Japan | 14.48
GR | Yuko Sawada
Japan | 13.92  | Wu Jin-yun
Republic of China | 12.83
Discus throw
details | Josephine de la Viña
Philippines | 47.58
GR | Yuko Tsunoda
Japan | 42.34  | Han Dong-si
South Korea | 41.08
Javelin throw
details | Misako Katayama
Japan | 49.44
GR | Sachiko Senzaki
Japan | 42.50  | Marcelina Alonso
Philippines | 40.90
Pentathlon
details | Michiko Okamoto
Japan | 4468
GR | Yeh Chu-mei
Republic of China | 3951  | Lolita Lagrosas
Philippines | 3889

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Japan (JPN)| 18| 22| 10| 50
2|  Malaysia (MAL)| 5| 3| 4| 12
3|  India (IND)| 5| 1| 5| 11
4|  Republic of China (ROC)| 2| 2| 2| 6
5|  Israel (ISR)| 2| 0| 1| 3
6|  Philippines (PHI)| 1| 1| 3| 5
7|  Pakistan (PAK)| 1| 0| 0| 1
8|  Iran (IRN)| 0| 2| 2| 4
9|  South Korea (KOR)| 0| 1| 3| 4
10|  Singapore (SIN)| 0| 1| 2| 3
11|  Indonesia (INA)| 0| 1| 0| 1
12|  Ceylon (CEY)| 0| 0| 2| 2
Totals (12 entries)| 34| 34| 34| 102

## References

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* Asian Games Results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
* Women's relay medallists[usurped]. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
* Men's relay medallists[usurped]. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.

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