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

Women

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

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	10	11	11	32
2	China	5	10	6	21
3	India	4	7	4	15
4	Israel	4	1	1	6
5	Iran	3	2	3	8
6	Thailand	3	0	1	4
7	Sri Lanka	2	0	0	2
8	Singapore	1	1	2	4
9	Pakistan	1	0	2	3
10	Iraq	1	0	1	2
	South Korea	1	0	1	2
12	Malaysia	0	1	1	2
13	Kuwait	0	1	0	1
	Mongolia	0	1	0	1
15	Burma	0	0	1	1
	North Korea	0	0	1	1
Total		35	35	35	105

References

• Asian Games Results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Women's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Men's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.