Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games

Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou, China from 21 to 27 November 2010. A total of 47 events were contested, 24 by men and 23 by women - matching the Olympic athletics programme. The 42 track and field events on the programme were hosted at the Aoti Main Stadium (Guangdong Olympic Stadium) while the marathons and racewalking competitions took place around the city's University Town (sharing a venue with the triathlon).^[1][2] Sixteen Asian Games records were broken during the seven-day competition.^[3]

China, the host country, topped the medal table having won 13 gold medals and 36 medals overall. India (12 medals overall) and Bahrain both won five golds, but Japan (with four golds) had the second largest overall medal haul with twenty. A number of countries had double-digit medal totals: Kazakhstan and South Korea won four gold medals each, with hauls of eleven and ten medals respectively. Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan were the next best performing National Olympic Committees.^[4] A total of 574 athletes (comprising 351 men and 223 women) from 41 nations took part in the competition. Bhutan, Brunei, Jordan and Pakistan were the only nations without a representative in the events.^[5]

One of the primary attractions of the competition was Chinese Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang – the stadium filled with around 70,000 spectators on the day he defended his title and he won gold in a Games record time.^[6] Chinese women completed 1–2 podium finishes in the shot put, discus and hammer throws while Zhou Chunxiu and Zhu Xiaolin took the top two spots in the women's marathon. Japan's Chisato Fukushima took a 100/200 metres sprint double and also won a bronze in the relay. Preeja Sreedharan of India broke two national records, almost completing a 5000 and 10,000 metres double, but was beaten by Mimi Belete in the former event. Femi Ogunode – a Nigerian-born athlete representing Qatar – won golds in both the 200 m and 400 m at the age of nineteen.^[7] Little-known Lao Yi won the men's 100 m after the favourites (Masashi Eriguchi and Samuel Francis) were both eliminated in the semi-finals.^[8]

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Lao Yi  China	10.24	Yasser Al-Nasheri  Saudi Arabia	10.26	Barakat Al-Harthi  Oman	10.28
200 m	Femi Ogunode  Qatar	20.43	Kenji Fujimitsu  Japan	20.74	Omar Juma Al-Salfa  United Arab Emirates	20.83
400 m	Femi Ogunode  Qatar	45.12	Yuzo Kanemaru  Japan	45.32	Yousef Masrahi  Saudi Arabia	45.71
800 m	Sajjad Moradi  Iran	1:45.45 GR	Adnan Taess  Iraq	1:45.88	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla  Qatar	1:46.19
1500 m	Mohammed Shaween  Saudi Arabia	3:36.49 GR	Sajjad Moradi  Iran	3:37.09	Belal Mansoor Ali  Bahrain	3:38.39
5000 m	Hasan Mahboob  Bahrain	13:47.86	James Kwalia  Qatar	13:48.55	Felix Kibore  Qatar	13:49.31
10000 m	Bilisuma Shugi  Bahrain	27:32.72 GR	Essa Ismail Rashed  Qatar	27:33.09	Hasan Mahboob  Bahrain	27:40.07
110 m hurdles	Liu Xiang  China	13.09 GR	Shi Dongpeng  China	13.38	Park Tae-kyong  South Korea	13.48
400 m hurdles	Joseph Abraham  India	49.96	Bandar Sharahili  Saudi Arabia	50.29	Naohiro Kawakita  Japan	50.37
3000 m steeplechase	Tareq Mubarak Taher  Bahrain	8:25.89 GR	Thamer Kamal Ali  Qatar	8:26.27	Ali Al-Amri  Saudi Arabia	8:30.96
4 × 100 m relay	China Lu Bin Liang Jiahong Su Bingtian Lao Yi	38.78 GR	Chinese Taipei Wang Wen-tang Liu Yuan-kai Tsai Meng-lin Yi Wei-chen	39.05	Thailand Poommanus Jankem Wachara Sondee Jirapong Meenapra Sittichai Suwonprateep	39.09
4 × 400 m relay	Saudi Arabia Ismail Al-Sabiani Mohammed Al-Salhi Hamed Al-Bishi Yousef Masrahi	3:02.30	Japan Yusuke Ishitsuka Kenji Fujimitsu Hideyuki Hirose Yuzo Kanemaru	3:02.43	China Lin Yang Deng Shijie Chang Pengben Liu Xiaosheng	3:03.66
Marathon	Ji Young-jun  South Korea	2:11:11	Yukihiro Kitaoka  Japan	2:12:46	Mubarak Hassan Shami  Qatar	2:12:53
20 km walk	Wang Hao  China	1:20:50	Zhu Yafei  China	1:21:57	Kim Hyun-sub  South Korea	1:22:47
50 km walk	Si Tianfeng  China	3:47:04 GR	Li Lei  China	3:47:34	Koichiro Morioka  Japan	3:47:41
High jump	Mutaz Essa Barshim  Qatar	2.27	Hiromi Takahari  Japan	2.23	Rashid Al-Mannai  Qatar	2.19
					Huang Haiqiang  China
					Vitaliy Tsykunov  Kazakhstan
Pole vault	Yang Yansheng  China	5.50	Leonid Andreev  Uzbekistan	5.30	Shared silver
			Kim Yoo-suk  South Korea
Long jump	Kim Deok-hyeon  South Korea	8.11	Su Xiongfeng  China	8.05	Hussein Al-Sabee  Saudi Arabia	7.96
Triple jump	Li Yanxi  China	16.94	Yevgeniy Ektov  Kazakhstan	16.86	Cao Shuo  China	16.84
Shot put	Sultan Al-Hebshi  Saudi Arabia	20.57 GR	Zhang Jun  China	19.59	Chang Ming-huang  Chinese Taipei	19.48
Discus throw	Ehsan Haddadi  Iran	67.99 GR	Mohammad Samimi  Iran	63.46	Vikas Gowda  India	63.13
Hammer throw	Dilshod Nazarov  Tajikistan	76.44	Kaveh Mousavi  Iran	68.90	Hiroaki Doi  Japan	68.72
Javelin throw	Yukifumi Murakami  Japan	83.15	Park Jae-myong  South Korea	79.92	Rinat Tarzumanov  Uzbekistan	79.65
Decathlon	Dmitriy Karpov  Kazakhstan	8026	Kim Kun-woo  South Korea	7808	Vũ Văn Huyện  Vietnam	7755

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Chisato Fukushima  Japan	11.33	Guzel Khubbieva  Uzbekistan	11.34	Vũ Thị Hương  Vietnam	11.43
200 m	Chisato Fukushima  Japan	23.62	Vũ Thị Hương  Vietnam	23.74	Guzel Khubbieva  Uzbekistan	23.87
400 m	Olga Tereshkova  Kazakhstan	51.97	Asami Chiba  Japan	52.68	Marina Maslyonko  Kazakhstan	52.70
800 m	Margarita Matsko  Kazakhstan	2:00.29	Trương Thanh Hằng  Vietnam	2:00.91	Tintu Luka  India	2:01.36
1500 m	Maryam Yusuf Jamal  Bahrain	4:08.22	Trương Thanh Hằng  Vietnam	4:09.58	Mimi Belete  Bahrain	4:10.42
5000 m	Mimi Belete  Bahrain	15:15.59	Preeja Sreedharan  India	15:15.89	Kavita Raut  India	15:16.54
10000 m	Preeja Sreedharan  India	31:50.47	Kavita Raut  India	31:51.44	Shitaye Eshete  Bahrain	31:53.27
100 m hurdles	Lee Yeon-kyung  South Korea	13.23	Natalya Ivoninskaya  Kazakhstan	13.24	Sun Yawei  China	13.27
400 m hurdles	Ashwini Akkunji  India	56.15	Wang Xing  China	56.76	Satomi Kubokura  Japan	56.83
3000 m steeplechase	Sudha Singh  India	9:55.47 GR	Jin Yuan  China	9:55.71	Minori Hayakari  Japan	10:01.25
4 × 100 m relay	Thailand Phatsorn Jaksuninkorn Neeranuch Klomdee Laphassaporn Tawoncharoen Nongnuch Sanrat	44.09	China Tao Yujia Liang Qiuping Jiang Lan Ye Jiabei	44.22	Japan Mayumi Watanabe Momoko Takahashi Yumeka Sano Chisato Fukushima	44.41
4 × 400 m relay	India Manjeet Kaur Sini Jose Ashwini Akkunji Mandeep Kaur	3:29.02 GR	Kazakhstan Marina Maslyonko Viktoriya Yalovtseva Margarita Matsko Olga Tereshkova	3:30.03	China Zheng Zhihui Tang Xiaoyin Chen Lin Chen Jingwen	3:30.89
Marathon	Zhou Chunxiu  China	2:25:00	Zhu Xiaolin  China	2:26:35	Kim Kum-ok  North Korea	2:27:06
20 km walk	Liu Hong  China	1:30:06 GR	Masumi Fuchise  Japan	1:30:34	Li Yanfei  China	1:32:34
High jump	Svetlana Radzivil  Uzbekistan	1.95 GR	Nadiya Dusanova  Uzbekistan	1.93	Anna Ustinova  Kazakhstan	1.90
					Zheng Xingjuan  China
Pole vault	Li Caixia  China	4.30	Li Ling  China	4.30	Tomomi Abiko  Japan	4.15
Long jump	Jung Soon-ok  South Korea	6.53	Olga Rypakova  Kazakhstan	6.50	Yuliya Tarasova  Uzbekistan	6.49
Triple jump	Olga Rypakova  Kazakhstan	14.78 GR	Xie Limei  China	14.18	Thitima Muangjan  Thailand	13.85
Shot put	Li Ling  China	19.94	Gong Lijiao  China	19.67	Lee Mi-young  South Korea	17.51
Discus throw	Li Yanfeng  China	66.18 GR	Song Aimin  China	64.04	Krishna Poonia  India	61.94
Hammer throw	Zhang Wenxiu  China	72.84	Wang Zheng  China	68.17	Yuka Murofushi  Japan	62.94
Javelin throw	Yuki Ebihara  Japan	61.56 GR	Xue Juan  China	58.72	Li Lingwei  China	57.51
Heptathlon	Yuliya Tarasova  Uzbekistan	5783	Yuki Nakata  Japan	5606	Pramila Aiyappa  India	5415

Medal table

Liu Xiang retained his 110 m hurdles title to win gold for China.

Olga Rypakova's gold and silver in the jumps helped Kazakhstan.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	13	15	8	36
2	India	5	2	5	12
3	Bahrain	5	0	4	9
4	Japan	4	8	8	20
5	Kazakhstan	4	4	3	11
6	South Korea	4	3	3	10
7	Qatar	3	3	4	10
8	Saudi Arabia	3	2	3	8
9	Uzbekistan	2	3	3	8
10	Iran	2	3	0	5
11	Thailand	1	0	2	3
12	Tajikistan	1	0	0	1
13	Vietnam	0	3	2	5
14	Chinese Taipei	0	1	1	2
15	Iraq	0	1	0	1
16	North Korea	0	0	1	1
	Oman	0	0	1	1
	United Arab Emirates	0	0	1	1
Total		47	48	49	144

Participating nations

A total of 574 athletes from 41 nations competed in athletics at the 2010 Asian Games:^[5]

References

Day reports

• Strong night for India as Asian Games kick off before a crowd of 75,000 in Guangzhou - Asian Games, Day 1. IAAF (2010-11-22). Retrieved on 2010-11-28.
• Three more gold for China, as Kamel bows out of 1500m in Guangzhou - Asian Games, Day 2. IAAF (2010-11-23). Retrieved on 2010-11-28.
• Jamal captures 1500m title in Guangzhou - Asian Games, Day 3. IAAF (2010-11-24). Retrieved on 2010-11-28.
• 70,000 watch Liu Xiang fly to 13.09sec victory - Asian Games, Day 4. IAAF (2010-11-25). Retrieved on 2010-11-28.
• Ogunode and Fukushima complete doubles in Guangzhou - Asian Games, Day 5. IAAF (2010-11-26). Retrieved on 2010-11-28.
• Bahrain takes two distance running golds - Asian Games, Day 6. IAAF (2010-11-27). Retrieved on 2010-11-28.
• Ji and Zhou take Marathon titles as Asian Games conclude in Guangzhou. IAAF (2010-11-28). Retrieved on 2010-11-28.

External links

• Athletics site of 2010 Asian Games

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