Athletics Stats: Who are the record holders at the Asian Athletics Championships?
The Asian Athletics Championships which is overseen by the Asian Athletics Association (AAA), first took place in 1973 and has been typically held every two years. In 1977, the competition faced significant backlash from the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) due to political disagreements arising from Israel’s exclusion. This dispute led to the cancellation of the event that year.
Between 1979 and 1989, the competition was known as the Asian Track and Field Meeting, which the IAAF did not officially recognize. The issue was finally settled in 1990 when Israel started participating in competitions organized by the European Athletic Association. Despite these early challenges, the competition has been conducted consistently, except in 2021 when the global Covid-19 pandemic led to its cancellation.
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Countries that dominated at the Asian Athletics Championships
China is the most accomplished nation in the history of the Asian Athletics Championships. With a whopping 656 medals (317 gold, 219 silver, and 120 bronze medals), China tops the list. Japan is second on the all-time medal list, having won 572 medals (156 gold, 195 silver, and 221 bronze). The third place in the medal table is grabbed by India with an overall 327 medals. Out of which, 88 are gold, 108 are silver, and 131 are bronze medals. The list consists of data till the Asian Athletics Championships 2019 as the 2021 edition was canceled owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Asian Athletics Championships 2023
The Asian Athletics Championships 2023 is all set to take place in Pattaya, Thailand, from July 12 to July 16, 2023, at the Pattaya Stadium. The deadline for all the national federations to send their entries has been set for June 11, 2023, by the Asian Athletics Association. With about two months to go before the prestigious event, let’s take a look at the record holders at the Asian Athletics Championships.
Who are the record holders at the Asian Athletics Championships?
| Event | Athlete (Country) | Record | Athlete (Country) | Record |
| 100 m | Femi Ogunode (Qatar) | 9.91 s (+1.8 m/s) | Olga Safronova (Kazakhstan) | 11.17 (+1.8 m/s) |
| 200 m | Femi Ogunode (Qatar) | 20.28 s (-0.7 m/s) | Salwa Eid Naser (Bahrain) | 22.74 (+1.2 m/s) |
| 400 m | Sugath Thilakaratne (Sri Lanka) | 44.61 s | Damayanthi Dharsha (Sri Lanka) | 51.05 s |
| 800 m | Majed Saeed Sultan (Qatar) | 1:44.27 | Zhang Jian (China) | 2:01.16 |
| 1500 m | Kim Soon-Hyung (South Korea) | 3:38.60 | Miho Sugimori (Japan) | 4:12.69 |
| 5000 m | Mohamad Al-Garni (Qatar) | 13:34.47 | Betlhem Desalegn (United Arab Emirates) | 15:12.84 |
| 10,000 m | Hasan Mahboob (Bahrain) | 28:23.70 | Shitaye Eshete (Bahrain) | 31:15.62 |
| 110 m hurdles/ 100m hurdles | Xie Wenjun (China) | 13.21 (+1.7 m/s) | Feng Yun (China) | 12.97 (-0.1 m/s) |
| 400 m hurdles | Abderrahman Samba (Qatar) | 47.51 s | Kemi Adekoya (Bahrain) | 54.31 s |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin (Qatar) | 8:16.00 | Lalita Babar (India) | 9:34.13 |
| High jump | Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar) | 2.35 m | Miki Imai (Japan), Tatyana Efimenko (Kyrgyzstan) | 1.94 m |
| Pole vault | Ernest John Obiena (Philippines) | 5.71 m | Li Ling (China) | 4.66 m |
| Long jump | Hussein Taher Al-Sabee (Saudi Arabia) | 8.33 m (+0.8 m/s) | Guan Yingnan (China) | 6.83 m (+1.9 m/s) |
| Triple jump | Chen Yanping (China) | 17.22 m (-1.0 m/s) | Olga Rypakova (Kazakhstan) | 14.69 m (+1.6 m/s) |
| Shot put | Inderjeet Singh (India) | 20.41 m | Huang Zhihong (China) | 19.69 m |
| Discus throw | Ehsan Haddadi (Iran) | 65.95 m | Feng Bin (China) | 65.36 m |
| Hammer throw | Koji Murofushi (Japan) | 80.45 m | Wang Zheng (China) | 75.66 m |
| Javelin throw | Cheng Chao-tsun (Chinese Taipei) | 86.72 m | Lü Huihui (China) | 65.83 m |
| Decathlon | Dmitriy Karpov (Kazakhstan) | 8037 pts | Ghada Shouaa (Syria) | 6259 pts |
| 20 km walk (road) | Han Yucheng (China) | 1:21:11 | Mayumi Kawasaki (Japan) | 1:30:12 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Ruttanapon Sowan, Bandit Chuangchai, Jirapong Meenapra, Siripol Punpa (Thailand) | 38.72 | Liang Xiaojing, Wei Yongli, Kong Lingwei, Ge Manqi (China) | 42.87 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Femi Ogunode, Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla, Mohamed El Nour Mohamed, Abdalelah Haroun (Qatar) | 3:02.50 | Rajwinder Kaur, Satti Geetha, Chitra K. Soman,Manjit Kaur (India) | 3:30.93 |
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