2011 Asian Athletics Championships

2011 Asian Championships
Dates	July 7–10
Host city	Kobe, Japan
Venue	Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium
Events	42
Participation	464 athletes from 40 nations
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The 19th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Kobe, Japan between July 7–10, 2011 at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium. The tournament had 507 athletes from forty Asian nations competing in the 42 track and field events over the four-day competition.

Two countries dominated the events: the host nation Japan won the most medals at the competition (32 overall, 11 golds), closely followed by China's eleven golds and 27 overall medal haul. The next most successful countries were Bahrain (which won five golds on the track through its former Ethiopian and Kenyan runners) and India, which won twelve medals.

A total of eight Championship records were equalled or beaten at the competition. India's Mayookha Johny won the long jump and also broke the Indian record to take bronze in the triple jump. Twenty-year-old Mutaz Essa Barshim cleared 2.35 metres in the high jump. Liu Xiang won his fourth consecutive 110 metres hurdles title with a championship record mark. Kuwait's Mohammad Al-Azemi completed an 800/1500 metres double with Iranian Sajjad Moradi finishing as runner-up both times. On the women's side, Truong Thanh Hang of Vietnam won the 800 m and was the 1500 m silver medallist.

Gretta Taslakian of Lebanon and Iraqi Gulustan Ieso won their countries' first medals in the women's section, while the traditionally male-only United Arab Emirates sent their first female athlete to the competition (Betlhem Desalegn). Ieso and Olga Tereshkova both failed doping tests at the competition, thus losing their individual medals and also their team relay medals.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Su Bingtian China	10.21	Masashi Eriguchi Japan	10.28	Sota Kawatsura Japan	10.30
200 metres	Femi Seun Ogunode Qatar	20.41 =CR	Hitoshi Saito Japan	20.75	Omar Jouma Al-Salfa United Arab Emirates	20.97
400 metres	Yousef Ahmed Masrahi Saudi Arabia	45.79	Hideyuki Hirose Japan	46.03	Yūzō Kanemaru Japan	46.38
800 metres	Mohammad Al-Azemi Kuwait	1:46.14	Sajjad Moradi Iran	1:46.35	Ghamnda Ram India	1:46.46
1500 metres	Mohammad Al-Azemi Kuwait	3:42.49	Sajjad Moradi Iran	3:43.30	Chaminda Wijekoon Sri Lanka	3:44.01
5000 metres	Dejenee Mootumaa Bahrain	13:39.71 CR	Yuki Sato Japan	13:40.78	Alemu Bekele Gebre Bahrain	13:41.93
10,000 metres	Ali Hasan Mahboob Bahrain	28:35.49	Bilisuma Shugi Gelasa Bahrain	28:36.30	Akinobu Murasawa Japan	28:40.63
110 m hurdles	Liu Xiang China	13.22 CR	Shi Dongpeng China	13.56	Park Tae-kyong South Korea	13.66
400 m hurdles	Takatoshi Abe Japan	49.64	Yuta Imazeki Japan	50.22	Chen Chieh Chinese Taipei	50.39
3000 m steeplechase	Abubaker Ali Kamal Qatar	8:30.23	Artem Kosinov Kazakhstan	8:35.11	Tareq Mubarak Taher Bahrain	8:45.47
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Sota Kawatsura Masashi Eriguchi Shinji Takahira Hitoshi Saito	39.18	Hong Kong Tang Yik Chun Lai Chun Ho Ng Ka Fung Chi Ho Tsui	39.26	Chinese Taipei Wang Wen-tang Liu Yuan-kai Tsai Meng-lin Yi Wei-che	39.30
4 × 400 m relay	Japan Yusuke Ishitsuka Kei Takase Hideyuki Hirose Yuzo Kanemaru	3:04.72	Saudi Arabia Mohammed Ali Albishi Hamed Al-Bishi Y.I. Alhezam Yousef Ahmed Masrahi	3:08.03	Iran Peyman Rajabi Amin Ghelichi Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei Sajjad Hashemi	3:08.58
High jump	Mutaz Essa Barshim Qatar	2.35 m NR	Majd Eddin Ghazal Syria	2.28 m NR	Wang Chen China	2.26 m
Pole vault	Daichi Sawano Japan	5.50 m	Hiroki Ogita Japan	5.40 m	Yang Yansheng China	5.40 m
Long jump	Su Xiongfeng China	8.19 m	Supanara Sukhasvasti Thailand	8.05 m NJR	Rikiya Saruyama Japan	8.05 m
Triple jump	Yevgeniy Ektov Kazakhstan	16.91 m	Li Yanxi China	16.70 m	Roman Valiyev Kazakhstan	16.62 m
Shot put	Chang Ming-huang Chinese Taipei	20.14 m CR	Zhang Jun China	19.77 m	Om Prakash Karhana India	19.47 m
Discus throw	Ehsan Haddadi Iran	62.27 m	Vikas Gowda India	61.58 m	Wu Jian China	56.61 m
Hammer throw	Ali Al-Zinkawi Kuwait	73.73 m	Hiroshi Noguchi Japan	70.89 m	Hiroaki Doi Japan	70.69 m
Javelin throw	Yukifumi Murakami Japan	83.27 m CR	Park Jae-myong South Korea	80.19 m	Ivan Zaitcev Uzbekistan	79.22 m
Decathlon	Hadi Sepehrzad Iran	7506 pts	Akihiko Nakamura Japan	7478 pts	Bharatinder Singh India	7358 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Guzel Khubbieva Uzbekistan	11.39	Wei Yongli China	11.70	Tao Yujia China	11.74
200 metres	Chisato Fukushima Japan	23.49	Gretta Taslakian Lebanon	24.01	Saori Imai Japan	24.06
400 metres	Chen Jingwen China	52.89	Chandrika Subashini Sri Lanka	53.35	Chisato Tanaka Japan	54.08
800 metres	Truong Thanh Hang Vietnam	2:01.41	Margarita Matsko Kazakhstan	2:02.46	Tintu Luka India	2:02.55
1500 metres	Genzeb Shumi Regasa Bahrain	4:15.91	Truong Thanh Hang Vietnam	4:18.40	O. P. Jaisha India	4:21.41
5000 metres	Tejitu Daba Chalchissa Bahrain	15:22.48 CR	Hitomi Niiya Japan	15:34.19	Yuriko Kobayashi Japan	15:42.59
10,000 metres	Shitaye Eshete Bahrain	32:47.80	Kareema Saleh Jasim Bahrain	32:50.70	Preeja Sreedharan India	33:15.55
100 m hurdles	Sun Yawei China	13.04	Jung Hye-Lim South Korea	13.11	Natalya Ivoninskaya Kazakhstan	13.15
400 m hurdles	Satomi Kubokura Japan	56.52	Qi Yang China	56.69	Christine Merrill Sri Lanka	57.30
3000 m steeplechase	Minori Hayakari Japan	9:52.42 CR	Sudha Singh India	10:08.52	Thi Phuong Nguyen Vietnam	10:14.94
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Nao Okabe Momoko Takahashi Chisato Fukushima Saori Imai	44.05	China Tao Yujia Liang Qiuping Jiang Lan Wei Yongli	44.23	Thailand Phatsorn Jaksuninkorn Orranut Klomdee Laphassaporn Tawoncharoen Nongnuch Sanrat	44.62
4 × 400 m relay	Japan Sayaka Aoki Chisato Tanaka Satomi Kubokura Miho Shingu	3:35.00	India Mrudula Korada Jhuma Khatun Jaisha Orchatteri Puthiya Tintu Luka	3:44.17	Not awarded
High jump	Zheng Xingjuan China	1.92 m	Svetlana Radzivil Uzbekistan	1.92 m	Marina Aitova Kazakhstan	1.89 m
Pole vault	Wu Sha China	4.35 m	Li Ling China	4.30 m	Choi Yun-Hee South Korea	4.00 m
Long jump	Mayookha Johny India	6.56 m	Lu Minjia China	6.52 m	Saeko Okayama Japan	6.51 m
Triple jump	Xie Limei China	14.58 m	Valeriya Kanatova Uzbekistan	14.14 m	Mayookha Johny India	14.11 m NR
Shot put	Meng Qianqian China	18.31 m PB	Liu Xiangrong China	18.30 m	Leila Rajabi Iran	16.60 m
Discus throw	Sun Taifeng China	60.89 m	Ma Xuejun China	59.67 m	Harwant Kaur India	57.99 m
Hammer throw	Masumi Aya Japan	67.19 m	Liu Tingting China	65.42 m	Yuka Murofushi Japan	62.50 m
Javelin throw	Liu Chunhua China	58.05 m	Wang Ping China	55.80 m	Yuka Sato Japan	54.16 m
Heptathlon	Wassana Winatho Thailand	5710 pts	Humie Takehara Japan	5491 pts	Chie Kiriyama Japan	5442 pts

• Note: The original gold and silver medallists, Kazakhstan's Olga Tereshkova and Iraq's Gulustan Ieso, were later disqualified after testing positive for testosterone and methylhexaneamine, respectively. Initial bronze medallist Chen Jingwen of China was elevated to the gold medal position, while fourth and fifth placed runners Chandrika Subashini and Chisato Tanaka moved into the minor medal positions. The Kazakhstan and Iraqi 4 × 400 m relay quartets were also disqualified as a result. India were promoted to silver medallists and the bronze was vacated as only four teams participated.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Japan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	11	12	4	27
2	Japan (JPN)*	11	10	12	33
3	Bahrain (BHR)	5	2	2	9
4	Kuwait (KUW)	3	0	0	3
	Qatar (QAT)	3	0	0	3
6	Iran (IRN)	2	2	2	6
7	India (IND)	1	3	8	12
8	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	2	3	6
9	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	2	1	4
10	Thailand (THA)	1	1	1	3
	Vietnam (VIE)	1	1	1	3
12	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	1	1	0	2
13	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	0	2	3
14	South Korea (KOR)	0	2	2	4
15	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	1	2	3
16	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	0	1
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	1	0	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	1	0	1
19	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		42	42	41	125

• The medal changes due to doping disqualifications in the women's 400 m individual and relay events meant that China edged Japan to the top of the table. Kazakhstan fell from sixth to eighth place. Sri Lanka moved up from 19th to 15th place. Iraq received no medals.

Participating countries

464 athletes from 40 nations competed