Athletics at the 1974 Asian Games

The 1974 Asian Games were held in Tehran, Iran. This was the first time that China had competed in these games, it was also the last time that Israel competed.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Anat Ratanapol Thailand	10.42A	Masahide Jinno Japan	10.55A	Suchart Chairsuvaparb Thailand	10.59A
200 metres	Anat Ratanapol Thailand	21.09A	Takao Ishizawa Japan	21.60A	Nusrat Iqbal Sahi Pakistan	21.79A
400 metres	Wickramesinghe Wimaladase Sri Lanka	46.21A	Reza Entezari Iran	46.69A	Yoshiharu Tomonaga Japan	46.77A
800 metres	Sri Ram Singh India	1:47.57A	Reza Entezari Iran	1:48.50A	Muhammad Siddique Pakistan	1:48.64A
1500 metres	Muhammad Younis Pakistan	3:49.30A	Susumu Noro Japan	3:51.47A	Park Suk-Kwan South Korea	3:52.74A
5000 metres	Shivnath Singh India	14:20.50A	Yuval Wischnitzer Israel	14:21.50A	Kenichi Ozawa Japan	14:22.15A
10000 metres	Yasunori Hamada Japan	30:49.87A	Shivnath Singh India	30:51.61A	Makoto Hattori Japan	31:03.84A
3000 metre steeplechase	Takaharu Koyama Japan	8:57.95A	Gurmej Singh India	9:04.00A	Li Wenliang China	9:06.10A
110 metres hurdles	Zui Linni China	14.26A	Ahmad Ishtiaq Mubarak Malaysia	14.49A	Nasir Al-Ubaidi Iraq	14.63A
400 metres hurdles	Talib Faisal Al-Saffar Iraq	51.69A	Abdulatif Yousef Hashim Kuwait	52.32A	Lehan Singh India	52.49A
High jump	Teymour Ghiassi Iran	2.21A	Ni Zhiqin China	2.16A	Yoshikazu Okuda Japan	2.08A
Pole vault	Yosuhiro Kigawa Japan	5.00A	Cai Changxi China	5.00A	Chiang Yupin China	4.85A
Long jump	T.C. Yohannan India	8.07A	Takayoshi Kawagoe Japan	7.77A	Satish Pillai India	7.58A
Triple jump	Toshiaki Inoue Japan	16.45A	Mohinder Singh Gill India	16.25A	Faramase Asef Iran	15.97A
Shot putt	Djalal Ali Keshmiri Iran	18.04A	Bahadur Singh Chouhan India	17.94A	Jugraj Singh Mann India	17.64A
Discus throw	Djalal Ali Keshmiri Iran	56.82A	Praveen Kumar India	53.64A	Salman Hesam Iran	52.32A
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi Japan	66.54A	Nirmal Singh India	60.02A	Kim Myong-Geun North Korea	59.80A
Javelin throw	Toshihiro Yamada Japan	76.12A	Minoru Onda Japan	76.04A	Chang Bao China	73.64A
Decathlon	Vijay Singh Chauhan India	7375A	Junichi Onizuka Japan	7294A	Suresh Babu India	6836A
4 x 100 metres relay	Thailand	40.14A	China	40.20A	Singapore	40.34A
4 x 400 metres relay	Sri Lanka	3:07.40A	India	3:08.73A	Iran	3:10.10A

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Esther Rot Israel	11.90A	He Zufen China	12.10A	Keiko Yamada Japan	12.42A
200 metres	Esther Rot Israel	23.79A	He Zufen China	24.41A	Emiko Konishi Japan	24.94A
400 metres	Chee Swee Lee Singapore	55.08A	Nobuko Kawano Japan	55.59A	Junaida Aman Malaysia	55.78A
800 metres	Nobuko Kawano Japan	2:08.05A	Miyako Inoue Japan	2:08.99A	Li Tan China	2:09.89A
1500 metres	Sun Meihua China	4:28.68A	Yang Yenying China	4:29.17A	Hannah Shezifi Israel	4:31.00A
100 metres hurdles	Esther Rot (Shakhamurov) Israel	13.31A	Tomomi Hayashida Japan	14.28A	Miyuki Iioka Japan	14.32A
High jump	Orit Abramovich Israel	1.78A	Mikiko Sone Japan	1.78A	Wu Fushan China	1.74A
Long jump	Xiao Jiehping China	6.31A	Kang Yulee China	6.26A	Hiroko Yamashita Japan	6.15A
Shot putt	Paik Ok-Ja South Korea	16.28A	Kao Yukuei China	15.22A	Kayoko Hayashi Japan	15.14A
Discus throw	Kao Yukuei China	51.84A	Nanjilmaa Dashzewegh Mongolia	47.32A	Matsuko Takahashi Japan	47.04A
Javelin throw	Mao Jiajou China	53.06A	Mieko Takasaka Japan	52.00A	Keiko Myogai Japan	47.96A
Pentathlon	Kyoko Shimizu Japan	3890A	Sun Yuxiang China	3849A	Chang Yumei China	3783A
4 x 100 metres relay	Japan	46.62A	China	46.76A	Singapore	47.10A
4 x 400 metres relay	Japan	3:43.50A	Singapore	3:43.85A	Burma	3:45.06A

Medal table

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	South Korea	1	0	1	2
	Iraq	1	0	1	2
12	Malaysia	0	1	1	2
13	Kuwait	0	1	0	1
	Mongolia	0	1	0	1
15	North Korea	0	0	1	1
	Burma	0	0	1	1

External link

• Results - GBR Athletics