1979 Asian Championships
Dates	May 31-June 3
Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	National Olympic Stadium
Participation	at least 10 nations
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The third Asian Athletics Championships were held in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s)	Suchart Chairsuvaparb   Thailand	10.63	Suh Mei-Guh   South Korea	10.75	Akira Harada  Japan	10.80
200 metres (wind: -1.7 m/s)	Yasuhiro Harada  Japan	21.34	Shunzo Shito  Japan	21.34	Toshio Toyota  Japan	21.39
400 metres	Shoichi Handa  Japan	47.45	Abbas Al-Aibi   Iraq	47.47	Fahim Sada   Iraq	47.51
800 metres	Falah Naji Jarallah   Iraq	1:49.5a	Toshifumi Shigenari  Japan	1:49.6a	Sant Kumar  India	1:50.1a
1500 metres	Ratan Singh Bhadouria  India	3:49.8a	Takashi Ishii  Japan	3:50.1a	Toshifumi Shigenari  Japan	3:50.9a
5000 metres	Hideki Kita  Japan	13:55.3a	Takao Nakamura  Japan	13:59.8a	Gopal Singh Saini  India	13:59.8a
10,000 metres	Toshihiko Seko  Japan	28:59.2a	Kunimitsu Ito  Japan	29:00.2a	Takeshi So  Japan	29:02.5a
3000 metre steeplechase	Masanari Shintaku  Japan	8:40.8a	Hitoshi Iwabuchi  Japan	8:57.2a	Gopal Singh Saini  India	9:12.4a
110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.7 m/s)	Yoshifumi Fujimori  Japan	14.29	Satbir Singh  India	14.53	Jabbar Rahima   Iraq	14.72
400 metres hurdles	Hussein Kadhum   Iraq	51.18	Takashi Nagao  Japan	51.53	Yukihiro Yoshimatsu  Japan	52.14
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan Yasuhiro Harada Junichi Usui Shunzo Shito Akira Harada	39.70	Thailand Somsak Boontud Suchart Chairsuvaparb Anat Ratanapol Prasit Boonprasert	40.20	India Adille Sumariwalla Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran O.L. Thomas Thamizharasan	40.41
4 × 400 metres relay	Iraq Hussein Ali Nasayyif Heitham Nadim Fahim Abdul-Sada Abbas Al-Aibi	3:08.8a	Japan Eiji Natori Yasuhiro Harada Takayuki Isobe Takashi Nagao	3:08.9a	India P.V. Kamaraj Piara Singh Harkamaljit Singh Uday Krishna Prabhu	3:11.8a
20 kilometre road walk	Hakam Singh  India	1:35:40	Wang Qiang   People's Republic of China	1:35:48	Vellasamy Subramaniam   Malaysia	1:36:27
High jump	Kazunori Koshikawa  Japan	2.15	Takao Sakamoto  Japan	2.15	Takashi Katamine  Japan	2.15
Pole vault	Itsuo Takanezawa  Japan	5.20	Tomomi Takahashi  Japan	5.10	Yosuhiro Kigawa  Japan	5.00
Long jump	Junichi Usui  Japan	7.97	Suresh Babu  India	7.94	Toshihisa Yoshimoto  Japan	7.91w
Triple jump	Zhou Zhenxian   People's Republic of China	17.02	Motokuni Hiratani  Japan	16.52w	Masami Nakanishi  Japan	16.50w
Shot put	Mohammed Al-Zinkawi   Kuwait	17.78	Zhao Baoqin   People's Republic of China	17.50	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	17.47
Discus throw	Kiyotaka Kawasaki  Japan	55.34	Li Weinan   People's Republic of China	54.64	Michio Kita  Japan	53.06
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi  Japan	66.73	Masayuki Kawata  Japan	65.94	Raghubir Singh Bal  India	61.52
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao   People's Republic of China	86.50	Toshihiro Yamada  Japan	78.46	Masahiko Takita  Japan	78.46
Decathlon	Atsushi Kasai  Japan	7096	Toshikazu Kobayashi  Japan	6983	Jin Xuewei   People's Republic of China	6975

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s)	Emiko Konishi  Japan	12.09	Ying Yaping   People's Republic of China	12.10	Mo Myung-Hee   South Korea	12.11
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Sumiko Kaibara  Japan	24.45	Mo Myung-Hee   South Korea	24.49	Emiko Konishi  Japan	24.72
400 metres	Chung Byong-Soon   South Korea	54.33	Rita Sen  India	54.99	Yumiko Aoi  Japan	55.66
800 metres	Chung Byong-Soon   South Korea	2:06.1a	Chang Yong-Ae   North Korea	2:10.2a	Takako Sanda  Japan	2:11.8a
1500 metres	Kim Ok-Sun   North Korea	4:25.0a	Kim Chun-Hwa   North Korea	4:29.1a	Lü Hongxiang   People's Republic of China	4:31.3a
3000 metres	Kim Ok-Sun   North Korea	9:24.9a	Yang Yenying   People's Republic of China	9:30.8a	Kim Chun-Hwa   North Korea	9:31.4a
100 metres hurdles (wind: +1.2 m/s)	Emi Akimoto  Japan	14.17	Dai Jianhua   People's Republic of China	14.33	Tamie Motegi  Japan	14.45
400 metres hurdles	Yumiko Aoi  Japan	60.46	Marina Chin Leng Sim   Malaysia	61.63	Zhan Xin   People's Republic of China	61.84
4 × 100 metre relay	Japan Yukiko Osako Sumiko Kaihara Emiko Konishi Emi Akimoto-Sasaki	45.85	Thailand Buspranee Ratanapol Usanee Laopinkarn Pusadee Sangvijit Walapa Pinij	46.03	India Veena Chandola Rita Sen Angel Mary Joseph Srirupa Chatterjee	46.93
4 × 400 metre relay	Japan Yoshie Iizuka Masae Kiguchi Hiromi Hatano Yumiko Aoi	3:45.9a	Malaysia Marina Chin Zaiton Othman Vengadasalam Angamah Saik Oik Cum	3:46.3a	Philippines Mirna Ayo Carmen Torres Lorena Morcilla Lydia De Vega	3:57.5a
High jump	Zheng Dazhen   People's Republic of China	1.87	Tamami Yagi  Japan	1.81	Hisayo Fukumitsu  Japan	1.81
Long jump	Sumie Awara  Japan	6.42w	Zou Wa   People's Republic of China	6.27w	Kazuko Ishizu  Japan	6.05w
Shot put	Shen Lijuan   People's Republic of China	17.48	Yukari Seo  Japan	14.78	Yumiko Asari  Japan	14.12
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui   People's Republic of China	58.62	Yukari Seo  Japan	46.64	Yumiko Asari  Japan	44.16
Javelin throw	Li Xia   People's Republic of China	58.44	Yao Juiying   People's Republic of China	54.82	Naomi Shibusawa  Japan	51.16
Pentathlon	Ye Peisu   People's Republic of China	4139	Tomoko Uchida  Japan	3753	Sachie Sekiguchi  Japan	3706

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	20	18	21	59
2	People's Republic of China	7	8	3	18
3	Iraq (IRQ)	3	1	2	6
4	India (IND)	2	3	8	13
5	North Korea (PRK)	2	2	1	5
	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	1	5
7	Thailand (THA)	1	2	0	3
8	Kuwait (KUW)	1	0	0	1
9	Malaysia (MAS)	0	2	1	3
10	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		38	38	38	114

External links

• GBR Athletics