Athletics at the 1974 Asian Games
Venue	Aryamehr Stadium
Dates	9–15 September
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The athletics at the 1974 Asian Games were held in Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran, Iran. This was the first time that China competed in these games and also the last time that Israel competed.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Anat Ratanapol   Thailand	10.42	Masahide Jinno   Japan	10.55	Suchart Jairsuraparp   Thailand	10.59
200 m details	Anat Ratanapol   Thailand	21.09 GR	Takao Ishizawa   Japan	21.60	Nusrat Iqbal Sahi   Pakistan	21.79
400 m details	Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa   Sri Lanka	46.21 GR	Reza Entezari   Iran	46.69	Yoshiharu Tomonaga   Japan	46.77
800 m details	Sriram Singh   India	1:47.57 GR	Reza Entezari   Iran	1:48.50	Muhammad Siddique   Pakistan	1:48.64
1500 m details	Muhammad Younis   Pakistan	3:49.30	Susumu Noro   Japan	3:51.17	Park Suk-kwan   South Korea	3:52.74
5000 m details	Shivnath Singh   India	14:20.50 GR	Yuval Wischnitzer   Israel	14:21.50	Kenichi Ozawa   Japan	14:22.15
10,000 m details	Yasunori Hamada   Japan	30:49.87	Shivnath Singh   India	30:51.61	Makoto Hattori   Japan	31:03.84
110 m hurdles details	Cui Lin   China	14.26 GR	Ishtiaq Mubarak   Malaysia	14.49	Nasser Sultan   Iraq	14.63
400 m hurdles details	Talib Faisal   Iraq	51.69 GR	Abdullatif Abbas   Kuwait	52.32	Lehmber Singh   India	52.49
3000 m steeplechase details	Takaharu Koyama   Japan	8:57.95	Gurmej Singh   India	9:04.00	Li Wenliang   China	9:06.10
4 × 100 m relay details	Thailand Kanoksak Chaisanont Anat Ratanapol Somsak Boontud Suchart Jairsuraparp	40.14 GR	China Cui Lin Feng Zhenren Yu Weili Luo Guoming	40.20	Singapore Ong Yoke Phee Tan Say Leong Yeo Kian Chai C. Kunalan	40.34
4 × 400 m relay details	Sri Lanka Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa Sunil Gunawardene Kosala Sahabandu Appunidage Premachandra	3:07.40 GR	India Lehmber Singh Sriram Singh Sucha Singh P. C. Punappa	3:08.73	Iran Fakhroddin Alamshah Reza Entezari Houshang Arshadi Ghasem Koveitipour	3:10.10
High jump details	Teymour Ghiasi   Iran	2.21 GR	Ni Zhiqin   China	2.16	Yoshikazu Okuda   Japan	2.08
Pole vault details	Yasuhiro Kigawa   Japan	5.00 GR	Cai Zhangxi   China	5.00 = GR	Jiang Yubin   China	4.85
Long jump details	T. C. Yohannan   India	8.07 GR	Takayoshi Kawagoe   Japan	7.77	Satish Pillai   India	7.58
Triple jump details	Toshiaki Inoue   Japan	16.45 GR	Mohinder Singh Gill   India	16.25	Faramarz Asef   Iran	15.97
Shot put details	Jalal Keshmiri   Iran	18.04 GR	Bahadur Singh Chouhan   India	17.94	Jugraj Singh   India	17.64
Discus throw details	Jalal Keshmiri   Iran	56.82 GR	Praveen Kumar   India	53.64	Salman Hesam   Iran	52.32
Hammer throw details	Shigenobu Murofushi   Japan	66.54	Nirmal Singh Grewal   India	60.02	Kim Myong-geun   North Korea	59.80
Javelin throw details	Toshihiro Yamada   Japan	76.12 GR	Minoru Onda   Japan	76.04	Zhang Bao   China	73.64
Decathlon details	Vijay Singh Chauhan   India	7375 GR	Junichi Onizuka   Japan	7294	Suresh Babu   India	6836

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Esther Roth   Israel	11.90	He Zufen   China	12.10	Keiko Yamada   Japan	12.42
200 m details	Esther Roth   Israel	23.79	He Zufen   China	24.41	Emiko Konishi   Japan	24.94
400 m details	Chee Swee Lee   Singapore	55.08 GR	Nobuko Kawano   Japan	55.59	Junaidah Aman   Malaysia	55.78
800 m details	Nobuko Kawano   Japan	2:08.05	Miyako Inoue   Japan	2:08.99	Li Dan   China	2:09.89
1500 m details	Song Meihua   China	4:28.68	Yang Yanying   China	4:29.17	Hana Shezifi   Israel	4:31.00
100 m hurdles details	Esther Roth   Israel	13.31 GR	Tomomi Hayashida   Japan	14.28	Miyuki Iioka   Japan	14.32
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Keiko Yamada Emiko Konishi Sayo Yamoto Tomomi Hayashida	46.62 GR	China Meng Yuqiong He Zufen Xiao Zinong Kang Yueli	46.76	Singapore Eng Chiew Quay Chee Swee Lee Glory Barnabas Maimoon Azlan	47.10
4 × 400 m relay details	Japan Yuko Kitabayashi Motsuko Otsuka Miyako Inoue Nobuko Kawano	3:43.52 GR	Singapore Glory Barnabas Lee Tai Jong Maimoon Azlan Chee Swee Lee	3:43.85	Burma Than Than Mar Mar Min Nwe Nwe Yee Than Than Htay	3:45.06
High jump details	Orit Abramovitz   Israel	1.78 GR	Mikiko Sone   Japan	1.78 = GR	Wu Fushan   China	1.74
Long jump details	Xiao Jieping   China	6.31 GR	Kang Yueli   China	6.26	Hiroko Yamashita   Japan	6.15
Shot put details	Paik Ok-ja   South Korea	16.28 GR	Gao Yukui   China	15.22	Kayoko Hayashi   Japan	15.06
Discus throw details	Gao Yukui   China	51.84 GR	Dashzevegiin Namjilmaa   Mongolia	47.32	Matsuko Takahashi   Japan	47.04
Javelin throw details	Zhou Maojia   China	53.06 GR	Mieko Takasaka   Japan	52.02	Keiko Myogai   Japan	47.96
Pentathlon details	Kyoko Shimizu   Japan	3890	Sun Yuxiang   China	3849	Zhang Yumei   China	3783

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	10	11	11	32
2	China (CHN)	5	10	6	21
3	India (IND)	4	7	4	15
4	Israel (ISR)	4	1	1	6
5	Iran (IRN)	3	2	3	8
6	Thailand (THA)	3	0	1	4
7	Sri Lanka (SRI)	2	0	0	2
8	Singapore (SIN)	1	1	2	4
9	Pakistan (PAK)	1	0	2	3
10	Iraq (IRQ)	1	0	1	2
	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
12	Malaysia (MAL)	0	1	1	2
13	Kuwait (KUW)	0	1	0	1
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	0	1
15	Burma (BIR)	0	0	1	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		35	35	35	105

References

• Asian Games Results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Women's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Men's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.