1983 Asian Championships
Dates	November 3–9
Host city	Kuwait City, Kuwait
Venue	Kuwait National Stadium
Participation	at least 16 nations
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The fifth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in November 1983 in Kuwait City, Kuwait.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Suchart Chairsuvaparb  Thailand	10.47	Sumet Promna  Thailand	10.52	Mohamed Purnomo  Indonesia	10.60
200 metres (wind: -4.2 m/s)	Sumet Promna  Thailand	21.39	Mohamed Purnomo  Indonesia	21.64	Jang Jae-keun  South Korea	21.70
400 metres	Isidro del Prado  Philippines	46.24	Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef  Iraq	46.74	Mohamed Nordin Jadi  Malaysia	46.76
800 metres	Najem Abdullah Mutlaq  Kuwait	1:49.43	Khalid Khalifa  Kuwait	1:49.97	Wang Lung-hua  Chinese Taipei	1:49.98
1500 metres	Suresh Yadav  India	3:44.74	Susumu Yoshida  Japan	3:45.67	Najem Abdullah Mutlaq  Kuwait	3:45.77
5000 metres	Zhang Guowei  China	14:07.72	Raj Kumar  India	14:22.56	Park Kyung-Duk  South Korea	14:25.85
10,000 metres	Zhang Guowei  China	29:45.41	Park Kyung-Duk  South Korea	30:04.89	Mohammad Vojdanzadeh  Iran	30:20.88
3000 metre steeplechase	Hwang Wen-cheng  Chinese Taipei	8:54.85	Hector Begeo  Philippines	8:55.57	Anokh Singh  India	9:05.80
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Wu Chin-jing  Chinese Taipei	13.90	Yu Zhicheng  China	14.16	Ahmed Hamada Jassim  Bahrain	14.24 (NR)
400 metres hurdles	Ahmed Hamada Jassim  Bahrain	49.43	Shigenori Ohmori  Japan	50.69	Lin Cheng-jih  Chinese Taipei	51.09
4 × 100 metres relay	China Cai Jianming He Baodong Yu Zhuanghui Yuan Guoqiang	40.16	Thailand Prasit Boonprasert Somsak Boontud Suchart Chairsuvaparb Sumet Promna	40.25	South Korea Kim Yong-il Sung Nak-kun Choi Yong-joon Park Sung-jun	40.60
4 × 400 metres relay	Iraq Fahim Abdul-Sada Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Abbas Ali Lafta Heitham Nadim	3:07.98	India Ghulam Kibria Charanjit Singh Bajwa Pavittar Singh Rajinder Sharma	3:11.02	Philippines Isidro Del Prado Honesto Larce Leopoldo Arnillo Renato Unso	3:11.09
20 kilometre road walk	Chand Ram  India	1:30:14	Zhang Fuzin  China	1:32:14	Buta Singh  India	1:43:19
High jump	Zhu Jianhua  China	2.31	Qassim Mohammed  Iraq	2.10	Chin Yi-Shik  South Korea	2.05
Pole vault	Zhang Chen  China	5.00	Ku Chin-shui  Chinese Taipei	4.80	Sunder Singh Tanwar  India	4.50
Long jump	Liu Yuhuang  China	7.97	Lee Bou-chai  Chinese Taipei	7.70	Koji Umemoto  Japan	7.60
Triple jump	Mai Guoqiang  China	16.25	Yasushi Ueta  Japan	16.10	Park Yeong-jun  South Korea	15.80
Shot put	Mohammed Al-Zinkawi  Kuwait	17.90	Balwinder Singh  India	16.89	Iqbal Singh  India	16.72
Discus throw	Li Weinan  China	55.40	Ajmer Singh  India	52.30	Nejim Abdulrazak  Kuwait	51.00
Hammer throw	Xie Yingqi  China	65.78	Masayuki Kawata  Japan	65.60	Raghubir Singh Bal  India	60.52
Javelin throw	Masami Yoshida  Japan	79.50	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi  Japan	70.16	Chen Hung-yen  Chinese Taipei	68.20
Decathlon	Lee Fu-an  Chinese Taipei	7641	Ku Chin-shui  Chinese Taipei	7438	Takeshi Kojo  Japan	7277

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	11.82	Valapa Pinij  Thailand	12.01	Shen Su-Feng  Chinese Taipei	12.07
200 metres (wind: -2.9 m/s)	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	24.07	P.T. Usha  India	24.68	Mo Myung-Hee  South Korea	24.72
400 metres	P.T. Usha  India	54.20	Junko Yoshida  Japan	54.65	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	55.66
800 metres	Huo Lianzhu  China	2:08.92	Im Chun-Sil  North Korea	2:09.20	Geng Xiuquan  China	2:10.02
1500 metres	Geng Xiuquan  China	4:30.72	Gao Suju  China	4:31.10	Kim Lyong-Soon  North Korea	4:31.13
3000 metres	Kim Lyong-Soon  North Korea	9:39.64	Kim Chun-Hwa  North Korea	9:41.34	Kim Soon-Hwa  South Korea	9:47.19
100 metres hurdles (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Emi Sasaki (Akimoto)  Japan	13.63	Liu Huajin  China	13.82	Lin Yueh-Hsiang  Chinese Taipei	14.04
400 metres hurdles	Yoko Sato  Japan	59.89	Chizuko Akimoto  Japan	59.95	Agrifina de la Cruz  Philippines	61.26
4 × 100 metres relay	Thailand Jaree Patarach Sarinee Phenglaor Walapa Pinij Wanna Popirom	46.12	Chinese Taipei Shen Su-feng Lin Ruei-er Jen Yui-chu Lin Li-shui	46.42	Japan Arisa Aman Chizuko Akimoto Junko Yoshida Emi Akimoto-Sasaki	46.47
4 × 400 metres relay	Thailand Ratjai Sripet Walapa Tangjitnusorn Usa Chanaphani Reim Sriteingtrong	3:48.62	Chinese Taipei Shen Su-feng Lin Ruei-er Jen Yui-chu Lin Li-shui	3:58.52	Jordan Khadija Al-Matari Wannas Abu Kartoumah Faten Al-Omari Amneh Odeh Mershed	4:17.41
High jump	Zheng Dazhen  China	1.84	Ge Ping  China	1.84	Kim Hee-sun  South Korea	1.81
Long jump	Liao Wenfen  China	6.21	Elma Muros  Philippines	6.09	Huang Donghuo  China	6.08
Shot put	Lu Cheng  China	17.38	So Bok-Hui  North Korea	14.61	Woo Kyon-Sun  South Korea	14.12
Discus throw	Jiao Yunxiang  China	53.00	Chun Hwa-Kyung  South Korea	47.20	Jeanette Ayoub  Lebanon	37.06
Javelin throw	Xin Xiaoli  China	53.48	Lee Huei-Cheng  Chinese Taipei	42.48	–	–
Heptathlon	Hisako Hashimoto  Japan	5486	Ye Lianying  China	5394	Chen Jin-Yun  Chinese Taipei	5075

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	16	6	2	24
2	Japan (JPN)	4	7	3	14
3	Thailand (THA)	4	3	0	7
4	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	3	6	6	15
5	India (IND)	3	5	5	13
6	Philippines (PHI)	3	2	3	8
7	Kuwait (KUW)	2	1	2	5
8	North Korea (PRK)	1	3	1	5
9	Iraq (IRQ)	1	2	0	3
10	Bahrain (BHR)	1	0	1	2
11	South Korea (KOR)	0	2	9	11
12	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	1	2
13	Iran (IRN)	0	0	1	1
	Jordan (JOR)	0	0	1	1
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia (MAS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		38	38	37	113

See also

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

References

• GBR Athletics