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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Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium

Events at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The 19th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Kobe, Japan between July 7–10, 2011 at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium.^[1] The tournament had 507 athletes from forty Asian nations competing in the 42 track and field events over the four-day competition.^[2]

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.^[3] Liu Xiang won his fourth consecutive 110 metres hurdles title with a championship record mark.^[4] 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).^[5] Ieso and Olga Tereshkova both failed doping tests at the competition, thus losing their individual medals and also their team relay medals.^[6]

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[6]	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[6]	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.^[6]

Medal table

Shot putter Chang Ming-Huang claimed Chinese Taipei's only gold.

Chisato Fukushima won 200 m and relay golds for the hosts.

  *   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

References

Results

• AsC Kobe JPN 7 - 10 July 19th Asian Championships. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2011-08-13.

External links

• Results
• Report of top eight finishers per event