1991 Asian Athletics Championships

1991 Asian Championships
Dates	October 19-23
Host city	Kuala Lampur, Malaysia
Venue	Stadium Merdeka
Participation	at least 17 nations
	← New Delhi 1989 Manila 1993 → ;

The ninth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1991 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Talal Mansour Qatar	10.29	Chen Wenzhong China	10.45	Khalid Jouma Ibrahim Bahrain	10.56
200 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s)	Zhao Cunlin China	20.75	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah Qatar	20.96	Hiroki Fuwa Japan	21.00
400 metres	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah Qatar	45.66	Aktawat Sakoolchan Thailand	46.52	Koji Ito Japan	46.64
800 metres	Lee Jin-Il South Korea	1:51.42	Nadir Khan Pakistan	1:51.68	Ismail Yousef Qatar	1:51.70
1500 metres	Mohammed Sulaiman Qatar	3:42.64	Kim Bong-yu^[nb1] South Korea	3:45.01	Nadir Khan Pakistan	3:46.47
5000 metres	Mohammed Sulaiman Qatar	14:03.35	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar	14:04.45	Wang Helin China	14:04.68
10,000 metres	Hwang Young-Jo South Korea	29:50.37	Wang Helin China	29:57.26	Kim Jae-Ryong South Korea	30:05.48
3000 metre steeplechase	Hamid Sajjadi Iran	8:33.89	Gao Shuhei China	8:34.32	Saleh Mohammed Habib Syria	8:34.66 (NR)
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.4 m/s)	Nur Herman Majid Malaysia	14.04	Zheng Jinsuo China	14.05	Toshihiko Iwasaki Japan	14.18
400 metres hurdles	Yoshihiko Saito Japan	50.46	Ghulam Abbas Pakistan	50.77	Zid Abou Hamed Syria	51.15
4 × 100 metre relay	China Zhang Hong Zhao Cunlin Chen Wenzhong Zheng Chen	39.20	Thailand Seaksarn Boonrat Niti Piyapan Pongsak Wacharakupt Visut Watanasin	39.26	Japan Koji Ito Masahito Horiuchi Tetsuya Yamashita Hiroki Fuwa	39.74
4 × 400 metre relay	Japan Hidekazu Katsuki Yoshihiko Saito Masayoshi Kan Koji Ito	3:05.22	Thailand Yuttana Thonglek Anucha Santirangsimant Sarapong Kumsup Aktawat Sakoolchan	3:05.81	Malaysia Azhar Hashim Vellabouy Samson Mohamed Yazid Parlan Nordin Mohamed Jadi	3:06.64 NR
20 kilometre road walk	Bu Lintang China	1:31:36	Hideharu Fuchida Japan	1:34:02	Suchá Singh India	1:37:01
High jump	Lee Jin-Taek South Korea	2.22	Shigeki Toyoshima Japan	2.19	Phaitoon Hearnthong Thailand	2.16
Pole vault	Hideyuki Takei Japan	5.25	Ge Yun China	5.10	Ku Chin-shui Chinese Taipei	5.10
Long jump	Chen Zunrong China	8.10	Masaki Morinaga Japan	8.02	Nai Hui-Fang Chinese Taipei	7.85
Triple jump	Chen Yanping China	17.22	Zou Sixin China	16.95	Marzouk Abdullah Al-Yoha Kuwait	16.48
Shot put	Cheng Shaobo China	18.11	Bilal Saad Mubarak Qatar	17.78	Yuji Okano Japan	17.65
Discus throw	Yu Wenge China	62.20	Shakti Singh India	53.26	Yuji Yamazaki Japan	51.76
Hammer throw	Bi Zhong China	69.90	Nobuhiro Todoroki Japan	64.56	Waleed Al-Bekheet Kuwait	60.74
Javelin throw	Zhang Lianbiao China	81.52	Masami Yoshida Japan	80.44	Kim Ki-Hoon South Korea	76.32
Decathlon	Gong Guohua China	7652	Cai Min China	7573	Katsuhiko Matsuda Japan	7364

^nb1 Some English-language sources, such as GBR Athletics,[1] erroneously state that Kim Bok-joo was 1991 Asian Championships runner-up in the men's 1500 m. Contemporary English and Korean sources indicate it was his similarly-named teammate Kim Bong-yu who achieved these feats.[2]

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -2.1 m/s)	Tian Yumei China	11.54	Pei Fang China	11.62	Wang Huei-Chen Chinese Taipei	11.69
200 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s)	Chen Zhaojing China	23.39	Wang Huei-Chen Chinese Taipei	23.44	Xiao Yehua China	23.48
400 metres	Shiny Wilson India	53.46	Josephine Mary Singarayar Malaysia	53.50	Kalawati "Kutty" Saramma India	53.51
800 metres	Qu Yunxia China	2:04.65	Shiny Wilson India	2:05.18	Yumiko Tokuda Japan	2:05.48
1500 metres	Qu Yunxia China	4:26.01	Khin Khin Htwe Myanmar	4:26.08	Kim Song-Hwa North Korea	4:27.15
3000 metres	Zhong Huandi China	9:10.27	Molly Chacko India	9:14.07	Khin Khin Htwe Myanmar	9:19.36
10,000 metres	Zhong Huandi China	33:42.77	Lukose Leelamma India	35:38.90	Marija Suryati Indonesia	38:00.33
100 metres hurdles (wind: +0.5 m/s)	Zhang Yu China	13.37	Naomi Jojima Japan	13.63	Kim Sun-Jin South Korea	13.77
400 metres hurdles	Huang Yanhong China	57.29	Reawadee Srithoa Thailand	57.35	Junko Hasegawa Japan	59.37
4 × 100 metres relay	China Pei Fang Tian Yumei Chen Zhaojing Xiao Yehua	43.41 CR	Thailand Wanna Popirom Reawadee Watanasin Ratjai Sripet Pronpim Srisurat	44.86	Japan Kaori Yoshida Kazue Kakinuma Toshie Kitada Ayako Nomura	45.25
4 × 400 metres relay	India Shiny Abraham-Wilson Laksmi Kutty Saramma Ashwini Nachappa	3:33.50	China	3:36.71	Thailand	3:37.52
10,000 metre track walk	Li Jingxue China	49:14.82	Tomoko Uchida Japan	49:40.18	Ma Kyin Lwan Myanmar	51:27.72
High jump	Yoko Ota Japan	1.83	Lin Suh-Chi Chinese Taipei	1.83	Jaruwan Jenjudkarn Thailand	1.80
Long jump	Li Yong-Ae North Korea	6.79 (NR)	Liu Shuzhen China	6.66	Hiroko Okumura Japan	6.29
Shot put	Huang Zhihong China	17.51	Min Chunfeng China	16.91	Aya Suzuki Japan	15.22
Discus throw	Min Chunfeng China	61.74	Aye Aye Nwe Myanmar	48.48	Chu Hsui-Chen Chinese Taipei	43.80
Javelin throw	Xu Demei China	59.84	Lee Young-Sun South Korea	55.06	Vijita P. Amarasekara Sri Lanka	50.90
Heptathlon	Zhu Yuqing China	6231	Ghada Shouaa Syria	5425	Wang Shu-Hwa Chinese Taipei	5388

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	24	11	2	37
2	Japan (JPN)	4	7	12	23
3	Qatar (QAT)	4	3	1	8
4	South Korea (KOR)	3	2	3	8
5	India (IND)	2	4	2	8
6	Malaysia (MAS)	1	1	1	3
7	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	1	2
8	Iran (IRN)	1	0	0	1
9	Thailand (THA)	0	5	3	8
10	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	2	5	7
11	Myanmar (MYA)	0	2	2	4
12	Pakistan (PAK)	0	2	1	3
13	Syria (SYR)	0	1	2	3
14	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	2	2
15	Bahrain (BHR)	0	0	1	1
	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 nations)		40	40	40	120

References

Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.
"金奉猷 1,500m 銀그쳐". The Dong-a Ilbo. 23 October 1991.

External links

GBR Athletics

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[1] Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2020-03-29.

[2] "金奉猷 1,500m 銀그쳐". The Dong-a Ilbo. 23 October 1991.

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