2017 Asian Athletics Championships

2017 Asian Championships
Dates	July 6–9
Host city	Bhubaneswar, India
Venue	Kalinga Stadium
Events	42
Participation	560 athletes from ; 41 nations
	← Wuhan 2015 Doha 2019 → ;

The 2017 Asian Athletics Championships was the 22nd edition of the Asian Athletics Championships. It was held from 6 to 9 July 2017 at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, India.[1] Bhubaneswar was the third Indian city to host Asian Championships. Around 560 athletes from 41 countries attended the event.[2]

The Championships were originally scheduled to be held at Ranchi, Jharkhand. After Ranchi's inability to host this event, Bhubaneswar was selected as the venue for this event.[3] On 30 March 2017 post a detailed presentation by Adille Sumariwalla, President AFI, Bhubaneswar was selected for hosting the Asian Athletics Championship by the Asian Athletics Association Council. The previous edition of the championship was held in Wuhan, China from 3–7 June 2015.

The Asian Athletics Championships are organized by Asian Athletics Association every two years.[4] Bhubaneswar is the third Indian-city to host the Asian Athletics Championship with Delhi in 1989 being the first and Pune in the year 2013 to be the second Indian cities.

The winners of the Championships got a direct berth for the 2017 World Championships in London to be held in August. As host, India was eligible to field three athletes in each discipline, instead of the usual two.[5]

Venues and infrastructure

The Kalinga Stadium.

Newly prepared synthetic track of Kalinga Stadium

The event took place at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. The Kalinga Stadium has the sitting capacity of 50,000 spectators.[6] The stadium was renovated with a new synthetic track, with floodlights and a warm-up facility has been set up to host the event.[7] After Ranchi pull-out from hosting the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships, the 86th Asian Athletics Association Council meeting confirmed Bhubaneswar as the host of 22nd Asian Athletics Championships.[8] The Government of Odisha decided to renovate the Kalinga Stadium within 90 days of time to host the event.

Logo and Mascot

Mascot Olly during the opening ceremony of 22nd Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar.

On 8 May 2017, the logo and mascot of Championship were released. Olly, the olive ridley sea turtle, an endangered species that travels to Odisha's Rushikulya and Gahirmatha beaches for its nesting, was chosen as the mascot.[9] It was flagged off by the Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patnaik, at the Championships' mascot rally covering 30 districts of the state of Odisha.

Culture

Cultural program on AAC2017

Fireworks on the Opening Day

Over 500 artists performed during the opening ceremony of the championships on 5 July 2017. Around 400 Odissi dancers performed in an act depicting the Kalinga War and Emperor Kharavela.[10] Shankar Mahadevan with his troupe performed the Rangabati song during the event, with the Sambalpuri dance group.

Media Coverage

Prasar Bharati, through the Doordarshan (DD), is the exclusive Host Broadcaster for the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships. Doordarshan will undertake all the obligations of the Host Broadcaster for the Championships and will provide the basic feed of the event.

Doping

The National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) found that the athlete Manpreet Kaur, Asian champion woman shot putter tested positive for a banned substance.[11]

Event summary

Track

Chronology: 2013 \| 2015 \| 2017 \| 2019 \| 2021

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Hassan Taftian Iran	10.25[12]	Femi Ogunode Qatar	10.26	Yang Chun-Han Chinese Taipei	10.31
200 metres	Yang Chun-Han Chinese Taipei	20.66	Park Bong-go South Korea	20.76	Femi Ogunode Qatar	20.79
400 metres	Mohammad Anas India	45.77	Arokia Rajiv India	46.14	Ahmed Mubarak Al-Saadi Oman	46.39
800 metres	Ebrahim Al-Zofairi Kuwait	1:49.47	Jamal Hairane Qatar	1:49.94	Jinson Johnson India	1:50.07
1500 metres	Ajay Kumar Saroj India	3:45.85	Jamal Hairane Qatar	3:46.90	Moslem Niadoost Iran	3:48.53
5000 metres	Govindan Lakshmanan India	14:54.48	Yaser Salem Bagharab Qatar	14:55.89	Tariq Ahmed Al-Amri Saudi Arabia	14:56.83
10,000 metres	Govindan Lakshmanan India	29:55.87	Gopi Thonakal India	29:58.89	Adilet Kyshtakbekov Kyrgyzstan	30:06.65
110 metres hurdles	Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel Kuwait	13.50	Yaqoub Mohamed Al-Youha Kuwait	13.59	Ahmed Khader Al-Muwallad Saudi Arabia	13.61
400 metres hurdles	Eric Cray Philippines	49.57	Chen Chieh Chinese Taipei	49.75	Jabir M.P. India	50.22
3000 metres steeplechase	Hossein Keyhani Iran	8:43.82	Yaser Salem Bagharab Qatar	8:46.16	Ali Ahmad Al-Amri Saudi Arabia	8:52.64
4 × 100 metres relay	China (CHN) Tang Xingqiang Liang Jinsheng Bie Ge Xu Haiyang Xu Zhouzheng*	39.38	Thailand (THA) Kritsada Namsuwan Bandit Chuangchai Jirapong Meenapra Jaran Sathoengram Ruttanapon Sowan*	39.38	Hong Kong (HKG) So Chun Hong Ng Ka Fung Tang Yik Chun Tsui Chi Ho Wan Hin Chung*	39.53
4 × 400 metres relay	India (IND) Kunhu Muhammed Amoj Jacob Arokia Rajiv Mohammad Anas Mohan Kumar* Sachin Roby*	3:02.92	Sri Lanka (SRI) Tharusha Dananjaya Kalinga Kumarage Ajith Premakumara Dilip Ruwan	3:04.80	Thailand (THA) Apisit Chamsri Nattapong Kongkraphan Jirayu Pleenaram Phitchaya Sunthonthuam Vitsanu Phosri*	3:06.48
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Athletes with stars competed in the heats but not the finals, and received medals.

Field

Chronology: 2013 \| 2015 \| 2017 \| 2019 \| 2021

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Woo Sang-hyeok South Korea	2.30 m =PB	Zhang Guowei China	2.28 m	Majd Eddin Ghazal Syria	2.24 m
Pole vault	Ding Bangchao China	5.65 m	Masaki Ejima Japan	5.65 m AJR	Ernest Obiena Philippines	5.50 m
Long jump	Huang Changzhou China	8.09 m	Chan Ming Tai Hong Kong	8.03 m	Shotaro Shiroyama Japan	7.97 m
Triple jump	Zhu Yaming China	16.82 m	Mark Harry Diones Philippines	16.45 m	Xu Xiaolong China	16.45 m
Shot put	Ali Samari Iran	19.80 m	Tejinder Pal Singh India	19.77 m	Ivan Ivanov Kazakhstan	19.41 m
Discus throw	Ehsan Haddadi Iran	64.54 m	Muhammad Irfan Malaysia	60.96 m	Vikas Gowda India	60.81 m
Hammer throw	Dilshod Nazarov Tajikistan	76.69 m	Wang Shizhu China	73.81 m	Lee Yun-chul South Korea	73.77 m NR
Javelin throw	Neeraj Chopra India	85.23 m CR	Ahmed Bader Magour Qatar	83.70 m	Davinder Singh Kang India	83.29 m
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Combined

Chronology: 2013 \| 2015 \| 2017 \| 2019 \| 2021

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Decathlon	Sutthisak Singkhon Thailand	7732 pts PB	Kazuya Kawasaki Japan	7584 pts	Guo Qi China	7495 pts
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Track

Chronology: 2013 \| 2015 \| 2017 \| 2019 \| 2021

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Viktoriya Zyabkina Kazakhstan	11.39[12]	Olga Safronova Kazakhstan	11.45	Dutee Chand India	11.52
200 metres	Viktoriya Zyabkina Kazakhstan	23.10	Rumeshika Rathnayake Sri Lanka	23.43	Olga Safronova Kazakhstan	23.47
400 metres	Quách Thị Lan Vietnam	52.78[12][13]	Jisna Mathew India	53.32	M. R. Poovamma India	53.36
800 metres	Nimali Liyanarachchi Sri Lanka	2:05.23	Gayanthika Abeyrathne Sri Lanka	2:05.27	Fumika Omori Japan	2:06.50
1500 metres	PU Chitra India	4:17.92	Geng Min China	4:19.15	Ayako Jinnouchi Japan	4:19.90
5000 metres	Darya Maslova Kyrgyzstan	15:57.95	Alia Saeed Mohammed United Arab Emirates	15:59.95	Sanjivani Jadhav India	16:00.24
10,000 metres	Darya Maslova Kyrgyzstan	32:21.21	Yuka Hori Japan	32:23.26	Mizuki Matsuda Japan	32:46.61
100 metres hurdles	Jung Hye-lim South Korea	13.16	Ayako Kimura Japan	13.30	Wang Dou China	13.36
400 metres hurdles	Nguyễn Thị Huyền Vietnam	56.14	Anu Raghavan India	57.22	Sayaka Aoki Japan	58.18
3000 metres steeplechase	Sudha Singh India	9:59.47	Hyo Gyong North Korea	10:13.94	Nana Sato Japan	10:18.11
4 × 100 metres relay	Kazakhstan (KAZ) Rima Kashafutdinova Viktoriya Zyabkina Merjen Ishangulyyeva Olga Safronova	43.53	China (CHN) Sun Fengyan Kong Lingwei Lin Huijun Feng Lulu	44.50	India (IND) Merlin Joseph Himashree Roy Srabani Nanda Dutee Chand	44.57
4 × 400 metres relay	Vietnam (VIE) Nguyễn Thị Oanh Quách Thị Lan Hoàng Thị Ngọc Nguyễn Thị Huyền	3:33.22[12][13]	Japan (JPN) Sayaka Aoki Kana Ichikawa Seika Aoyama Manami Kira	3:37.74	Kazakhstan (KAZ) Svetlana Golendova Elina Mikhina Adelina Akhmetova Merjen Ishangulyeva	3:37.95

Field

Chronology: 2013 \| 2015 \| 2017 \| 2019 \| 2021

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Nadiya Dusanova Uzbekistan	1.84 m	Yeung Man Wai Hong Kong Wang Xueyi China Liu Jingyi China	1.80 m	Not awarded
Pole vault	Chen Qiaoling China	4.40 m	Li Ling China	4.20 m	Chayanusa Chomchuendee Thailand	4.10 m
Long jump	Bùi Thị Thu Thảo Vietnam	6.54 m	Nellickal V. Neena India	6.54 m	Nayana James India	6.42 m
Triple jump	Mariya Ovchinnikova Kazakhstan	13.72 m	Irina Ektova Kazakhstan	13.62 m	N.V. Sheena India	13.42 m
Shot put	Manpreet Kaur India	DQ (from 2016)	Guo Tianqian China	17.91 m	Aya Ota Japan	15.45 m
Discus throw	Chen Yang China	60.41 m	Subenrat Insaeng Thailand	56.82 m	Lu Xiaoxin China	55.27 m
Hammer throw	Luo Na China	69.92 m	Liu Tingting China	69.45 m	Hitomi Katsuyama Japan	60.22 m
Javelin throw	Li Lingwei China	63.06 m CR	Dilhani Lekamage Sri Lanka	58.11 m PB	Annu Rani India	57.32 m
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Combined

Chronology: 2013 \| 2015 \| 2017 \| 2019 \| 2021

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Heptathlon	Swapna Barman India	5942 pts PB	Meg Hemphill Japan	5883 pts	Purnima Hembram India	5798 pts
WR world record \| AR area record \| CR championship record \| GR games record \| NR national record \| OR Olympic record \| PB personal best \| SB season best \| WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal count

Key

The host country is highlighted in lavender blue


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India (IND)*	10	6	13	29
2	China (CHN)	8	7	5	20
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	4	2	1	7
4	Iran (IRI)	4	0	1	5
5	Vietnam (VIE)	4	0	0	4
6	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	1	4
7	Kuwait (KWT)	2	1	0	3
8	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	2	0	1	3
9	Sri Lanka (SRI)	1	4	0	5
10	Thailand (THA)	1	2	2	5
11	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	1	1	3
11	Philippines (PHI)	1	1	1	3
13	Tajikistan (TJK)	1	0	0	1
13	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	0	0	1
15	Japan (JPN)	0	6	8	14
16	Qatar (QAT)	0	6	1	7
17	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	2	1	3
18	Malaysia (MYS)	0	1	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	1	0	1
21	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	3	3
22	Oman (OMN)	0	0	1	1
22	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 nations)		42	42	41	125

Participating Nations

A total 560 athletes from 41 nations attended the event.

Afghanistan (7)
Bangladesh (18)
Bahrain (1)
Bhutan (1)
Cambodia (2)
China (50)
Chinese Taipei (23)
Hong Kong (15)
India (87)
Indonesia (4)
Iran (14)
Iraq (10)
Japan (54)
Jordan (4)
Kazakhstan (29)
Kuwait (18)
Kyrgyzstan (6)
Lebanon (8)
Macau (5)
Malaysia (19)
Maldives (10)
Mongolia (4)
Myanmar (3)
Nepal (5)
North Korea (4)
Oman (9)
Pakistan (5)
Philippines (7)
Qatar (10)
Saudi Arabia (14)
Singapore (9)
South Korea (21)
Sri Lanka (21)
Syria (2)
Tajikistan (7)
Thailand (27)
Timor-Leste (3)
United Arab Emirates (8)
Uzbekistan (7)
Vietnam (6)
Yemen (3)

Gallery

Opening Ceremony of AAC 2017.
Opening Ceremony of AAC 2017.
Opening Ceremony of AAC 2017.
Opening Ceremony of AAC 2017.
Athletes from Afghanistan bearing the national flag during the opening ceremony.
Athletes from China bearing the national flag during the opening ceremony.
Athletes from Japan bearing the national flag during the opening ceremony.
Athletes from Kazakhstan bearing the national flag during the opening ceremony.
Athletes from Pakistan bearing the national flag during the opening ceremony.
Athletes from Malaysia bearing the national flag during the opening ceremony.
Athletes from Sri Lanka bearing the national flag during the opening ceremony.
Athletes from India bearing the national flag during the opening ceremony.
Hiba Omar from Syria bearing the national flag during the opening ceremony.

References

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"22ND ASIAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017".
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External links

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[1] "22nd Asian Athletics Championship 2017". Asian Athletics Championship. Archived from the original on May 8, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2017.

[2] "22ND ASIAN ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017".

[3] "Bhubaneswar to host Asian Athletics Championships in July". Times of India. March 14, 2017.

[4] "Asian Athletics Association". Archived from the original on 2017-05-08.

[5] "22nd Asian Athletics Championship 2017". Athletics Federation of India. indianathletics.in. 8 April 2017. Archived from the original on 10 July 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.

[6] "Kalinga Stadium to get 10k more seats | Orissa Post". www.orissapost.com. Retrieved 2017-07-18.

[7] "Asian Athletics Championship: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik unveils event's official mascot Olly". Firstpost. 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2017-07-18.

[8] "Bhubaneswar (IND) to host 22nd Asian Athletics Championship 2017 – 86th AAA Council meeting". Athleticsasia.org. Archived from the original on 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2017-07-02.

[9] "Organisers unveil official mascot of Asian Athletics Championship". The Indian Express. 12 June 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2017.

[10] Pradhani, Hemant. "Asian Athletics Championships: Over 500 artists to perform for opening ceremony". The Times Of India. Retrieved 26 June 2017.

[11] Sarangi, Y. B. "Asian champion shot-putter Manpreet Kaur fails dope test". The Hindu. Retrieved 19 July 2017.

[results-12] ttp://www.athleticsasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/aac2017-finalresults.pdf

[dope-13] ttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/athletics/nirmala-sheoran-gets-four-year-ban-for-doping/articleshow/71515653.cms

Championships of the Asian Athletics Association
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See also: Athletics at the Asian Games