Athletics at the 1974 Asian Games

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.

Athletics
at the 1974 Asian Games
VenueAryamehr Stadium
Dates9–15 September
← 1970
1978 →

Medalists

Men

EventGoldSilverBronze
100 m
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Anat Ratanapol
 Thailand
10.42Masahide Jinno
 Japan
10.55Suchart Jairsuraparp
 Thailand
10.59
200 m
details
Anat Ratanapol
 Thailand
21.09
GR
Takao Ishizawa
 Japan
21.60Nusrat Iqbal Sahi
 Pakistan
21.79
400 m
details
Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa
 Sri Lanka
46.21
GR
Reza Entezari
 Iran
46.69Yoshiharu Tomonaga
 Japan
46.77
800 m
details
Sriram Singh
 India
1:47.57
GR
Reza Entezari
 Iran
1:48.50Muhammad Siddique
 Pakistan
1:48.64
1500 m
details
Muhammad Younis
 Pakistan
3:49.30Susumu Noro
 Japan
3:51.17Park Suk-kwan
 South Korea
3:52.74
5000 m
details
Shivnath Singh
 India
14:20.50
GR
Yuval Wischnitzer
 Israel
14:21.50Kenichi Ozawa
 Japan
14:22.15
10,000 m
details
Yasunori Hamada
 Japan
30:49.87Shivnath Singh
 India
30:51.61Makoto Hattori
 Japan
31:03.84
110 m hurdles
details
Cui Lin
 China
14.26
GR
Ishtiaq Mubarak
 Malaysia
14.49Nasser Sultan
 Iraq
14.63
400 m hurdles
details
Talib Faisal
 Iraq
51.69
GR
Abdullatif Abbas
 Kuwait
52.32Lehmber Singh
 India
52.49
3000 m steeplechase
details
Takaharu Koyama
 Japan
8:57.95Gurmej Singh
 India
9:04.00Li 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
2.16Yoshikazu 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
7.77Satish Pillai
 India
7.58
Triple jump
details
Toshiaki Inoue
 Japan
16.45
GR
Mohinder Singh Gill
 India
16.25Faramarz Asef
 Iran
15.97
Shot put
details
Jalal Keshmiri
 Iran
18.04
GR
Bahadur Singh Chouhan
 India
17.94Jugraj Singh
 India
17.64
Discus throw
details
Jalal Keshmiri
 Iran
56.82
GR
Praveen Kumar
 India
53.64Salman Hesam
 Iran
52.32
Hammer throw
details
Shigenobu Murofushi
 Japan
66.54Nirmal Singh Grewal
 India
60.02Kim Myong-geun
 North Korea
59.80
Javelin throw
details
Toshihiro Yamada
 Japan
76.12
GR
Minoru Onda
 Japan
76.04Zhang Bao
 China
73.64
Decathlon
details
Vijay Singh Chauhan
 India
7375
GR
Junichi Onizuka
 Japan
7294Suresh Babu
 India
6836

Women

EventGoldSilverBronze
100 m
details
Esther Roth
 Israel
11.90He Zufen
 China
12.10Keiko Yamada
 Japan
12.42
200 m
details
Esther Roth
 Israel
23.79He Zufen
 China
24.41Emiko Konishi
 Japan
24.94
400 m
details
Chee Swee Lee
 Singapore
55.08
GR
Nobuko Kawano
 Japan
55.59Junaidah Aman
 Malaysia
55.78
800 m
details
Nobuko Kawano
 Japan
2:08.05Miyako Inoue
 Japan
2:08.99Li Dan
 China
2:09.89
1500 m
details
Song Meihua
 China
4:28.68Yang Yanying
 China
4:29.17Hana Shezifi
 Israel
4:31.00
100 m hurdles
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Esther Roth
 Israel
13.31
GR
Tomomi Hayashida
 Japan
14.28Miyuki 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
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 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
6.26Hiroko Yamashita
 Japan
6.15
Shot put
details
Paik Ok-ja
 South Korea
16.28
GR
Gao Yukui
 China
15.22Kayoko Hayashi
 Japan
15.06
Discus throw
details
Gao Yukui
 China
51.84
GR
Dashzevegiin Namjilmaa
 Mongolia
47.32Matsuko Takahashi
 Japan
47.04
Javelin throw
details
Zhou Maojia
 China
53.06
GR
Mieko Takasaka
 Japan
52.02Keiko Myogai
 Japan
47.96
Pentathlon
details
Kyoko Shimizu
 Japan
3890Sun Yuxiang
 China
3849Zhang Yumei
 China
3783

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Japan (JPN)10111132
2  China (CHN)510621
3  India (IND)47415
4  Israel (ISR)4116
5  Iran (IRN)3238
6  Thailand (THA)3014
7  Sri Lanka (SRI)2002
8  Singapore (SIN)1124
9  Pakistan (PAK)1023
10  Iraq (IRQ)1012
 South Korea (KOR)1012
12  Malaysia (MAL)0112
13  Kuwait (KUW)0101
 Mongolia (MGL)0101
15  Burma (BIR)0011
 North Korea (PRK)0011
Totals (16 entries)353535105

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