# 1991 Asian Athletics Championships

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

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | 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 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, 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.

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | 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 Dhana Laksmi Kutty Saramma Ashwini Nachappa | 3:33.50 | China Chen Zhaojing Huang Yanhong Qu Yunxia Pei Fang | 3:36.71 | Thailand Noodang Phimphoo Sukanya Sang-nguen Saleerat Srimek Reawadee Srithoa | 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 |
| 15 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (17 entries) | Totals (17 entries) | 40 | 40 | 40 | 120 |