# Athletics at the 2006 Asian Games

An Athletics competition was contested at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar from December 7 to December 12. Twenty-three events were contested for the men while 22 were on the slate for the women. Only the 3000 Meter Steeplechase was not contested for by the women. All track and field events were held at Khalifa International Stadium, and the racewalking and marathon took place at the Doha Corniche. A total of 530 athletes (comprising 331 men and 199 women) from 41 nations took part in the competition. Bhutan, Brunei, Indonesia and Myanmar were the only nations without a representative in the events.

## Schedule

| ● | 1st day | ● | Final day | H | Heats | Q | Qualification | S | Semifinals | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | 7th Thu | 8th Fri | 9th Sat | 9th Sat | 10th Sun | 11th Mon | 12th Tue |
| Men's 100 m | | H | S | F | | | |
| Men's 200 m | | | | | H | F | |
| Men's 400 m | | H | | | F | | |
| Men's 800 m | | | H | H | | F | |
| Men's 1500 m | | H | | | F | | |
| Men's 5000 m | | | | | | | F |
| Men's 10,000 m | | | F | F | | | |
| Men's 110 m hurdles | | | | | | H | F |
| Men's 400 m hurdles | | | H | H | F | | |
| Men's 3000 m steeplechase | | F | | | | | |
| Men's 4 × 100 m relay | | | | | | H | F |
| Men's 4 × 400 m relay | | | | | | | F |
| Men's marathon | | | | | F | | |
| Men's 20 km walk | F | | | | | | |
| Men's high jump | | | F | F | | | |
| Men's pole vault | | | | | F | | |
| Men's long jump | | Q | F | F | | | |
| Men's triple jump | | | | | | | F |
| Men's shot put | | | | | | F | |
| Men's discus throw | | | | | F | | |
| Men's hammer throw | | F | | | | | |
| Men's javelin throw | | | | | | | F |
| Men's decathlon | | | | | ● | ● | |
| Women's 100 m | | H | F | F | | | |
| Women's 200 m | | | | | H | F | |
| Women's 400 m | | | H | H | F | | |
| Women's 800 m | | H | F | F | | | |
| Women's 1500 m | | | | | | | F |
| Women's 5000 m | | | | | | F | |
| Women's 10,000 m | | F | | | | | |
| Women's 100 m hurdles | | | | | F | | |
| Women's 400 m hurdles | | | | | F | | |
| Women's 4 × 100 m relay | | | | | | | F |
| Women's 4 × 400 m relay | | | | | | | F |
| Women's marathon | | | F | F | | | |
| Women's 20 km walk | F | | | | | | |
| Women's high jump | | | | | | F | |
| Women's pole vault | | | | | | | F |
| Women's long jump | | | | | F | | |
| Women's triple jump | | | | | | F | |
| Women's shot put | | | F | F | | | |
| Women's discus throw | | | | | | F | |
| Women's hammer throw | | F | | | | | |
| Women's javelin throw | | | F | F | | | |
| Women's heptathlon | | ● | ● | ● | | | |

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Yahya Habeeb Saudi Arabia | 10.32 | Naoki Tsukahara Japan | 10.34 | Wachara Sondee Thailand | 10.39 |
| 200 m details | Shingo Suetsugu Japan | 20.60 | Yang Yaozu China | 20.71 | Shinji Takahira Japan | 20.81 |
| 400 m details | Hamdan Al-Bishi Saudi Arabia | 45.64 | Brandon Simpson Bahrain | 45.68 | Fawzi Al-Shammari Kuwait | 46.35 |
| 800 m details | Yusuf Saad Kamel Bahrain | 1:45.74 | Mohammad Al-Azemi Kuwait | 1:46.25 | Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei Iran | 1:47.43 |
| 1500 m details | Daham Najim Bashir Qatar | 3:38.06 GR | Belal Mansoor Ali Bahrain | 3:38.08 | Rashid Ramzi Bahrain | 3:38.91 |
| 5000 m details | James Kwalia Qatar | 13:38.90 | Mushir Salem Jawher Bahrain | 13:41.10 | Sultan Khamis Zaman Qatar | 13:45.91 |
| 10,000 m details | Hasan Mahboob Bahrain | 27:58.88 GR | Essa Ismail Rashed Qatar | 27:59.15 | Aadam Ismaeel Khamis Bahrain | 28:02.08 |
| 110 m hurdles details | Liu Xiang China | 13.15 GR | Shi Dongpeng China | 13.28 | Masato Naito Japan | 13.60 |
| 400 m hurdles details | Kenji Narisako Japan | 48.78 | Meng Yan China | 49.26 | Naohiro Kawakita Japan | 50.19 |
| 3000 m steeplechase details | Tareq Mubarak Taher Bahrain | 8:26.85 GR | Gamal Belal Salem Qatar | 8:29.10 | Lin Xiangqian China | 8:30.49 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | Thailand Seksan Wongsala Wachara Sondee Ekkachai Janthana Sittichai Suwonprateep | 39.21 | Japan Naoki Tsukahara Shingo Suetsugu Yusuke Omae Shinji Takahira | 39.21 | China Wen Yongyi Pang Guibin Yang Yaozu Hu Kai | 39.62 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | Saudi Arabia Ismail Al-Sabiani Hamed Al-Bishi Mohammed Al-Salhi Hamdan Al-Bishi | 3:05.31 | India Aboo Backer Joseph Abraham Bhupinder Singh K. M. Binu | 3:06.65 | Sri Lanka Rohan Pradeep Kumara Rohitha Pushpakumara Prasanna Amarasekara Ashoka Jayasundara | 3:06.97 |
| Marathon details | Mubarak Hassan Shami Qatar | 2:12:44 | Khalid Kamal Yaseen Bahrain | 2:15:36 | Satoshi Osaki Japan | 2:15:36 |
| 20 km walk details | Han Yucheng China | 1:21:41 | Kim Hyun-sub South Korea | 1:23:12 | Koichiro Morioka Japan | 1:23:17 |
| High jump details | Jean-Claude Rabbath Lebanon | 2.23 | Sergey Zasimovich Kazakhstan | 2.23 | Naoyuki Daigo Japan | 2.23 |
| Pole vault details | Daichi Sawano Japan | 5.60 | Leonid Andreev Uzbekistan | 5.55 | Yang Yansheng China | 5.50 |
| Long jump details | Hussein Al-Sabee Saudi Arabia | 8.02 | Saleh Al-Haddad Kuwait | 7.88 | Ahmed Faiz Saudi Arabia | 7.85 |
| Triple jump details | Li Yanxi China | 17.06 | Roman Valiyev Kazakhstan | 16.98 | Kim Deok-hyeon South Korea | 16.87 |
| Shot put details | Sultan Al-Hebshi Saudi Arabia | 20.42 GR | Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi Qatar | 20.05 | Chang Ming-huang Chinese Taipei | 19.45 |
| Discus throw details | Ehsan Haddadi Iran | 63.79 | Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari Qatar | 62.11 | Sultan Al-Dawoodi Saudi Arabia | 60.82 |
| Hammer throw details | Dilshod Nazarov Tajikistan | 74.43 | Ali Al-Zenkawi Kuwait | 73.14 | Hiroaki Doi Japan | 69.45 |
| Javelin throw details | Park Jae-myong South Korea | 79.30 | Yukifumi Murakami Japan | 78.15 | Li Rongxiang China | 76.13 |
| Decathlon details | Dmitriy Karpov Kazakhstan | 8384 GR | Vitaliy Smirnov Uzbekistan | 7769 | Kim Kun-woo South Korea | 7665 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Guzel Khubbieva Uzbekistan | 11.27 | Susanthika Jayasinghe Sri Lanka | 11.34 | Ruqaya Al-Ghasra Bahrain | 11.40 |
| 200 m details | Ruqaya Al-Ghasra Bahrain | 23.19 | Guzel Khubbieva Uzbekistan | 23.30 | Susanthika Jayasinghe Sri Lanka | 23.42 |
| 400 m details | Olga Tereshkova Kazakhstan | 51.86 | Manjeet Kaur India | 52.17 | Asami Tanno Japan | 53.04 |
| 800 m details | Maryam Yusuf Jamal Bahrain | 2:01.79 | Viktoriya Yalovtseva Kazakhstan | 2:03.19 | Zamira Amirova Uzbekistan | 2:03.56 |
| 1500 m details | Maryam Yusuf Jamal Bahrain | 4:08.63 | Yuriko Kobayashi Japan | 4:14.96 | Sinimole Paulose India | 4:15.09 |
| 5000 m details | Xue Fei China | 15:40.12 | Kayo Sugihara Japan | 15:40.87 | O. P. Jaisha India | 15:41.91 |
| 10,000 m details | Kayoko Fukushi Japan | 31:29.38 | Kareema Saleh Jasim Bahrain | 32:17.14 | Hiromi Ominami Japan | 32:18.02 |
| 100 m hurdles details | Liu Jing China | 12.93 | Feng Yun China | 13.10 | Lee Yeon-kyung South Korea | 13.23 |
| 400 m hurdles details | Huang Xiaoxiao China | 55.41 | Satomi Kubokura Japan | 56.49 | Noraseela Mohd Khalid Malaysia | 56.85 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | China Wang Jing Chen Jue Han Ling Qin Wangping | 44.33 | Japan Tomoko Ishida Momoko Takahashi Takarako Nakamura Sakie Nobuoka | 44.87 | Chinese Taipei Lin Yi-chun Chuang Shu-chuan Chen Ying-ru Yu Sheue-an | 45.86 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | India Sathi Geetha Pinki Pramanik Chitra Soman Manjeet Kaur | 3:32.95 | Kazakhstan Marina Maslyonko Viktoriya Yalovtseva Tatyana Azarova Olga Tereshkova | 3:33.86 | China Han Ling Huang Xiaoxiao Tang Xiaoyin Li Xueji | 3:33.92 |
| Marathon details | Zhou Chunxiu China | 2:27:03 | Kiyoko Shimahara Japan | 2:30:34 | Kayoko Obata Japan | 2:30:38 |
| 20 km walk details | Liu Hong China | 1:32:19 GR | Ryoko Sakakura Japan | 1:33:19 | He Dan China | 1:34:24 |
| High jump details | Marina Aitova Kazakhstan | 1.93 | Tatyana Efimenko Kyrgyzstan | 1.91 | Shared silver | |
| High jump details | Marina Aitova Kazakhstan | 1.93 | Zheng Xingjuan China | 1.91 | Shared silver | |
| Pole vault details | Gao Shuying China | 4.30 | Roslinda Samsu Malaysia | 4.30 | Ikuko Nishikori Japan | 4.15 |
| Pole vault details | Gao Shuying China | 4.30 | Roslinda Samsu Malaysia | 4.30 | Zhao Yingying China | 4.15 |
| Long jump details | Kumiko Ikeda Japan | 6.81 | Anju Bobby George India | 6.52 | Olga Rypakova Kazakhstan | 6.49 |
| Triple jump details | Xie Limei China | 14.37 GR | Anastasiya Juravleva Uzbekistan | 14.26 | Li Qian China | 13.78 |
| Shot put details | Li Ling China | 18.42 | Li Meiju China | 18.08 | Lin Chia-ying Chinese Taipei | 16.70 |
| Discus throw details | Song Aimin China | 63.52 | Ma Xuejun China | 62.43 | Krishna Poonia India | 61.53 |
| Hammer throw details | Zhang Wenxiu China | 74.15 AR | Gu Yuan China | 65.13 | Masumi Aya Japan | 62.67 |
| Javelin throw details | Buoban Pamang Thailand | 61.31 GR | Ma Ning China | 57.53 | Yuki Ebihara Japan | 57.47 |
| Heptathlon details | Olga Rypakova Kazakhstan | 5955 | Soma Biswas India | 5675 | J. J. Shobha India | 5662 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 14 | 9 | 8 | 31 |
| 2 | Bahrain (BRN) | 6 | 5 | 3 | 14 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 5 | 9 | 13 | 27 |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 6 | Qatar (QAT) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 7 | Thailand (THA) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | India (IND) | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
| 9 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 10 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 11 | Iran (IRI) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Lebanon (LIB) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Tajikistan (TJK) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 15 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 16 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 45 | 46 | 45 | 136 |

## Participating nations

A total of 530 athletes from 41 nations competed in athletics at the 2006 Asian Games:
* Afghanistan (1)
* Bahrain (21)
* Bangladesh (3)
* Cambodia (2)
* China (52)
* Chinese Taipei (20)
* Hong Kong (9)
* India (31)
* Iran (14)
* Iraq (5)
* Japan (56)
* Jordan (3)
* Kazakhstan (25)
* Kuwait (22)
* Kyrgyzstan (10)
* Laos (1)
* Lebanon (5)
* Macau (5)
* Malaysia (5)
* Maldives (2)
* Mongolia (4)
* Nepal (2)
* North Korea (4)
* Oman (12)
* Pakistan (4)
* Palestine (4)
* Philippines (11)
* Qatar (34)
* Saudi Arabia (28)
* Singapore (1)
* South Korea (34)
* Sri Lanka (31)
* Syria (5)
* Tajikistan (6)
* Thailand (26)
* Timor-Leste (2)
* Turkmenistan (2)
* United Arab Emirates (5)
* Uzbekistan (8)
* Vietnam (12)
* Yemen (3)