# Athletics at the 1993 East Asian Games

At the 1993 East Asian Games, the athletics events were held at the Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. A total of 41 events were contested, 22 by male and 19 by female athletes. The competition featured only track and field events as there was no marathon race and the 20 km walk was held on the track.
The host country, China, dominated the proceedings by winning the most gold medals and having the highest overall total. Chinese athletes won 29 of the 41 events, and won all of the women's competitions except two sprinting events, with a total of 62 medals. Japan was second with a total of 29 medals, while South Korea was the third-most successful nation with 12 medals. All the countries at the Games won at least one medal in the athletics competition, with the sole exception of Macau.
Wang Huei-Chen, representing Chinese Taipei, was the only woman to upset the Chinese hegemony and she won the gold in both the 100 metres and 200 metres events. Qu Yunxia won the 1500 metres – an event that she went on to set a long-standing world record in at the 1993 Chinese National Games. The hammer throw saw 18-year-old Koji Murofushi (later an Olympic champion) reach his first international podium, winning a bronze medal. Zhang Lirong became the first and only women's 3000 metres champion of the Games as the event was replaced with the 5000 metres in 1997. Three athletes reached the podium in two individual events: Li Yong-Ae of North Korea won silver medals in the long and triple jump, her teammate Choi Ok-Soon was the 800 m and 1500 m bronze medallist, and Lee Myung-Sun won the javelin silver and shot put bronze.
A number of athletes went on to further success at the 1994 Asian Games: among the men's East Asian Games gold medallists, Lee Jin-Il, Shunji Karube, Takahisa Yoshida, Bi Zhong and Zhang Lianbiao also became the Asian champion in their event. On the women's side, Wang Huei-Chen, Qu Yunxia and Min Chunfeng went on to add the 1994 Asian gold to their East Asian titles.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres Wind: 3.4m/s | Jin Sun-Kuk (KOR) | 10.23 w | Lin Wei (CHN) | 10.24 w | Chen Wenzhong (CHN) | 10.25 w |
| 200 metres Wind: 3.0 m/s | Zhao Cunlin (CHN) | 20.99 w | Koji Ono (JPN) | 21.19 w | Koji Ito (JPN) | 21.19 w |
| 400 metres | Yu Baoyi (CHN) | 46.77 | Xie Hong (CHN) | 46.92 | Koichi Konakatomi (JPN) | 47.00 |
| 800 metres | Lee Jin-Il (KOR) | 1:47.13 | Kim Yong-Hwan (KOR) | 1:48.75 | Han Bo (CHN) | 1:48.80 |
| 1500 metres | Kim Soon-Hyung (KOR) | 3:56.17 | Lin Jun (CHN) | 3:56.18 | Kim Bong-Yoo (KOR) | 3:57.46 |
| 5000 metres | Yosuke Osawa (JPN) | 13:47.61 | Jun Hiratsuka (JPN) | 13:51.67 | Jiu Shangxuan (CHN) | 13:54.09 |
| 10,000 metres | Nozomi Saho (JPN) | 29:03.55 | Tadashi Fukushima (JPN) | 29:05.09 | Ryu Ok-Hyon (PRK) | 29:41.44 |
| 110 metre hurdles Wind: 2.4 m/s | Zheng Jinsuo (CHN) | 13.77 w | Nobuaki Hoki (JPN) | 13.88 w | Kimihiro Kaneko (JPN) | 14.21 w |
| 400 metre hurdles | Shunji Karube (JPN) | 49.93 | Gao Yonghong (CHN) | 50.84 | Du Yuechun (CHN) | 51.03 |
| 3000 metre steeplechase | Akira Nakamura (JPN) | 8:51.72 | Sun Ripeng (CHN) | 8:52.66 | Niu Xinxiang (CHN) | 9:04.54 |
| 4×100 metre relay | China (CHN) | 39.36 | Japan (JPN) | 39.59 | South Korea (KOR) | 40.37 |
| 4×400 metre relay | China (CHN) | 3:04.35 | Japan (JPN) | 3:05.99 | North Korea (PRK) | 3:26.75 |
| 20 km track walk | Chen Shaoguo (CHN) | 1:21:29.1 | Li Mingcai (CHN) | 1:22:18.4 | Tsutomu Takushima (JPN) | 1:22:40.2 |
| High jump | Takahisa Yoshida (JPN) | 2.26 m | Lee Jin-Taek (KOR) | 2.26 m | Xu Yang (CHN) | 2.24 m |
| Pole vault | Ge Yun (CHN) | 5.20 m | Takumi Takahashi (JPN) | 5.10 m | Toshiyuki Hashioka (JPN) | 5.10 m |
| Long jump | Nai Hui-Fang (TPE) | 8.34 m | Nobuharu Asahara (JPN) | 7.93 m | Zhou Ming (CHN) | 7.84 m |
| Triple jump | Zou Sixin (CHN) | 16.77 m w | Park Min-Soo (KOR) | 16.58 m w | Chen Yanping (CHN) | 16.53 m |
| Shot put | Ma Yongfeng (CHN) | 19.50 m | Xie Shengying (CHN) | 18.32 m | Lee Sung-Hoon (KOR) | 17.12 m |
| Discus throw | Ma Wei (CHN) | 57.18 m | Kim Yong-Nam (PRK) | 51.56 m | Dashdendev Makhashiri (MGL) | 49.72 |
| Hammer throw | Bi Zhong (CHN) | 74.60 m | Akiyoshi Ikeda (JPN) | 67.62 m | Koji Murofushi (JPN) | 66.78 m |
| Javelin throw | Zhang Lianbiao (CHN) | 77.56 m | Chen Junlin (CHN) | 75.02 m | Kim Ho-Kyum (KOR) | 69.32 m |
| Decathlon | Munehiro Kaneko (JPN) | 7995 pts | Cai Min (CHN) | 7824 pts | Lee Fu-an (TPE) | 7678 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres Wind: 1.6m/s | Wang Huei-Chen (TPE) | 11.38 | Xiao Yehua (CHN) | 11.56 | Gao Han (CHN) | 11.57 |
| 200 metres Wind: 2.0 m/s | Wang Huei-Chen (TPE) | 23.47 | Chen Zhaojing (CHN) | 23.67 | Han Qing (CHN) | 23.76 |
| 400 metres | Len Xuiyan (CHN) | 53.75 | Hsu Pei-Ching (TPE) | 54.97 | Keiko Amano (JPN) | 55.75 |
| 800 metres | Zhang Yumei (CHN) | 2:01.68 | Lü Yi (CHN) | 2:03.38 | Choi Ok-Soon (PRK) | 2:08.03 |
| 1500 metres | Qu Yunxia (CHN) | 4:04.42 | Liu Dong (CHN) | 4:07.25 | Choi Ok-Soon (PRK) | 4:14.76 |
| 3000 metres | Zhang Lirong (CHN) | 8:40.30 | Zhang Linli (CHN) | 8:44.82 | Junko Kataoka (JPN) | 8:59.10 |
| 10,000 metres | Zhong Huandi (CHN) | 32:32.37 | Wang Xiuting (CHN) | 32:36.29 | Maiko Kawasaki (JPN) | 33:20.94 |
| 100 metre hurdles Wind: −1.8 m/s | Zhang Yu (CHN) | 13.23 | Feng Yinghua (CHN) | 13.31 | Chan Sau Ying (HKG) | 13.35 |
| 400 metre hurdles | Zhang Weimin (CHN) | 56.21 | Jiang Limei (CHN) | 56.96 | Hsu Pei-Ching (TPE) | 59.08 |
| 4×100 metre relay | China (CHN) | 44.23 | Japan (JPN) | 45.49 | Only two finished | Only two finished |
| 4×400 metre relay | China (CHN) | 3:33.41 | Japan (JPN) | 3:40.85 | Only two finished | Only two finished |
| 10,000 m walk | Li Chunxiu (CHN) | 45:00.32 | Cui Yingzi (CHN) | 46:08.07 | Yuko Sato (JPN) | 46:29.39 |
| High jump | Wang Wei (CHN) | 1.89 m | Fu Xiuhong (CHN) | 1.87 m | Lin Su-Chi (TPE) | 1.83 m |
| Long jump | Yang Juan (CHN) | 6.45 m | Li Yong-Ae (PRK) | 6.33 m | Wang Shu-Hwa (TPE) | 6.15 m |
| Triple jump | Zhang Jing (CHN) | 13.64 m | Li Yong-Ae (PRK) | 13.25 m w | Yoko Morioka (JPN) | 13.01 m |
| Shot put | Zhang Liuhong (CHN) | 19.88 m | Li Xiaoyun (CHN) | 18.17 m | Lee Myung-Sun (KOR) | 15.99 m |
| Discus throw | Min Chunfeng (CHN) | 63.12 m | Qiu Qiaoping (CHN) | 55.50 m | Ikuko Kitamori (JPN) | 49.90 m |
| Javelin throw Old model | Ha Xiaoyan (CHN) | 64.52 m | Lee Young-Sun (KOR) | 61.44 m | Zhao Yuhong (CHN) | 60.12 m |
| Heptathlon | Zhu Yuqing (CHN) | 6064 pts | Zhang Xiaohui (CHN) | 5821 pts | Ma Chun-Ping (TPE) | 5636 pts |

## Medal table

* Host nation (China)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN)* | 29 | 22 | 11 | 62 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 6 | 11 | 12 | 29 |
| 3 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 5 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 6 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Macau (MAC) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals (8 entries) | Totals (8 entries) | 41 | 41 | 39 | 121 |