# 1973 Asian Athletics Championships

The inaugural Asian Athletics Championships were held in 1973 at the Rodriguez Sports Center in Marikina, Rizal, Philippines from November 18–23, 1973.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: -0.5 m/s) | Anat Ratanapol Thailand | 10.4 | Suchart Chairsuvaparb Thailand | 10.5 | Takao Ishizawa Japan | 10.6 |
| 200 metres (wind: +0.2 m/s) | Anat Ratanapol Thailand | 21.0 | Soo Wen-Ho Taiwan | 21.2 | Tokal Mokalam Philippines | 21.6 |
| 400 metres | Yoshiharu Tomonaga Japan | 46.8 | Koiiro Shika Japan | 47.6 | Ho Mun Cheong Singapore | 47.8 |
| 800 metres | Muhammad Younis Pakistan | 1:51.2 | Sri Ram Singh India | 1:51.5 | Kazuyoshi Mizuno Japan | 1:52.2 |
| 1500 metres | Kazuyoshi Mizuno Japan | 3:47.4 | Muhammad Younis Pakistan | 3:48.2 | Dashondha Singh India | 3:50.4 |
| 5000 metres | Ichio Sato Japan | 14:16.9 | Shivnath Singh India | 14:17.0 | Katsuaki Isohata Japan | 14:18.2 |
| 10,000 metres | Ichio Sato Japan | 29:54.4 | Shivnath Singh India | 29:54.8 | Katsuaki Isohata Japan | 29:55.8 |
| Marathon | Cho Je-Hyung South Korea | 2:27:31 | Park Chang-Yuel South Korea | 2:33:45 | Jit Bahadur Chetri Nepal | 2:35:38 |
| 3000 metre steeplechase | Takaharu Koyama Japan | 9:04.0 | Shibib Dagher Al-Lami Iraq | 9:10.9 | Mohammad Vojdanzadeh Iran | 9:22.0 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: -2.9 m/s) | Shigeo Oki Japan | 14.3 | Ahmad Ishtiaq Mubarak Malaysia | 14.3 | Marcelo Benauro Philippines | 14.4 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Abdulkadir Guiapar Philippines | 52.2 | Talib Faisal Al-Saffar Iraq | 52.7 | Tai Shi-Yan Taiwan | 53.1 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Japan Takao Ishizawa Kazuo Iwamoto Susumu Shimizu Yoshiharu Tomonaga | 40.0 | Thailand Suchart Chairsuvaparb Somsak Boontud Prasit Boonprasert Anat Ratanapol | 40.0 | India Abdul Aziz Adrian Kennedy K. Natarajan A.P. Ramaswamy | 40.3 |
| 4 × 400 metre relay | Japan Susumu Shimizu Yoshiharu Tomonaga Kazuyoshi Mizuno Koiiro Shika | 3:10.2 | Philippines Abdulkadir Guiapar Clemente Lupangco Santos Magno Ernesto Tabayan | 3:12.8 | Singapore Ho Mun Cheong Godfrey Jalleh Canagasabai Kunalan Cheah Kim Tech | 3:13.2 |
| 20 kilometre road walk | Yoshio Morikawa Japan | 1:11:31 | Francis Xavier India | | Khoo Chong Beng Malaysia | |
| High jump | Teymour Ghiassi Iran | 2.15 | Kazunori Koshikawa Japan | 2.15 | Yon Ismail Malaysia | 2.05 |
| Pole vault | Hisaki Suzuki Japan | 4.36 | Hong Sang-pyo South Korea | 4.36 | | |
| Long jump | Chen Chin-long Taiwan | 7.82w | Soo Wen-Ho Taiwan | 7.57w | Satish Pillai India | 7.53w |
| Triple jump | Mohinder Singh Gill India | 15.96w | Cheng Ming-chi Taiwan | 15.31 | T.C. Yohannan India | 14.96 |
| Shot put | Jagraj Singh Mann India | 17.00 | Gurdeep Singh India | 16.37 | Bahadur Singh Chouhan India | 15.75 |
| Discus throw | Jalal Keshmiri Iran | 51.20 | Praveen Kumar India | 49.08 | Toji Hayashi Japan | 48.04 |
| Hammer throw | Ajmer Singh India | 60.42 | Jeung Sub-kil South Korea | 49.20 | Oumvan Narith Khmer Republic | 41.24 |
| Javelin throw | Allah Dad Pakistan | 63.58 | Nashatar Singh Sidhu Malaysia | 63.28 | Gopal Kidyoor India | 58.28 |
| Decathlon | Vijay Singh Chauhan India | 7245 | Junichi Onizuka Japan | 7076 | Chen Chin-long Taiwan | 6752 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: +2.3 m/s) | Amelita Alanes Philippines | 11.6w | Michiko Morita Japan | 12.0w | Sayo Yamato Japan | 12.0w |
| 200 metres (wind: +1.1 m/s) | Michiko Morita Japan | 24.7 | Amelita Alanes Philippines | 25.0 | Satomi Fukuda Japan | 25.2 |
| 400 metres | Nobuko Kawano Japan | 55.2 | Keiko Ikoma Japan | 56.1 | Maimoon Azlan Singapore | 56.1 |
| 800 metres | Nobuko Kawano Japan | 2:08.1 | Chee Swee Lee Singapore | 2:08.1 | Harumi Fugimoto Japan | 2:09.6 |
| 1500 metres | Miyako Inoue Japan | 4:26.8 | Lee Chiu-Hsia Taiwan | 4:28.0 | Rachel Halle Israel | 4:34.6 |
| 100 metres hurdles (wind: +4.3 m/s) | Tomomi Hayashida Japan | 13.6w | Lin Yet-Hsiang Taiwan | 13.9w | Gan Bee Wah Singapore | 14.2w |
| 200 metres hurdles (wind: +3.5 m/s) | Tomomi Hayashida Japan | 27.6w | Heather Merican Singapore | 28.5w | Lin Yet-Hsiang Taiwan | 28.6w |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Japan Sayo Yamato Satomi Fukuda Keiko Ikoma Michiko Morita | 46.7 | Singapore Glory Barnabas Gan Bee Wah Heather Merican Shirley Fernando | 47.0 | Philippines ? Aida Mantawel Carmen Torres Amelita Alanes | 47.7 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Philippines Amelita Alanes Aida Mantawel Carmen Torres Rosalinda Yumol | 3:48.9 | Singapore Maimoon Azlan Glory Barnabas Chee Swee Lee Hua Kim Chew | 3:50.1 | Taiwan Lin Chun-yu Chi Cheng-Yu 機政玉 Lee Chiu-hsia Huang Chiu-Ching 黃秋錦 | 3:57.8 |
| High jump | Orit Abramovich Israel | 1.68 | Gladys Chai Ng Mei Malaysia | 1.58 | Maryam Sedarati Iran | 1.58 |
| Long jump | Kumi Kawada Japan | 6.07 | Lin Yet-Hsiang Taiwan | 5.84 | Li Hua-Wa Taiwan | 5.71 |
| Shot put | Paik Ok-Ja South Korea | 15.05 | Kayoko Hayashi Japan | 13.63 | Chen Fu-Mei Taiwan | 12.93 |
| Discus throw | Josephine de la Viña Philippines | 50.74 | Kayoko Hayashi Japan | 45.28 | Paik Ok-Ja South Korea | 44.52 |
| Javelin throw | Mieko Takasaka Japan | 49.74 | Erlinda Lavandia Philippines | 45.38 | Proch Thin Kampuchea | 43.48 |
| Pentathlon | Lin Chun-Yu Taiwan | 4025 | Kumi Kawada Japan | 3963 | Li Hua-Wa Taiwan | 3578 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 18 | 8 | 8 | 34 |
| 2 | India (IND) | 4 | 5 | 6 | 15 |
| 3 | Philippines (PHI) | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 4 | Taiwan (TWN) | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 |
| 5 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Thailand (THA) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | Pakistan (PAK) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Iran (IRN) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Israel (ISR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Singapore (SIN) | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 11 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 12 | Iraq (IRQ) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Cambodia (CAM) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | Nepal (NEP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 37 | 37 | 36 | 110 |