# 1997 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

The 1997 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the seventh edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association. It took place from 4–7 November in Bangkok, Thailand. A total of 41 events were contested, 22 for male athletes and 19 for female athletes.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Gong Wei (CHN) | 10.36 | Jama Suleiman Yousef (QAT) | 10.50 | Kazuhiro Tamura (JPN) | 10.51 |
| 200 metres | Hirofumi Nakagawa (JPN) | 20.88 CR | Jama Suleiman Yousef (QAT) | 21.03 | Kazuhiro Tamura (JPN) | 21.06 |
| 400 metres | Kim Jae-Da (KOR) | 46.45 CR | Hamdan Al-Bishi (KSA) | 46.53 | Takahiko Yamamura (JPN) | 47.21 |
| 800 metres | Park Ho-Min (KOR) | 1:51.03 | Mohamed Osman (KSA) | 1:51.45 | Narong Nilploy (THA) | 1:51.69 |
| 1500 metres | Park Ho-Min (KOR) | 3:49.53 | Chen Fuchun (CHN) | 3:49.63 | Kiyoharo Sato (JPN) | 3:50.28 |
| 5000 metres | Zhang Xinkai (CHN) | 14:28.78 | Sun Wenyong (CHN) | 14:29.66 | Koji Kimura (JPN) | 14:29.71 |
| 10,000 metres | Koji Kimura (JPN) | 30:03.67 | Koji Watanabe (JPN) | 30:24.80 | Ferry Junaedi (INA) | 30:35.15 |
| 110 metres hurdles | Cao Jing (CHN) | 13.97 w | Liu Xingquan (CHN) | 14.28 w | Yusuke Sugiyama (JPN) | 14.35 w |
| 400 metres hurdles | Lu Xiaobing (CHN) | 51.66 | Lin Chin-Fu (TPE) | 51.89 | Akihiro Yoshioka (JPN) | 52.11 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Sun Wenli (CHN) | 9:00.76 | Jassim Mohamed (UAE) | 9:01.95 | Arun D'Souza (IND) | 9:04.33 |
| 4×100 m relay | Japan (JPN) | 39.72 CR | Qatar (QAT) | 40.50 | Thailand (THA) | 40.60 |
| 4×400 m relay | Japan (JPN) | 3:07.99 CR | Thailand (THA) Jirachai Linglom C. Mouwdecam P. Sungnoi Narong Nilploy | 3:08.29 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) Yang Teng-Kai Lin Chin-Fu Chang Po-Chih Chen Tien-Wen | 3:08.66 |
| 10,000 metres walk | Bai Liansheng (CHN) | 45:47.61 | Sin Il-Yong (KOR) | 46:06.06 | Tsuyoshi Suzuki (JPN) | 46:21.59 |
| High jump | Koji Ishii (JPN) | 2.22 m CR | Naoyuki Daigo (JPN) | 2.19 m | Li Baibing (CHN) | 2.19 m |
| Pole vault | Xu Gang (CHN) | 5.20 m CR | Kim Do-Kyun (KOR) | 5.10 m | Koji Hosono (JPN) | 5.10 m |
| Long jump | Abdul Rahman Al-Nubi (QAT) | 7.68 m | Gao Zhaoting (CHN) | 7.65 m | Chiu Chin-Ching (TPE) | 7.53 m |
| Triple jump | Zhao Zongming (CHN) | 16.45 m | Mohamed Adam Mohamed (KSA) | 16.10 m | Sergey Bochkov (AZE) | 15.77 m |
| Shot put | Liu Yu (CHN) | 17.14 m | Navpreet Singh (IND) | 16.16 m | Paramdeep Singh (IND) | 15.89 m |
| Discus throw | Yan Xiaoming (CHN) | 53.64 m CR | Abdullah Al-Shammari (KSA) | 52.48 m | Lu Ming-Chung (TPE) | 48.12 m |
| Hammer throw | Mei Kun (CHN) | 63.00 m | Rupinder Singh Pal (IND) | 59.44 m | Kazuhito Yoshima (JPN) | 57.84 m |
| Javelin throw | Yu Nam-Sung (KOR) | 72.66 m | Yukifumi Murakami (JPN) | 71.18 m | Gu Yong-Hoe (KOR) | 69.92 m |
| Decathlon | Zhao Lei (CHN) | 6870 pts | Liu Jun (CHN) | 6784 pts | Vitaliy Smirnov (UZB) | 6683 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Chen Shu-Chuan (TPE) | 11.70 | Chen Haiyan (CHN) | 11.80 | Yang Xiaoyu (CHN) | 11.83 |
| 200 metres | Chen Shu-Chuan (TPE) | 23.47 | Chen Haiyan (CHN) | 23.91 | Tomomi Suzuki (JPN) | 23.96 |
| 400 metres | Chen Yuxiang (CHN) | 53.10 CR | Li Rui (CHN) | 54.67 | Lee Ya-Hui (TPE) | 54.68 |
| 800 metres | Lang Yinglai (CHN) | 2:02.66 CR | Lee Ya-Hui (TPE) | 2:05.11 | Reina Sasaki (JPN) | 2:07.24 |
| 1500 metres | Lang Yinglai (CHN) | 4:18.31 | Cui Yuying (CHN) | 4:20.24 | Kazuko Kanno (JPN) | 4:21.18 |
| 3000 metres | Lan Lixin (CHN) | 9:10.17 CR | Yin Lili (CHN) | 9:10.26 | Yoshiko Watanabe (JPN) | 9:26.76 |
| 5000 metres | Yin Lili (CHN) | 16:34.67 | Lan Lixin (CHN) | 16:34.90 | Sunita Rani (IND) | 16:48.60 |
| 100 metres hurdles | Jiang Jinchun (CHN) | 13.53 | Xu Jia (CHN) | 14.14 | Yang Li-Chuan (TPE) | 14.14 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Li Yulian (CHN) | 58.09 | Li Rui (CHN) | 58.60 | Chou Ya-Chun (TPE) | 59.62 |
| 4×100 m relay | Chinese Taipei (TPE) Wang Kuo-huei Hung Siu-Ting Tseng Lan-Ying Chen Shu-Chuan | 45.47 CR | India (IND) J. Abraham Vinita Tripathi Sathi Geetha Saraswati Dey | 45.89 | Japan (JPN) | 46.05 |
| 4×400 m relay | China (CHN) | 3:39.24 CR | Chinese Taipei (TPE) Lo Tsui-Huan Chou Ya-Chun Lee Yi-Chuan Lee Ya-Hui | 3:45.54 | India (IND) | 3:46.39 |
| 5000 metres walk | Wang Yuntao (CHN) | 21:45.24 CR | Xu Aihui (CHN) | 22:40.54 | Takako Terui (JPN) | 23:23.41 |
| High jump | Tatyana Efimenko (KGZ) | 1.77 m | Jeong Mi-Jung (KOR) | 1.74 m | Yuko Ono (JPN) | 1.74 m |
| Long jump | Wang Kuo-huei (TPE) | 6.56 m CR | Guo Chunfang (CHN) | 6.41 m | Lu Ting-Fang (TPE) | 6.01 m |
| Triple jump | Li Jiahui (CHN) | 14.23 m CR | Wang Kuo-huei (TPE) | 13.26 m | Anna Tarasova (KAZ) | 12.99 m |
| Shot put | Qian Chunhua (CHN) | 16.43 m | Sumi Ichioka (JPN) | 15.10 m | Li Min (CHN) | 14.50 m |
| Discus throw | Song Aimin (CHN) | 55.84 m | Ma Shuli (CHN) | 54.84 m | Jang Bok-Shim (KOR) | 48.80 m |
| Javelin throw | Liang Lili (CHN) | 58.92 m | Park Ho-hyun (KOR) | 54.48 m | Lee Nam-Kyong (KOR) | 51.32 m |
| Heptathlon | Irina Naumenko (KAZ) | 5099 pts | Wassana Winatho (THA) | 4933 pts | Eri Yamamoto (JPN) | 4812 pts |

## 1997 Medal Table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 25 | 16 | 3 | 44 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 5 | 4 | 18 | 27 |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 4 | 4 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 5 | Qatar (QAT) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 9 | India (IND) | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 41 | 41 | 41 | 123 |