# Athletics at the 1974 Asian Games

The athletics at the 1974 Asian Games were held in Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran, Iran. This was the first time that China competed in these games and also the last time that Israel competed.

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Anat Ratanapol Thailand | 10.42 | Masahide Jinno Japan | 10.55 | Suchart Jairsuraparp Thailand | 10.59 |
| 200 m details | Anat Ratanapol Thailand | 21.09 GR | Takao Ishizawa Japan | 21.60 | Nusrat Iqbal Sahi Pakistan | 21.79 |
| 400 m details | Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa Sri Lanka | 46.21 GR | Reza Entezari Iran | 46.69 | Yoshiharu Tomonaga Japan | 46.77 |
| 800 m details | Sriram Singh India | 1:47.57 GR | Reza Entezari Iran | 1:48.50 | Muhammad Siddique Pakistan | 1:48.64 |
| 1500 m details | Muhammad Younis Pakistan | 3:49.30 | Susumu Noro Japan | 3:51.17 | Park Suk-kwan South Korea | 3:52.74 |
| 5000 m details | Shivnath Singh India | 14:20.50 GR | Yuval Wischnitzer Israel | 14:21.50 | Kenichi Ozawa Japan | 14:22.15 |
| 10,000 m details | Yasunori Hamada Japan | 30:49.87 | Shivnath Singh India | 30:51.61 | Makoto Hattori Japan | 31:03.84 |
| 110 m hurdles details | Cui Lin China | 14.26 GR | Ishtiaq Mubarak Malaysia | 14.49 | Nasser Sultan Iraq | 14.63 |
| 400 m hurdles details | Talib Faisal Iraq | 51.69 GR | Abdullatif Abbas Kuwait | 52.32 | Lehmber Singh India | 52.49 |
| 3000 m steeplechase details | Takaharu Koyama Japan | 8:57.95 | Gurmej Singh India | 9:04.00 | Li Wenliang China | 9:06.10 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | Thailand Kanoksak Chaisanont Anat Ratanapol Somsak Boontud Suchart Jairsuraparp | 40.14 GR | China Xiong Kouzu Feng Zhenren Yu Weili Luo Guoming | 40.20 | Singapore Ong Yoke Phee Tan Say Leong Yeo Kian Chai C. Kunalan | 40.34 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | Sri Lanka Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa Sunil Gunawardene Kosala Sahabandu Appunidage Premachandra | 3:07.40 GR | India Lehmber Singh Sriram Singh Sucha Singh P. C. Punappa | 3:08.73 | Iran Fakhroddin Alamshah Reza Entezari Houshang Arshadi Ghasem Koveitipour | 3:10.10 |
| High jump details | Teymour Ghiasi Iran | 2.21 GR | Ni Zhiqin China | 2.16 | Yoshikazu Okuda Japan | 2.08 |
| Pole vault details | Yasuhiro Kigawa Japan | 5.00 GR | Cai Zhangxi China | 5.00 =GR | Jiang Yubin China | 4.85 |
| Long jump details | T. C. Yohannan India | 8.07 GR | Takayoshi Kawagoe Japan | 7.77 | Satish Pillai India | 7.58 |
| Triple jump details | Toshiaki Inoue Japan | 16.45 GR | Mohinder Singh Gill India | 16.25 | Faramarz Asef Iran | 15.97 |
| Shot put details | Jalal Keshmiri Iran | 18.04 GR | Bahadur Singh Chouhan India | 17.94 | Jugraj Singh India | 17.64 |
| Discus throw details | Jalal Keshmiri Iran | 56.82 GR | Praveen Kumar India | 53.64 | Salman Hesam Iran | 52.32 |
| Hammer throw details | Shigenobu Murofushi Japan | 66.54 | Nirmal Singh Grewal India | 60.02 | Kim Myong-geun North Korea | 59.80 |
| Javelin throw details | Toshihiro Yamada Japan | 76.12 GR | Minoru Onda Japan | 76.04 | Zhang Bao China | 73.64 |
| Decathlon details | Vijay Singh Chauhan India | 7375 GR | Junichi Onizuka Japan | 7294 | Suresh Babu India | 6836 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Esther Roth Israel | 11.90 | He Zufen China | 12.10 | Keiko Yamada Japan | 12.42 |
| 200 m details | Esther Roth Israel | 23.79 | He Zufen China | 24.41 | Emiko Konishi Japan | 24.94 |
| 400 m details | Chee Swee Lee Singapore | 55.08 GR | Nobuko Kawano Japan | 55.59 | Junaidah Aman Malaysia | 55.78 |
| 800 m details | Nobuko Kawano Japan | 2:08.05 | Miyako Inoue Japan | 2:08.99 | Li Dan China | 2:09.89 |
| 1500 m details | Song Meihua China | 4:28.68 | Yang Yanying China | 4:29.17 | Hana Shezifi Israel | 4:31.00 |
| 100 m hurdles details | Esther Roth Israel | 13.31 GR | Tomomi Hayashida Japan | 14.28 | Miyuki Iioka Japan | 14.32 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | Japan Keiko Yamada Emiko Konishi Sayo Yamoto Tomomi Hayashida | 46.62 GR | China Meng Yuqiong He Zufen Xiao Zinong Kang Yueli | 46.76 | Singapore Eng Chiew Quay Chee Swee Lee Glory Barnabas Maimoon Azlan | 47.10 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | Japan Yuko Kitabayashi Motsuko Otsuka Miyako Inoue Nobuko Kawano | 3:43.52 GR | Singapore Glory Barnabas Lee Tai Jong Maimoon Azlan Chee Swee Lee | 3:43.85 | Burma Than Than Mar Mar Min Nwe Nwe Yee Than Than Htay | 3:45.06 |
| High jump details | Orit Abramovitz Israel | 1.78 GR | Mikiko Sone Japan | 1.78 =GR | Wu Fushan China | 1.74 |
| Long jump details | Xiao Jieping China | 6.31 GR | Kang Yueli China | 6.26 | Hiroko Yamashita Japan | 6.15 |
| Shot put details | Paik Ok-ja South Korea | 16.28 GR | Gao Yukui China | 15.22 | Kayoko Hayashi Japan | 15.06 |
| Discus throw details | Gao Yukui China | 51.84 GR | Dashzevegiin Namjilmaa Mongolia | 47.32 | Matsuko Takahashi Japan | 47.04 |
| Javelin throw details | Zhou Maojia China | 53.06 GR | Mieko Takasaka Japan | 52.02 | Keiko Myogai Japan | 47.96 |
| Pentathlon details | Kyoko Shimizu Japan | 3890 | Sun Yuxiang China | 3849 | Zhang Yumei China | 3783 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 10 | 11 | 11 | 32 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 5 | 10 | 6 | 21 |
| 3 | India (IND) | 4 | 7 | 4 | 15 |
| 4 | Israel (ISR) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Iran (IRN) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | Thailand (THA) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Singapore (SIN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Pakistan (PAK) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Iraq (IRQ) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Malaysia (MAL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Burma (BIR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 35 | 35 | 35 | 105 |