# Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games

The athletics competition at the 1998 Asian Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand between 13 and 20 December.

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Koji Ito Japan | 10.05 | Reanchai Seeharwong Thailand | 10.31 | Yasukatsu Otsuki Japan | 10.31 |
| 200 m details | Koji Ito Japan | 20.25 GR | Han Chaoming China | 20.70 | Sugath Thilakaratne Sri Lanka | 20.83 |
| 400 m details | Sugath Thilakaratne Sri Lanka | 44.99 | Ibrahim Ismail Muftah Qatar | 45.32 | Paramjit Singh India | 45.93 |
| 800 m details | Lee Jin-il South Korea | 1:46.56 | Kim Soon-hyung South Korea | 1:46.61 | Abdulrahman Hassan Abdullah Qatar | 1:47.10 |
| 1500 m details | Mohamed Suleiman Qatar | 3:40.03 | Kim Soon-hyung South Korea | 3:40.56 | Bahadur Prasad India | 3:41.48 |
| 5000 m details | Mohamed Suleiman Qatar | 13:55.79 | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar | 13:56.65 | Baek Seung-do South Korea | 13:57.11 |
| 10,000 m details | Kenji Takao Japan | 28:45.66 | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar | 28:46.55 | Gulab Chand India | 29:10.53 |
| 110 m hurdles details | Chen Yanhao China | 13.65 | Andrey Sklyarenko Kazakhstan | 13.86 | Hamad Mubarak Al-Dosari Qatar | 13.99 |
| 400 m hurdles details | Hideaki Kawamura Japan | 49.59 | Yoshihiko Saito Japan | 49.94 | Chen Tien-wen Chinese Taipei | 50.46 |
| 3000 m steeplechase details | Yasunori Uchitomi Japan | 8:41.00 | Hamid Sajjadi Iran | 8:42.53 | Jafar Babakhani Iran | 8:55.04 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | Japan Yasukatsu Otsuki Shin Kubota Hiroyasu Tsuchie Koji Ito | 38.91 GR | Thailand Niti Piyapan Vissanu Sophanich Worasit Vechaphut Reanchai Seeharwong | 39.17 | Oman Ahmed Al-Moamari Mohamed Al-Houti Hamoud Al-Dalhami Jahad Al-Sheikh | 40.26 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | Japan Jun Osakada Kenji Tabata Masayoshi Kan Shunji Karube | 3:01.70 GR | India Lijo David Thottan Purukottam Ramachandran Paramjit Singh Jata Shankar | 3:02.62 | South Korea Kim Jae-da Kim Yong-hwan Kim Ho Shon Ju-il | 3:05.72 |
| Marathon details | Lee Bong-ju South Korea | 2:12:32 | Akira Manai Japan | 2:13:25 | Kim Jung-won North Korea | 2:16:30 |
| 20 km walk details | Yu Guohui China | 1:20:25 GR | Valeriy Borisov Kazakhstan | 1:23:52 | Li Zewen China | 1:24:41 |
| 50 km walk details | Wang Yinhang China | 3:59:26 | Sergey Korepanov Kazakhstan | 3:59:27 | Fumio Imamura Japan | 4:06:59 |
| High jump details | Lee Jin-taek South Korea | 2.27 | Zhou Zhongge China | 2.23 | Shigeki Toyoshima Japan | 2.19 |
| High jump details | Lee Jin-taek South Korea | 2.27 | Zhou Zhongge China | 2.23 | Loo Kum Zee Malaysia | 2.19 |
| Pole vault details | Igor Potapovich Kazakhstan | 5.55 | Kim Chul-kyun South Korea | 5.40 | Fumiaki Kobayashi Japan | 5.20 |
| Long jump details | Masaki Morinaga Japan | 8.10 | Liu Hongning China | 8.05 | Abdulrahman Al-Nubi Qatar | 7.99 |
| Triple jump details | Sergey Arzamasov Kazakhstan | 17.00 | Duan Qifeng China | 16.98 | Nattaporn Namkanha Thailand | 16.42 |
| Shot put details | Liu Hao China | 19.20 | Shakti Singh India | 18.81 | Sergey Rubtsov Kazakhstan | 18.79 |
| Discus throw details | Li Shaojie China | 64.58 GR | Anil Kumar India | 58.43 | Zhang Cunbiao China | 57.28 |
| Hammer throw details | Koji Murofushi Japan | 78.57 GR | Andrey Abduvaliyev Uzbekistan | 77.14 | Nikolay Davydov Kyrgyzstan | 68.10 |
| Javelin throw details | Sergey Voynov Uzbekistan | 79.70 | Zhang Lianbiao China | 78.58 | Li Rongxiang China | 78.57 |
| Decathlon details | Oleg Veretelnikov Uzbekistan | 8278 GR | Ramil Ganiyev Uzbekistan | 7857 | Toru Yasui Japan | 7612 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Li Xuemei China | 11.05 | Li Yali China | 11.36 | Rachita Mistry India | 11.41 |
| 200 m details | Damayanthi Dharsha Sri Lanka | 22.48 GR | Li Xuemei China | 22.53 | Yan Jiankui China | 23.15 |
| 400 m details | Damayanthi Dharsha Sri Lanka | 51.57 | Chen Yuxiang China | 52.50 | Svetlana Bodritskaya Kazakhstan | 53.00 |
| 800 m details | Jyotirmoyee Sikdar India | 2:01.00 | Rosa Kutty India | 2:03.34 | Wang Yuanping China | 2:04.45 |
| 1500 m details | Jyotirmoyee Sikdar India | 4:12.82 | Wang Qingfen China | 4:13.19 | Sunita Rani India | 4:13.66 |
| 5000 m details | Supriyati Sutono Indonesia | 15:54.45 GR | Sunita Rani India | 15:54.47 | Michiko Shimizu Japan | 15:55.36 |
| 10,000 m details | Yuko Kawakami Japan | 32:01.25 | Zheng Guixia China | 32:18.81 | Chiemi Takahashi Japan | 32:20.68 |
| 100 m hurdles details | Olga Shishigina Kazakhstan | 12.63 GR | Liu Jing China | 12.89 | Sriyani Kulawansa Sri Lanka | 13.08 |
| 400 m hurdles details | Natalya Torshina Kazakhstan | 55.33 | Hsu Pei-ching Chinese Taipei | 55.71 | Li Yulian China | 55.93 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | China Liang Yi Yan Jiankui Li Yali Li Xuemei | 43.36 GR | Uzbekistan Elena Kviatkovskaya Guzel Khubbieva Lyudmila Dmitriadi Lyubov Perepelova | 44.38 | Thailand Savitree Srichure Supavadee Khawpeag Reawadee Watanasin Natthaporn Wongtiprat | 44.68 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | China Zhang Henghua Chen Yuxiang Li Yulian Zhang Hengyun | 3:32.03 | India Jincy Phillip Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Rosa Kutty K. M. Beenamol | 3:32.20 | Kazakhstan Svetlana Badrankova Natalya Torshina Svetlana Kazanina Svetlana Bodritskaya | 3:37.16 |
| Marathon details | Naoko Takahashi Japan | 2:21:47 AR | Kim Chang-ok North Korea | 2:34:55 | Tomoko Kai Japan | 2:35:01 |
| 10,000 m walk details | Liu Hongyu China | 43:57.28 GR | Rie Mitsumori Japan | 44:29.82 | Svetlana Tolstaya Kazakhstan | 45:29.95 |
| High jump details | Yoko Ota Japan | 1.88 | Jin Ling China | 1.88 | Anna Cherntsova Kyrgyzstan | 1.84 |
| Pole vault details | Cai Weiyan China | 4.00 GR | Masumi Ono Japan | 4.00 =GR | Sun Caiyun China | 4.00 =GR |
| Long jump details | Guan Yingnan China | 6.89 | Yu Yiqun China | 6.77 | Yelena Pershina Kazakhstan | 6.55 |
| Triple jump details | Ren Ruiping China | 14.27 GR | Wu Lingmei China | 14.25 | Wiktoriýa Brigadnaýa Turkmenistan | 13.66 |
| Shot put details | Li Meisu China | 18.96 | Cheng Xiaoyan China | 18.55 | Juttaporn Krasaeyan Thailand | 18.24 |
| Discus throw details | Luan Zhili China | 63.43 | Liu Fengying China | 59.34 | Neelam Jaswant Singh India | 55.09 |
| Javelin throw details | Lee Young-sun South Korea | 62.09 | Liang Lili China | 60.11 | Gurmeet Kaur India | 59.00 |
| Heptathlon details | Shen Shengfei China | 5817 | Svetlana Kazanina Kazakhstan | 5775 | Ma Chun-ping Chinese Taipei | 5659 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 15 | 17 | 7 | 39 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 12 | 4 | 8 | 24 |
| 3 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 5 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | India (IND) | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 |
| 7 | Qatar (QAT) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 8 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 | Indonesia (INA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 11 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 15 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Oman (OMA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Turkmenistan (TKM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (17 entries) | Totals (17 entries) | 45 | 45 | 46 | 136 |

## Participating nations

A total of 451 athletes from 37 nations competed in athletics at the 1998 Asian Games:
* Bahrain (1)
* Bangladesh (4)
* Cambodia (2)
* China (59)
* Chinese Taipei (17)
* Hong Kong (7)
* India (26)
* Indonesia (5)
* Iran (8)
* Japan (63)
* Jordan (6)
* Kazakhstan (19)
* Kuwait (7)
* Kyrgyzstan (7)
* Laos (5)
* Lebanon (4)
* Macau (2)
* Malaysia (11)
* Maldives (2)
* Mongolia (3)
* Nepal (9)
* North Korea (6)
* Oman (8)
* Pakistan (2)
* Palestine (3)
* Philippines (1)
* Qatar (25)
* South Korea (19)
* Sri Lanka (22)
* Syria (5)
* Tajikistan (5)
* Thailand (60)
* Turkmenistan (3)
* United Arab Emirates (2)
* Uzbekistan (13)
* Vietnam (8)
* Yemen (2)