# Athletics at the 1962 Asian Games

The Athletics events at the 1962 Asian Games were contested at the Senayan Main Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia from 25 to 30 August.

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Mohammad Sarengat Indonesia | 10.5 | Mani Jegathesan Malaya | 10.6 | Rogelio Onofre Philippines | 10.7 |
| 200 m details | Mani Jegathesan Malaya | 21.3 GR | Hideo Iijima Japan | 21.5 | Mohammad Sarengat Indonesia | 21.6 |
| 400 m details | Milkha Singh India | 46.9 | Makhan Singh India | 47.5 | Kimitada Hayase Japan | 48.3 |
| 800 m details | Mamoru Morimoto Japan | 1:52.6 | Daljit Singh India | 1:52.6 | Amrit Pal India | 1:53.4 |
| 1500 m details | Mohinder Singh India | 3:48.6 GR | Amrit Pal India | 3:50.1 | Satsuo Iwashita Japan | 3:51.5 |
| 5000 m details | Mubarak Shah Pakistan | 14:27.2 GR | Saburo Yokomizo Japan | 14:30.2 | Tarlok Singh India | 14:31.4 |
| 10,000 m details | Tarlok Singh India | 30:21.4 GR | Teruo Funai Japan | 30:21.6 | Gurnam Singh Indonesia | 30:47.2 |
| 110 m hurdles details | Mohammad Sarengat Indonesia | 14.3 GR | Ghulam Raziq Pakistan | 14.3 =GR | Hirokazu Yasuda Japan | 14.4 |
| 400 m hurdles details | Keiji Ogushi Japan | 52.2 GR | Keiki Iijima Japan | 52.4 | Karu Selvaratnam Malaya | 53.4 |
| 3000 m steeplechase details | Mubarak Shah Pakistan | 8:57.8 GR | Saburo Yokomizo Japan | 8:58.8 | Zenji Okuzawa Japan | 9:09.6 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | Philippines Remegio Vista Isaac Gomez Claro Pellosis Rogelio Onofre | 41.3 | Japan Hideo Iijima Kiyoshi Asai Takeo Tamura Takayuki Okazaki | 41.5 | Malaya Mani Jegathesan V. Vijiaratnam Shahrudin Mohd Ali Thor Gim Soon | 41.5 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | India Daljit Singh Jagdish Singh Makhan Singh Milkha Singh | 3:10.2 GR | Malaya Mani Jegathesan Karu Selvaratnam Abdul Rahim Ahmad Victor Asirvatham | 3:13.8 | Japan Kimitada Hayase Keiji Ogushi Mamoru Morimoto Keiki Iijima | 3:14.6 |
| Marathon details | Masayuki Nagata Japan | 2:34:54.2 | Muhammad Yusaf Pakistan | 2:43:02.0 | Myitung Naw Burma | 2:49:57.1 |
| High jump details | Kuniyoshi Sugioka Japan | 2.08 GR | Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam Ceylon | 1.98 | Ciriaco Baronda Philippines | 1.95 |
| Pole vault details | Hisao Morita Japan | 4.40 GR | Kuniaki Yamazaki Japan | 4.40 =GR | Allah Ditta Pakistan | 4.10 |
| Long jump details | Takayuki Okazaki Japan | 7.41 | Kaihei Oda Japan | 7.36 | Awang Papilaya Indonesia | 7.25 |
| Triple jump details | Koji Sakurai Japan | 15.57 | Tomio Ota Japan | 15.37 | Awang Papilaya Indonesia | 14.70 |
| Shot put details | Teruo Itokawa Japan | 15.57 GR | Dinshaw Irani India | 14.99 | Joginder Singh India | 14.91 |
| Discus throw details | Shozo Yanagawa Japan | 47.71 GR | Parduman Singh Brar India | 47.01 | Shohei Kaneko Japan | 46.21 |
| Hammer throw details | Noboru Okamoto Japan | 63.88 GR | Takeo Sugawara Japan | 61.66 | Muhammad Iqbal Pakistan | 59.18 |
| Javelin throw details | Takashi Miki Japan | 74.56 GR | Muhammad Nawaz Pakistan | 74.16 | Hideta Kanai Japan | 70.68 |
| Decathlon details | Gurbachan Singh Randhawa India | 6739 | Shosuke Suzuki Japan | 6195 | Cyril Perera Malaya | 5575 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Mona Sulaiman Philippines | 11.8 GR | Ikuko Yoda Japan | 12.3 | Takako Inokuchi Japan | 12.3 |
| 200 m details | Mona Sulaiman Philippines | 24.5 | Haruko Yamazaki Japan | 25.7 | Nirmala Dissanayake Ceylon | 25.8 |
| 800 m details | Chizuko Tanaka Japan | 2:18.2 GR | Ryuko Hirano Japan | 2:18.4 | Soewatini Indonesia | 2:20.8 |
| 80 m hurdles details | Ikuko Yoda Japan | 11.5 | Francisca Sanopal Philippines | 11.9 | Kiyoko Shimada Japan | 11.9 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | Philippines Aida Molinos Francisca Sanopal Inocencia Solis Mona Sulaiman | 48.6 =GR | Japan Haruko Yamazaki Takako Inokuchi Kiyoko Shimada Ikuko Yoda | 48.6 =GR | Indonesia Soeratmi Ernawati Tomasoa Wiewiek Machwijar | 50.5 |
| High jump details | Kinuko Tsutsumi Japan | 1.60 GR | Myint Myint Aye Burma | 1.50 | Shared silver | |
| High jump details | Kinuko Tsutsumi Japan | 1.60 GR | Tiparpan Leenasean Thailand | 1.50 | Shared silver | |
| Long jump details | Sachiko Kishimoto Japan | 5.75 | Fumiko Ito Japan | 5.71 | Maureen Ann Lee Malaya | 5.31 |
| Shot put details | Seiko Obonai Japan | 14.04 GR | Yasuko Matsuda Japan | 13.71 | Mona Sulaiman Philippines | 11.97 |
| Discus throw details | Keiko Murase Japan | 45.90 GR | Seiko Obonai Japan | 40.98 | Josephine de la Viña Philippines | 37.79 |
| Javelin throw details | Hiroko Sato Japan | 48.15 GR | Fujie Abe Japan | 47.34 | Elizabeth Davenport India | 44.82 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 18 | 19 | 9 | 46 |
| 2 | India (IND) | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 |
| 3 | Philippines (PHI) | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 4 | Pakistan (PAK) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Indonesia (INA) | 2 | 0 | 6 | 8 |
| 6 | Malaya (MAL) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 7 | Burma (BIR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Ceylon (CEY) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (9 entries) | Totals (9 entries) | 32 | 33 | 31 | 96 |