# Athletics at the 1970 Asian Games

The athletics events at the 1970 Asian Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 10 to 15 December.

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Masahide Jinno Japan | 10.5 | Anat Ratanapol Thailand | 10.5 | C. Kunalan Singapore | 10.5 |
| 200 m details | Anat Ratanapol Thailand | 21.1 GR | Masahide Jinno Japan | 21.5 | C. Kunalan Singapore | 21.5 |
| 400 m details | Yoshiharu Tomonaga Japan | 46.6 =GR | Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa Ceylon | 46.7 | Sucha Singh India | 47.2 |
| 800 m details | Jimmy Crampton Burma | 1:47.9 GR | Sriram Singh India | 1:48.3 | Yoshitake Tsuchiya Japan | 1:48.7 |
| 1500 m details | Susumu Noro Japan | 3:53.0 | Muhammad Younis Pakistan | 3:53.2 | Jimmy Crampton Burma | 3:53.3 |
| 5000 m details | Lucien Rosa Ceylon | 14:32.2 | Edward Sequeira India | 14:33.8 | Yuval Wischnitzer Israel | 14:34.7 |
| 10,000 m details | Lucien Rosa Ceylon | 29:55.6 GR | Kenichi Otsuki Japan | 29:56.9 | Park Bong-keun South Korea | 31:43.0 |
| 110 m hurdles details | Chikashi Watanabe Japan | 14.7 | Roddy Lee Republic of China | 15.1 | Bancha Ramarat Thailand | 15.8 |
| 400 m hurdles details | Yukitaka Shigeta Japan | 52.6 | Roddy Lee Republic of China | 52.8 | Norman Brinkworth Pakistan | 53.2 |
| 3000 m steeplechase details | Nobuyoshi Miura Japan | 8:48.8 GR | Susumu Noro Japan | 8:50.3 | Gurmej Singh India | 8:53.2 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | Thailand Anat Ratanapol Panus Ariyamongkol Kanoksak Chaisanont Somsak Thongsuk | 40.4 GR | Japan Chiaki Miyakawa Masahide Jinno Kiyoshi Shimada Hiromitsu Inomata | 40.7 | India O. L. Thomas Kenneth Powell A. P. Ramaswamy Ramesh Tawde | 40.9 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | Japan Horishi Waku Kiyoshi Shimada Hiromitsu Inomata Yoshiharu Tomonaga | 3:10.0 | India Bhogeswar Baruah P. C. Punappa Sucha Singh Ajmer Singh | 3:11.9 | Malaysia Victor Asirvatham Hassan Osman Thambu Krishnan Jayabalan Karuppiah | 3:13.0 |
| Marathon details | Kenji Kimihara Japan | 2:21:03 GR | Yoshiro Mifune Japan | 2:24:21 | Kang Myung-kwang South Korea | 2:26:48 |
| High jump details | Teymour Ghiasi Iran | 2.06 | Hidehiko Tomizawa Japan | 2.06 | Bhim Singh India | 2.03 |
| Pole vault details | Kyoichiro Inoue Japan | 4.80 GR | Masanori Araya Japan | 4.60 | Hong Sang-pyo South Korea | 4.30 |
| Long jump details | Shinji Ogura Japan | 7.62 GR | Hiroomi Yamada Japan | 7.52 | Labh Singh India | 7.45 |
| Triple jump details | Mohinder Singh Gill India | 16.11 GR | Labh Singh India | 15.82 | Tsai Teng-long Republic of China | 15.79 |
| Shot put details | Joginder Singh India | 17.09 GR | Jalal Keshmiri Iran | 16.96 | Masazumi Aoki Japan | 16.59 |
| Discus throw details | Praveen Kumar India | 52.32 | Jalal Keshmiri Iran | 51.40 | Toji Hayashi Japan | 48.94 |
| Hammer throw details | Shigenobu Murofushi Japan | 67.08 GR | Yoshihisa Ishida Japan | 64.34 | Yusaf Malik Pakistan | 51.38 |
| Javelin throw details | Hisao Yamamoto Japan | 71.24 | Park Soo-kwon South Korea | 67.98 | Nashatar Singh Sidhu Malaysia | 67.34 |
| Decathlon details | Junichi Onizuka Japan | 7073 | M. G. Shetty India | 6582 | Wang Ying-shih Republic of China | 6556 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Chi Cheng Republic of China | 11.6 =GR | Keiko Yamada Japan | 12.1 | Carolina Rieuwpassa Indonesia | 12.4 |
| 200 m details | Keiko Yamada Japan | 25.0 | Amelita Alanes Philippines | 25.2 | Carolina Rieuwpassa Indonesia | 25.4 |
| 400 m details | Kamaljeet Sandhu India | 57.3 | Aviva Balas Israel | 57.3 | Nobuko Kawano Japan | 57.4 |
| 800 m details | Hana Shezifi Israel | 2:06.5 GR | Nobuko Kawano Japan | 2:11.7 | Isabel Cruz Philippines | 2:13.5 |
| 1500 m details | Hana Shezifi Israel | 4:25.1 GR | Miyako Inoue Japan | 4:40.2 | Lee Chiu-hsia Republic of China | 4:41.4 |
| 100 m hurdles details | Esther Shahamorov Israel | 14.0 GR | Ayako Natsume Japan | 14.0 =GR | Lin Yueh-hsiang Republic of China | 14.6 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | Japan Emiko Konishi Keiko Tsuchida Ritsuko Sato Keiko Yamada | 47.2 | Singapore Schushila Wadhumal Gan Bee Wah Maimoon Abu Bakar Glory Barnabas | 48.0 | Republic of China Liang Su-chiao Hung Mei-yu Huang Pi-yun Lin Chun-yu | 48.1 |
| High jump details | Michiyo Inaoka Japan | 1.70 GR | Kumie Suzuki Japan | 1.66 | Lolita Lagrosas Philippines | 1.56 |
| Long jump details | Hiroko Yamashita Japan | 6.02 GR | Esther Shahamorov Israel | 5.94 | Keiko Tsuchida Japan | 5.75 |
| Shot put details | Paik Ok-ja South Korea | 14.57 GR | Satoe Matsuzaki Japan | 14.07 | Yoko Saito Japan | 13.86 |
| Discus throw details | Teruko Yagishita Japan | 47.70 GR | Yoko Saito Japan | 44.42 | Paik Ok-ja South Korea | 44.02 |
| Javelin throw details | Nobuko Morita Japan | 49.84 GR | Sakiko Hara Japan | 48.12 | Lee Bok-soon South Korea | 43.70 |
| Pentathlon details | Esther Shahamorov Israel | 4530 GR | Lin Chun-yu Republic of China | 4382 | Lolita Lagrosas Philippines | 4020 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 19 | 17 | 6 | 42 |
| 2 | India (IND) | 4 | 5 | 5 | 14 |
| 3 | Israel (ISR) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 4 | Thailand (THA) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Ceylon (CEY) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Republic of China (ROC) | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 |
| 7 | Iran (IRN) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 9 | Burma (BIR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Philippines (PHI) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Singapore (SIN) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 13 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Malaysia (MAL) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 35 | 35 | 35 | 105 |