# 1996 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

The 1996 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the sixth edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association. It took place from 3–6 December in New Delhi, India. It was the second time that the Indian capital had hosted the competition, following the 1992 edition. 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 | Kazuhiro Tamura (JPN) | 10.64 | Yu Ukita (JPN) | 10.77 | William To Wai Lok (HKG) | 10.80 |
| 200 metres | Kazuhiro Tamura (JPN) | 21.00 CR | Ajay Singh Raj (IND) | 21.19 | William To Wai Lok (HKG) | 21.45 |
| 400 metres | Mubarak Al-Nubi (QAT) | 47.15 | P. H. Abdullah (IND) | 47.72 | Kim Jae-Da (KOR) | 48.02 |
| 800 metres | Mehdi Jelodarzadeh (IRI) | 1:52.46 | Baiju Mirandi (IND) | 1:52.89 | Mohammad Reza Moulai (IRI) | 1:52.91 |
| 1500 metres | Ahmed Yazdanian (IRI) | 3:52.69 | Nasser Suleiman (QAT) | 3:53.20 | Park Ho-Min (KOR) | 3:53.70 |
| 5000 metres | Nasser Suleiman (QAT) | 14:26.91 | Gojen Singh (IND) | 14:29.55 | Wang Hongliang (CHN) | 14:33.69 |
| 10,000 metres | Gojen Singh (IND) | 30:43.01 | G.S. Hariraju (IND) | 31:12.16 | Othman Suleiman (QAT) | 31:23.47 |
| 110 metres hurdles | Khassif Mubarak (QAT) | 14.11 CR | Tasuku Tanonaka (JPN) | 14.31 | Sahib Singh (IND) | 14.33 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Mubarak Al-Nubi (QAT) | 50.76 CR | Chen Tien-Wen (TPE) | 51.23 | Sahib Singh (IND) | 51.64 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Sun Wenyong (CHN) | 8:53.47 CR | Mitsunori Harada (JPN) | 9:01.52 | Aleksey Shestakov (KAZ) | 9:03.49 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Thailand (THA) | 40.96 | Japan (JPN) | 41.09 | Malaysia (MAS) | 41.31 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | India (IND) | 3:12.4 | Qatar (QAT) | 3:12.7 | Thailand (THA) | 3:13.6 |
| 10,000 metres walk | Wu Ping (CHN) | 43:40.63 | Sin Il-Yong (KOR) | 44:08.90 | Teoh Boon Lim (MAS) | 44:33.84 |
| High jump | Koji Ishii (JPN) | 2.15 m | Zheng Decheng (CHN) | 2.10 m | Tsai Sheng-Chieh (TPE) | 2.10 m |
| Pole vault | Liu Yen-Tsung (TPE) | 5.00 m | Jiang Anhua (CHN) | 5.00 m | Takuyo Kanno (JPN) | 4.90 m |
| Long jump | Huang Le (CHN) | 7.68 m | Sanjay Kumar Rai (IND) | 7.53 m | Sogoru Tomari (JPN) | 7.34 m |
| Triple jump | Kim Hyuk (KOR) | 15.80 m | Mohd Abdulaziz (QAT) | 15.62 m | Sergey Bochkov (AZE) | 15.42 m |
| Shot put | Mukesh Singh Kumar (IND) | 17.03 m | Huang Yucheng (CHN) | 16.82 m | Gurdev Singh (IND) | 16.79 m |
| Discus throw | Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari (QAT) | 50.36 m | Lu Dangling (CHN) | 49.03 m | Abbas Samimi (IRI) | 48.96 m |
| Hammer throw | Anoop Singh Punia (IND) | 64.60 m CR | Satish Singh Sihay (IND) | 61.84 m | Shalinder Singh (IND) | 59.96 m |
| Javelin throw | Ramandeep Singh (IND) | 74.42 m | Yu Nam-Sung (KOR) | 70.84 m | Om Prakash Dudi (IND) | 70.50 m |
| Decathlon | Du Xiaopeng (CHN) | 7240 pts CR | Nobuhiro Katsuki (JPN) | 6568 pts | Yang Chun-Hsien (TPE) | 6468 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Yang Xiaoyu (CHN) | 11.92 | Chen Shu-Chuan (TPE) | 12.03 | Velu Pandeeswari (IND) | 12.08 |
| 200 metres | Velu Pandeeswari (IND) | 24.21 | Saraswati Dey (IND) | 24.35 | Chen Shu-Chuan (TPE) | 24.39 |
| 400 metres | Vanaja Somaiah (IND) | 55.10 | Paramjit Kaur (IND) | 55.48 | Zhang Chunxiang (CHN) | 56.19 |
| 800 metres | Ryoko Takezawa (JPN) | 2:07.76 | Sunita Dahiya (IND) | 2:10.59 | Oksana Ivashenko (KAZ) | 2:11.72 |
| 1500 metres | Huh Yeon-Jung (KOR) | 4:27.61 | Hisae Yoshimatsu (JPN) | 4:28.79 | Liu Chang (CHN) | 4:29.54 |
| 3000 metres | Wang Zhongfen (CHN) | 9:26.69 | Hisae Yoshimatsu (JPN) | 9:35.09 | Sunita Rani (IND) | 9:39.95 |
| 5000 metres | Wang Zhongfen (CHN) | 16:43.56 | Sunita Rani (IND) | 16:50.33 | Rupinder Kaur (IND) | 17:05.00 |
| 100 metres hurdles | Zhu Shuying (CHN) | 13.65 | He Kaiying (CHN) | 13.84 | Tomoko Motegi (JPN) | 13.98 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Li Rui (CHN) | 58.19 | Debi Bose (IND) | 58.81 | Svetlana Badrankova (KAZ) | 59.15 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | India (IND) | 45.85 | China (CHN) | 46.44 | Singapore (SIN) | 49.35 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | India (IND) | 3:47.50 | Thailand (THA) | 3:48.72 | China (CHN) | 3:49.31 |
| 5000 metres walk | Zhu Qiaomei (CHN) | 24:04.79 | Xue Ailing (CHN) | 24:19.85 | Paramjit Kaur (IND) | 24:52.60 |
| High jump | Liang Xiuli (CHN) | 1.76 m | Shen Lingling (CHN) | 1.76 m | Jaicy Thomas (IND) | 1.70 m |
| Long jump | Guan Yingnan (CHN) | 6.31 m | Feng Jie (CHN) | 6.20 m | Mieko Shigehara (JPN) | 6.05 m |
| Triple jump | Tamara Konkova (KAZ) | 13.17 m | Qiu Qin (CHN) | 12.98 m | Wang Kuo-huei (TPE) | 12.69 m |
| Shot put | Qian Chunhua (CHN) | 15.58 m | Mao Lingyan (CHN) | 14.96 m | Yoko Toyonaga (JPN) | 14.70 m |
| Discus throw | Liu Yanxia (CHN) | 55.30 m | Sugan Yadav Kumar (IND) | 53.76 m | Zhang Hongbo (CHN) | 48.36 m |
| Javelin throw | Wang Yaning (CHN) | 57.92 m | Zhang Li (CHN) | 55.34 m | Park Ho-hyun (KOR) | 48.68 m |
| Heptathlon | Soma Biswas (IND) | 5046 pts | Yuki Nakata (JPN) | 5014 pts | Pramila Ganapathy (IND) | 4853 pts |

## 1996 Medal Table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 15 | 12 | 5 | 32 |
| 2 | India (IND) | 10 | 13 | 11 | 34 |
| 3 | Qatar (QAT) | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 8 | 5 | 17 |
| 5 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | Iran (IRI) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 8 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | Singapore (SIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (12 entries) | Totals (12 entries) | 40 | 41 | 38 | 119 |