# 2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, also known as the IV Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, was an international indoor athletics event took place in Tehran, Iran, between 24 and 26 February. This was the second edition to be hosted in the country as the first championships was also held at the Aftab Enghelab Complex in Tehran. A total of 23 nations sent athletes to compete at the championships, which featured 26 track and field events.
The championships featured somewhat moderate performances – India, who topped the table at the previous edition, decided against sending a number of their top athletes. However, for many athletes it acted as a testing ground in the build up to the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in March. The hosts Iran topped the medal table with five golds. China was second with four golds while Kazakhstan had the second greatest medal haul with a total of 14. Six Asian Indoor Championships records were broken or equalled at the championships.
The female events were held separately from the men's events, taking place during the morning sessions. Due to the Islamic country's customs, men were forbidden from watching the female events. All four of Kyrgyzstan's medals were won by only two women: twenty-year-old Viktoriia Poliudina won both the 1500 metres and 3000 metres events while her compatriot Tatyana Borisova managed an 800 metres silver and 1500 m bronze. Kazakhstan's Oksana Verner was another athlete to win two individual medals as she took silver behind Poliudina on both occasions. Satyender Singh's personal best and championship record throw in the shot put was one of highlights of the programme, although the women's pole vault was a less-contested affair as only two athletes took part.
It was later revealed that Oksana Verner and 400 metres gold medallist Munira Saleh failed a drugs test at the event and was banned from the sport for two years and life respectively.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 m | Samuel Francis Qatar | 6.58 CR | Reza Ghasemi Iran | 6.67 | Barakat Al-Harthi Oman | 6.68 |
| 400 m | Bibin Mathew India | 47.81 CR, NR | Reza Bouazar Iran | 48.14 | Shahabeddin Tahmasebi Iran | 48.15 |
| 800 m | Mohammad Al-Azemi Kuwait | 1:53.22 | Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla Qatar | 1:54.25 | Masato Yokota Japan | 1:54.71 |
| 1500 m | Abubaker Ali Kamal Qatar | 3:51.78 | Mohamed Al-Garni Qatar | 3:53.12 | Rouhollah Mohammadi Iran | 3:55.64 |
| 3000 m | James Kwalia Qatar | 7:57.73 | Essa Ismail Rashed Qatar | 7:57.77 | Mohammad Khazaei Iran | 8:26.33 |
| 60 m hurdles | Jiang Fan China | 7.75 =CR | Fawaz Al-Shammari Kuwait | 7.90 | Mohammad Goudarzi Iran | 7.95 |
| 4×400 m relay | Iran Shahabeddin Tahmasebi Reza Bouazar Mohsen Zarrin-Afzal Mehdi Zamani | 3:15.02 | India Bibin Mathew Ajay Kumar Shake Mortaja V. B. Bineesh | 3:16.05 | Kazakhstan Dmitriy Korabelnikov Sergey Zaikov Vyacheslav Muravyev Nazar Mukhametzhan | 3:17.06 NR |
| High jump | Mutaz Essa Barshim Qatar | 2.20 | Keivan Ghanbarzadeh Iran | 2.17 | Jean-Claude Rabbath Lebanon | 2.17 |
| Pole vault | Mohsen Rabbani Iran | 5.20 | Nikita Filippov Kazakhstan | 5.10 | Eshagh Ghaffari Iran | 4.90 |
| Long jump | Rikiya Saruyama Japan | 7.65 | Zhuang Haitao China | 7.58 | Mohammad Ibrar India | 7.56 |
| Triple jump | Dong Bin China | 16.73 CR | Nobuaki Fujibayashi Japan | 16.33 | Roman Valiyev Kazakhstan | 16.25 |
| Shot put | Satyender Singh India | 19.17 CR | Mashari Mohammad Kuwait | 18.78 | Hamid Reza Nodehi Iran | 18.58 |
| Heptathlon | Hadi Sepehrzad Iran | 5292 pts | Abdoljalil Tomaj Iran | 5054 pts | P. J. Vinod India | 4981 pts |
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |||||| |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 m | Jiang Lan China | 7.51 | Han Ling China | 7.55 | Olga Bludova Kazakhstan | 7.57 |
| 400 m | Marina Maslyonko Kazakhstan | 53.89 | Jauna Murmu India | 54.56 | Yelena Dombrovskaya Kazakhstan | 55.47 |
| 800 m | Truong Thanh Hang Vietnam | 2:12.75 | Tatyana Borisova Kyrgyzstan | 2:14.60 | Mina Pourseifi Iran | 2:15.87 |
| 1500 m | Viktoriia Poliudina Kyrgyzstan | 4:29.65 | Tatyana Borisova Kyrgyzstan | 4:32.06 | Leila Ebrahimi Iran | 4:36.26 |
| 3000 m | Viktoriia Poliudina Kyrgyzstan | 9:39.35 | Leila Ebrahimi Iran | 10:05.42 | Mahboubeh Ghayour Iran | 10:29.31 |
| 60 m hurdles | Wong Wing Sum Hong Kong | 8.79 | Somayyeh Mehraban Iran | 9.41 | Elnaz Kompani Iran | 9.49 |
| 4×400 m relay | India Priyanka Pawar Jauna Murmu A. C. Ashwini Karnatapu Sowjanya | 3:43.83 | Kazakhstan Yelena Dombrovskaya Marina Maslyonko Olga Bludova ? | 3:44.20 | Iran Mina Pourseifi Maryam Tousi Soulmaz Azimian Soudabeh Sobhani | 4:00.03 |
| High jump | Marina Aitova Kazakhstan | 1.93 =CR | Anna Ustinova Kazakhstan | 1.86 | Qiao Yanrui China | 1.83 |
| Pole vault | Roslinda Samsu Malaysia | 4.00 | Tatyana Turkova Kazakhstan | 3.70 | None awarded | |
| Long jump | Lyudmila Grankovskaya Kazakhstan | 5.98 | Chen Yaling China | 5.95 | Reshmi Bose India | 5.93 |
| Triple jump | Liu Yanan China | 13.66 | Lyudmila Grankovskaya Kazakhstan | 12.95 | Tatyana Konysheva Kazakhstan | 12.82 |
| Shot put | Leila Rajabi Iran | 17.32 NR | Meng Qianqian China | 17.03 | Ma Qiao China | 16.97 |
| Pentathlon | Zahra Nabizadeh Iran | 2691 pts | Bahar Khasrou Iraq | 2682 pts | Farzaneh Mashayekhi Iran | 2541 pts |
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |||||| |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Iran | 5 | 6 | 12 | 23 |
| 2 | China | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | Qatar | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | India | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | Kuwait | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Malaysia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Vietnam | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Iraq | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Lebanon | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Oman | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 26 | 26 | 25 | 77 |

## Participating nations

A total of 23 nations were represented by athletes competing at the 2010 championships. This was a smaller amount than the total number of nations that attended the 2008 edition (29).
* Bahrain (2)
* China (14)
* Hong Kong (6)
* India (18)
* Indonesia (1)
* Iran (57)
* Iraq (9)
* Japan (6)
* Kazakhstan (23)
* Kuwait (5)
* Kyrgyzstan (4)
* Lebanon (3)
* Macau (5)
* Malaysia (5)
* Maldives (2)
* Oman (5)
* Philippines (2)
* Qatar (10)
* Syria (4)
* Tajikistan (3)
* Turkmenistan (5)
* United Arab Emirates (1)
* Vietnam (3)