# 1985 Asian Athletics Championships

The sixth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in September 1985 at the Senayan Madya Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: +0.8 m/s) | Zheng Chen China | 10.28 | Mohammed Purnomo Indonesia | 10.33 | Jang Jae-keun South Korea | 10.35 |
| 200 metres (wind: +1.5 m/s) | Jang Jae-keun South Korea | 20.57 | Mohammed Purnomo Indonesia | 21.19 | Li Feng China | 21.20 |
| 400 metres | Isidro del Prado Philippines | 45.61 | Mohammed Al-Malki Oman | 46.45 | Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Iraq | 46.67 |
| 800 metres | Batumalai Rajakumar Malaysia | 1:47.37 NR | Charles Borromeo India | 1:47.99 | Ryu Tae-kyung South Korea | 1:48.18 |
| 1500 metres | Bagicha Singh India | 3:56.85 | Suresh Yadav India | 3:56.90 | Hussein Darwish Iraq | 3:57.07 |
| 5000 metres | Kozu Akutsu Japan | 14:22.11 | Haruo Urata Japan | 14:22.42 | Lee Sang-geun South Korea | 14:23.02 |
| 10,000 metres | Zhang Guowei China | 29:58.73 | Lee Sang-geun South Korea | 30:10.05 | Vinod Kumar Pokhriyal India | 32:09.62 |
| Marathon | Ling Jong-hyen North Korea | 2:20:29 | Tomio Sueyoshi Japan | 2:24:26 | Choe Il-sop North Korea | 2:24:52 |
| 3000 metre steeplechase | Shigeyuki Aikyo Japan | 8:46.96 | Hwang Wen-cheng Chinese Taipei | 8:47.53 | Shanmugin Pitchaiah India | 8:48.14 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.4 m/s) | Yu Zhicheng China | 13.94 | Masahiko Sugi Japan | 14.20 | Li Jieqiang China | 14.23 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Ahmed Hamada Jassim Bahrain | 49.88 | Jasem Al-Douwaila Kuwait | 50.81 | Hiroshi Kakimori Japan | 50.85 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | China Cai Jianming Yu Zhuanghui Li Tao Zheng Chen | 39.34 | Qatar Saad Muftah Mubarak Al-Kuwari Jamal Abdallah Sulaiman Faraj Marzouk Talal Mansour | 39.81 | South Korea Jang Jae-keun Kim Bok-Seop Shim Duk-sup Sung Nak-kun | 39.85 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Iraq Fahim Abdul-Sada Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Abbas Ali Lafta Heitham Nadim | 3:07.68 | Japan Takeo Suzuki Hiromitsu Suzuki Kenji Yamauchi Sen-ya Suzuki | 3:07.92 | Philippines Isidro Del Prado Romeo Gido Honesto Larce Leopoldo Arnillo | 3:09.95 |
| 20 kilometre road walk | Liu Jianli China | 1:26:52 | Chand Ram India | 1:27:20 | Wang Zhicheng China | 1:31:12 |
| High jump | Shuji Ujino Japan | 2.24 | Takao Sakamoto Japan | 2.22 | Liu Yunpeng China | 2.22 |
| Pole vault | Ji Zebiao China | 5.30 | Toshiyuki Hashioka Japan | 5.20 | Liang Xueren China | 5.10 |
| Long jump | Liu Yuhuang China | 8.00 | Pang Yan China | 7.95 | Junichi Usui Japan | 7.72 |
| Triple jump | Tian Hongxin China | 16.38 | Park Young-jun South Korea | 16.35 | Yasushi Ueta Japan | 15.96 |
| Shot put | Balwinder Singh India | 17.88 | Gong Yitian China | 17.80 | Bahadur Singh Chouhan India | 17.21 |
| Discus throw | Li Weinan China | 55.30 | Wang Daoming China | 54.62 | Kuldip Singh India | 52.36 |
| Hammer throw | Raghubir Singh Bal India | 64.34 | Xie Yingqi China | 63.44 | Waleed Al-Bekheet Kuwait | 60.62 |
| Javelin throw | Pubu Ciren China | 76.56 | Kim Sun-yun South Korea | 76.22 | Kazuhiro Mizoguchi Japan | 74.90 |
| Decathlon | Ku Chin-shui Chinese Taipei | 7538 | Lee Fu-an Chinese Taipei | 7469 | Wang Kangqiang China | 7357 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: -2.0 m/s) | P.T. Usha India | 11.64 | Ratjai Sripet Thailand | 11.95 | Lydia de Vega Philippines | 11.96 |
| 200 metres (wind: +3.4 m/s) | P.T. Usha India | 23.05w | Reawadee Srithoa Thailand | 23.70w | Vandana Rao India | 23.79w |
| 400 metres | P.T. Usha India | 52.62 | Shiny Abraham India | 53.32 | Emma Tahapari Indonesia | 55.08 |
| 800 metres | Shiny Abraham India | 2:03.16 | Sasithorn Chantanuhong Thailand | 2:03.46 (NR) | Yang Liuxia China | 2:05.07 |
| 1500 metres | Yang Liuxia China | 4:19.11 | Choi Ok-soon North Korea | 4:21.62 | Choi Jong-hui North Korea | 4:26.35 |
| 3000 metres | Kim Lyong-soon North Korea | 9:27.75 | Li Xiuxia China | 9:29.88 | Suman Rawat India | 9:36.97 |
| 10,000 metres | Paek Do-jong North Korea | 35:17.35 | Wang Huabi China | 35:35.77 | Kim Myong-hui North Korea | 35:49.33 |
| Marathon | Asha Aggarwal India | 2:48:53 | Yuko Gordon Hong Kong | 2:54:16 | Ki Sun-bok North Korea | 2:57:28 |
| 100 metres hurdles (wind: +1.0 m/s) | Liu Huajin China | 13.22 | Chen Kemei China | 13.48 | Chen Wen-ying Chinese Taipei | 13.59 |
| 400 metres hurdles | P.T. Usha India | 56.64 | M. D. Valsamma India | 57.81 | Agrifina de la Cruz Philippines | 59.59 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Thailand Reawadee Srithoa Ratjai Sripet Walapa Tangjitsusorn Jaree Patarach | 45.07 | China Liu Huajin Tian Yumei Zhang Jiangmei Pan Weixin | 45.20 | India M. D. Valsamma Ashwini Nachappa Vandana Rao P.T. Usha | 45.22 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | India Vandana Rao Ashwini Nachappa Shiny Abraham P.T. Usha | 3:34.10 | Japan Hitomi Koshimoto Hiromi Isozaki Takako Kitamura Yoko Sato | 3:39.51 | Chinese Taipei Shen Su-feng Hsu Yi-ling Cheng Fei-ju Lai Lee-jiao | 3:39.88 (NR) |
| 10,000 metre track walk | Rian Bingyie China | 50:38.81 | Xiong Yan China | 51:04.66 | Iece Magdalena Siregar Indonesia | 53:55.46 |
| High jump | Yang Wenqin China | 1.90 | Ni Xiuling China | 1.90 | Wu Wei-chun Chinese Taipei | 1.81 |
| Long jump | Huang Donghuo China | 6.60 | Liao Wenfen China | 6.57 | Kim Mi-sook South Korea | 6.25 |
| Shot put | Cong Yuzhen China | 18.36 | Li Meisu China | 17.64 | Han Yun-sook South Korea | 14.12 |
| Discus throw | Li Xiaohui China | 58.38 | Yu Hourun China | 51.44 | Ikuko Kitamori Japan | 50.48 |
| Javelin throw | Zhu Hongyang China | 56.84 | Wang Jin China | 53.44 | Emi Matsui Japan | 53.28 |
| Heptathlon | Ye Lianying China | 5319 | Dong Yuping China | 5198 | Tung Fung-gao Chinese Taipei | 5117 |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Host nation)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 19 | 15 | 7 | 41 |
| 2 | India (IND) | 10 | 5 | 7 | 22 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 |
| 4 | North Korea (PRK) | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| 6 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 8 | Philippines (PHI) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | Iraq (IRQ) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Bahrain (BHR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Malaysia (MAS) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Indonesia (INA)* | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 13 | Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Oman (OMN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Qatar (QAT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 42 | 42 | 42 | 126 |