# 2019 Asian Athletics Championships

The 2019 Asian Athletics Championships was the 23rd edition of the Asian Athletics Championships. It was held from 21 to 24 April 2019 at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar. During the closing ceremony of the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar India, President of Asian Athletics Association (AAA) Dahlan Al Hamad officially handed over the AAA Flag to Qatar Olympic Committee Secretary-General and Qatar Athletics Federation President Thani Abdulrahman Al Kuwari. The event was at the Khalifa International Stadium and it served as the test event for the 2019 World Athletics Championships which were held at the same venue.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Yoshihide Kiryū Japan | 10.10 | Lalu Muhammad Zohri Indonesia | 10.13 NR | Wu Zhiqiang China | 10.18 PB |
| 200 metres details | Xie Zhenye China | 20.33 | Yuki Koike Japan | 20.55 | Yaqoob Eid Salem Bahrain | 20.84 |
| 400 metres details | Yousef Karam Kuwait | 44.84 NR | Abbas Abubakar Abbas Bahrain | 45.14 PB | Mikhail Litvin Kazakhstan | 45.25 NR |
| 800 metres details | Abubaker Haydar Abdalla Qatar | 1:44.33 PB, WL | Ebrahim Al-Zofairi Kuwait | 1:46.88 SB | Jamal Hairane Qatar | 1:47.27 |
| 1500 metres details | Abraham Rotich Bahrain | 3:42.85 SB | Ajay Kumar Saroj India | 3:43.18(.174) SB | Adam Ali Mousab Qatar | 3:43.18(.180) SB |
| 5000 metres details | Birhanu Balew Bahrain | 13:37.42 | Albert Rop Bahrain | 13:37.57 | Hiroki Matsueda Japan | 13:45.44 |
| 10,000 metres details | Dawit Fikadu Bahrain | 28:26.30 PB | Hassan Chani Bahrain | 28:31.30 SB | Gavit Murli Kumar India | 28:38.34 PB |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Xie Wenjun China | 13.21 CR, PB, WL | Yaqoub Al-Youha Kuwait | 13.35 NR | Chen Kuei-ru Chinese Taipei | 13.39 =NR |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Abderrahman Samba Qatar | 47.51 CR, WL | Chen Chieh Chinese Taipei | 48.92 PB | Jabir Madari Palliyalil India | 49.13 PB |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | John Kibet Koech Bahrain | 8:25.87 WL | Avinash Sable India | 8:30.19 | Kazuya Shiojiri Japan | 8:32.25 |
| 4×100 metres relay details | Thailand (THA) Ruttanapon Sowan [fr] Bandit Chuangchai [fr] Jirapong Meenapra Siripol Punpa [fr] | 38.99 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) Wei Yi-ching [de] Wang Wei-hsu [de] Yang Chun-han Lin Hung-min [de] | 39.18 SB | Oman (OMA) Mohamed Al-Balushi [de] Barakat Al-Harthi Mohamed Obaid Al-Saadi Ammar Al-Saifi [de] | 39.36 NR |
| 4×400 metres relay details | Japan (JPN) Julian Walsh Kentaro Sato Rikuya Itō Kota Wakabayashi | 3:02.94 | China (CHN) Lu Zhiquan [de] Wu Lei [de] Yang Lei [de] Wu Yuang | 3:03.55 NR | Qatar (QAT) Ashraf Hussen Osman [de] Abubaker Haydar Abdalla Bassem Hemeida Abderrahman Samba | 3:03.95 |
| High jump details | Majd Eddin Ghazal Syria | 2.31 m =WL | Takashi Eto Japan | 2.29 m | Naoto Tobe Japan | 2.26 m |
| Pole vault details | Ernest John Obiena Philippines | 5.71 m CR, NR | Zhang Wei China | 5.66 m PB | Huang Bokai China | 5.66 m SB |
| Long jump details | Yuki Hashioka Japan | 8.22 m PB, =WL | Zhang Yaoguang China | 8.13 m SB | Huang Changzhou China | 7.97 m SB |
| Triple jump details | Ruslan Kurbanov Uzbekistan | 16.93 m PB | Zhu Yaming China | 16.87 m *SB | Xu Xiaolong China | 16.81 m |
| Shot put details | Tejinder Pal Singh Toor India | 20.22 m SB | Wu Jiaxing China | 20.03 m PB | Ivan Ivanov Kazakhstan | 19.09 m |
| Discus throw details | Ehsan Haddadi Iran | 65.95 m CR | Behnam Shiri Iran | 60.89 m | Musaeb Al-Momani Jordan | 58.27 m SB |
| Hammer throw details | Dilshod Nazarov Tajikistan | 76.14 m SB | Ashraf Amgad El-Seify Qatar | 73.76 m | Suhrob Khodjaev Uzbekistan | 72.85 m |
| Javelin throw details | Cheng Chao-tsun Chinese Taipei | 86.72 m CR, WL | Shivpal Singh India | 86.23 m PB | Ryohei Arai Japan | 81.93 m |
| Decathlon details | Keisuke Ushiro Japan | 7872 pts SB | Majed Radhi Al-Sayed Kuwait | 7838 pts NR | Akihiko Nakamura Japan | 7837 pts SB |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Olga Safronova Kazakhstan | 11.17 CR, SB | Liang Xiaojing China | 11.28 | Wei Yongli China | 11.37 |
| 200 metres details | Salwa Eid Naser Bahrain | 22.74 CR, PB | Olga Safronova Kazakhstan | 22.87 SB | Dutee Chand India | 23.24 SB |
| 400 metres details | Salwa Eid Naser Bahrain | 51.34 SB | Elina Mikhina Kazakhstan | 53.19 SB | M. R. Poovamma India | 53.21 |
| 800 metres details | Wang Chunyu China | 2:02.96 SB | Margarita Mukasheva Kazakhstan | 2:03.83 SB | Gayanthika Abeyratne Sri Lanka | 2:05.74 |
| 1500 metres details | P. U. Chitra India | 4:14.56 | Tigist Gashaw Bahrain | 4:14.81 | Winfred Yavi Bahrain | 4:16.18 SB |
| 5000 metres details | Winfred Mutile Yavi Bahrain | 15:28.87 PB | Bontu Rebitu Bahrain | 15:29.60 SB | Parul Chaudhary India | 15:36.03 PB |
| 10,000 metres details | Shitaye Habtegebrel Bahrain | 31:15.62 CR, SB | Hitomi Niiya Japan | 31:22.63 SB | Sanjivani Jadhav India | 32:44.96 PB |
| 100 metres hurdles details | Ayako Kimura Japan | 13.13 | Chen Jiamin China | 13.24 PB | Masumi Aoki Japan | 13.28 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Quách Thị Lan Vietnam | 56.10 SB | Aminat Yusuf Jamal Bahrain | 56.39 SB | Sarita Gayakwad India | 57.22 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Winfred Yavi Bahrain | 9:46.18 SB | Xu Shuangshuang China | 9:51.76 SB | Tigest Mekonen Bahrain | 9:53.96 SB |
| 4×100 metres relay details | China (CHN) Liang Xiaojing Wei Yongli Kong Lingwei Ge Manqi | 42.87 CR, WL | Kazakhstan (KAZ) Rima Kashafutdinova Elina Mikhina Svetlana Golendova Olga Safronova | 43.36 | Bahrain (BHR) Edidiong Odiong Iman Essa Jassim Hajar Al-Khaldi Salwa Eid Naser | 43.61 |
| 4×400 metres relay details | Bahrain (BHR) Aminat Yusuf Jamal Iman Essa Jassim Zainab Mohammed Salwa Eid Naser | 3:32.10 SB | India (IND) Prachi M. R. Poovamma Sarita Gayakwad V. K. Vismaya | 3:32.21 SB | Japan (JPN) Mae Hirosawa Seika Aoyama Konomi Takeishi Yuna Iwata | 3:34.88 SB |
| High jump details | Nadiya Dusanova Uzbekistan | 1.90 m | Nadezhda Dubovitskaya Kazakhstan | 1.88 m PB | Svetlana Radzivil Uzbekistan | 1.88 m |
| Pole vault details | Li Ling China | 4.61 m SB | Xu Huiqin China | 4.36 m SB | Natalie Uy Philippines | 4.20 m |
| Long jump details | Lu Minjia China | 6.38 m SB | Ayaka Kora Japan | 6.16 m | Yue Ya Xin Hong Kong | 6.15 m |
| Triple jump details | Parinya Chuaimaroeng Thailand | 13.72 m SB | Zeng Rui China | 13.65 m | Vidusha Lakshani Sri Lanka | 13.53 m SB |
| Shot put details | Gong Lijiao China | 19.18 m SB | Noora Salem Jasim Bahrain | 18.00 m NR | Song Jiayuan China | 17.70 m |
| Discus throw details | Feng Bin China | 65.36 m CR, PB | Chen Yang China | 61.87 m SB | Subenrat Insaeng Thailand | 58.20 m SB |
| Hammer throw details | Wang Zheng China | 75.66 m CR, SB | Luo Na China | 72.23 m | Akane Watanabe Japan | 63.54 m |
| Javelin throw details | Lü Huihui China | 65.83 m CR | Annu Rani India | 60.22 m | Natta Nachan Thailand | 56.01 m PB |
| Heptathlon details | Yekaterina Voronina Uzbekistan | 6198 pts WL | Swapna Barman India | 5993 pts SB | Wang Qingling China | 5829 pts SB |

### Mixed

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 4×400 metres relay details | Bahrain (BHR) Musa Isah Aminat Yusuf Jamal Salwa Eid Naser Abbas Abubakar Abbas | 3:15.75 | India (IND) Mohammad Anas M. R. Poovamma Vismaya Velluvakoroth Arokia Rajiv | 3:16.47 | Japan (JPN) Kota Wakabayashi Konomi Takeishi Mayu Inaoka Kentaro Sato | 3:20.29 |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Qatar)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Bahrain (BHR) | 11 | 7 | 4 | 22 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 10 | 12 | 7 | 29 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 5 | 4 | 9 | 18 |
| 4 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 5 | India (IND) | 2 | 7 | 7 | 16 |
| 6 | Qatar (QAT)* | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | Thailand (THA) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| 9 | Kuwait (KUW) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 11 | Iran (IRI) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Philippines (PHI) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Syria (SYR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Tajikistan (TJK) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Vietnam (VIE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | Jordan (JOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | Oman (OMA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (20 entries) | Totals (20 entries) | 43 | 43 | 43 | 129 |

## Participating nations

* Bahrain (28)
* Bangladesh (5)
* Bhutan (2)
* Brunei (1)
* Cambodia (2)
* China (84)
* Chinese Taipei (22)
* Hong Kong (17)
* India (38)
* Indonesia (9)
* Iran (16)
* Iraq (9)
* Japan (74)
* Jordan (4)
* Kazakhstan (24)
* Kuwait (18)
* Kyrgyzstan (11)
* Laos (3)
* Lebanon (4)
* Macau (5)
* Malaysia (9)
* Maldives (7)
* Myanmar (1)
* Nepal (2)
* North Korea (2)
* Oman (9)
* Pakistan (5)
* Palestine (4)
* Philippines (13)
* Qatar (33)
* Saudi Arabia (9)
* Singapore (15)
* South Korea (22)
* Sri Lanka (15)
* Syria (2)
* Tajikistan (6)
* Thailand (23)
* Timor-Leste (2)
* Turkmenistan (5)
* Uzbekistan (15)
* Vietnam (12)
* Yemen (8)