# 2004 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 2004 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was an international indoor athletics event took place in Tehran, Iran, between 6 and 8 February. 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.
A total of 23 nations sent athletes to compete at the championships, which featured 30 track and field events. China topped the medal table with 11 golds. Iran was second with six golds while Kazakhstan finished third with four golds.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 m | Abdolghaffar Saghar Iran | 6.76 CR | To Wai Lok Hong Kong | 6.78 | Shen Yunbao China | 6.79 |
| 200 m | Tomoyuki Arai Japan | 21.56 CR | Liu Haitao China | 21.63 | Adel Mohammed Bahrain | 21.87 |
| 400 m | Mohammad Akefian Iran | 48.71 CR | Edvard Mangasar Iran | 48.76 | Esmaeil Kaboutaran Iran | 49.32 |
| 800 m | Rashid Ramzi Bahrain | 1:48.03 AR | Sajjad Moradi Iran | 1:48.48 NR | Yusuf Saad Kamel Bahrain | 1:48.89 |
| 1500 m | Rashid Ramzi Bahrain | 3:55.73 CR | Sajjad Moradi Iran | 3:56.00 | Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei Iran | 3:56.06 |
| 3000 m | Mushir Salem Jawher Bahrain | 8:11.90 CR | Wu Wen-chien Chinese Taipei | 8:24.39 | Omid Mehrabi Iran | 8:33.00 |
| 60 m hurdles | Wu Youjia China | 7.77 CR | Rouhollah Askari Iran | 7.82 NR | Mohd Robani Hassan Malaysia | 8.03 |
| 5000 m walk | Amir Kheirgoo Iran | 22:12.27 CR | Ebrahim Rahimian Iran | 22:19.56 | Sitaram Basat India | 22:22.92 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Iran Edvard Mangasar Iraj Iri Mohammad Akefian Esmaeil Kaboutaran | 3:16.99 CR | India Amish Pothan Sunil Joseph Jasal Preet Sreedharan Sreejith | 3:19.91 | Bahrain Mohamed Al-Rashedi Adel Mohamed Al-Farhan Salem Kam | 3:22.21 |
| High jump | Yuriy Pakhlyayev Kazakhstan | 2.23 CR | Zheng Ting China | 2.19 | Shuhei Manabe Japan | 2.15 |
| Pole vault | Zhang Hongwei China | 5.40 CR | Eshagh Ghaffari Iran | 5.00 | Mohsen Rabbani Iran | 5.00 |
| Long jump | Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi Saudi Arabia | 7.94 CR | Ahmed Al-Dosari Saudi Arabia | 7.76 | Cai Peng China | 7.58 |
| Triple jump | Zhu Shujing China | 16.57 CR | Mohammad Hazzory Syria | 16.42 NR | Denis Saurambayev Kazakhstan | 16.17 |
| Shot put | Amin Nikfar Iran | 18.33 CR | Ali Rahmani Iran | 18.30 | Wang Zhiyong China | 17.93 |
| Heptathlon | Pavel Dubitskiy Kazakhstan | 5570 pts CR | Ahmad Hosseini Iran | 5387 pts | Rifat Artikov Uzbekistan | 5299 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 | Zou Yingting China | 7.41 CR | Roqaya Al-Gassra Bahrain | 7.48 | Saori Kitakaze Japan | 7.52 |
| 200 m | Xie Rong China | 23.91 CR | Roqaya Al-Gassra Bahrain | 24.18 NR | Asami Tanno Japan | 24.99 |
| 400 m | Tatyana Roslanova Kazakhstan | 54.46 CR | Roqaya Al-Gassra Bahrain | 55.29 | Pinki Pramanik India | 55.64 |
| 800 m | Miki Nishimura Japan | 2:10.04 CR | Liu Qing China | 2:14.43 | Pinki Pramanik India | 2:15.06 |
| 1500 m | Xie Sainan China | 4:29.43 CR | Svetlana Lukasheva Kazakhstan | 4:36.94 | Leila Ebrahimi Iran | 4:49.35 |
| 3000 m | Svetlana Lukasheva Kazakhstan | 10:10.05 CR | Leila Ebrahimi Iran | 10:23.25 | Elham Zanbouri Iran | 11:08.20 |
| 60 m hurdles | Xu Jia China | 8.34 CR | Tomoko Motegi Japan | 8.48 | Padideh Bolourizadeh Iran | 9.19 |
| 3000 m walk | Jasmin Kaur India | 14:54.15 CR | Ameneh Safavi Iran | 17:09.44 | Homa Sheikhan Iran | 17:47.55 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Iran Zohreh Farjam Mina Pourseifi Hadis Shahrami Leila Ebrahimi | 4:00.48 CR | Iran Atefeh Shadman Nobahar Rezvan Somayyeh Mehraban Maedeh Chavoshizadeh | 4:03.41 | None awarded | |
| High jump | Miyuki Aoyama Japan | 1.83 CR | Bobby Aloysius India | 1.81 | Sahana Kumari India | 1.79 |
| Pole vault | Zhang Na China | 4.20 CR | Roslinda Samsu Malaysia | 4.00 | Chang Ko-hsin Chinese Taipei | 3.95 |
| Long jump | Xu Bei China | 6.30 CR | Jetty C. Joseph India | 5.98 | Wang Kuo-huei Chinese Taipei | 5.95 |
| Triple jump | Xie Limei China | 13.39 CR | Svetlana Klimina Uzbekistan | 12.83 | Wang Kuo-huei Chinese Taipei | 12.61 NR |
| Shot put | Zhang Xiaoyu China | 17.38 CR | Iolanta Ulyeva Kazakhstan | 16.78 | Olga Shukina Uzbekistan | 14.75 |
| Pentathlon | Yuki Nakata Japan | 3977 pts CR | Padideh Bolourizadeh Iran | 3528 pts NR | Svetlana Pessova Turkmenistan | 3287 pts NR |
| 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 | China | 11 | 3 | 3 | 17 |
| 2 | Iran | 6 | 12 | 8 | 26 |
| 3 | Kazakhstan | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 4 | Japan | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 5 | Bahrain | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | India | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | Uzbekistan | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Malaysia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Hong Kong | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Syria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Turkmenistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 30 | 30 | 29 | 89 |

## Participating nations

A total of 23 nations were represented by athletes competing at the 2004 championships.
* Afghanistan
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* China
* Chinese Taipei
* Hong Kong
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Japan
* Kazakhstan
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Pakistan
* Palestine
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* Syria
* Turkmenistan
* Uzbekistan