# 1998 Asian Athletics Championships

The 12th Asian Championships in Athletics were held in Fukuoka, Japan in July 1998.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m (wind: -0.6 m/s) | Zhou Wei China | 10.39 | Watson Nyambek Malaysia | 10.42 | Hiroyasu Tsuchie Japan | 10.44 |
| 200 m (wind: -0.6 m/s) | Koji Ito Japan | 20.70 | Han Chaoming China | 20.77 | Gennadiy Chernovol Kazakhstan | 20.92 |
| 400 m | Sugath Tillakaratne Sri Lanka | 44.61 CR | Masayoshi Kan Japan | 45.64 | Kenji Tabata Japan | 45.69 |
| 800 m | Cheng Bing China | 1:47.71 | Abdulhassan Abdulrahman Qatar | 1:47.74 | Mahmoud Al-Kheirat Syria | 1:48.16 |
| 1500 m | Mohammed Sulaiman Qatar | 3:43.70 | Kiyonari Shibata Japan | 3:44.38 | Cheng Bing China | 3:44.92 |
| 5000 m | Toshinari Takaoka Japan | 13:54.34 | Gulab Chand India | 13:55.40 | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar | 13:58.35 |
| 10,000 m | Baek Seung-do South Korea | 30:12.26 | Toshihiro Iwasa Japan | 30:12.57 | Gulab Chand India | 30:14.69 |
| 3000 m St. | Saad Shadad Al-Asmari Saudi Arabia | 8:31.13 | Yasunori Uchitomi Japan | 8:33.40 | Hamid Sajjadi Iran | 8:37.88 |
| 110 m H (wind: +1.9 m/s) | Chen Yanhao China | 13.53 CR | Qi Zhen China | 13.74 | Andrey Sklyarenko Kazakhstan | 13.86 |
| 400 m H | Mubarak Al-Nubi Qatar | 48.71 CR | Hideaki Kawamura Japan | 49.69 | Kazuhiko Yamazaki Japan | 49.81 |
| 20 km Walk | Li Zewen China | 1:27:58 | Yoshima Hara Japan | 1:28:16 | Valeriy Borisov Kazakhstan | 1:29:05 |
| 4 x 100 m | China Zhou Wei Lin Wei Yin Hanzhao Han Chaoming | 39.03 | Japan Tatsuhiko Watanabe Tatsuo Sugimoto Hiroyasu Tsuchie Koji Ito | 39.30 | Qatar Jamal Abbas Hamed Al-Dosari Jamal Suleiman Saad Mubarak | 39.43 |
| 4 x 400 m | Japan Kenji Tabata Jun Osakada Shunji Karube Masayoshi Kan | 3:02.61 | South Korea Kim Jae-da Shon Ju-il Kim Ho Kim Yong-hwan | 3:04.44 NR | Sri Lanka Ranga Wimalawansa Vellasamy Ratnakumara Rohan Pradeep Kumara Sugath Thilakaratne | 3:05.79 |
| High jump | Zhou Zhongge China | 2.30 | Lee Jin-taek South Korea | 2.27 | Loo Kum Zee Malaysia | 2.23 |
| Pole vault | Igor Potapovich Kazakhstan | 5.55 | Aleksandr Korchagin Kazakhstan | 5.40 | Hideji Suzuki Japan | 5.20 |
| Long jump | Masaki Morinaga Japan | 8.08 | Liu Hongning China | 7.97 | Shigeru Tagawa Japan | 7.96 |
| Triple jump | Duan Qifeng China | 16.79 | Takanori Sugibayashi Japan | 16.50 | Takashi Komatsu Japan | 16.38 |
| Shot put | Bilal Saad Mubarak Qatar | 19.17 CR | Liu Hao China | 18.86 | Shakti Singh India | 18.40 |
| Discus | Li Shaojie China | 60.28 | Dashdendev Makhashiri Mongolia | 57.00 | Ajit Bhaduria India | 55.46 |
| Hammer | Andrey Abduvaliyev Uzbekistan | 76.67 CR | Koji Murofushi Japan | 74.17 | Nikolay Davydov Kyrgyzstan | 70.31 |
| Javelin | Zhang Lianbiao China | 77.61 | Li Rongxiang China | 77.48 | Mikio Tamura Japan | 75.71 |
| Decathlon | Toru Yasui Japan | 7439 pts CR | Tomokazu Sugama Japan | 7347 pts | Ivan Yarkin Kazakhstan | 7239 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 |
| 100 m (wind: -0.1 m/s) | Yan Jiankui China | 11.39 | Cui Dangfeng China | 11.42 | Shanti Govindasamy Malaysia | 11.60 |
| 200 m (wind: +1.7 m/s) | Yan Jiankui China | 23.00 =CR | Huang Mei China | 23.21 | P.T. Usha India | 23.27 |
| 400 m | Damayanthi Dharsha Sri Lanka | 51.23 =CR | Svetlana Bodritskaya Kazakhstan | 52.46 | P.T. Usha India | 52.55 |
| 800 m | Zhang Jian China | 2:01.16 CR | Liu Jing China | 2:01.85 | Jyotirmoy Sikdar India | 2:02.65 |
| 1500 m | Liu Jing China | 4:12.76 CR | Wang Chunmei China | 4:13.45 | Jyotirmoy Sikdar India | 4:14.32 |
| 5000 m | Wang Chunmei China | 15:49.48 | Liu Shixiang China | 15:53.76 | Megumi Tanaka Japan | 15:55.10 |
| 10,000 m | Liu Shixiang China | 32:28.49 | Chiemi Takahashi Japan | 32:32.99 | Aki Fujikawa Japan | 32:48.05 |
| 100 m H (wind: -0.9 m/s) | Olga Shishigina Kazakhstan | 13.04 CR | Feng Yun China | 13.10 | Sriyani Kulawansa Sri Lanka | 13.16 |
| 400 m H | Li Rui China | 55.80 CR | Natalya Torshina Kazakhstan | 56.34 | Hsu Pei-Ching Chinese Taipei | 57.09 |
| 10,000 m road walk | Li Yuxin China | 46:41 | Rie Mitsumori Japan | 46:42 | Yuka Mitsumori Japan | 47:01 |
| 4 x 100 m | India P. T. Usha Rachita Mistry E. B. Shyla Saraswati Dey | 44.43 | Japan Kaori Yoshida Yuka Fujii Asami Nagashima Motoka Arai | 44.45 | Thailand Reawadee Srithoa-Watanasin Naparat Suajongprue Savitree Srichure Supawadee Khawpeag | 44.85 |
| 4 x 400 m | China Huang Mei Li Jing Chen Yuxiang Li Rui | 3:33.48 | India M.K. Asha Rosa Kutty Jyotirmoyee Sikdar P.T. Usha | 3:34.04 | Japan Sachiko Kiso Kazue Kakinuma Sakie Nobuoka Satomi Kasashima | 3:35.71 |
| High jump | Miki Imai Japan | 1.94 CR | Yoko Ota Japan | 1.91 | Jin Ling China | 1.88 |
| Pole vault | Peng Xiaoming China | 4.00 CR | Masumi Ono Japan | 3.80 | Chie Miyoshi Japan | 3.70 |
| Long jump | Guan Yingnan China | 6.83 CR | Yu Yiqun China | 6.74 | Yelena Pershina Kazakhstan | 6.50w |
| Triple jump | Ren Ruiping China | 14.11 CR | Wang Kuo-Huei Chinese Taipei | 13.30 | Maho Hanaoka Japan | 13.24 |
| Shot put | Li Meisu China | 18.63 | Yu Juan China | 18.12 | Lee Myung-Sun South Korea | 17.66 |
| Discus | Yu Xin China | 57.47 | Neelam Jaswant Singh India | 56.81 | Xiao Yanling China | 53.32 |
| Hammer | Gu Yuan China | 61.86 | Aya Suzuki Japan | 56.12 | Eriko Kubota Japan | 48.48 |
| Javelin | Li Lei China | 60.12 | Harumi Yamamoto Japan | 55.41 | Gurmeet Kaur India | 55.35 |
| Heptathlon | Ding Ying China | 5846 pts | Svetlana Kazanina Kazakhstan | 5779 pts | Ma Chun-Ping Chinese Taipei | 5489 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 | China (CHN) | 26 | 13 | 3 | 42 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 6 | 17 | 14 | 37 |
| 3 | Qatar (QAT) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
| 5 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | India (IND) | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 |
| 7 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12 | Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Syria (SYR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 43 | 43 | 43 | 129 |