# 2013 Asian Athletics Championships

The 2013 Asian Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the biennial athletics competition between Asian nations. It was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Balewadi, Pune, India between 3–7 July. Around 522 athletes from 42 nations competed at the event. It was the first time since 1989 that India had hosted the championships.
Prior to the competition, the election of the Asian Athletics Association president was convened in Pune. Qatar's Dahlan Jumaan al-Hamad (an IAAF vice-president) defeated the incumbent, Suresh Kalmadi of India, by a margin of 20 votes to 18. Kalmadi, on bail for corruption charges stemming from the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, did not attend the championships. The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, declared the event open at the championships opening ceremony
China, the traditional regional leader at the competition, easily took the top spot in the medal rankings with sixteen gold medals and 27 medals in total. This maintained its streak as the best nation of the tournament – a run dating back to the 1983 edition. Second-placed Bahrain took five golds and fifteen medals overall (although Ali Khamis Khamis, the 400 metres runner-up, was their only native-born medallist). Japan placed third in the medal rankings with four golds and had the second greatest overall haul with 20 medals. In fifth place the hosts India had the next biggest haul, with 17 medals in total, although Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan had a greater number of gold medals.
The overall quality of the competition was reduced as several top Asian athletes were absent. Mutaz Essa Barshim was the only Asian 2012 Olympic medallist who intended to participate, but he withdrew due to a back injury. Thirteen champions from 2011 were present and six of them (Su Bingtian, Yousef Masrahi, Dejene Regassa, Shitaye Eshete, Satomi Kubokura, and Wassanee Winatho) successfully defended their title.
A total of eight championships records were bettered at the competition: Shitaye Eshete broke the longest-standing of these by winning the women's 10,000 metres in 32:17.29 minutes, breaking Zhong Huandi's time from 1989. The organisers used a performance-based points system to assign the titles of best athlete at the championships: Saudi 400 metres champion Yousef Masrahi was the best male with 1172 points while Bahrain's steeplechase winner Ruth Jebet was the best female with 1142 points.
The Athletics Federation of India withdrew an unnamed female shot putter from their squad for a failed doping test one day before the opening of the championships.

## Hosting issues

The competition was originally set to take place in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of the state, ordered the removal of Sri Lanka from the competition on the grounds of war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War. This request was ignored by the Athletics Federation of India and in February 2013 Chennai withdrew as hosts of the championships.
The federation approached the state governments of Jharkhand and Delhi, with the venues of Ranchi and New Delhi being suggested, but both states refused the host duties. Finally, in May the Maharashtra government agreed to host the event in Pune on the same dates agreed for the Chennai event. Pune already had a suitable track and field stadium that had recently played host to the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2008. The budget given for the championships, however, was significantly reduced.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Su Bingtian China | 10.17 | Samuel Francis Qatar | 10.27 | Barakat Al-Harthi Oman | 10.30 |
| 200 metres details | Xie Zhenye China | 20.87 | Fahhad Mohammed Al Subaie Saudi Arabia | 20.92 | Kei Takase Japan | 20.92 |
| 400 metres details | Yousef Masrahi Saudi Arabia | 45.08 | Ali Khamis Khamis Bahrain | 45.65 | Yuzo Kanemaru Japan | 45.95 |
| 800 metres details | Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla Qatar | 1:46.92 | Abdulaziz Ladan Saudi Arabia | 1:47.01 | Belal Mansoor Ali Bahrain | 1:48.56 |
| 1500 metres details | Emad Noor Saudi Arabia | 3:39.51 | Mohamad Al-Garni Qatar | 3:40.75 | Belal Mansoor Ali Bahrain | 3:40.96 |
| 5000 metres details | Dejene Regassa Mootoma Bahrain | 13:53.25 | Alemu Bekele Gebre Bahrain | 13:57.23 | Emad Noor Saudi Arabia | 14:05.88 |
| 10,000 metres details | Alemu Bekele Gebre Bahrain | 28:47.26 | Bilisuma Shugi Bahrain | 28:58.67 | Ratiram Saini India | 29:35.42 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Jiang Fan China | 13.61 | Abdulaziz Al Mandeel Kuwait | 13.78 | Wataru Yazawa Japan | 13.88 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Yasuhiro Fueki Japan | 49.86 | Cheng Wen China | 50.07 | Satinder Singh India | 50.35 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Tareq Mubarak Taher Bahrain | 8:34.77 | Dejene Regassa Mootoma Bahrain | 8:37.40 | Tsuyoshi Takeda Japan | 8:48.48 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Hong Kong (HKG) Tang Yik Chun Lai Chun Ho Ng Ka Fung Tsui Chi Ho | 38.94 | Japan (JPN) Kazuma Oseto Kei Takase Sota Kawatsura Yuichi Kobayashi | 39.11 | China (CHN) Guo Fan Xie Zhenye Su Bingtian Chen Qiang | 39.17 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | Saudi Arabia (KSA) Mohammed Ali Al-Bishi Fahhad Mohammed Al Subaie Mohammed Al-Salhi Yousef Masrahi | 3:02.53 CR | Japan (JPN) Yusuke Ishitsuka Yuzo Kanemaru Kazuya Watanabe Hideyuki Hirose | 3:04.46 | Sri Lanka (SRI) Chanaka Dulan Priyashantha Dilan Aloka Kasun Seneviratne Anjana Madushan | 3:04.92 |
| High jump details | Bi Xiaoliang China | 2.21 m | Jithin Thomas IndiaKeyvan Ghanbarzadeh Iran | 2.21 m | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| Pole vault details | Xue Changrui China | 5.60 m | Lu Yao China | 5.20 m | Jin Min-Sub South Korea | 5.20 m |
| Long jump details | Wang Jianan China | 7.95 m | Kumaravel Premkumar India | 7.92 m | Tang Gongchen China | 7.89 m |
| Triple jump details | Cao Shuo China | 16.77 m | Renjith Maheshwary India | 16.76 m | Arpinder Singh India | 16.58 m |
| Shot put details | Sultan Al-Hebshi Saudi Arabia | 19.68 m | Chang Ming-huang Chinese Taipei | 19.61 m | Om Prakash Singh India | 19.45 m |
| Discus throw details | Vikas Gowda India | 64.90 m | Mohammad Samimi Iran | 61.93 m | Ahmed Mohamed Dheeb Qatar | 60.82 m |
| Hammer throw details | Dilshod Nazarov Tajikistan | 78.32 m | Ali Al-Zinkawi Kuwait | 74.70 m | Qi Dakai China | 74.19 m |
| Javelin throw details | Ivan Zaytsev Uzbekistan | 79.76 m | Sachith Maduranga Sri Lanka | 79.62 m NR | Samarjit Singh India | 75.03 m |
| Decathlon details | Dmitriy Karpov Kazakhstan | 8037 pts CR | Akihiko Nakamura Japan | 7620 pts | Leonid Andreev Uzbekistan | 7383 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Wei Yongli China | 11.29 | Chisato Fukushima Japan | 11.53 | Tao Yujia China | 11.63 |
| 200 metres details | Viktoriya Zyabkina Kazakhstan | 23.62 | Asha Roy India | 23.71 | Dutee Chand India | 23.82 |
| 400 metres details | Zhao Yanmin China | 52.49 | Poovamma Raju Machettira India | 53.37 | Gretta Taslakian Lebanon | 53.43 NR |
| 800 metres details | Wang Chunyu China | 2:02.47 | Genzeb Shumi Bahrain | 2:04.16 | Tintu Luka India | 2:04.48 |
| 1500 metres details | Betlhem Desalegn United Arab Emirates | 4:13.67 | Mimi Belete Bahrain | 4:14.04 | Ayako Jinnouchi Japan | 4:16.73 |
| 5000 metres details | Betlhem Desalegn United Arab Emirates | 15:12.84 CR NR | Shitaye Eshete Bahrain | 15:22.17 | Tejitu Daba Bahrain | 15:38.63 |
| 10,000 metres details | Shitaye Eshete Bahrain | 32:17.29 CR | Alia Saeed United Arab Emirates | 32:39.39 | Ayumi Hagiwara Japan | 32.47.44 |
| 100 metres hurdles details | Ayako Kimura Japan | 13.25 | Anastassiya Soprunova Kazakhstan | 13.44 | Jayapal Hemasree India | 14.01 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Satomi Kubokura Japan | 56.82 | Manami Kira Japan | 57.78 | Jo Eun-Ju South Korea | 58.21 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Ruth Jebet Bahrain | 9:40.84 CR | Sudha Singh India | 9:56.27 | Pak Kum Hyang North Korea | 10:09.80 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | China (CHN) Tao Yujia Li Manyuan Lin Huijun Wei Yongli | 44.01 | Japan (JPN) Saori Kitakaze Chisato Fukushima Mayumi Watanabe Anna Fujimori | 44.38 | Thailand (THA) Phatsorn Jaksuninkorn Orranut Klomdee Tassaporn Wannakit Jintara Seangdee | 44.44 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | India (IND) Nirmla Tintu Luka Anu Mariam Jose Poovamma Raju Machettira | 3:32.26 | China (CHN) Chen Lin Cheng Chong Geng Qingyu Zhao Yanmin | 3:35.31 | Japan (JPN) Asami Chiba Sayaka Aoki Satomi Kubokura Manami Kira | 3:35.72 |
| High jump details | Nadiya Dusanova Uzbekistan | 1.90 m | Svetlana Radzivil Uzbekistan | 1.88 m | Marina Aitova Kazakhstan | 1.88 m |
| Pole vault details | Li Ling China | 4.54 m CR | Ren Mengqian China | 4.40 m | Sukanya Chomchuendee Thailand | 4.15 m |
| Long jump details | Sachiko Masumi Japan | 6.55 m | Anastasiya Juravleva Uzbekistan | 6.36 m | Mayookha Johny India | 6.30 m |
| Triple jump details | Anastasiya Juravleva Uzbekistan | 14.18 m | Aleksandra Kotlyarova Uzbekistan | 13.89 m | Irina Litvinenko Ektova Kazakhstan | 13.75 m |
| Shot put details | Liu Xiangrong China | 18.67 m | Leyla Rajabi Iran | 18.18 m | Gao Yang China | 17.76 m |
| Discus throw details | Su Xinyue China | 55.88 m | Jiang Fengjing China | 55.70 m | Li Tsai-Yi Chinese Taipei | 55.32 m |
| Hammer throw details | Wang Zheng China | 72.78 m CR | Liu Tingting China | 67.16 m | Masumi Aya Japan | 63.41 m |
| Javelin throw details | Li Lingwei China | 60.65 m CR | Nadeeka Lakmali Sri Lanka | 60.16 m NR | Risa Miyashita Japan | 55.30 m |
| Heptathlon details | Wassana Winatho Thailand | 5818 pts | Ekaterina Voronina Uzbekistan | 5599 pts | Chie Kiriyama Japan | 5451 pts |

## Medal table

* Host nation (India)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 16 | 6 | 5 | 27 |
| 2 | Bahrain (BHR) | 5 | 7 | 3 | 15 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 6 | 10 | 20 |
| 4 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 6 | India (IND)* | 2 | 6 | 9 | 17 |
| 7 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 8 | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Qatar (QAT) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Tajikistan (TJK) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 14 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 15 | Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | Lebanon (LIB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 18 | Oman (OMA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (20 entries) | Totals (20 entries) | 42 | 43 | 41 | 126 |

## Participating nations

* Afghanistan (5)
* Bahrain (20)
* Bangladesh (5)
* Brunei (2)
* Cambodia (2)
* China (43)
* Chinese Taipei (17)
* Hong Kong (16)
* India (101)
* Indonesia (4)
* Iran (20)
* Iraq (5)
* Japan (51)
* Jordan (1)
* Kazakhstan (24)
* Kuwait (6)
* Kyrgyzstan (5)
* Laos (2)
* Lebanon (4)
* Macau (5)
* Malaysia (7)
* Maldives (5)
* Mongolia (2)
* Nepal (4)
* North Korea (3)
* Oman (5)
* Pakistan (5)
* Palestine (1)
* Philippines (14)
* Qatar (17)
* Saudi Arabia (14)
* Singapore (4)
* South Korea (18)
* Sri Lanka (18)
* Syria (3)
* Tajikistan (3)
* Thailand (22)
* Timor-Leste (3)
* United Arab Emirates (5)
* Uzbekistan (19)
* Vietnam (8)
* Yemen (5)