# 1979 Asian Athletics Championships

The third Asian Athletics Championships were held in 1979 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s) | Suchart Chairsuvaparb Thailand | 10.63 | Suh Mei-Guh South Korea | 10.75 | Akira Harada Japan | 10.80 |
| 200 metres (wind: -1.7 m/s) | Yasuhiro Harada Japan | 21.34 | Shunzo Shito Japan | 21.34 | Toshio Toyota Japan | 21.39 |
| 400 metres | Shoichi Handa Japan | 47.45 | Abbas Al-Aibi Iraq | 47.47 | Fahim Sada Iraq | 47.51 |
| 800 metres | Falah Naji Jarallah Iraq | 1:49.5a | Toshifumi Shigenari Japan | 1:49.6a | Sant Kumar India | 1:50.1a |
| 1500 metres | Ratan Singh Bhadouria India | 3:49.8a | Takashi Ishii Japan | 3:50.1a | Toshifumi Shigenari Japan | 3:50.9a |
| 5000 metres | Hideki Kita Japan | 13:55.3a | Takao Nakamura Japan | 13:59.8a | Gopal Singh Saini India | 13:59.8a |
| 10,000 metres | Toshihiko Seko Japan | 28:59.2a | Kunimitsu Ito Japan | 29:00.2a | Takeshi So Japan | 29:02.5a |
| 3000 metre steeplechase | Masanari Shintaku Japan | 8:40.8a | Hitoshi Iwabuchi Japan | 8:57.2a | Gopal Singh Saini India | 9:12.4a |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: +0.7 m/s) | Yoshifumi Fujimori Japan | 14.29 | Satbir Singh India | 14.53 | Jabbar Rahima Iraq | 14.72 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Hussein Kadhum Iraq | 51.18 | Takashi Nagao Japan | 51.53 | Yukihiro Yoshimatsu Japan | 52.14 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Japan Yasuhiro Harada Junichi Usui Shunzo Shito Akira Harada | 39.70 | Thailand Somsak Boontud Suchart Chairsuvaparb Anat Ratanapol Prasit Boonprasert | 40.20 | India Adille Sumariwalla Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran O.L. Thomas Thamizharasan | 40.41 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Iraq Hussein Ali Nasayyif Heitham Nadim Fahim Abdul-Sada Abbas Al-Aibi | 3:08.8a | Japan Eiji Natori Yasuhiro Harada Takayuki Isobe Takashi Nagao | 3:08.9a | India P.V. Kamaraj Piara Singh Harkamaljit Singh Uday Krishna Prabhu | 3:11.8a |
| 20 kilometre road walk | Hakam Singh India | 1:35:40 | Wang Qiang People's Republic of China | 1:35:48 | Vellasamy Subramaniam Malaysia | 1:36:27 |
| High jump | Kazunori Koshikawa Japan | 2.15 | Takao Sakamoto Japan | 2.15 | Takashi Katamine Japan | 2.15 |
| Pole vault | Itsuo Takanezawa Japan | 5.20 | Tomomi Takahashi Japan | 5.10 | Yosuhiro Kigawa Japan | 5.00 |
| Long jump | Junichi Usui Japan | 7.97 | Suresh Babu India | 7.94 | Toshihisa Yoshimoto Japan | 7.91w |
| Triple jump | Zhou Zhenxian People's Republic of China | 17.02 | Motokuni Hiratani Japan | 16.52w | Masami Nakanishi Japan | 16.50w |
| Shot put | Mohammed Al-Zinkawi Kuwait | 17.78 | Zhao Baoqin People's Republic of China | 17.50 | Bahadur Singh Chouhan India | 17.47 |
| Discus throw | Kiyotaka Kawasaki Japan | 55.34 | Li Weinan People's Republic of China | 54.64 | Michio Kita Japan | 53.06 |
| Hammer throw | Shigenobu Murofushi Japan | 66.73 | Masayuki Kawata Japan | 65.94 | Raghubir Singh Bal India | 61.52 |
| Javelin throw | Shen Maomao People's Republic of China | 86.50 | Toshihiro Yamada Japan | 78.46 | Masahiko Takita Japan | 78.46 |
| Decathlon | Atsushi Kasai Japan | 7096 | Toshikazu Kobayashi Japan | 6983 | Jin Xuewei People's Republic of China | 6975 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: -1.8 m/s) | Emiko Konishi Japan | 12.09 | Ying Yaping People's Republic of China | 12.10 | Mo Myung-Hee South Korea | 12.11 |
| 200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s) | Sumiko Kaibara Japan | 24.45 | Mo Myung-Hee South Korea | 24.49 | Emiko Konishi Japan | 24.72 |
| 400 metres | Chung Byong-Soon South Korea | 54.33 | Rita Sen India | 54.99 | Yumiko Aoi Japan | 55.66 |
| 800 metres | Chung Byong-Soon South Korea | 2:06.1a | Chang Yong-Ae North Korea | 2:10.2a | Takako Sanda Japan | 2:11.8a |
| 1500 metres | Kim Ok-Sun North Korea | 4:25.0a | Kim Chun-Hwa North Korea | 4:29.1a | Lü Hongxiang People's Republic of China | 4:31.3a |
| 3000 metres | Kim Ok-Sun North Korea | 9:24.9a | Yang Yenying People's Republic of China | 9:30.8a | Kim Chun-Hwa North Korea | 9:31.4a |
| 100 metres hurdles (wind: +1.2 m/s) | Emi Akimoto Japan | 14.17 | Dai Jianhua People's Republic of China | 14.33 | Tamie Motegi Japan | 14.45 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Yumiko Aoi Japan | 60.46 | Marina Chin Leng Sim Malaysia | 61.63 | Zhan Xin People's Republic of China | 61.84 |
| 4 × 100 metre relay | Japan Yukiko Osako Sumiko Kaihara Emiko Konishi Emi Akimoto-Sasaki | 45.85 | Thailand Buspranee Ratanapol Usanee Laopinkarn Pusadee Sangvijit Walapa Pinij | 46.03 | India Veena Chandola Rita Sen Angel Mary Joseph Srirupa Chatterjee | 46.93 |
| 4 × 400 metre relay | Japan Yoshie Iizuka Masae Kiguchi Hiromi Hatano Yumiko Aoi | 3:45.9a | Malaysia Marina Chin Zaiton Othman Vengadasalam Angamah Saik Oik Cum | 3:46.3a | Philippines Mirna Ayo Carmen Torres Lorena Morcilla Lydia De Vega | 3:57.5a |
| High jump | Zheng Dazhen People's Republic of China | 1.87 | Tamami Yagi Japan | 1.81 | Hisayo Fukumitsu Japan | 1.81 |
| Long jump | Sumie Awara Japan | 6.42w | Zou Wa People's Republic of China | 6.27w | Kazuko Ishizu Japan | 6.05w |
| Shot put | Shen Lijuan People's Republic of China | 17.48 | Yukari Seo Japan | 14.78 | Yumiko Asari Japan | 14.12 |
| Discus throw | Li Xiaohui People's Republic of China | 58.62 | Yukari Seo Japan | 46.64 | Yumiko Asari Japan | 44.16 |
| Javelin throw | Li Xia People's Republic of China | 58.44 | Yao Juiying People's Republic of China | 54.82 | Naomi Shibusawa Japan | 51.16 |
| Pentathlon | Ye Peisu People's Republic of China | 4139 | Tomoko Uchida Japan | 3753 | Sachie Sekiguchi Japan | 3706 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 20 | 18 | 21 | 59 |
| 2 | People's Republic of China | 7 | 8 | 3 | 18 |
| 3 | Iraq (IRQ) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | India (IND) | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 |
| 5 | North Korea (PRK) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Kuwait (KUW) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Philippines (PHI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 38 | 38 | 38 | 114 |