# Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's decathlon

The men's decathlon competition at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand was held on 17 and 18 December at the Thammasat Stadium.

## Schedule

All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)
| Date | Time | Event |
| Thursday, 17 December 1998 | 08:30 | 100 metres |
| Thursday, 17 December 1998 | 09:20 | Long jump |
| Thursday, 17 December 1998 | 10:40 | Shot put |
| Thursday, 17 December 1998 | 14:30 | High jump |
| Thursday, 17 December 1998 | 17:20 | 400 metres |
| Friday, 18 December 1998 | 08:30 | 110 metres hurdles |
| Friday, 18 December 1998 | 09:20 | Discus throw |
| Friday, 18 December 1998 | 11:00 | Pole vault |
| Friday, 18 December 1998 | 14:30 | Javelin throw |
| Friday, 18 December 1998 | 16:45 | 1500 metres |

## Results
### Legend

* DNF — Did not finish
* DNS — Did not start
* NM — No mark

### 100 metres

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Time | Points |
| 1 | 1 | Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB) | 10.77 | 912 |
| 2 | 1 | Toru Yasui (JPN) | 11.04 | 852 |
| 3 | 2 | Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) | 11.10 | 838 |
| 4 | 2 | Kim Sang-ryong (PRK) | 11.15 | 827 |
| 5 | 1 | David Yimsumruay (THA) | 11.22 | 812 |
| 6 | 2 | Hitoshi Maruono (JPN) | 11.37 | 780 |
| 7 | 1 | Ahmad Hassan Moussa (QAT) | 11.42 | 769 |
| 8 | 1 | Song Shulin (CHN) | 11.43 | 767 |
| 8 | 2 | Viravut Jampatong (THA) | 11.43 | 767 |
| 10 | 2 | Ivan Yarkin (KAZ) | 11.55 | 742 |
| 11 | 1 | Ali Feizi (IRI) | 11.63 | 725 |
| 12 | 2 | Kim Tae-keun (KOR) | 11.76 | 699 |

### Long jump

| Rank | Athlete | Result | Points |
| 1 | Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) | 7.66 | 975 |
| 2 | Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB) | 7.58 | 955 |
| 3 | Toru Yasui (JPN) | 7.24 | 871 |
| 4 | Viravut Jampatong (THA) | 7.08 | 833 |
| 5 | Ivan Yarkin (KAZ) | 7.04 | 823 |
| 6 | Kim Sang-ryong (PRK) | 7.00 | 814 |
| 7 | Hitoshi Maruono (JPN) | 6.99 | 811 |
| 8 | Song Shulin (CHN) | 6.95 | 802 |
| 9 | David Yimsumruay (THA) | 6.70 | 743 |
| 10 | Ali Feizi (IRI) | 6.58 | 716 |
| — | Kim Tae-keun (KOR) | NM | 0 |
| — | Ahmad Hassan Moussa (QAT) | NM | 0 |

### Shot put

| Rank | Athlete | Result | Points |
| 1 | Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) | 14.37 | 751 |
| 2 | Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB) | 14.34 | 749 |
| 3 | Song Shulin (CHN) | 14.33 | 749 |
| 4 | Ivan Yarkin (KAZ) | 14.23 | 742 |
| 5 | Hitoshi Maruono (JPN) | 13.22 | 681 |
| 6 | Kim Sang-ryong (PRK) | 12.59 | 642 |
| 7 | Ali Feizi (IRI) | 12.25 | 622 |
| 8 | David Yimsumruay (THA) | 11.96 | 604 |
| 9 | Viravut Jampatong (THA) | 11.87 | 599 |
| 10 | Toru Yasui (JPN) | 11.56 | 580 |
| — | Kim Tae-keun (KOR) | DNS | |
| — | Ahmad Hassan Moussa (QAT) | DNS | |

### High jump

| Rank | Athlete | Result | Points |
| 1 | Song Shulin (CHN) | 2.04 | 840 |
| 2 | Ivan Yarkin (KAZ) | 2.01 | 813 |
| 3 | Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) | 2.01 | 813 |
| 4 | Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB) | 1.98 | 785 |
| 5 | Hitoshi Maruono (JPN) | 1.98 | 785 |
| 6 | Kim Sang-ryong (PRK) | 1.95 | 758 |
| 7 | Viravut Jampatong (THA) | 1.95 | 758 |
| 8 | David Yimsumruay (THA) | 1.92 | 731 |
| 9 | Ali Feizi (IRI) | 1.92 | 731 |
| 10 | Toru Yasui (JPN) | 1.86 | 679 |

### 400 metres

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Time | Points |
| 1 | 1 | Kim Sang-ryong (PRK) | 48.20 | 899 |
| 2 | 2 | Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB) | 48.25 | 897 |
| 3 | 2 | Toru Yasui (JPN) | 49.21 | 851 |
| 4 | 2 | Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) | 50.53 | 790 |
| 5 | 1 | Ali Feizi (IRI) | 51.24 | 758 |
| 6 | 1 | David Yimsumruay (THA) | 51.63 | 741 |
| 7 | 2 | Song Shulin (CHN) | 52.17 | 717 |
| 8 | 2 | Hitoshi Maruono (JPN) | 52.59 | 699 |
| 9 | 1 | Ivan Yarkin (KAZ) | 52.68 | 695 |
| 10 | 1 | Viravut Jampatong (THA) | 53.83 | 647 |

### 110 metres hurdles

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Time | Points |
| 1 | 2 | Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) | 14.67 | 890 |
| 2 | 2 | Toru Yasui (JPN) | 14.70 | 886 |
| 3 | 2 | Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB) | 14.97 | 853 |
| 4 | 2 | Song Shulin (CHN) | 15.01 | 848 |
| 5 | 1 | Ivan Yarkin (KAZ) | 15.07 | 841 |
| 6 | 1 | Hitoshi Maruono (JPN) | 15.12 | 835 |
| 7 | 1 | Kim Sang-ryong (PRK) | 15.42 | 799 |
| 8 | 1 | Ali Feizi (IRI) | 15.94 | 740 |
| 9 | 2 | David Yimsumruay (THA) | 16.21 | 709 |
| 10 | 1 | Viravut Jampatong (THA) | 16.97 | 627 |

### Discus throw

| Rank | Athlete | Result | Points |
| 1 | Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB) | 43.07 | 727 |
| 2 | Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) | 42.07 | 707 |
| 3 | Ivan Yarkin (KAZ) | 42.02 | 706 |
| 4 | Song Shulin (CHN) | 41.76 | 700 |
| 5 | Hitoshi Maruono (JPN) | 39.15 | 647 |
| 6 | David Yimsumruay (THA) | 38.59 | 636 |
| 7 | Toru Yasui (JPN) | 37.39 | 612 |
| 8 | Ali Feizi (IRI) | 36.51 | 594 |
| 9 | Kim Sang-ryong (PRK) | 36.27 | 589 |
| 10 | Viravut Jampatong (THA) | 30.44 | 473 |

### Pole vault

| Rank | Athlete | Result | Points |
| 1 | Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) | 5.20 | 972 |
| 2 | Toru Yasui (JPN) | 5.00 | 910 |
| 3 | Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB) | 4.70 | 819 |
| 3 | Song Shulin (CHN) | 4.70 | 819 |
| 3 | Hitoshi Maruono (JPN) | 4.70 | 819 |
| 6 | Kim Sang-ryong (PRK) | 4.50 | 760 |
| 7 | Ivan Yarkin (KAZ) | 4.30 | 702 |
| 8 | David Yimsumruay (THA) | 4.20 | 673 |
| 9 | Ali Feizi (IRI) | 4.10 | 645 |
| — | Viravut Jampatong (THA) | NM | 0 |

### Javelin throw

| Rank | Athlete | Result | Points |
| 1 | Hitoshi Maruono (JPN) | 64.97 | 813 |
| 2 | Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB) | 64.68 | 808 |
| 3 | Toru Yasui (JPN) | 59.95 | 737 |
| 4 | Song Shulin (CHN) | 58.13 | 710 |
| 5 | Ivan Yarkin (KAZ) | 57.11 | 694 |
| 6 | Ali Feizi (IRI) | 57.08 | 694 |
| 7 | Viravut Jampatong (THA) | 52.49 | 626 |
| 8 | Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) | 51.98 | 618 |
| 9 | Kim Sang-ryong (PRK) | 49.03 | 574 |
| 10 | David Yimsumruay (THA) | 47.85 | 557 |

### 1500 metres

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Points |
| 1 | Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB) | 4:25.71 | 773 |
| 2 | Ali Feizi (IRI) | 4:27.52 | 761 |
| 3 | David Yimsumruay (THA) | 4:40.62 | 676 |
| 4 | Ivan Yarkin (KAZ) | 4:42.32 | 666 |
| 5 | Toru Yasui (JPN) | 4:47.39 | 634 |
| 6 | Song Shulin (CHN) | 4:53.50 | 598 |
| 7 | Hitoshi Maruono (JPN) | 4:59.49 | 563 |
| 8 | Kim Sang-ryong (PRK) | 5:09.86 | 504 |
| 9 | Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) | 5:10.17 | 503 |
| — | Viravut Jampatong (THA) | DNS | |

### Summary

| Rank | Athlete | 100m | LJ | SP | HJ | 400m | 110mH | DT | PV | JT | 1500m | Total | Notes |
| | Oleg Veretelnikov (UZB) | 912 | 955 | 749 | 785 | 897 | 853 | 727 | 819 | 808 | 773 | 8278 | GR |
| | Ramil Ganiyev (UZB) | 838 | 975 | 751 | 813 | 790 | 890 | 707 | 972 | 618 | 503 | 7857 | |
| | Toru Yasui (JPN) | 852 | 871 | 580 | 679 | 851 | 886 | 612 | 910 | 737 | 634 | 7612 | |
| 4 | Song Shulin (CHN) | 767 | 802 | 749 | 840 | 717 | 848 | 700 | 819 | 710 | 598 | 7550 | |
| 5 | Hitoshi Maruono (JPN) | 780 | 811 | 681 | 785 | 699 | 835 | 647 | 819 | 813 | 563 | 7433 | |
| 6 | Ivan Yarkin (KAZ) | 742 | 823 | 742 | 813 | 695 | 841 | 706 | 702 | 694 | 666 | 7424 | |
| 7 | Kim Sang-ryong (PRK) | 827 | 814 | 642 | 758 | 899 | 799 | 589 | 760 | 574 | 504 | 7166 | |
| 8 | Ali Feizi (IRI) | 725 | 716 | 622 | 731 | 758 | 740 | 594 | 645 | 694 | 761 | 6986 | |
| 9 | David Yimsumruay (THA) | 812 | 743 | 604 | 731 | 741 | 709 | 636 | 673 | 557 | 676 | 6882 | |
| — | Viravut Jampatong (THA) | 767 | 833 | 599 | 758 | 647 | 627 | 473 | 0 | 626 | DNS | DNF | |
| — | Kim Tae-keun (KOR) | 699 | 0 | DNS | | | | | | | | DNF | |
| — | Ahmad Hassan Moussa (QAT) | 769 | 0 | DNS | | | | | | | | DNF | |