# 1987 Asian Athletics Championships

The seventh Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1987 in Singapore.

## Medal summary
### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: -1.0 m/s) | Talal Mansour Qatar | 10.41 | Cheng Hsin-fu Chinese Taipei | 10.56 | Li Tao China | 10.57 |
| 200 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s) | Talal Mansour Qatar | 20.71 | Li Feng China | 21.12 | Cheng Hsin-Fu Chinese Taipei | 21.21 |
| 400 metres | Mohammed Al-Malki Oman | 45.77 | Mohamed Nordin Jadi Malaysia | 47.05 | Yoshito Toshida Japan | 47.32 |
| 800 metres | Ismail Yousef Qatar | 1:47.81 | Ryu Tae-Kyung South Korea | 1:48.00 | Ramasamy Haridas Malaysia | 1:48.27 |
| 1500 metres | Duan Xiuquan China | 3:45.11 | Shigeki Nakayama Japan | 3:45.41 | Yutaka Hoshino Japan | 3:45.76 |
| 5000 metres | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar | 14:09.29 | Yoshiaki Iwasa Japan | 14:10.91 | Cai Shangyan China | 14:11.30 |
| 10,000 metres | Cai Shangyan China | 29:47.85 | Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar | 30:03.02 | Lee Sang-Geun South Korea | 30:06.79 |
| 3000 metre steeplechase | Masashi Otokita Japan | 9:04.21 | Ali Ahmed Saleh Qatar | 9:08.03 | Kim Hyun-Hwa South Korea | 9:08.76 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.1 m/s) | Yang Guang China | 14.04 | Yu Zhicheng China | 14.06 | Nagi Ghazi Iraq | 14.30 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Shigenori Ohmori Japan | 50.09 | Jasem Al-Douwaila Kuwait | 50.46 | Nasser Mohammed Qatar | 51.15 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | Qatar Jamal Abdallah Sulaiman Faraj Marzouk Saad Muftah Talal Mansour | 39.20 | China Cai Jianming Li Feng Li Tao Zheng Chen | 39.40 | Chinese Taipei Chang Yih-yuan Cheng Hsin-fu Lai Cheng-chuan Lee Shin-long | 39.68 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Japan Yuji Yoshioka Seiichi Ibe Yoshito Toyota Ritsuo Hayasaka | 3:09.31 | Malaysia Joseph Phan Ramasamy Haridas Ismail Hashim Mohamed Nordin Jadi | 3:09.72 | Chinese Taipei Hsu Ruo-ta Lee Shin-long Lin Kuan-liang Lin Tsai-tien | 3:09.86 |
| 20 kilometre road walk | Liu Jianli China | 1:33:16 | Jung Pil-Hwa South Korea | 1:37:49 | Yoshihiro Oie Japan | 1:39:44 |
| High jump | Liu Yunpeng China | 2.24 | Cho Hyun-wook South Korea | 2.22 | Ramjit Nairulal Malaysia | 2.10 |
| Pole vault | Liang Xueren China | 5.35 | Teruhisa Kamiya Japan | 5.15 | Ku Chin-shui Chinese Taipei | 5.10 |
| Long jump | Kim Won-jin South Korea | 8.00 | Liu Yuhuang China | 7.98 | Wang Shijie China | 7.91 |
| Triple jump | Park Young-Jun South Korea | 16.37 | Du Benzhong China | 16.37 | Noboru Sasano Japan | 15.82 |
| Shot put | Ma Yongfeng China | 18.32 | Gong Yitian China | 18.05 | Balwinder Singh India | 17.56 |
| Discus throw | Li Weinan China | 56.10 | Wang Daoming China | 54.48 | Mansour Ghorbani Iran | 53.00 |
| Hammer throw | Xie Yingqi China | 66.36 | Akiyoshi Ikeda Japan | 65.98 | Yu Guangming China | 65.74 |
| Javelin throw | Takahiro Yamada Japan | 72.62 | Frans Mahuse Indonesia | 72.30 | Ji Zhanzheng China | 70.80 |
| Decathlon | Gong Guohua China | 7848 | Chen Zebin China | 7554 | Lee Fu-an Chinese Taipei | 7515 |

### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: -0.4 m/s) | Lydia de Vega Philippines | 11.43 | P.T. Usha India | 11.74 | Tian Yumei China | 11.76 |
| 200 metres (wind: -0.8 m/s) | Lydia de Vega Philippines | 23.38 | Pan Weixin China | 24.06 | Hiromi Isozaki Japan | 24.18 |
| 400 metres | P.T. Usha India | 52.31 | Vandana Shanbagh India | 53.22 | Xie Zhiling China | 54.16 |
| 800 metres | Choi Se-Bum South Korea | 2:05.11 | Jiang Shuling China | 2:05.21 | Lim Chun-Ae South Korea | 2:05.39 |
| 1500 metres | Yang Liuxia China | 4:19.29 | Noe Hye-Soon South Korea | 4:23.52 | Kim Ryon-Sun North Korea | 4:25.44 |
| 3000 metres | Kim Chun-Mae North Korea | 9:17.19 | Zhang Xiuyun China | 9:17.61 | Kim Ryon-Sun North Korea | 9:18.76 |
| 10,000 metres | Wang Huabi China | 34:56.34 | Keiko Honma Japan | 35:31.04 | Kim Gun-Hui North Korea | 37:04.12 |
| 100 metres hurdles (wind: -1.1 m/s) | Feng Yinghua China | 13.56 | Chen Wen-Ying Chinese Taipei | 13.68 | Wang Shu-Hwa Chinese Taipei | 14.05 |
| 400 metres hurdles | P.T. Usha India | 56.48 | Chang Feng-Hua Chinese Taipei | 58.62 | Hitomi Koshimoto Japan | 59.18 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | China Tian Yumei Zhang Xiaoqiong Pan Weixin Shao Liwei | 45.20 | India Vandana Shanbagh Vandana Rao Sany Joseph P.T. Usha | 45.49 | Chinese Taipei Chen Ya-li Jen Yui-chu Huang Kuei-ying Chen Wen-ying | 45.66 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | India Ashwini Nachappa Vandana Rao Sany Joseph P.T. Usha | 3:34.50 | Japan Fumiko Ono Kimika Tateno Mikako Eguchi Hiromi Isozaki | 3:39.70 | Chinese Taipei Chang Feng-hua Chen Wen-ying Hsu Yi-ling Cheng Fei-ju | 3:40.32 |
| 10000 metre track walk | An Limei China | 52:40.21 | Yuki Nanbu Japan | 53:01.37 | Park Hyun-Joo South Korea | 53:56.86 |
| High jump | Ni Xiuling China | 1.92 | Kim Hee-sun South Korea | 1.90 | Ye Peisu China | 1.86 |
| Long jump | Wang Zhihui China | 6.70 | Liao Wenfen China | 6.51 | Li Yong-Ae North Korea | 6.23 |
| Shot put | Cong Yuzhen China | 18.17 | Choi Mi-Sun South Korea | 13.88 | Lee Jing-Hua Chinese Taipei | 13.33 |
| Discus throw | Xing Ailan China | 58.08 | Juliana Effendi Indonesia | 43.94 | Li Sin-Gum North Korea | 43.86 |
| Javelin throw | Li Baolian China | 60.12 | Lee Huei-Cheng Chinese Taipei | 52.60 | Naomi Tokuyama Japan | 50.14 |
| Heptathlon | Dong Yuping China | 6036 | Ma Miaolan China | 5460 | Wang Shu-Hwa Chinese Taipei | 5293 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 21 | 13 | 8 | 42 |
| 2 | Qatar (QAT) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 7 | 7 | 18 |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 |
| 5 | India (IND) | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | Philippines (PHI) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | North Korea (PRK) | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| 8 | Oman (OMN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 4 | 10 | 14 |
| 10 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 11 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Iran (IRN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Iraq (IRQ) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 40 | 40 | 40 | 120 |