# 2016 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 2016 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was the seventh edition of the international indoor athletics event between Asian nations. It took place at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar, between 19 and 21 February.
Three new women's Asian indoor records were set at the competition: 4.70 m (15 ft 5 in) in the pole vault by Li Ling, 51.67 seconds for the 400 metres by Kemi Adekoya, and 3:35.07 minutes for the 4 × 400 metres relay set by Bahrain. In total, twelve championship records were improved at the competition. The host nation Qatar topped the medal table with six gold medals (all on the men's side). China was second with five gold medals and Kazakhstan had four titles to its name.
Five titles from the 2014 edition were defended successfully, including all the men's distance titles. Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla of Qatar won the 800 metres for a second title while his compatriot Mohamad Al-Garni retained both his 1500 metres and 3000 metres gold medals in championship record times. Another championship record defence came from Kuwait's Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel in the 60 metres hurdles. The two other athletes to defend their titles were both high jumpers: Mutaz Essa Barshim took his fourth straight men's title for the host nation and Svetlana Radzivil of Uzbekistan took the honour of being the only returning women's champion to leave undefeated.
Betlhem Desalegn took a women's distance double in the 1500 m and 3000 m, becoming the first Emirati gold medallist in championships history. Swapna Barman was initially the women's pentathlon runner-up, but was disqualified upon appeal for a lane infringement in the final 800 m event. Other prominent disqualifications were home favourites Samuel Francis and Tosin Ogunode, who fell foul of the false start rule in the men's 60 metres. Three infrequent participants reached the medal table for first time: the Philippines through men's 60 m bronze medallist Eric Cray, Sri Lanka courtesy of women's 800 m runner-up Nimali Waliwarsha Arachchige and men's high jump third-placer Manjula Kumara, and finally Jordan via their women's 4 × 400 m relay team.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres | Hassan Taftian (IRI) | 6.56 CR | Reza Ghasemi (IRI) | 6.66 | Eric Cray (PHI) | 6.70 |
| 400 metres | Abdelalelah Haroun (QAT) | 45.88 CR | Abubakar Abbas (BHR) | 46.60 | Mikhail Litvin (KAZ) | 46.80 |
| 800 metres | Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT) | 1:46.92 CR | Jamal Hairane (QAT) | 1:48.05 | Mostafa Ebrahimi (IRI) | 1:48.26 |
| 1500 metres | Mohamad Al-Garni (QAT) | 3:36.35 CR | Benson Seurei (BHR) | 3:37.08 | Said Aden Said (QAT) | 3:37.29 |
| 3000 metres | Mohamad Al-Garni (QAT) | 7:39.23 CR | Albert Kibichii Rop (BHR) | 7:40.27 | Said Aden Said (QAT) | 7:44.69 |
| 60 metres hurdles | Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel (KUW) | 7.60 CR NR | Yaqoub Mohamed Al-Youha (KUW) | 7.65 | Zhang Honglin (CHN) | 7.73 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Qatar Mohamed Nasir Abbas Abubaker Haydar Abdalla Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla Abdelalelah Haroun | 3:08.20 CR | Iran Reza Ghasemi Mehdi Zamani Mostafa Ebrahimi Sajjad Hashemi | 3:11.86 | Only two starters | Only two starters |
| High jump | Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) | 2.35 m | Majd Eddin Ghazal (SYR) | 2.28 m | Manjula Kumara (SRI) | 2.24 m NR |
| Pole vault | Huang Bokai (CHN) | 5.75 m CR | Seito Yamamoto (JPN) | 5.60 m | Hiroki Ogita (JPN) | 5.50 m |
| Long jump | Zhang Yaoguang (CHN) | 7.99 m | Kumaravel Premkumar (IND) | 7.92 m | Chan Ming Tai (HKG) | 7.85 m |
| Triple jump | Roman Valiyev (KAZ) | 16.69 m | Renjith Maheshwary (IND) | 16.16 m | Rashid Al-Mannai (QAT) | 15.97 m |
| Shot put | Liu Yang (CHN) | 19.30 m | Tian Zhizhong (CHN) | 18.88 m | Om Prakash Karhana (IND) | 18.77 m |
| Heptathlon | Akihiko Nakamura (JPN) | 5831 pts NR | Hu Yufei (CHN) | 5745 pts | Marat Khaydarov (UZB) | 5619 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres | Viktoriya Zyabkina (KAZ) | 7.27 CR | Yuan Qiqi (CHN) | 7.33 | Dutee Chand (IND) | 7.37 |
| 400 metres | Kemi Adekoya (BHR) | 51.67 AR CR | Elina Mikhina (KAZ) | 53.85 | Quách Thị Lan (VIE) | 55.69 |
| 800 metres | Marta Hirpato Yota (BHR) | 2:04.59 | Nimali Waliwarsha Arachchige (SRI) | 2:04.88 | Tatyana Neroznak (KAZ) | 2:06.32 |
| 1500 metres | Betlhem Desalegn (UAE) | 4:21.65 | Tigist Belay (BHR) | 4:22.17 | Sugandha Kumari (IND) | 4;29.06 |
| 3000 metres | Betlhem Desalegn (UAE) | 8:44.59 | Ruth Jebet (BHR) | 8:47.24 | Alia Saeed Mohammed (UAE) | 8:48.62 |
| 60 metres hurdles | Anastasiya Soprunova (KAZ) | 8.17 | Anastasiya Pilipenko (KAZ) | 8.17 | Valentina Kibalnikova (UZB) | 8.32 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Bahrain Salwa Eid Naser Uwaseun Yusuf Jamal Iman Isa Jassim Kemi Adekoya | 3:35.07 AR | Iran Farzaneh Fasihi Elnaz Kompani Sepideh Tavakkoli Maryam Tousi | 4:06.51 | Jordan Farah Rasem Yacoub Hashem Khattab Omar Boshnak Sulaiman Maradat Abdelqader Alqadi | 4:10.55 |
| High jump | Svetlana Radzivil (UZB) | 1.92 m | Nadiya Dusanova (UZB) | 1.88 m | Zheng Xingjuan (CHN) | 1.84 m |
| Pole vault | Li Ling (CHN) | 4.70 m AR CR | Ren Mengqian (CHN) | 4.30 m | Tomomi Abiko (JPN) | 4.15 m |
| Long jump | Mayookha Johny (IND) | 6.35 m | Bui Thi Thu Thao (VIE) | 6.30 m | Olga Rypakova (KAZ) | 6.22 m |
| Triple jump | Olga Rypakova (KAZ) | 14.32 m CR | Mayookha Johny (IND) | 14.00 m NR | Irina Ektova (KAZ) | 13.48 m |
| Shot put | Geng Shuang (CHN) | 18.06 m | Guo Tianqian (CHN) | 17.44 m | Noora Jasim (BHR) | 16.26 m |
| Pentathlon | Ekaterina Voronina (UZB) | 4224 pts | Sepideh Tavakkoli (IRI) | 3828 pts | Chie Kiriyama (JPN) | 3637 pts |

## Medal table
### Key

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Qatar* | 6 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| 2 | China | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| 3 | Kazakhstan | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 4 | Bahrain | 3 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 5 | Uzbekistan | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | United Arab Emirates | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Iran | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 8 | India | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 9 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | Kuwait | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Sri Lanka | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Vietnam | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Syria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Jordan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Philippines | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 26 | 26 | 25 | 77 |

## Participating nations

* Afghanistan (1)
* Bahrain (17)
* China (22)
* Chinese Taipei (2)
* Hong Kong (7)
* India (18)
* Indonesia (4)
* Iran (19)
* Iraq (10)
* Japan (12)
* Jordan (5)
* Kazakhstan (15)
* Kuwait (8)
* Kyrgyzstan (5)
* Lebanon (6)
* Macau (5)
* Malaysia (11)
* Maldives (3)
* Mongolia (1)
* Oman (4)
* Pakistan (4)
* Palestine (2)
* Philippines (7)
* Qatar (21)
* Saudi Arabia (8)
* Singapore (6)
* South Korea (3)
* Sri Lanka (5)
* Syria (2)
* Tajikistan (4)
* Thailand (1)
* Turkmenistan (5)
* United Arab Emirates (5)
* Uzbekistan (11)
* Vietnam (4)
* Yemen (4)