# 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was an international indoor athletics event took place in Doha, Qatar, between 14 and 16 February.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 m | Samuel Francis Qatar | 6.62 CR | Leung Chun Wai Hong Kong | 6.79 | Vyacheslav Muravyev Kazakhstan | 6.79 |
| 400 m | Liu Xiaosheng China | 47.82 CR | Sergey Zaikov Kazakhstan | 48.12 | Ali Shirook United Arab Emirates | 48.24 NR |
| 800 m | Yusuf Saad Kamel Bahrain | 1:48.03 =CR | Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei Iran | 1:48.68 | Masato Yokota Japan | 1:49.30 |
| 1500 m | Thamer Kamal Ali Qatar | 3:40.86 CR | Chatholi Hamza India | 3:41.18 NR | Abubaker Ali Kamal Qatar | 3:42.50 |
| 3000 m | Sultan Khamis Zaman Qatar | 7:49.31 | Surendra Singh India | 7:49.47 NR | James Kwalia Qatar | 7:50.76 |
| 60 m hurdles | Ji Wei China | 7.79 | Abdul Rashid Pakistan | 7.98 | Muhammad Sajjad Pakistan | 8.01 |
| 4×400 m relay | Saudi Arabia Yonas Al-Hosah Ali Al-Deraan Ismail Al-Sabiani Edrees Hawsawi | 3:14.25 CR | India V. B. Bineesh Gurvinder Pal Singh Virender Kumar Pankaj Thannickkal Aboobcker | 3:16.53 | Qatar Mohamed Sagayroon Adam Ali Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla Azmy Sulaiman | 3:17.93 |
| High jump | Sergey Zasimovich Kazakhstan | 2.24 CR | Majed Al-Din Ghazal Syria | 2.21 | Rashid Al-Mannai Qatar | 2.18 |
| Pole vault | Daichi Sawano Japan | 5.45 | Takafumi Suzuki Japan | 5.35 | Leonid Andreev Uzbekistan | 5.35 |
| Long jump | Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi Saudi Arabia | 8.24 AR | Saleh Al-Haddad Kuwait | 7.88 NR | Hussein Al-Sabee Saudi Arabia | 7.72 |
| Triple jump | Roman Valiyev Kazakhstan | 16.32 | Amarjeet Singh India | 16.24 NR | Theerayut Philakong Thailand | 16.04 NR |
| Shot put | Ahmad Gholoum Kuwait | 18.55 CR | Om Prakash Karhana India | 18.37 | Yao Yongguang China | 18.16 |
| Heptathlon | P. J. Vinod India | 5561 pts =NR | Hadi Sepehrzad Iran | 5515 pts NR | Hiromasa Tanaka Japan | 5306 pts |
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |||||| |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 m | Roqaya Al-Gassra Bahrain | 7.40 CR, NR | Wang Yingju China | 7.47 | Nongnuch Sanrat Thailand | 7.49 |
| 400 m | Roqaya Al-Gassra Bahrain | 53.28 CR, NR | Marina Maslyonko Kazakhstan | 53.38 | Mandeep Kaur India | 54.28 |
| 800 m | Sinimol Paulose India | 2:03.43 CR, NR | Sushma Devi India | 2:04.66 | Margarita Matsko Kazakhstan | 2:04.85 |
| 1500 m | Sinimol Paulose India | 4:15.42 CR, NR | Sushma Devi India | 4:21.78 | Sara Bakheet Bahrain | 4:26.70 |
| 3000 m | Preeja Sreedharan India | 9:12.26 CR, NR | Kavita Raut India | 9:26.01 | Sara Bakheet Bahrain | 9:40.47 |
| 60 m hurdles | Liu Jing China | 8.31 CR | Anastassiya Soprunova Kazakhstan | 8.34 | Leelavathi Veerappan India | 9.21 |
| 4×400 m relay | India Mandeep Kaur Manjit Kaur Sini Jose Chitra K. Soman | 3:37.46 AR | Kazakhstan Tatyana Azarova Marina Maslyonko Viktoriya Yalovtseva Anna Gavriushenko | 3:38.10 | Thailand Jutamass Tawoncharoen Saowalee Kaewchuay Kanya Harnthong Treewadee Yongphan | 3:43.22 |
| High jump | Tatyana Efimenko Kyrgyzstan | 1.91 | Anna Ustinova Kazakhstan | 1.91 | Yekaterina Yevseyeva Kazakhstan | 1.88 |
| Pole vault | Ikuko Nishikori Japan | 4.10 | Roslinda Samsu Malaysia | 4.10 | Takayo Kondo Japan | 4.10 |
| Long jump | Chen Yaling China | 6.39 | Anju Bobby George India | 6.38 | M. A. Prajusha India | 6.09 |
| Triple jump | Olga Rypakova Kazakhstan | 14.23 CR | Li Qian China | 13.76 | Liu Yanan China | 13.39 |
| Shot put | Gong Lijiao China | 18.12 CR | Iolanta Ulyeva Kazakhstan | 15.99 | Juttaporn Krasaeyan Thailand | 14.73 |
| Pentathlon | Irina Naumenko Kazakhstan | 4235 pts | Wassana Winatho Thailand | 4184 pts NR | Olga Lapina Kazakhstan | 3906 pts |
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |||||| |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | India | 5 | 9 | 3 | 17 |
| 2 | China | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 3 | Kazakhstan | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| 4 | Qatar | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | Bahrain | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Japan | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | Saudi Arabia | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Kuwait | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Iran | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Thailand | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 12 | Pakistan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Hong Kong | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Malaysia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Syria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | United Arab Emirates | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | Uzbekistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (17 entries) | Totals (17 entries) | 26 | 26 | 26 | 78 |

## Participating nations

A total of 29 nations were represented by athletes competing at the 2008 championships.
* Bahrain (10)
* China (16)
* Chinese Taipei (3)
* Hong Kong (6)
* India (31)
* Indonesia (3)
* Iran (5)
* Iraq (3)
* Japan (12)
* Jordan (2)
* Kazakhstan (23)
* Kuwait (8)
* Kyrgyzstan (4)
* Laos (2)
* Lebanon (2)
* Macau (1)
* Malaysia (3)
* Maldives (2)
* Oman (3)
* Pakistan (5)
* Palestine (1)
* Qatar (19)
* Saudi Arabia (11)
* Singapore (3)
* Syria (3)
* Tajikistan (3)
* Thailand (12)
* United Arab Emirates (3)
* Uzbekistan (3)