# 2019 Asian Youth Athletics Championships

The 2019 Asian Youth Athletics Championships was the third edition of the biennial, continental athletics competition for Asian athletes aged 15 to 17. It was held at the Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground in Hong Kong from 15 to 17 March. Organised by the Hong Kong Amateur Athletic Association, a total of forty events will be contested with the events divided evenly between the sexes. The host was announced in January 2019 by Asian Athletics Association.
Each Federation can enter maximum of 2 athletes in each individual event, while host team can enter maximum of 3 athletes in each individual event. For relay event, each Federation can only enter 1 team to participate.
This championship was the first large scale competition situated in Hong Kong since the 2009 East Asian Games. Kwan Kee, the Chairman of Hong Kong Amateur Athletics Association was satisfied with the performance of Hong Kong team (1 gold medal and 2 silver medals) and planned to bid for more international track and field events to promote the growth of this sport in Hong Kong.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s) | Ali Khalid Mas (KSA) | 10.56 | Seiryo Ikeda (JPN) | 10.63 | Chen Jiapeng (CHN) | 10.66 |
| 200 metres (wind: -1.9 m/s) | Wang Yen-ho (TPE) | 21.86 | Shanmuga Srinivas Nalubothu (IND) | 21.87 | Ali Al-Balushi (OMA) | 21.93 |
| 400 metres | Abdul Razak Cheramkulangara Rasheed (IND) | 48.17 | Navishka Weerakoon (SRI) | 48.26 | Yefim Tarassov (KAZ) | 48.59 |
| 800 metres | Allon Tatsunami Clay (JPN) | 1:50.57 CR | Mathesh Babu (IND) | 1:51.48 | Sumit Kharab (IND) | 1:55.81 |
| 1500 metres | Lee Jae-ung (KOR) | 3:56.36 | Masaya Yanagimoto (JPN) | 3:56.56 | Ajay (IND) | 3:57.25 |
| 3000 metres | Ajit Kumar Yadav (NEP) | 8:30.32 | Amit Jangir (IND) | 8:36.34 | Gamil Al-Hamati (YEM) | 8:38.60 |
| 110 metres hurdles | Mohd Irfan Izzan Mohd Fetry (MAS) | 13.60 | Kentaro Soga (JPN) | 13.64 | Marc Brian Louis (SGP) | 13.74 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Marc Brian Louis (SGP) | 55.09 | Henry Fung (HKG) | 55.26 | Fahad Mohd Al-Abdulla (QAT) | 55.28 |
| 2000 metres steeplechase | Ryuji Miura (JPN) | 5:42.35 CR | Atul Kumar Bhimsingbhai Gamit (IND) | 6:00.45 | Li Yunqi (CHN) | 6:08.79 |
| Medley relay | India (IND) | 1:54.04 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 1:55.04 | China (CHN) | 1:55.45 |
| 10,000 m walk | Vishvendra Singh (IND) | 44:09.75 CR | Li Junran (CHN) | 44:11.17 | Paramjeet Singh Bisht (IND) | 44:21.96 |
| High jump | Chen Long (CHN) | 2.20 m CR | Ma Jia (CHN) | 2.16 m | Fu Chao-hsuan (TPE) | 2.14 m |
| Pole vault | Zhong Tao (CHN) | 5.00 m =CR | Kazuki Furusawa (JPN) | 4.90 m | Deepak Yadav (IND) | 4.70 m |
| Long jump | Wu Guohang (CHN) | 7.63 m CR | Ho Kuei-lin (TPE) | 7.48 m | Ryutaro Tanaka (JPN) | 7.43 m |
| Triple jump | Sheng Yin-chen (TPE) | 15.15 m | Wu Junhui (CHN) | 15.12 m | Vishal Mor (IND) | 15.09 m |
| Shot put | Arsalan Ghashghaei (IRI) | 19.36 m | Amandeep Singh Dhaliwal (IND) | 19.08 m | Peng Yingtei (CHN) | 18.59 m |
| Discus throw | Mohammad Reza Rahmanifar (IRI) | 60.24 m CR | Sadegh Samimi (IRI) | 59.85 m | Huang Nuo-ya (TPE) | 54.93 m |
| Hammer throw | Vipin Kumar (IND) | 69.63 m | Fan Yanfeng (CHN) | 66.64 m | Sahand Nouri (IRI) | 65.85 m |
| Javelin throw | Cao Junzi (CHN) | 73.25 m | Nodirbek Bekatov (UZB) | 71.76 m | Yasumasa Matsushige (JPN) | 69.36 m |
| Decathlon | Usaid Khan (IND) | 6952 pts CR | Du Chang-huan (TPE) | 6268 pts | Ali Ansari (IND) | 5943 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: +0.9 m/s) | Avantika Santosh Narale (IND) | 11.97 | Hanae Aoyama (JPN) | 11.98 | Erna Nuryanti (INA) | 12.08 |
| 200 metres (wind: -0.8 m/s) | Li Yuting (CHN) | 23.83 CR | Avantika Santosh Narale (IND) | 24.20 | Deepthi Jeevanji (IND) | 24.78 |
| 400 metres | Saki Takashima (JPN) | 54.83 | Li Fengdan (CHN) | 56.07 | Aleksandra Zalyubovskaya (KAZ) | 56.25 |
| 800 metres | Rao Xinyu (CHN) | 2:09.03 CR | Pooja (IND) | 2:09.32 | Maki Ueda (JPN) | 2:09.76 |
| 1500 metres | Cade Wright (HKG) | 4:34.04 | Liu Jia (CHN) | 4:36.05 | Chanthini Chandran (IND) | 4:36.09 |
| 3000 metres | Rina Kimura (JPN) | 9:30.63 | Izumi Takamatsu (JPN) | 9:59.50 | Liu Jingya (CHN) | 10:06.94 |
| 100 metres hurdles | Thabitha Philip Maheswaran (IND) | 13.86 | Mayuko Iwasa (JPN) | 14.03 | Liu Xinyu (CHN) | 14.44 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Arisa Weruwanarak (THA) | 1:00.52 | Yang Jui-hsuan (TPE) | 1:00.68 | Amesha Hettiarachchilge (SRI) | 1:01.42 |
| 2000 metres steeplechase | Yuzuki Murakami (JPN) | 7:06.53 | Vassilissa Fakhrutdinova (KAZ) | 7:22.88 | Fatemeh Sima Shadkam (IRI) | 7:32.53 |
| Medley relay | China (CHN) Liu Ziyi Li Yuting Li Fengdan Rao Xinyu | 2:10.71 | India (IND) Deepthi Jeevanji Avantika Santosh Narale Sandra Ajimon Shiny Priya Mohan | 2:10.87 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) Margarita Nazarenko Aleksandra Sytina Nadezhda Yurchenko Aleksandra Zalyubovskaya | 2:13.79 |
| 5000 m walk | Jiao Shuangshuang (CHN) | 22:54.69 CR | Yin Lamei (CHN) | 22:56.22 | Minoru Yabuta (JPN) | 23:19.48 |
| High jump | Lu Jiawen (CHN) | 1.83 m CR | Lai Yan Hei (HKG) | 1.79 m | Chang Chia-yu (TPE) | 1.69 m |
| Pole vault | Polina Ivanova (KAZ) | 3.75 m | Lan Jieru (CHN) | 3.70 m | Diva Renatta Jayadi (INA) Maberu Fujiie (JPN) | 3.55 m |
| Long jump | Thabitha Philip Maheswaran (IND) | 5.86 m | Hua Shihu (CHN) | 5.76 m | Ambrikha Narzary (IND) | 5.73 m |
| Triple jump | Li Chunting (CHN) | 12.97 m CR | Kim A-young (KOR) | 12.15 m | Valeriya Yeryomina (KAZ) | 12.02 m |
| Shot put | Meari Hiroshima (JPN) | 16.19 m | Choi Ha-na (KOR) | 15.87 m | Chen Yan (CHN) | 15.42 m |
| Discus throw | Yang Xin (CHN) | 49.69 m CR | Chen Nuo (CHN) | 47.55 m | Shin Yu-jin (KOR) | 45.61 m |
| Hammer throw | Hung Chi-hsien (TPE) | 62.80 m | Harshita Sherawat (IND) | 61.93 m | Ye Jiayi (CHN) | 59.90 m |
| Javelin throw | Mo Yun (CHN) | 54.32 m | Gong Yu (CHN) | 53.16 m | Rei Nakamura (JPN) | 48.94 m |
| Heptathlon | Adina Makhsutova (KAZ) | 5345 pts CR | Momoko Ito (JPN) | 5088 pts | Shakhribonu Gofurjonova (UZB) | 4634 pts |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Hong Kong)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 12 | 11 | 8 | 31 |
| 2 | India (IND) | 8 | 9 | 9 | 26 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 6 | 8 | 6 | 20 |
| 4 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 5 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 6 | Iran (IRI) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | Hong Kong (HKG)* | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Singapore (SGP) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Malaysia (MAS) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Nepal (NEP) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 15 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | Oman (OMA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Qatar (QAT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Yemen (YEM) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (19 entries) | Totals (19 entries) | 40 | 40 | 41 | 121 |