# 2011 Asian Athletics Championships

The 19th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Kobe, Japan between July 7–10, 2011 at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium. The tournament had 507 athletes from forty Asian nations competing in the 42 track and field events over the four-day competition.
Two countries dominated the events: the host nation Japan won the most medals at the competition (32 overall, 11 golds), closely followed by China's eleven golds and 27 overall medal haul. The next most successful countries were Bahrain (which won five golds on the track through its former Ethiopian and Kenyan runners) and India, which won twelve medals.
A total of eight Championship records were equalled or beaten at the competition. India's Mayookha Johny won the long jump and also broke the Indian record to take bronze in the triple jump. Twenty-year-old Mutaz Essa Barshim cleared 2.35 metres in the high jump. Liu Xiang won his fourth consecutive 110 metres hurdles title with a championship record mark. Kuwait's Mohammad Al-Azemi completed an 800/1500 metres double with Iranian Sajjad Moradi finishing as runner-up both times. On the women's side, Truong Thanh Hang of Vietnam won the 800 m and was the 1500 m silver medallist.
Gretta Taslakian of Lebanon and Iraqi Gulustan Ieso won their countries' first medals in the women's section, while the traditionally male-only United Arab Emirates sent their first female athlete to the competition (Betlhem Desalegn). Ieso and Olga Tereshkova both failed doping tests at the competition, thus losing their individual medals and also their team relay medals.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Su Bingtian China | 10.21 | Masashi Eriguchi Japan | 10.28 | Sota Kawatsura Japan | 10.30 |
| 200 metres details | Femi Seun Ogunode Qatar | 20.41 =CR | Hitoshi Saito Japan | 20.75 | Omar Jouma Al-Salfa United Arab Emirates | 20.97 |
| 400 metres details | Yousef Ahmed Masrahi Saudi Arabia | 45.79 | Hideyuki Hirose Japan | 46.03 | Yūzō Kanemaru Japan | 46.38 |
| 800 metres details | Mohammad Al-Azemi Kuwait | 1:46.14 | Sajjad Moradi Iran | 1:46.35 | Ghamnda Ram India | 1:46.46 |
| 1500 metres details | Mohammad Al-Azemi Kuwait | 3:42.49 | Sajjad Moradi Iran | 3:43.30 | Chaminda Wijekoon Sri Lanka | 3:44.01 |
| 5000 metres details | Dejenee Mootumaa Bahrain | 13:39.71 CR | Yuki Sato Japan | 13:40.78 | Alemu Bekele Gebre Bahrain | 13:41.93 |
| 10,000 metres details | Ali Hasan Mahboob Bahrain | 28:35.49 | Bilisuma Shugi Gelasa Bahrain | 28:36.30 | Akinobu Murasawa Japan | 28:40.63 |
| 110 m hurdles details | Liu Xiang China | 13.22 CR | Shi Dongpeng China | 13.56 | Park Tae-kyong South Korea | 13.66 |
| 400 m hurdles details | Takatoshi Abe Japan | 49.64 | Yuta Imazeki Japan | 50.22 | Chen Chieh Chinese Taipei | 50.39 |
| 3000 m steeplechase details | Abubaker Ali Kamal Qatar | 8:30.23 | Artem Kosinov Kazakhstan | 8:35.11 | Tareq Mubarak Taher Bahrain | 8:45.47 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | Japan Sota Kawatsura Masashi Eriguchi Shinji Takahira Hitoshi Saito | 39.18 | Hong Kong Tang Yik Chun Lai Chun Ho Ng Ka Fung Chi Ho Tsui | 39.26 | Chinese Taipei Wang Wen-tang Liu Yuan-kai Tsai Meng-lin Yi Wei-che | 39.30 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | Japan Yusuke Ishitsuka Kei Takase Hideyuki Hirose Yuzo Kanemaru | 3:04.72 | Saudi Arabia Mohammed Ali Albishi Hamed Al-Bishi Y.I. Alhezam Yousef Ahmed Masrahi | 3:08.03 | Iran Peyman Rajabi Amin Ghelichi Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei Sajjad Hashemi | 3:08.58 |
| High jump details | Mutaz Essa Barshim Qatar | 2.35 m NR | Majd Eddin Ghazal Syria | 2.28 m NR | Wang Chen China | 2.26 m |
| Pole vault details | Daichi Sawano Japan | 5.50 m | Hiroki Ogita Japan | 5.40 m | Yang Yansheng China | 5.40 m |
| Long jump details | Su Xiongfeng China | 8.19 m | Supanara Sukhasvasti Thailand | 8.05 m NJR | Rikiya Saruyama Japan | 8.05 m |
| Triple jump details | Yevgeniy Ektov Kazakhstan | 16.91 m | Li Yanxi China | 16.70 m | Roman Valiyev Kazakhstan | 16.62 m |
| Shot put details | Chang Ming-huang Chinese Taipei | 20.14 m CR | Zhang Jun China | 19.77 m | Om Prakash Karhana India | 19.47 m |
| Discus throw details | Ehsan Haddadi Iran | 62.27 m | Vikas Gowda India | 61.58 m | Wu Jian China | 56.61 m |
| Hammer throw details | Ali Al-Zinkawi Kuwait | 73.73 m | Hiroshi Noguchi Japan | 70.89 m | Hiroaki Doi Japan | 70.69 m |
| Javelin throw details | Yukifumi Murakami Japan | 83.27 m CR | Park Jae-myong South Korea | 80.19 m | Ivan Zaitcev Uzbekistan | 79.22 m |
| Decathlon details | Hadi Sepehrzad Iran | 7506 pts | Akihiko Nakamura Japan | 7478 pts | Bharatinder Singh India | 7358 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Guzel Khubbieva Uzbekistan | 11.39 | Wei Yongli China | 11.70 | Tao Yujia China | 11.74 |
| 200 metres details | Chisato Fukushima Japan | 23.49 | Gretta Taslakian Lebanon | 24.01 | Saori Imai Japan | 24.06 |
| 400 metres details | Chen Jingwen China | 52.89 | Chandrika Subashini Sri Lanka | 53.35 | Chisato Tanaka Japan | 54.08 |
| 800 metres details | Truong Thanh Hang Vietnam | 2:01.41 | Margarita Matsko Kazakhstan | 2:02.46 | Tintu Luka India | 2:02.55 |
| 1500 metres details | Genzeb Shumi Regasa Bahrain | 4:15.91 | Truong Thanh Hang Vietnam | 4:18.40 | O. P. Jaisha India | 4:21.41 |
| 5000 metres details | Tejitu Daba Chalchissa Bahrain | 15:22.48 CR | Hitomi Niiya Japan | 15:34.19 | Yuriko Kobayashi Japan | 15:42.59 |
| 10,000 metres details | Shitaye Eshete Bahrain | 32:47.80 | Kareema Saleh Jasim Bahrain | 32:50.70 | Preeja Sreedharan India | 33:15.55 |
| 100 m hurdles details | Sun Yawei China | 13.04 | Jung Hye-Lim South Korea | 13.11 | Natalya Ivoninskaya Kazakhstan | 13.15 |
| 400 m hurdles details | Satomi Kubokura Japan | 56.52 | Qi Yang China | 56.69 | Christine Merrill Sri Lanka | 57.30 |
| 3000 m steeplechase details | Minori Hayakari Japan | 9:52.42 CR | Sudha Singh India | 10:08.52 | Thi Phuong Nguyen Vietnam | 10:14.94 |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | Japan Nao Okabe Momoko Takahashi Chisato Fukushima Saori Imai | 44.05 | China Tao Yujia Liang Qiuping Jiang Lan Wei Yongli | 44.23 | Thailand Phatsorn Jaksuninkorn Orranut Klomdee Laphassaporn Tawoncharoen Nongnuch Sanrat | 44.62 |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | Japan Sayaka Aoki Chisato Tanaka Satomi Kubokura Miho Shingu | 3:35.00 | India Mrudula Korada Jhuma Khatun Jaisha Orchatteri Puthiya Tintu Luka | 3:44.17 | Not awarded |
| High jump details | Zheng Xingjuan China | 1.92 m | Svetlana Radzivil Uzbekistan | 1.92 m | Marina Aitova Kazakhstan | 1.89 m |
| Pole vault details | Wu Sha China | 4.35 m | Li Ling China | 4.30 m | Choi Yun-Hee South Korea | 4.00 m |
| Long jump details | Mayookha Johny India | 6.56 m | Lu Minjia China | 6.52 m | Saeko Okayama Japan | 6.51 m |
| Triple jump details | Xie Limei China | 14.58 m | Valeriya Kanatova Uzbekistan | 14.14 m | Mayookha Johny India | 14.11 m NR |
| Shot put details | Meng Qianqian China | 18.31 m PB | Liu Xiangrong China | 18.30 m | Leila Rajabi Iran | 16.60 m |
| Discus throw details | Sun Taifeng China | 60.89 m | Ma Xuejun China | 59.67 m | Harwant Kaur India | 57.99 m |
| Hammer throw details | Masumi Aya Japan | 67.19 m | Liu Tingting China | 65.42 m | Yuka Murofushi Japan | 62.50 m |
| Javelin throw details | Liu Chunhua China | 58.05 m | Wang Ping China | 55.80 m | Yuka Sato Japan | 54.16 m |
| Heptathlon details | Wassana Winatho Thailand | 5710 pts | Humie Takehara Japan | 5491 pts | Chie Kiriyama Japan | 5442 pts |
* Note: The original gold and silver medallists, Kazakhstan's Olga Tereshkova and Iraq's Gulustan Ieso, were later disqualified after testing positive for testosterone and methylhexaneamine, respectively. Initial bronze medallist Chen Jingwen of China was elevated to the gold medal position, while fourth and fifth placed runners Chandrika Subashini and Chisato Tanaka moved into the minor medal positions. The Kazakhstan and Iraqi 4 × 400 m relay quartets were also disqualified as a result. India were promoted to silver medallists and the bronze was vacated as only four teams participated.

## Medal table

* Host nation (Japan)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 11 | 12 | 4 | 27 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN)* | 11 | 10 | 12 | 33 |
| 3 | Bahrain (BHR) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | Kuwait (KUW) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Qatar (QAT) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Iran (IRN) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | India (IND) | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 |
| 8 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 9 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 10 | Thailand (THA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Vietnam (VIE) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 13 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 15 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 16 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Lebanon (LIB) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Syria (SYR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 19 | United Arab Emirates (UAE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (19 entries) | Totals (19 entries) | 42 | 42 | 41 | 125 |
* The medal changes due to doping disqualifications in the women's 400 m individual and relay events meant that China edged Japan to the top of the table. Kazakhstan fell from sixth to eighth place. Sri Lanka moved up from 19th to 15th place. Iraq received no medals.

## Participating countries

464 athletes from 40 nations competed
* Afghanistan (2)
* Bangladesh (2)
* Bahrain (10)
* Brunei (3)
* China (40)
* Chinese Taipei (16)
* Timor-Leste (1)
* Hong Kong (15)
* India (34)
* Indonesia (16)
* Iran (24)
* Iraq (10)
* Japan (87)
* Jordan (2)
* Kazakhstan (24)
* Kuwait (6)
* Kyrgyzstan (3)
* Laos (2)
* Lebanon (2)
* Macau (4)
* Maldives (2)
* Malaysia (8)
* Mongolia (6)
* Nepal (2)
* Oman (11)
* Pakistan (5)
* Palestine (2)
* Philippines (6)
* Qatar (6)
* Saudi Arabia (14)
* Singapore (6)
* South Korea (24)
* Sri Lanka (11)
* Syria (4)
* Tajikistan (2)
* Thailand (16)
* Turkmenistan (5)
* United Arab Emirates (7)
* Uzbekistan (17)
* Vietnam (7)