# 1989 Asian Athletics Championships

The 1989 Asian Athletics Championships was the eighth edition of the international outdoor athletics competition between Asian nations, organised by the Asian Athletics Association. The six-day competition was held from 14–19 November at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, India. It featured 40 events, 22 for men and 18 for women, with the steeplechase, pole vault, triple jump and hammer throw competitions being for men only. China comfortably topped the medal table, winning over half the events with 21 golds among a total of 42. The host nation, India, was clear runner-up with eight golds and 22 medals, while Japan (14 medals) was the only other nation to breach double figures. A total of 19 nations reached the medal table.
India's P. T. Usha was the stand-out athlete of the tournament with four gold medals and one silver. She won the 200 metres, 400 metres, 400 metres hurdles and 4 × 400 metres relay, as well as being the 100 metres runner-up. Another Indian runner, Shiny Abraham, won the 800 metres and was second in the 400 m. China's Zhong Huandi claimed a distance double in the women's 3000 metres and 10,000 metres.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Zheng Chen China | 10.35 | Li Tao China | 10.42 | Takayuki Nakamichi Japan | 10.48 |
| 200 metres | Yoshiyuki Okuyama Japan | 20.80 | Khalid Jouma Ibrahim Bahrain | 21.07 | Cai Jianming China | 21.18 |
| 400 metres | Ibrahim Ismail Muftah Qatar | 45.6 | Mohammed Al-Malki Oman | 45.62 | Zhao Cunlin China | 46.68 |
| 800 metres | Faramarz Roustaeifar Iran | 1:51.36 | Yoshikazu Tachi Japan | 1:51.42 | Vijaya Kumaran India | 1:51.85 |
| 1500 metres | Bahadur Prasad India | 3:45.77 | Ram Niwas India | 3:46.53 | Mohamed Suleiman Qatar | 3:47.95 |
| 5000 metres | Zhang Guowei China | 13:52.37 | Bahadur Prasad India | 13:58.93 | Ryu Ok-hyon North Korea | 14:02.39 |
| 10,000 metres | Ryu Ok-hyon North Korea | 29:07.93 | Zhang Guowei China | 29:14.01 | Muhammad Mousa Pakistan | 29:18.78 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Deena Ram India | 8:48.46 | Mohammed al-Dosari Saudi Arabia | 8:48.77 | Mohamed Suleiman Qatar | 8:49.35 |
| 110 metres hurdles | Yu Zhicheng China | 14.18 | Nagi Ghazi Iraq | 14.20 | Osamu Matsue Japan | 14.36 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Hwang Hong-cheol South Korea | 50.29 | Takashi Kiyokawa Japan | 50.94 | Suleiman Houielah Syria | 51.26 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | China Li Tao Cai Jianming Li Feng Zheng Chen | 39.28 | Japan Naotaka Momota Takayuki Nakamichi Yoshihiro Kato Yoshiyuki Okuyama | 39.64 | Qatar Talal Mansour Saad Muftah Mubarak Al-Kuwari Rashid Sheban Marzouk Jaseem Mahboob | 39.89 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | Japan Isamu Murata Shigeaki Matsunaga Seiichi Ibe Yoshikazu Tachi | 3:07.20 | India Arjun Devaiah P.V. Raju Ayyapan Durai C. Muralidharan | 3:07.22 | Malaysia Mohamed Nordin Jadi Kenny Martin Ramasamy Haridas Hamdi Jaafar | 3:11.08 |
| 20 kilometres race walk | Hirofumi Sakai Japan | 1:33:41 | Chen Helin China | 1:34:19 | Baldev Singh India | 1:35:52 |
| High jump | Cho Hyun-wook South Korea | 2.19 | Liu Yunpeng China | 2.17 | Abdullah Mohamed Al-Sheib Qatar | 2.14 |
| Pole vault | Liang Xueren China | 5.40 | Huang Weiping China | 5.20 | Ku Chin-shui Chinese Taipei | 5.20 |
| Long jump | Nai Hui-fang Chinese Taipei | 8.07w | Chen Zunrong China | 7.88 | Kim Won-jin South Korea | 7.83 |
| Triple jump | Chen Yanping China | 16.95 | Du Benzhong China | 16.68 | Nai Hui-fang Chinese Taipei | 16.65 |
| Shot put | Balwinder Singh India | 18.16 | Khalid Salman Al-Khalidi Saudi Arabia | 17.76 | Shirappa D. Eashan India | 17.71 |
| Discus throw | Zhang Jinglong China | 57.12 | Hu Tao China | 56.02 | Shakti Singh India | 55.60 |
| Hammer throw | Bi Zhong China | 68.94 | Nobuhiro Todoroki Japan | 66.04 | Xie Yingqi China | 65.72 |
| Javelin throw | Wang Wenzhong China | 76.38 | Ghanem Mabrouk Zaid Johar Kuwait | 72.38 | Wang Yao-Tsung Chinese Taipei | 71.94 |
| Decathlon | Lee Fu-an Chinese Taipei | 7703 | Gong Guohua China | 7649 | Peng Huang-shu Chinese Taipei | 7119 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Zhang Caihua China | 11.65 | P. T. Usha India | 11.74 | Wang Huei-chen Chinese Taipei | 11.84 |
| 200 metres | P. T. Usha India | 23.27 | Ashwini Nachappa India | 23.54 | Zhang Xiaoqiong China | 23.88 |
| 400 metres | P. T. Usha India | 51.90 | Shiny Abraham India | 52.40 | Josephine Mary Singarayar Malaysia | 52.65 |
| 800 metres | Shiny Abraham India | 2:04.76 | Rosa Kutty India | 2:07.75 | Haruko Hashimoto Japan | 2:09.78 |
| 1500 metres | Khin Khin Htwe Myanmar | 4:21.06 | Kim Chun-Mae North Korea | 4:23.75 | Feng Yanbo China | 4:23.86 |
| 3000 metres | Zhong Huandi China | 9:05.20 | Kim Chun-Mae North Korea | 9:11.55 | Khin Khin Htwe Myanmar | 9:22.80 |
| 10,000 metres | Zhong Huandi China | 32:25.57 | Mun Gyong-ae North Korea | 33:23.91 | Paek Do-Jong North Korea | 34:00.38 |
| 100 metres hurdles | Liu Huajin China | 13.30 | Feng Yinghua China | 13.54 | Naomi Jojima Japan | 13.97 |
| 400 metres hurdles | P. T. Usha India | 56.14 | Chen Yuying China | 56.24 | Chen Dongmei China | 57.46 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay | China Li Shuxiang Liu Huajin Zhang Caihua Zhang Xiaoqiong | 44.84 | India Kutty Saramma PT Usha Ashwini Nachappa Sany Joseph | 44.87 | Thailand Nednapa Chommuak Ratjai Sripet Pornpim Srisurat Rewadee Srithoa | 45.58 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay | India PT Usha Shiny Abraham Mercy Matthews-Kuttan Kutty Saramma | 3:32.95 | China Sun Sumei Zhang Xiaoqiong Chen Juying Chen Dongmei | 3:37.13 | Japan Chizuko Akimoto Kozue Tanaka Haruko Hashimoto Kimiko Yokoyama | 3:45.18 |
| 10,000 metres race walk | Chen Yueling China | 48:59.86 | Kavita Garari India | 50:30.90 | Ma Kyin Lwan Myanmar | 50:32.92 |
| High jump | Jin Ling China | 1.89 | Kim Hui-seon South Korea | 1.87 | Su Cun-Yueh Chinese Taipei | 1.81 |
| Long jump | Liu Shuzhen China | 6.36 | Elma Muros Philippines | 6.17 | Reeth Abraham India | 6.15 |
| Shot put | Huang Zhihong China | 19.69 | Sui Xinmei China | 19.29 | Chong Chun-Hwa North Korea | 14.53 |
| Discus throw | Yu Hourun China | 61.92 | Ikuko Kitamori Japan | 51.78 | Pak In-Ok North Korea | 47.12 |
| Javelin throw | Xin Xiaoli China | 58.30 | Xu Demei China | 57.32 | Emi Matsui Japan | 55.30 |
| Heptathlon | Dong Yuping China | 6042 | Ma Miaolan China | 6021 | Ma Chun-ping Chinese Taipei | 5149 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 21 | 15 | 6 | 42 |
| 2 | India (IND) | 8 | 9 | 5 | 22 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 5 | 6 | 14 |
| 4 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 2 | 0 | 7 | 9 |
| 6 | North Korea (PRK) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 7 | Qatar (QAT) | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 8 | Myanmar (MYA) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Iran (IRN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Bahrain (BHR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Iraq (IRQ) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Oman (OMN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Philippines (PHI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Malaysia (MAS) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Syria (SYR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (19 entries) | Totals (19 entries) | 40 | 40 | 40 | 120 |