# 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

The 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the 15th edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association. It took place from 9 to 12 June at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka – the same venue hosted the 2002 Asian Athletics Championships. Thirty-four nations took part in the event and over five hundred athletes participated. A total of 44 events were contested, with the events being evenly split between the genders.
The Chinese team topped the medal table with fifteen gold medals and a total of 23 medals. Chinese Taipei (Republic of China) had the second greatest number of event wins with six gold medals out of fifteen medals, while Japan had the second greatest haul with a total of 22 medals. India, Thailand and Qatar each won four gold medals and the hosts Sri Lanka won six medals during the four-day competition. Eighteen nations reached the medal table.
Qatar's Ashraf Amgad Elseify gave the stand-out performance of the championships with his Asian junior record in the men's hammer throw. Six other championship records were broken: Chinese pole vaulters Zhang Wei and Xu Huiqin bettered the men's and women's standards, Japan's Haruka Kyuma ran a 5000 m women's record, and Li Ting-Yu representing Chinese Taipei improved the women's steeplechase record. The two other records were set by Hamza Driouch and Teng Haining, who were the top two in the men's middle-distance events – Teng took the 800 metres while Driouch won the 1500 metres. Two athletes completed event doubles: Chen Mudan won both the women's horizontal jumps and Rahul Kumar Pal of India took both the men's long-distance events. Muamer Aissa Barshim of Qatar succeeded his brother, Mutaz Essa Barshim, as the Asian junior high jump champion.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: −2.3 m/s) | Hassan Taftian Iran | 10.49 | Xie Zhenye China | 10.54 | Yousef Ali Al-Shalani Saudi Arabia | 10.64 |
| 200 metres (wind: −3.9 m/s) | Xie Zhenye China | 21.15 | Kenta Kimura Japan | 21.53 | Hassan Taftian Iran | 21.60 |
| 400 metres | RA Dulaj Madusanka Sri Lanka | 47.36 | Kimura Kazushi Japan | 47.53 | Bandar Atiyah Al-Kaabi Saudi Arabia | 47.73 |
| 800 metres | Teng Haining China | 1:46.56 CR | Hamza Driouch Qatar | 1:46.72 | Shota Kozuma Japan | 1:49.37 |
| 1500 metres | Hamza Driouch Qatar | 3:39.85 CR | Teng Haining China | 3:43.00 | Jamal Al-Hayrani Qatar | 3:48.11 |
| 5000 metres | Rahul Kumar Pal India | 14:33.60 | Kota Murayama Japan | 14:33.67 | Keisuke Nakatani Japan | 14:58.23 |
| 10,000 metres | Rahul Kumar Pal India | 30:28.95 | Kamino Daichi Japan | 31:22.10 | Takahashi Soushi Japan | 31:54.63 |
| 110 metres hurdles (wind: −2.5 m/s) | Kongdee Kittipong Thailand | 13.86 | Cheng Yun-Yin Chinese Taipei | 13.87 | Supun Viraj Randeniya Sri Lanka | 13.94 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Ibrahim Mohamed Saleh [fr] Saudi Arabia | 51.20 | Yuichi Nagano Japan | 51.32 | Durgesh Kumar Pal India | 51.38 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Mohamed Hasim Salah Qatar | 9:04.65 | Mohamad Al-Barakati Saudi Arabia | 9:15.81 | Le Trong Giang Vietnam | 9:22.28 |
| 4×100 metres relay | Thailand (THA) Saran Sathoengram Kritsada Namsuwan Jirapong Meenapra Ruttanapon Sowan | 40.21 | Japan (JPN) Kenta Naoki ? Takuya Satō Naohiro Yokoyama | 40.39 | Hong Kong (HKG) Li Lut Yin So Chun Hong Fung Ling Ho Ho Ping Kwan | 40.67 |
| 4×400 metres relay | Japan (JPN) Takuya Satō Kenta Kimura Naohiro Yokoyama Kazushi Kimura | 3:09.64 | Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ahmed Al-Khayri Basheer Al-Barakati Bandar Atiyah Kaabi Ibrahim Saleh | 3:10.63 | Sri Lanka (SRI) Malith Rangana Indunil Herath Chamod Vuduranga Dulaj Madusanka | 3:11.12 |
| 10,000 m walk | Kuldeep India | 45:01.43 | Daisuke Matsunaga Japan | 45:03.01 | Zhang Zhi China | 45:05.27 |
| High jump | Muamer Aissa Barshim Qatar | 2.16 m | Yuriy Dergachev Kazakhstan | 2.16 m | Hsiang Chun-Hsien Chinese TaipeiSubramaniam Navinraj Malaysia | 2.16 m |
| Pole vault | Zhang Wei China | 5.35 m CR | Fuji Daiki Japan | 4.80 m | Moho Fahme Zam-Zam Malaysia | 4.20 m |
| Long jump | Lin Qing China | 7.96 m | Tomoya Takamasa Japan | 7.68 m | Kumaravel Premkumar India | 7.52 m |
| Triple jump | Fu Haitao China | 16.38 m | Pratchaya Tepparak Thailand | 16.25 m | Mostafa Khosravi Iran | 15.31 m |
| Shot put | Li Meng China | 19.95 m | Mohammad Omer Abdul Qadri Saudi Arabia | 18.44 m | Wong Kai Yuen Singapore | 17.39 m |
| Discus throw | Mojtaba Shabaneh Iran | 58.79 m | Arjun Kumar India | 56.61 m | Behnam Shiri Iran | 55.72 m |
| Hammer throw | Ashraf Amgad Elseify Qatar | 80.85 m AJR/CR | Sukhdev Singh India | 65.25 m | Alhenoal Mobarais Kuwait | 59.86 m |
| Javelin throw | Cheng Chao-Tsun Chinese Taipei | 74.68 m | Amir Hossein Hosseini Iran | 68.47 m | Ku Chia-Hao Chinese Taipei | 68.10 m |
| Decathlon | Mao Chi-Shun Chinese Taipei | 6252 pts | Majed Radhi al-Sayed Kuwait | 5957 pts | Jamaleddin Sanaei Iran | 5422 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres (wind: −0.8 m/s) | Liao Ching-Hsien Chinese Taipei | 11.97 | Lin Huijun China | 11.98 | Pakdee Khanrutai Thailand | 12.17 |
| 200 metres (wind: −3.1 m/s) | Lin Huijun China | 24.69 | Olga Andreyeva Kazakhstan | 25.05 | Shanti Veronica Pereira Singapore | 25.09 |
| 400 metres | RM Shiwanthi Kumari Ratnayake Sri Lanka | 55.91 | Priyanka Mondal India | 56.01 | Olga Andreyeva Kazakhstan | 56.03 |
| 800 metres | Wu Limin China | 2:07.13 | Mizuki Yamamoto Japan | 2:08.67 | Tatyana Yurchenko Kazakhstan | 2:09.60 |
| 1500 metres | Wang Yanfei China | 4:23.95 | Wu Limin China | 4:24.36 | Saki Yoshimizu Japan | 4:26.76 |
| 3000 metres | Kotomi Takayama Japan | 9:27.79 | Kim Hyr Gyeeg North Korea | 9:29.18 | Wu Yufeng China | 9:31.22 |
| 5000 metres | Haruka Kyuma Japan | 16:07.74 CR | Moe Kyuma Japan | 16:08.17 | Kim Hyr Gyeeg North Korea | 16:32.02 |
| 100 metres hurdles | Wang Dou China | 13.80 | Hsieh Ching-Ju Chinese Taipei | 14.11 | Lui Lai Yiu Hong Kong | 14.59 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Nguyen Thi Huyen Vietnam | 59.92 | Marina Zaiko Kazakhstan | 60.00 | Lo Pei-Lin Chinese Taipei | 61.45 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Li Ting-Yu Chinese Taipei | 10:44.94 CR | Mizuki Sado Japan | 10:45.07 | RAC Jayamini Sri Lanka | 10:55.76 |
| 4×100 metres relay | Thailand (THA) Sanuma Tipkoed Supawan Thipat Khanrutai Pakdee Chonlada Kirdbut | 46.87 | Indonesia (INA) Priscilia Angrenia Niafatul Aini Irene Alisjahbana Imaniar Nurul | 47.24 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) Hung Pei-ning Liao Ching-hsien Lo Pei-lin Hsieh Ching-ju | 47.32 |
| 4×400 metres relay | Kazakhstan (KAZ) Marina Zayko Tatyana Yurchenko Yekaterina Yermak Olga Andreyeva | 3:43.49 | Sri Lanka (SRI) B. M. S. K. Kumari Nadeeshani Henderson D. P. Hansani Siwanthi Rathnayaka | 3:46.76 | India (IND) M. Arpitha O. V. Revathy Jyoti Rani Priyanka Mondal | 3:49.09 |
| 10,000 m walk | Lee Jeongeun South Korea | 49:04.60 | Wang Yalan China | 50:01.15 | Khushbir Kaur India | 50:39.40 |
| High jump | Wu Meng-Chia Chinese Taipei | 1.79 m | HM Nimesha Siriwardane Sri Lanka | 1.79 m | Liu Xiao Yun China | 1.76 m |
| Pole vault | Xu Huiqin China | 4.25 m CR | Chuah Yu Tian Malaysia | 3.40 m | Liu Yu-Yao Chinese Taipei | 3.20 m |
| Long jump | Chen Mudan China | 6.18 m | Wu Meng-Chia Chinese Taipei | 6.02 m | Yuka Suda Japan | 6.00 m |
| Triple jump | Chen Mudan China | 13.67 m | Dilyara Abuova Kazakhstan | 13.35 m | Hung Pei-Ning Chinese Taipei | 13.01 m |
| Shot put | Lai Li-Chun Chinese Taipei | 14.25 m | Lee Mina South Korea | 14.12 m | Thongchao Sawitri Thailand | 13.98 m |
| Discus throw | Subenrat Insaeng Thailand | 54.08 m | Navjeet Kaur Dhillon India | 44.78 m | Jeong Ye-lim South Korea | 41.32 m |
| Hammer throw | Yan Ni China | 59.94 m | Park Seo-jin South Korea | 54.03 m | Misaki Fukushima Japan | 50.78 m |
| Javelin throw | Liu Shiying China | 53.02 m | Yumi Shimabukuro Japan | 49.64 m | Heo Hyo-jeng South Korea | 45.46 m |
| Heptathlon | Purnima Hembram India | 4979 pts | Sunisa Khotseemueang Thailand | 4902 pts | Nadezhda Kirnos Kazakhstan | 4585 pts |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Sri Lanka)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China | 15 | 5 | 3 | 23 |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei | 6 | 3 | 6 | 15 |
| 3 | India | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 4 | Thailand | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | Qatar | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Japan | 3 | 13 | 6 | 22 |
| 7 | Sri Lanka* | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 8 | Iran | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 9 | Kazakhstan | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 10 | Saudi Arabia | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 11 | South Korea | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 12 | Vietnam | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Malaysia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | Kuwait | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | North Korea | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 16 | Indonesia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 17 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | Singapore | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 44 | 44 | 45 | 133 |

## Participation

* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* China
* Chinese Taipei
* Hong Kong
* Indonesia
* India
* Iran
* Japan
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* South Korea
* Lebanon
* Macau
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Philippines
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* Syria
* Sri Lanka
* Thailand
* Uzbekistan
* Vietnam