# 2003 Asian Athletics Championships

The 15th Asian Athletics Championships were held in Manila, Philippines on September 20–23, 2003.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Chen Haijian China | 10.25 | Gennadiy Chernovol Kazakhstan | 10.27 | Salem Mubarak Al-Yami Saudi Arabia | 10.28 |
| 200 metres details | Fawzi Al-Shammari Kuwait | 20.70 | Hamed Hamdan Al-Bishi Saudi Arabia | 20.73 | Yang Yaozu China | 20.82 |
| 400 metres details | Fawzi Al-Shammari Kuwait | 45.16 | Hamdan Obah Al-Bishi Saudi Arabia | 45.39 | Yuki Yamaguchi Japan | 46.18 |
| 800 metres details | Adam Abdu Adam Ali Qatar | 1:46.20 | Salem Amer Al-Badri Qatar | 1:46.95 | Rashid Mohammed Bahrain | 1:47.09 |
| 1500 metres details | Rashid Ramzi Bahrain | 3:41.66 | Saif Saeed Shaheen Qatar | 3:42.79 | Fumikazu Kobayashi Japan | 3:42.96 |
| 5000 metres details | Abdulaziz Abdelrahman Al-Ameeri Qatar | 13:58.89 | Saif Saeed Shaheen Qatar | 13:58.92 | Nobuya Matsunaga Japan | 14:12.73 |
| 10,000 metres details | Abdullah Ahmed Hassan Qatar | 28:45.64 | Abdulhak Zakaria Bahrain | 30:04.13 | Eduardo Buenavista Philippines | 30:06.29 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Khamis Seif Abdullah Qatar | 8:51.60 | Wu Wen-chien Chinese Taipei | 8:55.38 | Yasunori Uchitomi Japan | 8:56.31 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Shi Dongpeng China | 13.50 | Park Tae-kyong South Korea | 13.71 | Wu Youjia China | 13.80 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Mubarak Al-Nubi Qatar | 49.19 | Yevgeniy Meleshenko Kazakhstan | 49.55 | Chen Tien-wen Chinese Taipei | 50.72 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | China Shen Yunbao He Jun Yang Yaozu Chen Haijian | 39.22 | Thailand Sophanish Vissanu Suwonprateep Sittichai Janthana Ekkachai Wonsala Seksan | 39.57 | Japan Kazuhiro Tamura Shingo Kawabata Yusuke Omae Takayuki Kon | 39.59 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | Sri Lanka Rohan Pradeep Kumara Ranga Wimalawansa Prasanna Amarasekara Sugath Thilakaratne | 3:03.05 | Japan Yuki Yamaguchi Masayuki Okusako Mitsuhiro Sato Takahiko Yamamura | 3:03.59 | Qatar Yaser Omar Elhaj Yaser Mohamed Abkar Mohammed Abdulrahman Musa Salaheddine Bakar | 3:04.32 NR |
| 20 kilometres walk details | Han Yucheng China | 1:21:12 CR | Yuki Yamazaki Japan | 1:21:54 | Bai Liansheng China | 1:22:14 |
| High jump details | Wang Zhouzhou China | 2.23 | Bae Kyung-ho South Korea | 2.19 | Naoyuki Daigo Japan Loo Kum Zee Malaysia | 2.19 |
| Pole vault details | Grigoriy Yegorov Kazakhstan | 5.40 | Satoru Yasuda Japan | 5.30 | Kim Se-in South Korea | 5.10 |
| Long jump details | Hussein Taher Al-Sabee Saudi Arabia | 8.23 | Zhou Can China | 8.11 | Shinichi Terano Japan | 8.04 |
| Triple jump details | Kazuyoshi Ishikawa Japan | 16.72 | Gu Junjie China | 16.68 | Wu Ji China | 16.67 |
| Shot put details | Bilal Saad Mubarak Qatar | 19.41 | Shakti Singh India | 19.04 | Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi Qatar | 18.57 |
| Discus throw details | Wu Tao China | 61.43 | Abbas Samimi Iran | 59.51 | Anil Kumar India | 59.50 |
| Hammer throw details | Ali Al-Zinkawi Kuwait | 70.62 | Hiroaki Doi Japan | 70.11 | Dilshod Nazarov Tajikistan | 69.90 |
| Javelin throw details | Li Rongxiang China | 79.25 | Yukifumi Murakami Japan | 77.04 | Sergey Voynov Uzbekistan | 76.09 |
| Decathlon details | Vitaliy Smirnov Uzbekistan | 8021 pts CR | Pavel Dubitskiy Kazakhstan | 7604 pts | Pavel Andreev Uzbekistan | 7487 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 |
| 100 metres details | Lyubov Perepelova Uzbekistan | 11.43 | Qin Wangping China | 11.56 | Guzel Khubbieva Uzbekistan | 11.57 |
| 200 metres details | Lyubov Perepelova Uzbekistan | 23.11 | Chen Lisha China | 23.39 | Guzel Khubbieva Uzbekistan | 23.63 |
| 400 metres details | Yin Yin Khine Myanmar | 52.96 | Bu Fanfang China | 52.97 | Svetlana Bodritskaya Kazakhstan | 53.19 |
| 800 metres details | Yin Yin Khine Myanmar | 2:01.96 | Tatyana Roslanova Kazakhstan | 2:02.41 | Zamira Amirova Uzbekistan | 2:02.84 |
| 1500 metres details | Tatyana Borisova Kyrgyzstan | 4:15.97 | Madhuri A. Singh India | 4:17.87 | Svetlana Lukasheva Kazakhstan | 4:23.12 |
| 5000 metres details | Sun Yingjie China | 15:48.42 | Yuko Manabe Japan | 15:59.71 | Hiromi Fujii Japan | 16:31.18 |
| 10,000 metres details | Sun Yingjie China | 32:37.04 | Sujeewa Nilmini Jayasena Sri Lanka | 34:46.99 | Lashram Aruna Devi India | 37:23.28 |
| 100 metres hurdles details | Su Yiping China | 13.09 | Feng Yun China | 13.25 | Trecia Roberts Thailand | 13.29 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Huang Xiaoxiao China | 55.66 | Natalya Torshina Kazakhstan | 55.88 | Wassana Winatho Thailand | 56.40 |
| 20 kilometres walk details | Ha Mingming China | 1:31:47 CR | Zou Ying China | 1:32:07 | Yuan Yufang Malaysia | 1:32:25 NR |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | Thailand Nongnuch Sanrat Sangwan Jaksunin Jutamass Tawoncharoen Orranut Klomdee | 44.25 =NR | Japan | 44.56 | China | 44.97 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | China Chen Lisha Zhang Xiaoyuan Huang Xiaoxiao Bu Fanfang | 3:31.30 | Kazakhstan Olga Tsurikova Tatyana Roslanova Olga Tereshkova Svetlana Bodritskaya | 3:32.82 | India Pinki Pramanik Manjeet Kaur Sathi Geetha Kalpana Reddy | 3:35.34 |
| High jump details | Bui Thi Nhung Vietnam | 1.88 | Miyuki Aoyama Japan | 1.84 | Noengrothai Chaipetch Thailand | 1.84 |
| Pole vault details | Wu Sha China | 4.20 =CR | Takayo Kondo Japan | 4.10 | Ni Putu Desy Margawati Indonesia | 3.90 |
| Long jump details | Anastasiya Zhuravlyeva Uzbekistan | 6.53 | Liang Shuyan China | 6.51 | Lerma Gabito Philippines | 6.50 |
| Triple jump details | Huang Qiuyan China | 14.39 CR | Anastasiya Zhuravlyeva Uzbekistan | 14.21 | Zhang Hao China | 13.63 |
| Shot put details | Li Meiju China | 18.45 | Li Fengfeng China | 18.07 | Chinatsu Mori Japan | 17.80 |
| Discus throw details | Li Yanfeng China | 61.87 | Neelam Jaswant Singh India | 58.64 | Xu Shaoyang China | 58.13 |
| Hammer throw details | Gu Yuan China | 70.78 | Liu Yinghui China | 66.66 | Masumi Aya Japan | 64.04 |
| Javelin throw details | Ma Ning China | 57.05 | Chang Jung-Yeon South Korea | 53.23 | Anne Maheshi De Silva Sri Lanka | 50.18 |
| Heptathlon details | Irina Naumenko Kazakhstan | 5845 pts | Yuki Nakata Japan | 5723 pts | Shen Shengfei China | 5633 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 | China | 19 | 10 | 8 | 37 |
| 2 | Qatar | 6 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 3 | Uzbekistan | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| 4 | Kuwait | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Kazakhstan | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
| 6 | Myanmar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Japan | 1 | 10 | 10 | 21 |
| 8 | Saudi Arabia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | Thailand | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | Bahrain | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Sri Lanka | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Vietnam | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | India | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 15 | South Korea | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 16 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | Iran | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 | Malaysia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | Philippines | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 20 | Indonesia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | Tajikistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (21 entries) | Totals (21 entries) | 43 | 43 | 43 | 129 |

## Participating nations

* Bahrain
* Brunei
* Bangladesh
* China
* Chinese Taipei
* Hong Kong
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Japan
* Kazakhstan
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Laos
* Lebanon
* Macau
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Mongolia
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Palestine
* Philippines
* Qatar
* Saudi Arabia
* Singapore
* South Korea
* Sri Lanka
* Syria
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
* Timor-Leste
* Uzbekistan
* Vietnam
* Yemen