# 2018 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 2018 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was the eighth edition of the international indoor athletics event between Asian nations. It took place at the Aftab Enghelab Complex in Tehran, Iran, between 1 and 3 February.
Kazakhstan topped the medal table, winning 12 medals including 7 gold, ahead of the host nation Iran, and Qatar.

## Results
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres | Hassan Taftian (IRI) | 6.51 CR NR | Tosin Ogunode (QAT) | 6.63 | Elakkiyadasan Kanadasan (IND) | 6.67 NR |
| 400 metres | Abdalelah Haroun (QAT) | 46.37 | Yousef Karam (KUW) | 46.66 | Mohamed Nasir Abbas (QAT) | 46.76 |
| 800 metres | Abubaker Haydar Abdalla (QAT) | 1:51.98 | Pejman Yarvali (IRI) | 1:52.80 | Ebrahim Al-Zofairi (KUW) | 1:52.97 |
| 1500 metres | Amir Moradi (IRI) | 3:53.78 | Yaser Salem Bagharab (QAT) | 3:53.92 | Ali Fahimi (IRI) | 3:54.00 |
| 3000 metres | Hossein Keyhani (IRI) | 8:37.68 | Yaser Salem Bagharab (QAT) | 8:38.02 | Homayoun Hemmati (IRI) | 8:38.97 |
| 60 metres hurdles | Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel (KUW) | 7.71 | Ceng Jianhang (CHN) | 7.74 | Hideki Omuro (JPN) | 7.81 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Qatar Abderrahaman Samba Mohamed Nasir Abbas Mohamed El Nour Abdalelah Haroun | 3:10.08 | Kazakhstan Andrey Sokolov Sergey Zaykov Dmitriy Koblov Mikhail Litvin | 3:11.68 NR | Iran Ali Khadivar Reza Kashef Mehdi Rahimi Sajjad Hashemi | 3:11.74 NR |
| High jump | Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) | 2.38 | Keivan Ghanbarzadeh (IRI) | 2.15 | Mahamat Alamine Hamdi (QAT) | 2.15 |
| Pole vault | Nikita Filippov (KAZ) | 5.20 | Mohammad Baniadam (IRI) | 5.20 | Ali Al-Sabaghah (KUW) | 5.00 |
| Long jump | Shi Yuhao (CHN) | 8.16 | Lin Hung-min (TPE) | 7.72 | Janaka Wimalasiri (SRI) | 7.67 |
| Triple jump | Khaled Saeed Al-Subaie (KUW) | 16.26 | Kamalraj Kanagaraj (IND) | 16.23 | Vahid Seddigh (IRI) | 15.96 |
| Shot put | Ali Samari (IRI) | 19.42 | Toor Taijinder Pal Singh (IND) | 19.18 | Wu Jiaxing (CHN) | 18.81 |
| Heptathlon | Majed Alzaid (KUW) | 5228 | Milad Miri (IRI) | 4842 | Ali Mohebbi (IRI) | 4728 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres | Liang Xiaojing (CHN) | 7.20 CR | Viktoriya Zyabkina (KAZ) | 7.39 | Farzaneh Fasihi (IRI) | 7.44 |
| 400 metres | Svetlana Golendova (KAZ) | 53.28 | Elina Mikhina (KAZ) | 53.49 | Upamalika Walawwe (SRI) | 54.90 |
| 800 metres | Wang Chunyu (CHN) | 2:09.30 | Hu Zhiying (CHN) | 2:10.81 | Nimali Liyanarachchi (SRI) | 2:10.83 |
| 1500 metres | Gayanthika Abeyratne (SRI) | 4:26.83 | Tatyana Neroznak (KAZ) | 4:28.20 | Nguyễn Thị Oanh (VIE) | 4:28.87 |
| 3000 metres | Tatyana Neroznak (KAZ) | 9:33.65 | Gulshanoi Satarova (KGZ) | 9:48.03 | Nguyễn Thị Oanh (VIE) | 9:48.48 |
| 60 metres hurdles | Aigerim Shynazbekova (KAZ) | 8.32 | Elnaz Kompani (IRI) | 8.46 NR | Sara Naddafi (IRI) | 8.87 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Kazakhstan Svetlana Golendova Adelina Akhmetova Viktoriya Zyabkina Elina Mikhina | 3:41.67 | Iran Maryam Mohebbi Faezeh Nesaei Elham Kakoli Zahra Moradi | 3:51.39 NR | Turkmenistan ? ? ? Maria Rozymova | 3:58.81 |
| High jump | Nadiya Dusanova (UZB) | 1.87 | Sepideh Tavakkoli (IRI) | 1.80 | Nadezhda Dubovitskaya (KAZ) | 1.80 |
| Pole vault | Anastasiya Yermakova (KAZ) | 3.70 | Mahsa Mirzatabibi (IRI) | 3.50 | Sara Karimi (IRI) Niloufar Fashkhorani (IRI) | 2.40 |
| Long jump | Bùi Thị Thu Thảo (VIE) | 6.20 | Nayana James (IND) | 6.08 | Neena Varakil (IND) | 6.06 |
| Triple jump | Irina Ektova (KAZ) | 13.79 | Sheena Varkey (IND) | 13.37 | Bùi Thị Thu Thảo (VIE) | 13.22 |
| Shot put | Elena Smolyanova (UZB) | 15.54 | Maryam Norouzi (IRI) | 12.47 | Sana Dadres (IRI) | 11.46 |
| Pentathlon | Sepideh Tavakkoli (IRI) | 4038 NR | Aleksandra Yurkevskaya (UZB) | 3858 | Irina Velihanova (TKM) | 3730 |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Host nation)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Kazakhstan | 7 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| 2 | Iran* | 5 | 9 | 10 | 24 |
| 3 | Qatar | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | China | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Kuwait | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | Uzbekistan | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | Sri Lanka | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 7 | Vietnam | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 9 | India | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 10 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Turkmenistan | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 26 | 26 | 27 | 79 |

## Participating nations

* Afghanistan (2)
* Bangladesh (5)
* China (12)
* Chinese Taipei (2)
* Hong Kong (7)
* India (13)
* Iran (67)
* Iraq (-)
* Japan (6)
* Kazakhstan (25)
* Kuwait (19)
* Kyrgyzstan (5)
* Lebanon (6)
* Macau (5)
* Malaysia (2)
* Oman (5)
* Pakistan (6)
* Qatar (12)
* Sri Lanka (5)
* Turkmenistan (5)
* Uzbekistan (10)
* Vietnam (3)