2012 Asian Indoor Championships
Dates	18–19 February
Host city	Hangzhou, China
Events	25
Participation	195 athletes from 26 nations
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The 2012 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was the fifth edition of the international indoor athletics event between Asian nations. It took place at the Vocational and Technical College Athletics Hall in Hangzhou, China, between 18 and 19 February. A total of 26 nations sent athletes to compete at the championships, which featured 25 track and field events.^[1]

China topped the medal table with 14 golds. Iran was second with three golds while Bahrain finished third with three golds.

The competition featured two Asian indoor records. Mutaz Essa Barshim broke the men's high jump record with a clearance of 2.37 m, bettering Zhu Jianhua's 26-year-ol standard. Li Ling beat the women's Asian indoor record in the pole vault with a mark of 4.50 m.^[2]

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Reza Ghasemi  Iran	6.68	Lai Chun Ho  Hong Kong	6.78	Hassan Heidarpour  Iran	6.78
400 m	Reza Bouazar  Iran	48.09	Chang Pengben  China	48.47	Amin Ghelichi  Iran	48.64
800 m	Mohammad Al-Azemi  Kuwait	1:47.37 CR NR	Adnan Taes  Iraq	1:49.42 NR	Yang Xiaofei  China	1:50.32
1500 m	Mohammed Shaween  Saudi Arabia	3:57.84 NR	Mohamed Al-Garni  Qatar	3:58.04	Omar Al-Rasheedi  Kuwait	3:59.83
3000 m	Bilisuma Shugi  Bahrain	7:43.88	Mohamed Al-Garni  Qatar	7:46.17	Alemu Bekele  Bahrain	7:48.04
60 m hurdles	Jiang Fan  China	7.74 CR	Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel  Kuwait	7.82 NR	Ji Wei  China	7.85
4 × 400 m relay	Event cancelled due to lack of entries
High jump	Mutaz Essa Barshim  Qatar	2.37 m AR	Zhang Guowei  China	2.28 m	Majed Al-Din Ghazal  Syria	2.24 m
Pole vault	Yang Yansheng  China	5.50 m	Zhang Wei  China	5.40 m	Junya Nagata  Japan	5.30 m
Long jump	Li Jinzhe  China	7.98 m	Rikiya Saruyama  Japan	7.63 m	Kumaravel Premkumar  India	7.62 m
Triple jump	Dong Bin  China	17.01 m CR	Cao Shuo  China	17.01 m CR	Li Yanxi  China	16.23
Shot put	Zhang Jun  China	19.78 m CR	Wang Guangfu  China	19.40 m	Wang Like  China	19.09 m
Heptathlon	Dmitriy Karpov  Kazakhstan	5928 pts CR	Keisuke Ushiro  Japan	5590 pts	Hiromasa Tanaka  Japan	5033 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		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Wei Yongli  China	7.37	Tao Yujia  China	7.40	Viktoriya Zyabkina  Kazakhstan	7.44
400 m	Maryam Tousi  Iran	53.85 NR	Chen Jingwen  China	54.17	Tang Xiaoyin  China	55.06
800 m	Zhao Jing  China	2:04.15	Genzeb Shumi  Bahrain	2:05.96	Song Tingting  China	2:11.32
1500 m	Genzeb Shumi  Bahrain	4:15.85	Betlhem Belayneh  United Arab Emirates	4:16.97 NR	Liu Fang  China	4:18.32
3000 m	Shitaye Eshete  Bahrain	8:49.27 CR NR	Betlhem Belayneh  United Arab Emirates	8:53.56 NR	Tejitu Daba  Bahrain	8:53.75
60 m hurdles	Wu Shuijiao  China	8.24 CR	Natalya Ivoninskaya  Kazakhstan	8.29	Sun Yawei  China	8.35
4 × 400 m relay	China Chen Yanmei Tang Xiaoyin Cheng Chong Chen Jingwen	3:40.34	Kazakhstan Natalya Tukova Yekaterina Yermak Margarita Kudinova Alexandra Kuzina	3:44.85	Kyrgyzstan Olesia Korovina Anna Bulanova Ksenia Kadkina Iuliia Khodykina	3:56.11 NR
High jump	Zheng Xingjuan  China	1.92 m	Wang Yang  China	1.88 m	Duong Thi Viet Anh  Vietnam	1.84 m
Pole vault	Li Ling  China	4.50 m AR	Choi Yun-Hee  South Korea	4.30 m	Megumi Nakada  Japan	4.15 m
Long jump	Lu Minjia  China	6.33 m	Anastassiya Kudinova  Kazakhstan	6.23 m	Wang Wupin  China	6.22 m
Triple jump	Xie Limei  China	14.06 m	Li Yanmei  China	13.73 m	Lyudmila Grankovskaya  Kazakhstan	13.22 m
Shot put	Liu Xiangrong  China	18.37 m CR	Leila Rajabi  Iran	17.51 m	Meng Qianqian  China	16.13 m
Pentathlon	Irina Karpova  Kazakhstan	4050 pts	Duong Thi Viet Anh  Vietnam	3812 pts	Sepideh Tavakkoli  Iran	3775 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 (CHN)	14	9	10	33
2	Iran (IRI)	3	1	3	7
3	Bahrain (BHR)	3	1	2	6
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	3	2	7
5	Qatar (QAT)	1	2	0	3
6	Kuwait (KUW)	1	1	1	3
7	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	1	0	0	1
8	Japan (JPN)	0	2	3	5
9	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	0	2	0	2
10	Vietnam (VIE)	0	1	1	2
11	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	0	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	1	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	0	1
14	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		25	25	25	75

Participating nations

A total of 26 nations were represented by athletes competing at the 2012 championships