18th Asian Junior Athletics Championships
Dates	7–10 June
Host city	Gifu, Japan
Venue	Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium
Level	Junior (under-20)
Events	44
Participation	437 athletes from 35 nations
Records set	6 championship records
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The 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the 18th edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association and the Japan Association of Athletics Federations. Athletes born between 1999 and 2002 competed in 44 events, divided evenly between the sexes. The competition took place over four days from 7–10 June at Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium in Gifu, Japan.^[1]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Host nation)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan*	14	15	12	41
2	China	11	8	5	24
3	India	5	2	10	17
4	Chinese Taipei	4	5	3	12
5	Sri Lanka	3	4	2	9
6	Qatar	3	3	0	6
7	Iran	1	1	3	5
8	Indonesia	1	1	0	2
9	Iraq	1	0	1	2
	Vietnam	1	0	1	2
11	South Korea	0	3	1	4
12	Kazakhstan	0	1	2	3
13	Thailand	0	1	1	2
14	Malaysia	0	0	2	2
15	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		44	44	44	132

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Lalu Muhammad Zohri  Indonesia	10.27	Daisuke Miyamoto  Japan	10.35	Muhammad Ismail  Malaysia	10.46
200 metres	Wei Tai-sheng  Chinese Taipei	21.05	Shin Min-kyu  South Korea	21.06	Justin Junpei Tsukamoto  Japan	21.09 PB
400 metres	Aruna Dharshana  Sri Lanka	45.79 CR NJR	Pasindu Kodikara  Sri Lanka	46.96	Syuji Mori  Japan	47.08
800 metres	Anu Kumar  India	1:54.11	Abdolrahim Dorzadeh  Iran	1:54.23	Fuki Torii  Japan	1:54.55
1500 metres	Saife Saifeldin  Qatar	3:49.30	Reito Hanzawa  Japan	3:49.66	Hussein Lafta  Iraq	3:49.75
5000 metres	Ajeet Kumar  India	14:15.24 PB	Ren Tazawa  Japan	14:17.26	Amir Zamanpour  Iran	14:25.25 PB
10,000 metres	Suolang Cairen  China	30:01.51 PB	Yuhi Nakaya  Japan	30:04.24	Kartik Kumar  India	30:05.30 PB
110 m hurdles	Lu Hao-hua  Chinese Taipei	13.61 PB	Rikuto Higuchi  Japan	13.71	David Yefremov  Kazakhstan	13.81
400 m hurdles	Yusuke Shirao  Japan	50.52	Bassem Hemeida  Qatar	50.55	Mehdi Pirjahan  Iran	51.18 PB
3000 m steeplechase	Saife Saifeldin  Qatar	8:51.97	Takumi Yoshida  Japan	8:52.79	Nguyễn Trung Cường  Vietnam	8:59.32 PB
10,000 m walk	Gong Hao  China	42:47.98	Sho Sakazaki  Japan	42:53.56	Kim Min-gyu  South Korea	43:06.89
4 × 100 m relay	Yuki Takagi Daisuke Miyamoto Satoru Fukushima Justin Junpei Tsukamoto  Japan	39.65	Lin Yu-tang Wei Tai-sheng Lu Hao-hua Yeh Shou-po  Chinese Taipei	39.72	Prajwal Ravi Akash Kumar Nithin Balakumar Gurindervir Singh  India	40.75
4 × 400 m relay	Pabasara Niku Pasindu Kodikara Ravishka Indrajith Aruna Dharshana  Sri Lanka	3:08.70	Potchara Petchkaew Thipthanet Sripha Yanakorn Munrot Phitchaya Sunthonthuam  Thailand	3:09.20	Luqmanual Khairul Akmal Muhammad Suhaimi Safwan Saifuddin Abdul Roslan  Malaysia	3:09.60
High jump	Kyohei Tomori  Japan	2.16 m PB	Nuh Anuh  Qatar	2.14 m	Zhang Hao  China	2.12 m
Pole vault	Syunto Ozaki  Japan	5.20 m PB	Idan Richsan  Indonesia	5.15 m	Kasinpob Chomchanad  Thailand	5.00 m
Long jump	Yugo Sakai  Japan	7.61 m	Zhou Keqi  China	7.54 m	M Sreeshankar  India	7.47 m
Triple jump	Kamalraj Kanagaraj  India	15.75 m	Yu Gyumin  South Korea	15.56 m PB	Shunsuke Izumiya  Japan	15.47 m
Shot put	Moaaz Ibrahim  Qatar	18.57 m PB	Yeo Jin-seong  South Korea	18.25 m	Ashish Bhalothia  India	18.22 m PB
Discus throw	Hossein Rasouli  Iran	62.29 m CR	Mohamed Ibrahim Moaaz  Qatar	61.50 m	Kosei Yamashita  Japan	56.51 m
Hammer throw	Ashish Jakhar  India	76.86 m PB	Damneet Singh  India	74.08 m PB	Masanobu Hattori  Japan	69.34 m
Javelin throw	Liu Zhekai  China	70.53 m	Masafumi Azechi  Japan	68.76 m	Kentaro Nakamura  Japan	65.36 m
Decathlon	Wang Chen-yu  Chinese Taipei	7200 pts PB	Wang Yu-shiang  Chinese Taipei	6704 pts PB	Rin Haraguchi  Japan	6693 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Feng Lulu  China	11.68	Amasha De Silva  Sri Lanka	11.71 PB	Mei Kodama  Japan	11.98
200 metres	Tao Yanan  China	24.01	Amasha De Silva  Sri Lanka	24.47 PB	Jisna Mathew  India	24.48
400 metres	Jisna Mathew  India	53.26 PB	Dilshi Kumarasinghe  Sri Lanka	54.03 PB	Yang Jui-hsuan  Chinese Taipei	54.74
800 metres	Ayaka Kawata  Japan	2:04.14	Ayano Shiomi  Japan	2:04.50	Dilshi Kumarasinghe  Sri Lanka	2:04.53 PB NJR
1500 metres	Ririka Hironaka  Japan	4:17.62 PB	Tomomi Takamatsu  Japan	4:21.65	Durga Deore  India	4:24.56
3000 metres	Nozomi Tanaka  Japan	9:04.36 CR	Yuna Wada  Japan	9:14.13	Liu Fang  China	9:35.69
5000 metres	Mikuni Yada  Japan	16:31.65	Niu Lihua  China	16:55.54	Poonam Sonune  India	17:03.75
100 m hurdles	Yuiri Yoshida  Japan	13.45 CR PB	Lin Yuwei  China	13.55 PB	Lin Hsiao-hui  Chinese Taipei	13.61 PB
400 m hurdles	Kasumi Yoshida  Japan	58.43	Yang Jui-hsuan  Chinese Taipei	58.89 PB	Natsumi Murakami  Japan	58.92
3000 m steeplechase	Parami Wasanthi Maristela  Sri Lanka	10:21.54 PB NJR	Tian Wanhua  China	10:28.24	Yuka Nosue  Japan	10:38.30
10,000 m walk	Ma Li  China	45:20.59 CR	Nanako Fuhii  Japan	45:24.35 PB	Li Wenxiu  China	47:38.46
4 × 100 m relay	Lin Yuwei Zhu Cuiwei Tao Yanan Feng Lulu  China	45.06	Yuiri Yoshida Miku Yamada Yuri Okumura Mei Kodama  Japan	45.95	Leung Wing Hei Wu Yi Lam Leung Kwan Yi Chan Pui Kei  Hong Kong	47.00
4 × 400 m relay	Ayano Shiomi Kasumi Yoshida Natsumi Murakami Ayaka Kawata  Japan	3:38.20 CR	Subha Venkatesan Rachna Nidhi Singh Jisna Mathew  India	3:41.11	Ishara Adittya Sachini Divyanjali Amasha De Silva Dilshi Kumarasinghe  Sri Lanka	3:45.16
High jump	Maryam Abdulelah  Iraq	1.80 m	Tsai Ching-jung  Chinese Taipei	1.78 m	Abhinaya Shetty  India	1.75 m PB
Pole vault	Wu Zuocheng  China	4.00 m	Anastasya Ermakova  Kazakhstan	3.60 m	Wu Chia-ju  Chinese Taipei	3.60 m
Long jump	Ayaka Kora  Japan	6.44 m PB	Zhong Jiawei  China	6.44 m	Mirei Yoshioka  Japan	5.92 m
Triple jump	Thi Ngoc Ha Vu  Vietnam	13.22 m	Pan Youqi  China	13.21 m	Priyadarshini Suresh  India	13.09 m PB
Shot put	Zhang Linru  China	16.05 m	Honoka Oyama  Japan	15.54 m PB	Guo Pei-yu  Chinese Taipei	14.76 m
Discus throw	Yang Huanhuan  China	51.53 m	Yin Yuanyuan  China	51.17 m	Arpandeep Bajwa  India	46.57 m
Hammer throw	Zhou Mengyuan  China	64.81 m	Li Jiangyan  China	61.44 m PB	Reyhaneh Arani  Iran	55.46 m PB
Javelin throw	Li Hui-jun  Chinese Taipei	55.36 m	Sae Takemoto  Japan	54.16 m	Dai Qianqian  China	53.29 m
Heptathlon	Karin Odama  Japan	5133 pts	Chen Cai-juan  Chinese Taipei	4925 pts	Diana Geints  Kazakhstan	4804 pts PB