Athletics at the 1951 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	8–11 March
Nations	11
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Athletics was contested at the 1951 Asian Games in National Stadium, New Delhi, India from 8 March to 11 March.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Lavy Pinto  India	10.8 =GR	Toshihiro Ohashi  Japan	11.0	Tomio Hosoda  Japan	11.1
200 m details	Lavy Pinto  India	22.0 GR	Marian Gabriel  India	22.5	Tomio Hosoda  Japan	22.6
400 m details	Eitaro Okano  Japan	50.7 GR	A. S. Bakshi  India	50.8	Govind Singh  India	51.4
800 m details	Ranjit Singh  India	1:59.3 GR	Kulwant Singh  India	1:59.7	Kikuo Moriya  Japan	2:00.6
1500 m details	Nikka Singh  India	4:04.1 GR	Susumu Takahashi  Japan	4:04.4	Kikuo Moriya  Japan	4:05.4
5000 m details	Ali Baghbanbashi  Iran	15:54.2 GR	Pritam Singh  India	15:57.8	Soichi Tamoi  Japan	15:59.0
10,000 m details	Soichi Tamoi  Japan	33:49.3 GR	Ryosuke Takasugi  Japan	34:32.0	Gurbachan Singh  India	34:58.8
110 m hurdles details	Ng Liang Chiang  Singapore	15.2 GR	Michitaka Kinami  Japan	15.3	Lloyd Valberg  Singapore	15.7
400 m hurdles details	Eitaro Okano  Japan	54.2 GR	Teja Singh  India	56.9	Ng Liang Chiang  Singapore	57.6
3000 m steeplechase details	Susumu Takahashi  Japan	9:30.4 GR	Ali Baghbanbashi  Iran	9:31.8	Ajit Singh  India	9:37.8
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Masaji Tajima Toshihiro Ohashi Tomio Hosoda Kazuta Ikoma	42.7 GR	India Lavy Pinto Marian Gabriel Ram Swaroop Alfred Shamin	42.8	Philippines Genaro Cabrera Tito Almagro Jovencio Ardina Bernabe Lovina	43.9
4 × 400 m relay details	India A. S. Bakshi Govind Singh Balwant Singh Karan Singh	3:24.2 GR	Japan Yorio Mizuyoke Ichiro Tao Fumio Nishiuchi Eitaro Okano	3:24.4	Philippines Bienvenido Llaneta Bernabe Lovina Tomas Bennet Genaro Cabrera	3:35.8
Marathon details	Chhota Singh  India	2:42:58.6 GR	Katsuo Nishida  Japan	2:49:03.0	Surat Singh Mathur  India	2:53:49.8
10,000 m walk details	Mahabir Prasad  India	52:31.4 GR	Takeo Sato  Japan	52:34.8	Kesar Singh  India	52:54.0
50 km walk details	Bakhtawar Singh  India	5:44:07.4 GR	B. Das  India	5:44:14.6	Takeo Sato  Japan	5:54:47.4
High jump details	Andres Franco  Philippines	1.93 GR	Yukio Ishikawa  Japan	1.91	Maram Sudarmodjo  Indonesia	1.89
Pole vault details	Bunkichi Sawada  Japan	4.11 GR	M. A. Akbar  Ceylon	3.69	Shuhei Nishida  Japan	3.61
Long jump details	Masaji Tajima  Japan	7.14 GR	Baldev Singh  India	6.99	Takashi Aso  Japan	6.98
Triple jump details	Yoshio Iimuro  Japan	15.18 GR	Takashi Aso  Japan	14.25	Hendarsin  Indonesia	14.24
Shot put details	Madan Lal  India	13.78 GR	Sukeo Denda  Japan	13.40	Norimi Sato  Japan	12.83
Discus throw details	Makhan Singh  India	39.92 GR	Norimi Sato  Japan	39.29	Aurelio Amante  Philippines	38.14
Hammer throw details	Fumio Kamamoto  Japan	46.65 GR	Somnath Chopra  India	43.35	Kishen Singh  India	42.32
Javelin throw details	Haruo Nagayasu  Japan	63.97 GR	Parsa Singh  India	50.38	Matulessy  Indonesia	48.99
Decathlon details	Fumio Nishiuchi  Japan	6324 GR	Bunkichi Sawada  Japan	5860	Khurshid Ahmed  India	5099

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Kiyoko Sugimura  Japan	12.6	Roshan Mistry  India	12.8	Kimiko Okamoto  Japan	12.9
200 m details	Kimiko Okamoto  Japan	26.0 GR	Laura Dowdswell  Singapore	27.2	Mary D'Souza  India	28.0
80 m hurdles details	Kyoko Yoneda  Japan	12.8 GR	Laura Dowdswell  Singapore	13.2	Taeko Sato  Japan	13.5
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Kimiko Okamoto Taeko Sato Ayako Yoshikawa Kiyoko Sugimura	51.4 GR	India Mary D'Souza Roshan Mistry Banoo Gulzar Pat Mendonca	51.9	Indonesia Triwulan Darwati Surjowati Lie Djiang Nio	54.4
High jump details	Kyoko Yoneda  Japan	1.49 GR	Taeko Sato  Japan	1.44	Marie Semoes  India	1.37
Long jump details	Kiyoko Sugimura  Japan	5.91 GR	Ayako Yoshikawa  Japan	5.18	Sylvia Gauntlet  India	4.52
Shot put details	Toyoko Yoshino  Japan	11.90 GR	Fumi Kojima  Japan	10.42	Barbara Webster  India	9.02
Discus throw details	Toyoko Yoshino  Japan	42.10 GR	Fumi Kojima  Japan	35.51	Annie Salamun  Indonesia	25.43
Javelin throw details	Toyoko Yoshino  Japan	36.25 GR	Miyoko Kato  Japan	35.33	Barbara Webster  India	26.70

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	20	17	11	48
2	India (IND)	10	12	12	34
3	Singapore (SIN)	1	2	2	5
4	Iran (IRN)	1	1	0	2
5	Philippines (PHI)	1	0	3	4
6	Ceylon (CEY)	0	1	0	1
7	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	5	5
Totals (7 entries)		33	33	33	99

Participating nations