Athletics at the 1966 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	10–15 December
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Athletics was contested at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand from December 10 to December 15.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Mani Jegathesan  Malaysia	10.5	C. Kunalan  Singapore	10.5	Hideo Iijima  Japan	10.5
200 m details	Mani Jegathesan  Malaysia	21.5	Ajmer Singh  India	21.5	Thambu Krishnan  Malaysia	21.6
400 m details	Ajmer Singh  India	47.1	Yoshinori Sakai  Japan	47.4	Masami Yoshida  Japan	47.5
800 m details	Bhogeswar Baruah  India	1:49.4 GR	Subramaniam Ramasamy  Malaysia	1:49.5	Mamoru Morimoto  Japan	1:49.6
1500 m details	Keisuke Sawaki  Japan	3:47.3 GR	Subramaniam Ramasamy  Malaysia	3:48.0	Satsuo Iwashita  Japan	3:48.1
5000 m details	Keisuke Sawaki  Japan	14:22.0 GR	Kazuo Tsuchiya  Japan	14:23.1	Lucien Rosa  Ceylon	14:56.0
10,000 m details	Kazuo Tsuchiya  Japan	30:27.8	Sunao Shirai  Japan	30:36.8	Lucien Rosa  Ceylon	31:06.6
110 m hurdles details	Ghulam Raziq  Pakistan	14.4	Yoshinobu Hamada  Japan	14.5	Ishtiaq Mubarak  Malaysia	14.7
400 m hurdles details	Kiyoo Yui  Japan	51.7 GR	Kazuhiko Itagaki  Japan	52.3	Nathan Andyappan  Malaysia	53.0
3000 m steeplechase details	Taketsugu Saruwatari  Japan	8:53.6 GR	Ahmad Mirhosseini  Iran	8:56.5	Nobuyoshi Matsuda  Japan	9:05.2
4 × 100 m relay details	Malaysia Thambu Krishnan Mohd Ariffin Ahmad Rajalingam Gunaratnam Mani Jegathesan	40.6 GR	Indonesia Soepardi Agus Sugiri Bambamg Wahjudi Jootje Pesak Oroh	41.0	Philippines Rogelio Onofre Remegio Vista Arnulfo Valles William Mordeno	41.3
4 × 400 m relay details	Japan Toru Honda Masami Yoshida Yoshinori Sakai Kiyoo Yui	3:09.1 GR	Malaysia Victor Asirvatham Rengan Pakkri Nathan Andyappan Thambu Krishnan	3:13.1	Singapore Bava Natahar Ho Mun Cheong Gunasena Migale C. Kunalan	3:13.4
Marathon details	Kenji Kimihara  Japan	2:33:23	Morio Shigematsu  Japan	2:35:04	Lee Sang-hoon  South Korea	2:40:56
High jump details	Bhim Singh  India	2.05	Osamu Shimizu  Japan	2.03	Teymour Ghiasi  Iran	2.00
Pole vault details	Tetsuo Hirota  Japan	4.70 GR	Yoshizo Uryu  Japan	4.60	Hong Sang-pyo  South Korea	4.40
Long jump details	Hiroomi Yamada  Japan	7.48	Takayuki Okazaki  Japan	7.39	Su Wen-ho  Republic of China	7.31
Triple jump details	Kosei Gushiken  Japan	15.61	Satoshi Shimo  Japan	15.54	Labh Singh  India	15.49
Shot put details	Joginder Singh  India	16.22 GR	Yoshihisa Ishida  Japan	16.13	Jalal Keshmiri  Iran	16.02
Discus throw details	Praveen Kumar  India	49.62 GR	Jalal Keshmiri  Iran	49.30	Balkar Singh  India	47.64
Hammer throw details	Takeo Sugawara  Japan	62.90	Shigenobu Murofushi  Japan	60.02	Praveen Kumar  India	57.18
Javelin throw details	Nashatar Singh Sidhu  Malaysia	72.92	Takeshi Ikeda  Japan	68.24	Yumio Miyoshi  Japan	67.86
Decathlon details	Wu Ah-min  Republic of China	7003	Yukio Nogami  Japan	6613	Hiroomi Yamada  Japan	6553

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Miho Sato  Japan	12.3	Ritsuko Sukegawa  Japan	12.4	Debra Marcus  Israel	12.5
200 m details	Debra Marcus  Israel	25.3	Miyoko Tsujishita  Japan	25.3	Kishiko Ikeda  Japan	25.7
400 m details	Mary Rajamani  Malaysia	56.3 GR	Han Myung-hee  South Korea	57.5	Yasuyo Mishima  Japan	57.7
800 m details	Hana Shezifi  Israel	2:10.5 GR	Yoko Miyamoto  Japan	2:12.7	Yasuyo Mishima  Japan	2:13.6
80 m hurdles details	Ritsuko Sukegawa  Japan	11.2 =GR	Takako Abe  Japan	11.4	Manjit Walia  India	11.4
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Ritsuko Sukegawa Miho Sato Kishiko Ikeda Miyoko Tsujishita	47.1 GR	Republic of China Chi Cheng Yeh Chu-mei Tien Ah-mei Huang Pi-yun	47.8	Malaysia Mary Rajamani Cheryl Dorall Jacqueline Kleinman Rajemah Sheikh Ahmad	48.8
High jump details	Mami Takeda  Japan	1.60 =GR	Lolita Lagrosas  Philippines	1.58	Cheong Wai Hing  Singapore	1.55
Long jump details	Chi Cheng  Republic of China	5.95 =GR	Emiko Komaru  Japan	5.83	Christine Forage  India	5.69
Shot put details	Ryoko Sugiyama  Japan	14.48 GR	Yuko Sawada  Japan	13.92	Wu Jin-yun  Republic of China	12.83
Discus throw details	Josephine de la Viña  Philippines	47.58 GR	Yuko Tsunoda  Japan	42.34	Han Dong-si  South Korea	41.08
Javelin throw details	Misako Katayama  Japan	49.44 GR	Sachiko Senzaki  Japan	42.50	Marcelina Alonso  Philippines	40.90
Pentathlon details	Michiko Okamoto  Japan	4468 GR	Yeh Chu-mei  Republic of China	3951	Lolita Lagrosas  Philippines	3889

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	18	22	10	50
2	Malaysia (MAL)	5	3	4	12
3	India (IND)	5	1	5	11
4	Republic of China (ROC)	2	2	2	6
5	Israel (ISR)	2	0	1	3
6	Philippines (PHI)	1	1	3	5
7	Pakistan (PAK)	1	0	0	1
8	Iran (IRN)	0	2	2	4
9	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	3	4
10	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	2	3
11	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	0	1
12	Ceylon (CEY)	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 entries)		34	34	34	102