Athletics at the 1974 Asian Games
Venue	Aryamehr Stadium
Dates	9–15 September
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The athletics at the 1974 Asian Games were held in Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran, Iran. This was the first time that China competed in these games and also the last time that Israel competed.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	10.42	Masahide Jinno  Japan	10.55	Suchart Jairsuraparp  Thailand	10.59
200 m details	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	21.09 GR	Takao Ishizawa  Japan	21.60	Nusrat Iqbal Sahi  Pakistan	21.79
400 m details	Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa  Sri Lanka	46.21 GR	Reza Entezari  Iran	46.69	Yoshiharu Tomonaga  Japan	46.77
800 m details	Sriram Singh  India	1:47.57 GR	Reza Entezari  Iran	1:48.50	Muhammad Siddique  Pakistan	1:48.64
1500 m details	Muhammad Younis  Pakistan	3:49.30	Susumu Noro  Japan	3:51.17	Park Suk-kwan  South Korea	3:52.74
5000 m details	Shivnath Singh  India	14:20.50 GR	Yuval Wischnitzer  Israel	14:21.50	Kenichi Ozawa  Japan	14:22.15
10,000 m details	Yasunori Hamada  Japan	30:49.87	Shivnath Singh  India	30:51.61	Makoto Hattori  Japan	31:03.84
110 m hurdles details	Cui Lin  China	14.26 GR	Ishtiaq Mubarak  Malaysia	14.49	Nasser Sultan  Iraq	14.63
400 m hurdles details	Talib Faisal  Iraq	51.69 GR	Abdullatif Abbas  Kuwait	52.32	Lehmber Singh  India	52.49
3000 m steeplechase details	Takaharu Koyama  Japan	8:57.95	Gurmej Singh  India	9:04.00	Li Wenliang  China	9:06.10
4 × 100 m relay details	Thailand Kanoksak Chaisanont Anat Ratanapol Somsak Boontud Suchart Jairsuraparp	40.14 GR	China Cui Lin Feng Zhenren Yu Weili Luo Guoming	40.20	Singapore Ong Yoke Phee Tan Say Leong Yeo Kian Chai C. Kunalan	40.34
4 × 400 m relay details	Sri Lanka Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa Sunil Gunawardene Kosala Sahabandu Appunidage Premachandra	3:07.40 GR	India Lehmber Singh Sriram Singh Sucha Singh P. C. Punappa	3:08.73	Iran Fakhroddin Alamshah Reza Entezari Houshang Arshadi Ghasem Koveitipour	3:10.10
High jump details	Teymour Ghiasi  Iran	2.21 GR	Ni Zhiqin  China	2.16	Yoshikazu Okuda  Japan	2.08
Pole vault details	Yasuhiro Kigawa  Japan	5.00 GR	Cai Zhangxi  China	5.00 =GR	Jiang Yubin  China	4.85
Long jump details	T. C. Yohannan  India	8.07 GR	Takayoshi Kawagoe  Japan	7.77	Satish Pillai  India	7.58
Triple jump details	Toshiaki Inoue  Japan	16.45 GR	Mohinder Singh Gill  India	16.25	Faramarz Asef  Iran	15.97
Shot put details	Jalal Keshmiri  Iran	18.04 GR	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	17.94	Jugraj Singh  India	17.64
Discus throw details	Jalal Keshmiri  Iran	56.82 GR	Praveen Kumar  India	53.64	Salman Hesam  Iran	52.32
Hammer throw details	Shigenobu Murofushi  Japan	66.54	Nirmal Singh Grewal  India	60.02	Kim Myong-geun  North Korea	59.80
Javelin throw details	Toshihiro Yamada  Japan	76.12 GR	Minoru Onda  Japan	76.04	Zhang Bao  China	73.64
Decathlon details	Vijay Singh Chauhan  India	7375 GR	Junichi Onizuka  Japan	7294	Suresh Babu  India	6836

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Esther Roth  Israel	11.90	He Zufen  China	12.10	Keiko Yamada  Japan	12.42
200 m details	Esther Roth  Israel	23.79	He Zufen  China	24.41	Emiko Konishi  Japan	24.94
400 m details	Chee Swee Lee  Singapore	55.08 GR	Nobuko Kawano  Japan	55.59	Junaidah Aman  Malaysia	55.78
800 m details	Nobuko Kawano  Japan	2:08.05	Miyako Inoue  Japan	2:08.99	Li Dan  China	2:09.89
1500 m details	Song Meihua  China	4:28.68	Yang Yanying  China	4:29.17	Hana Shezifi  Israel	4:31.00
100 m hurdles details	Esther Roth  Israel	13.31 GR	Tomomi Hayashida  Japan	14.28	Miyuki Iioka  Japan	14.32
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Keiko Yamada Emiko Konishi Sayo Yamoto Tomomi Hayashida	46.62 GR	China Meng Yuqiong He Zufen Xiao Zinong Kang Yueli	46.76	Singapore Eng Chiew Quay Chee Swee Lee Glory Barnabas Maimoon Azlan	47.10
4 × 400 m relay details	Japan Yuko Kitabayashi Motsuko Otsuka Miyako Inoue Nobuko Kawano	3:43.52 GR	Singapore Glory Barnabas Lee Tai Jong Maimoon Azlan Chee Swee Lee	3:43.85	Burma Than Than Mar Mar Min Nwe Nwe Yee Than Than Htay	3:45.06
High jump details	Orit Abramovitz  Israel	1.78 GR	Mikiko Sone  Japan	1.78 =GR	Wu Fushan  China	1.74
Long jump details	Xiao Jieping  China	6.31 GR	Kang Yueli  China	6.26	Hiroko Yamashita  Japan	6.15
Shot put details	Paik Ok-ja  South Korea	16.28 GR	Gao Yukui  China	15.22	Kayoko Hayashi  Japan	15.06
Discus throw details	Gao Yukui  China	51.84 GR	Dashzevegiin Namjilmaa  Mongolia	47.32	Matsuko Takahashi  Japan	47.04
Javelin throw details	Zhou Maojia  China	53.06 GR	Mieko Takasaka  Japan	52.02	Keiko Myogai  Japan	47.96
Pentathlon details	Kyoko Shimizu  Japan	3890	Sun Yuxiang  China	3849	Zhang Yumei  China	3783

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	10	11	11	32
2	China (CHN)	5	10	6	21
3	India (IND)	4	7	4	15
4	Israel (ISR)	4	1	1	6
5	Iran (IRN)	3	2	3	8
6	Thailand (THA)	3	0	1	4
7	Sri Lanka (SRI)	2	0	0	2
8	Singapore (SIN)	1	1	2	4
9	Pakistan (PAK)	1	0	2	3
10	Iraq (IRQ)	1	0	1	2
	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
12	Malaysia (MAL)	0	1	1	2
13	Kuwait (KUW)	0	1	0	1
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	0	1
15	Burma (BIR)	0	0	1	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		35	35	35	105