Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Stadium
Dates	6–20 December
Competitors	451 from 37 nations
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The athletics competition at the 1998 Asian Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand between 13 and 20 December.^[1]

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Koji Ito  Japan	10.05	Reanchai Seeharwong  Thailand	10.31	Yasukatsu Otsuki  Japan	10.31
200 m details	Koji Ito  Japan	20.25 GR	Han Chaoming  China	20.70	Sugath Thilakaratne  Sri Lanka	20.83
400 m details	Sugath Thilakaratne  Sri Lanka	44.99	Ibrahim Ismail Muftah  Qatar	45.32	Paramjit Singh  India	45.93
800 m details	Lee Jin-il  South Korea	1:46.56	Kim Soon-hyung  South Korea	1:46.61	Abdulrahman Hassan Abdullah  Qatar	1:47.10
1500 m details	Mohamed Suleiman  Qatar	3:40.03	Kim Soon-hyung  South Korea	3:40.56	Bahadur Prasad  India	3:41.48
5000 m details	Mohamed Suleiman  Qatar	13:55.79	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama  Qatar	13:56.65	Baek Seung-do  South Korea	13:57.11
10,000 m details	Kenji Takao  Japan	28:45.66	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama  Qatar	28:46.55	Gulab Chand  India	29:10.53
110 m hurdles details	Chen Yanhao  China	13.65	Andrey Sklyarenko  Kazakhstan	13.86	Hamad Mubarak Al-Dosari  Qatar	13.99
400 m hurdles details	Hideaki Kawamura  Japan	49.59	Yoshihiko Saito  Japan	49.94	Chen Tien-wen  Chinese Taipei	50.46
3000 m steeplechase details	Yasunori Uchitomi  Japan	8:41.00	Hamid Sajjadi  Iran	8:42.53	Jafar Babakhani  Iran	8:55.04
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Yasukatsu Otsuki Shin Kubota Hiroyasu Tsuchie Koji Ito	38.91 GR	Thailand Niti Piyapan Vissanu Sophanich Worasit Vechaphut Reanchai Seeharwong	39.17	Oman Ahmed Al-Moamari Mohamed Al-Houti Hamoud Al-Dalhami Jahad Al-Sheikh	40.26
4 × 400 m relay details	Japan Jun Osakada Kenji Tabata Masayoshi Kan Shunji Karube	3:01.70 GR	India Lijo David Thottan Purukottam Ramachandran Paramjit Singh Jata Shankar	3:02.62	South Korea Kim Jae-da Kim Yong-hwan Kim Ho Shon Ju-il	3:05.72
Marathon details	Lee Bong-ju  South Korea	2:12:32	Akira Manai  Japan	2:13:25	Kim Jung-won  North Korea	2:16:30
20 km walk details	Yu Guohui  China	1:20:25 GR	Valeriy Borisov  Kazakhstan	1:23:52	Li Zewen  China	1:24:41
50 km walk details	Wang Yinhang  China	3:59:26	Sergey Korepanov  Kazakhstan	3:59:27	Fumio Imamura  Japan	4:06:59
High jump details	Lee Jin-taek  South Korea	2.27	Zhou Zhongge  China	2.23	Shigeki Toyoshima  Japan	2.19
					Loo Kum Zee  Malaysia
Pole vault details	Igor Potapovich  Kazakhstan	5.55	Kim Chul-kyun  South Korea	5.40	Fumiaki Kobayashi  Japan	5.20
Long jump details	Masaki Morinaga  Japan	8.10	Liu Hongning  China	8.05	Abdulrahman Al-Nubi  Qatar	7.99
Triple jump details	Sergey Arzamasov  Kazakhstan	17.00	Duan Qifeng  China	16.98	Nattaporn Namkanha  Thailand	16.42
Shot put details	Liu Hao  China	19.20	Shakti Singh  India	18.81	Sergey Rubtsov  Kazakhstan	18.79
Discus throw details	Li Shaojie  China	64.58 GR	Anil Kumar  India	58.43	Zhang Cunbiao  China	57.28
Hammer throw details	Koji Murofushi  Japan	78.57 GR	Andrey Abduvaliyev  Uzbekistan	77.14	Nikolay Davydov  Kyrgyzstan	68.10
Javelin throw details	Sergey Voynov  Uzbekistan	79.70	Zhang Lianbiao  China	78.58	Li Rongxiang  China	78.57
Decathlon details	Oleg Veretelnikov  Uzbekistan	8278 GR	Ramil Ganiyev  Uzbekistan	7857	Toru Yasui  Japan	7612

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Li Xuemei  China	11.05	Li Yali  China	11.36	Rachita Mistry  India	11.41
200 m details	Damayanthi Dharsha  Sri Lanka	22.48 GR	Li Xuemei  China	22.53	Yan Jiankui  China	23.15
400 m details	Damayanthi Dharsha  Sri Lanka	51.57	Chen Yuxiang  China	52.50	Svetlana Bodritskaya  Kazakhstan	53.00
800 m details	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar  India	2:01.00	Rosa Kutty  India	2:03.34	Wang Yuanping  China	2:04.45
1500 m details	Jyotirmoyee Sikdar  India	4:12.82	Wang Qingfen  China	4:13.19	Sunita Rani  India	4:13.66
5000 m details	Supriyati Sutono  Indonesia	15:54.45 GR	Sunita Rani  India	15:54.47	Michiko Shimizu  Japan	15:55.36
10,000 m details	Yuko Kawakami  Japan	32:01.25	Zheng Guixia  China	32:18.81	Chiemi Takahashi  Japan	32:20.68
100 m hurdles details	Olga Shishigina  Kazakhstan	12.63 GR	Liu Jing  China	12.89	Sriyani Kulawansa  Sri Lanka	13.08
400 m hurdles details	Natalya Torshina  Kazakhstan	55.33	Hsu Pei-ching  Chinese Taipei	55.71	Li Yulian  China	55.93
4 × 100 m relay details	China Liang Yi Yan Jiankui Li Yali Li Xuemei	43.36 GR	Uzbekistan Elena Kviatkovskaya Guzel Khubbieva Lyudmila Dmitriadi Lyubov Perepelova	44.38	Thailand Savitree Srichure Supavadee Khawpeag Reawadee Watanasin Natthaporn Wongtiprat	44.68
4 × 400 m relay details	China Zhang Henghua Chen Yuxiang Li Yulian Zhang Hengyun	3:32.03	India Jincy Phillip Jyotirmoyee Sikdar Rosa Kutty K. M. Beenamol	3:32.20	Kazakhstan Svetlana Badrankova Natalya Torshina Svetlana Kazanina Svetlana Bodritskaya	3:37.16
Marathon details	Naoko Takahashi  Japan	2:21:47 AR	Kim Chang-ok  North Korea	2:34:55	Tomoko Kai  Japan	2:35:01
10,000 m walk details	Liu Hongyu  China	43:57.28 GR	Rie Mitsumori  Japan	44:29.82	Svetlana Tolstaya  Kazakhstan	45:29.95
High jump details	Yoko Ota  Japan	1.88	Jin Ling  China	1.88	Anna Cherntsova  Kyrgyzstan	1.84
Pole vault details	Cai Weiyan  China	4.00 GR	Masumi Ono  Japan	4.00 =GR	Sun Caiyun  China	4.00 =GR
Long jump details	Guan Yingnan  China	6.89	Yu Yiqun  China	6.77	Yelena Pershina  Kazakhstan	6.55
Triple jump details	Ren Ruiping  China	14.27 GR	Wu Lingmei  China	14.25	Wiktoriýa Brigadnaýa  Turkmenistan	13.66
Shot put details	Li Meisu  China	18.96	Cheng Xiaoyan  China	18.55	Juttaporn Krasaeyan  Thailand	18.24
Discus throw details	Luan Zhili  China	63.43	Liu Fengying  China	59.34	Neelam Jaswant Singh  India	55.09
Javelin throw details	Lee Young-sun  South Korea	62.09	Liang Lili  China	60.11	Gurmeet Kaur  India	59.00
Heptathlon details	Shen Shengfei  China	5817	Svetlana Kazanina  Kazakhstan	5775	Ma Chun-ping  Chinese Taipei	5659

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	15	17	7	39
2	Japan (JPN)	12	4	8	24
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	4	4	5	13
4	South Korea (KOR)	4	3	2	9
5	Sri Lanka (SRI)	3	0	2	5
6	India (IND)	2	6	7	15
7	Qatar (QAT)	2	3	3	8
8	Uzbekistan (UZB)	2	3	0	5
9	Indonesia (INA)	1	0	0	1
10	Thailand (THA)	0	2	3	5
11	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	2	3
12	Iran (IRI)	0	1	1	2
	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	1	2
14	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	2	2
15	Malaysia (MAS)	0	0	1	1
	Oman (OMA)	0	0	1	1
	Turkmenistan (TKM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		45	45	46	136

Participating nations

A total of 451 athletes from 37 nations competed in athletics at the 1998 Asian Games: