Athletics at the 12th South Asian Games
Dates	9 – 12 February
Host city	Guwahati, India
Venue	Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium
Level	Senior
Events	37
Participation	8 nations
Records set	?
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Athletics at the 2016 South Asian Games were held in Guwahati, India from 9 to 12 February 2016.^[1]

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Himasha Eashan  Sri Lanka	10.28 GR	Saaid Hassan  Maldives	10.41	Mohommed Ashraful  Sri Lanka	10.69
200 metres	M.V. Suranjaya De Silva  Sri Lanka	21.00	Saaid Hassan  Maldives	21.15	Liaquat Ali  Pakistan	21.53
400 metres	Arokia Rajiv  India	46.23	Kunhu Muhammed  India	46.73	Dilip Ruwan  Sri Lanka	47.30
800 metres	Indunil Herath  Sri Lanka	1:51.46	Muhammad Ikram  Pakistan	1:51.86	Ajay Kumar Saroj  India	1:52.04
1500 metres	Ajay Kumar Saroj  India	3:53.46	Sanjeewa Lakmal  Sri Lanka	3:54.16	Rahul Kumar Pal  India	3:55.07
5000 metres	Man Singh  India	14:02.04 GR	Suresh Kumar  India	14:02.70	Hari Kumar Rimal  Nepal	14:32.18
10,000 metres	Gopi T  India	29:10.53 GR	Suresh Kumar  India	29:20.49	Lionel Samarajeewa  Sri Lanka	30:22.54
110 metres hurdles	Jayakumar Surendhar  India	14.13	Prem Kumar K  India	14.18	Mohsin Ali  Pakistan	14.26
400 metres hurdles	Ayyasamy Dharun  India	50.54	Jithin Paul  India	50.57	Mehboob Ali  Pakistan	52.04
4×100 metres relay	Sri Lanka (SRI)	39.96	Umar Khayam Hameed  Pakistan	40.56 m	India (IND)	41.09
4×400 metres relay	India (IND)	3:06.74	Sri Lanka (SRI)	3:07.59	Pakistan (PAK)	3:14.82
Marathon	Nitendra Singh Rawat  India	2:15:18	Anuradha Cooray  Sri Lanka	2:15:19	Khetha Ram  India	2:21:14
High jump	Manjula Kumara  Sri Lanka	2.17 m	Tejaswin Shankar  India	2.17 m	Ajay Kumar  India	2.08 m
Pole vault	Ishara Sandaruwan  Sri Lanka	4.90 GR	Sonu Saini  India	4.80	Rehan Anjum  Pakistan	4.60 m
Long jump	Ankit Sharma  India	7.89 m GR	K Prem Kumar  India	7.62 m	Amila Jayasiri  Sri Lanka	7.46 m
Triple jump	Renjith Maheshwary  India	16.45 m GR	J. Surendhar  India	15.89 m	Muhammad Afzal  Pakistan	15.76 m
Shot put	Om Prakash Karhana  India	18.45 m	Jasdeep Singh  India	17.56 m	Muhammad Waseem  Pakistan	16.28 m
Discus throw	Arjun  India	57.21 m	Kripal Singh  India	56.59 m	U.P. Jayawardana  Sri Lanka	53.52 m
Hammer throw	Neeraj Kumar  India	66.14 m	Shakeel Ahmed  Pakistan	63.67 m	Alansan  Sri Lanka	46.38 m
Javelin throw	Neeraj Chopra  India	82.23 m GR	Sumeda Ranasinghe  Sri Lanka	80.25 m	Arshad Nadeem  Pakistan	78.33 m

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Rumeshika Rathnayake  Sri Lanka	11.71	Srabani Nanda  India	11.72	Dutee Chand  India	11.75
200 metres	Srabani Nanda  India	23.91	Dutee Chand  India	24.14	Rumeshika Rathnayake  Sri Lanka	24.17
400 metres	M. R. Poovamma  India	54.10	Chandrika Rasnayake  Sri Lanka	54.40	Omaya Udayangani  Sri Lanka	54.70
800 metres	Nimali Liyanarachchi  Sri Lanka	2:09.40	Gayanthika Abeyrathne  Sri Lanka	2:09.64	Mrimuth Gomathy  India	2:10.99
1500 metres	PU Chitra  India	4:25.59	Gayanthika Abeyrathne  Sri Lanka	4:25.75	Nilani Rathnayake  Sri Lanka	4:26.70
5000 metres	L. Suriya  India	15:45.75 GR	Swati Haridas Gadhave  India	16:14.57	Nilani Rathnayake  Sri Lanka	17:00.85
10,000 metres	L. Suriya  India	32:39.86 GR	Swati Haridas Gadhave  India	33:57.09	S. A. Lama Hewage  Sri Lanka	36:11.39
100 metres hurdles	Gayathri Govindaraj  India	13.83	Sajitha KV  India	14.26	Ireshani Rajasinghe  Sri Lanka	14.37
400 metres hurdles	Jauna Murmu  India	57.69	Ashwini Akkunji  India	58.92	Kawshalya Madushani  Sri Lanka	59.87
4×100 metres relay	Sri Lanka (SRI)	45.50	India (IND)	45.79	Bangladesh (BAN)	47.44
4×400 metres relay	India (IND)	3:35.44	Sri Lanka (SRI)	3:38.89	Bangladesh (BAN)	3:53.27
Marathon	Kavita Raut  India	2:38:38.00	Niluka Geethani Rajasekara  Sri Lanka	2:50:47.00	B. G. L. Anuradhi  Sri Lanka	2:52:15.00
High jump	Sahana Kumari  India	1.78 m	Tharanga Vinodani  Sri Lanka Swapna Barman  India	1.75 m	None awarded
Long jump	Mayookha Johny  India	6.43 m GR	Shradha Bhaskar  India	6.19 m	Sarangi Silva  Sri Lanka	5.89 m
Triple jump	Mayookha Johny  India	13.85 m GR	Vidusha Lakshani  Sri Lanka	13.18 m	Prajusha M A  India	12.95 m
Shot put	Manpreet Kaur Sr.  India	17.94 m GR	Manpreet Kaur Jr.  India	15.94 m	Tharika Fernando  Sri Lanka	14.87 m
Javelin throw	Suman Devi  India	59.45 m GR	Annu Rani  India	57.13 m	Nadeeka Lakmali  Sri Lanka	54.82 m

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	India (IND)	28	22	8	58
2	Sri Lanka (SRI)	9	11	17	37
3	Pakistan (PAK)	0	3	8	11
4	Maldives (MDV)	0	2	0	2
5	Bangladesh (BAN)	0	0	2	2
6	Nepal (NEP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		37	38	36	111