1985 Asian Athletics Championships

The sixth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1985 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Zheng Chen China	10.28	Mohammed Purnomo Indonesia	10.33	Chang Jae-Keun South Korea	10.35
200 metres	Chang Jae-Keun South Korea	20.57	Mohammed Purnomo Indonesia	21.19	Li Feng China	21.20
400 metres	Isidro del Prado Philippines	45.61	Mohammed Al-Malki Oman	46.45	Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Iraq	46.67
800 metres	Batumalai Rajakumar Malaysia	1:47.37 NR	Charles Borromeo India	1:47.99	Ryu Tae-Kyung South Korea	1:48.18
1500 metres	Bagicha Singh India	3:56.85	Suresh Yadav India	3:56.90	Hussein Darwish Iraq	3:57.07
5000 metres	Kozu Akutsu Japan	14:22.11	Haruo Urata Japan	14:22.42	Lee Sang-Geun South Korea	14:23.02
10000 metres	Zhang Guowei China	29:58.73	Lee Sang-Geun South Korea	30:10.05	Vinod Kumar Pokhriyal India	32:09.62
Marathon	Ling Jong-Hyen North Korea	2:20:29	Tomio Sueyoshi Japan	2:24:26	Choe Il-Sop North Korea	2:24:52
3000 metre steeplechase	Shigeyuki Aikyo Japan	8:46.96	Hwang Wen-Cheng Chinese Taipei	8:47.53	Shanmugin Pitchaiah India	8:48.14
110 metres hurdles	Yu Zhicheng China	13.94	Masahiko Sugi Japan	14.20	Li Jieqiang China	14.23
400 metres hurdles	Ahmed Hamada Jassim Bahrain	49.88	Jasem Al-Douwaila Kuwait	50.81	Hiroshi Kakimori Japan	50.85
High jump	Shuji Ujino Japan	2.24	Takao Sakamoto Japan	2.22	Liu Yunpeng China	2.22
Pole vault	Ji Zebiao China	5.30	Toshiyuki Hashioka Japan	5.20	Liang Xueren China	5.10
Long jump	Liu Yuhuang China	8.00	Pang Yan China	7.95	Junichi Usui Japan	7.72
Triple jump	Tian Hongxin China	16.38	Park Young-Jun South Korea	16.35	Yasushi Ueta Japan	15.96
Shot put	Balwinder Singh India	17.88	Gong Yitian China	17.80	Bahadur Singh Chouhan India	17.21
Discus throw	Li Weinan China	55.30	Wang Daoming China	54.62	Kuldip Singh India	52.36
Hammer throw	Raghubir Singh Bal India	64.34	Xie Yingqi China	63.44	Walid Saleh Al-Bekhit Kuwait	60.62
Javelin throw	Pubu Ciren China	76.56	Kim Sun-Yun South Korea	76.22	Kazuhiro Mizoguchi Japan	74.90
Decathlon	Ku Chin-shui Chinese Taipei	7538	Lee Fu-an Chinese Taipei	7469	Wang Kangqiang China	7357
20 kilometre road walk	Liu Jianli China	1:26:52	Chand Ram India	1:27:20	Wang Zhicheng China	1:31:12
4 × 100 metres relay	China Cai Jianming Yu Zhuanghui Li Tao Zheng Chen	39.34	Qatar Muftah Sulaiman Marzouk Talal Mansour	39.81	South Korea	39.85
4 × 400 metres relay	Iraq	3:07.68	Japan	3:07.92	Philippines	3:09.95

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	P.T. Usha India	11.64	Ratjai Sripet Thailand	11.95	Lydia de Vega Philippines	11.96
200 metres	P.T. Usha India	23.05w	Reawadee Srithoa Thailand	23.70w	Vandana Rao India	23.79w
400 metres	P.T. Usha India	52.62	Shiny Abraham India	53.32	Emma Tahapary Indonesia	55.08
800 metres	Shiny Abraham India	2:03.16	Sasithorn Chantanuhong Thailand	2:03.46 (NR)	Yang Liuxia China	2:05.07
1500 metres	Yang Liuxia China	4:19.11	Choi Ok-Soon North Korea	4:21.62	Choi Jong-Hui North Korea	4:26.35
3000 metres	Kim Lyong-Soon North Korea	9:27.75	Li Xiuxia China	9:29.88	Suman Rawat India	9:36.97
10000 metres	Paek Do-Jong North Korea	35:17.35	Wang Huabi China	35:35.77	Kim Myong-Hui North Korea	35:49.33
Marathon	Asha Aggarwal India	2:48:53	Yuko Gordon Hong Kong	2:54:16	Ki Sun-Bok North Korea	2:57:28
100 metres hurdles	Liu Huajin China	13.22	Chen Kemei China	13.48	Chen Wen-Ying Chinese Taipei	13.59
400 metres hurdles	P.T. Usha India	56.64	Manathoor D. Valsamma India	57.81	Agrifina de la Cruz Philippines	59.59
High jump	Yang Wenqin China	1.90	Ni Xiuling China	1.90	Wu Wei-Chun Chinese Taipei	1.81
Long jump	Huang Donghuo China	6.60	Liao Wenfen China	6.57	Kim Mi-Sook South Korea	6.25
Shot put	Cong Yuzhen China	18.36	Li Meisu China	17.64	Han Yun-Sook South Korea	14.12
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui China	58.38	Yu Hourun China	51.44	Ikuko Kitamori Japan	50.48
Javelin throw	Zhu Hongyang China	56.84	Wang Jin China	53.44	Emi Matsui Japan	53.28
Heptathlon	Ye Lianying China	5319	Dong Yuping China	5198	Tung Fung-Gao Chinese Taipei	5117
10000 metre track walk	Rian Bingyie China	50:38.81	Xiong Yan China	51:04.66	Iece Magdalena Siregar Indonesia	53:55.46
4 × 100 metres relay	Thailand	45.07	China	45.20	India	45.22
4 × 400 metres relay	India	3:34.10	Japan	3:39.51	Chinese Taipei	3:39.88 (NR)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	19	15	7	41
2	India	10	5	7	22
3	Japan	3	7	6	16
4	North Korea	3	1	4	8
5	South Korea	1	3	6	10
6	Thailand	1	3	0	4
7	Chinese Taipei	1	2	4	7
8	Philippines	1	0	3	4
9	Iraq	1	0	2	3
=10	Malaysia	1	0	0	1
	Bahrain	1	0	0	1
12	Indonesia	0	2	2	4
13	Kuwait	0	1	1	2
=14	Qatar	0	1	0	1
	Hong Kong	0	1	0	1
	Oman	0	1	0	1

See also

• 1985 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics