Events at the 2003 Asian Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 400 metres event at the 2003 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Manila, Philippines on September 20–21.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yin Yin Khine  Myanmar	Bu Fanfang  China	Svetlana Bodritskaya  Kazakhstan

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Yin Yin Khine	Myanmar	53.32	Q
2	3	Oksana Luneva	Kyrgyzstan	53.65	Q
3	3	Svetlana Bodritskaya	Kazakhstan	53.73	q
4	2	Zhang Xiaoyuan	China	54.34	Q
5	1	Bu Fanfang	China	54.60	Q
6	1	Mayu Sato	Japan	54.71	Q
7	2	Menike Wickramasinghe	Sri Lanka	54.72	Q
8	1	Saowalee Kaewchuy	Thailand	54.82	q
9	2	Olga Tereshkova	Kazakhstan	55.09
10	3	Mayumi Yuno	Japan	55.18
11	3	Lee Yun-Kyong	South Korea	55.31
12	2	Zamira Amirova	Uzbekistan	55.65	SB
13	3	Satti Geetha	India	55.80
14	3	Saipin Kaewsorn	Thailand	56.76	SB
15	2	Mary Grace Melgar	Philippines	56.87	SB
16	1	Badmaa Batkhuu	Mongolia	1:01.91	NJR
17	1	Julie Rose Forbes	Philippines	1:02.40	PB
	2	Sagardeep Kaur	India	DNF
	1	Damayanthi Dharsha	Sri Lanka	DNS
	2	Amanda Teo Bao Ling	Singapore	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yin Yin Khine	Myanmar	52.96	NR
	Bu Fanfang	China	52.97
	Svetlana Bodritskaya	Kazakhstan	53.19
4	Oksana Luneva	Kyrgyzstan	53.24	SB
5	Zhang Xiaoyuan	China	54.19
6	Saowalee Kaewchuy	Thailand	54.35	PB
7	Mayu Sato	Japan	54.75
8	Menike Wickramasinghe	Sri Lanka	54.96