2013 Asian Championships
Dates	3–7 July
Host city	Pune, India
Venue	Shiv Chhatrapati Stadium
Events	42
Participation	522 athletes from 42 nations
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The 2013 Asian Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the biennial athletics competition between Asian nations. It was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex in Balewadi, Pune, India between 3–7 July.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} Around 522 athletes from 42 nations competed at the event. It was the first time since 1989 that India had hosted the championships.^[7]

Prior to the competition, the election of the Asian Athletics Association president was convened in Pune. Qatar's Dahlan Jumaan al-Hamad (an IAAF vice-president) defeated the incumbent, Suresh Kalmadi of India, by a margin of 20 votes to 18.^[8] Kalmadi, on bail for corruption charges stemming from the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, did not attend the championships.^[9] The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Prithviraj Chavan, declared the event open at the championships opening ceremony

China, the traditional regional leader at the competition, easily took the top spot in the medal rankings with sixteen gold medals and 27 medals in total. This maintained its streak as the best nation of the tournament – a run dating back to the 1983 edition. Second-placed Bahrain took five golds and fifteen medals overall (although Ali Khamis Khamis, the 400 metres runner-up, was their only native-born medallist).^[10] Japan placed third in the medal rankings with four golds and had the second greatest overall haul with 20 medals. In fifth place the hosts India had the next biggest haul, with 17 medals in total, although Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan had a greater number of gold medals.

The overall quality of the competition was reduced as several top Asian athletes were absent. Mutaz Essa Barshim was the only Asian 2012 Olympic medallist who intended to participate, but he withdrew due to a back injury.^[9] Thirteen champions from 2011 were present and six of them (Su Bingtian, Yousef Masrahi, Dejene Regassa, Shitaye Eshete, Satomi Kubokura, and Wassanee Winatho) successfully defended their title.

A total of eight championships records were bettered at the competition: Shitaye Eshete broke the longest-standing of these by winning the women's 10,000 metres in 32:17.29 minutes, breaking Zhong Huandi's time from 1989. The organisers used a performance-based points system to assign the titles of best athlete at the championships: Saudi 400 metres champion Yousef Masrahi was the best male with 1172 points while Bahrain's steeplechase winner Ruth Jebet was the best female with 1142 points.^[11]

The Athletics Federation of India withdrew an unnamed female shot putter from their squad for a failed doping test one day before the opening of the championships.^[12]

The competition was originally set to take place in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of the state, ordered the removal of Sri Lanka from the competition on the grounds of war crimes committed during the Sri Lankan Civil War. This request was ignored by the Athletics Federation of India and in February 2013 Chennai withdrew as hosts of the championships.^[13]

The federation approached the state governments of Jharkhand and Delhi, with the venues of Ranchi and New Delhi being suggested, but both states refused the host duties. Finally, in May the Maharashtra government agreed to host the event in Pune on the same dates agreed for the Chennai event. Pune already had a suitable track and field stadium that had recently played host to the Commonwealth Youth Games in 2008. The budget given for the championships, however, was significantly reduced.^[14]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Su Bingtian  China	10.17	Samuel Francis  Qatar	10.27	Barakat Al-Harthi  Oman	10.30
200 metres details	Xie Zhenye  China	20.87	Fahhad Mohammed Al Subaie  Saudi Arabia	20.92	Kei Takase  Japan	20.92
400 metres details	Yousef Masrahi  Saudi Arabia	45.08	Ali Khamis Khamis  Bahrain	45.65	Yuzo Kanemaru  Japan	45.95
800 metres details	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla  Qatar	1:46.92	Abdulaziz Ladan  Saudi Arabia	1:47.01	Belal Mansoor Ali  Bahrain	1:48.56
1500 metres details	Emad Noor  Saudi Arabia	3:39.51	Mohamad Al-Garni  Qatar	3:40.75	Belal Mansoor Ali  Bahrain	3:40.96
5000 metres details	Dejene Regassa Mootoma  Bahrain	13:53.25	Alemu Bekele Gebre  Bahrain	13:57.23	Emad Noor  Saudi Arabia	14:05.88
10,000 metres details	Alemu Bekele Gebre  Bahrain	28:47.26	Bilisuma Shugi  Bahrain	28:58.67	Ratiram Saini  India	29:35.42
110 metres hurdles details	Jiang Fan  China	13.61	Abdulaziz Al Mandeel  Kuwait	13.78	Wataru Yazawa  Japan	13.88
400 metres hurdles details	Yasuhiro Fueki  Japan	49.86	Cheng Wen  China	50.07	Satinder Singh  India	50.35
3000 metres steeplechase details	Tareq Mubarak Taher  Bahrain	8:34.77	Dejene Regassa Mootoma  Bahrain	8:37.40	Tsuyoshi Takeda  Japan	8:48.48
4 × 100 metres relay details	Hong Kong (HKG) Tang Yik Chun Lai Chun Ho Ng Ka Fung Tsui Chi Ho	38.94	Japan (JPN) Kazuma Oseto Kei Takase Sota Kawatsura Yuichi Kobayashi	39.11	China (CHN) Guo Fan Xie Zhenye Su Bingtian Chen Qiang	39.17
4 × 400 metres relay details	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Mohammed Ali Al-Bishi Fahhad Mohammed Al Subaie Mohammed Al-Salhi Yousef Masrahi	3:02.53 CR	Japan (JPN) Yusuke Ishitsuka Yuzo Kanemaru Kazuya Watanabe Hideyuki Hirose	3:04.46	Sri Lanka (SRI) Chanaka Dulan Priyashantha Dilan Aloka Kasun Seneviratne Anjana Madushan	3:04.92
High jump details	Bi Xiaoliang  China	2.21 m	Jithin Thomas  India Keyvan Ghanbarzadeh  Iran	2.21 m	Not awarded
Pole vault details	Xue Changrui  China	5.60 m	Lu Yao  China	5.20 m	Jin Min-Sub  South Korea	5.20 m
Long jump details	Wang Jianan  China	7.95 m	Kumaravel Premkumar  India	7.92 m	Tang Gongchen  China	7.89 m
Triple jump details	Cao Shuo  China	16.77 m	Renjith Maheshwary  India	16.76 m	Arpinder Singh  India	16.58 m
Shot put details	Sultan Al-Hebshi  Saudi Arabia	19.68 m	Chang Ming-huang  Chinese Taipei	19.61 m	Om Prakash Singh  India	19.45 m
Discus throw details	Vikas Gowda  India	64.90 m	Mohammad Samimi  Iran	61.93 m	Ahmed Mohamed Dheeb  Qatar	60.82 m
Hammer throw details	Dilshod Nazarov  Tajikistan	78.32 m	Ali Al-Zinkawi  Kuwait	74.70 m	Qi Dakai  China	74.19 m
Javelin throw details	Ivan Zaytsev  Uzbekistan	79.76 m	Sachith Maduranga  Sri Lanka	79.62 m NR	Samarjit Singh  India	75.03 m
Decathlon details	Dmitriy Karpov  Kazakhstan	8037 pts CR	Akihiko Nakamura  Japan	7620 pts	Leonid Andreev  Uzbekistan	7383 pts

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Wei Yongli  China	11.29	Chisato Fukushima  Japan	11.53	Tao Yujia  China	11.63
200 metres details	Viktoriya Zyabkina  Kazakhstan	23.62	Asha Roy  India	23.71	Dutee Chand  India	23.82
400 metres details	Zhao Yanmin  China	52.49	Poovamma Raju Machettira  India	53.37	Gretta Taslakian  Lebanon	53.43 NR
800 metres details	Wang Chunyu  China	2:02.47	Genzeb Shumi  Bahrain	2:04.16	Tintu Luka  India	2:04.48
1500 metres details	Betlhem Desalegn  United Arab Emirates	4:13.67	Mimi Belete  Bahrain	4:14.04	Ayako Jinnouchi  Japan	4:16.73
5000 metres details	Betlhem Desalegn  United Arab Emirates	15:12.84 CR NR	Shitaye Eshete  Bahrain	15:22.17	Tejitu Daba  Bahrain	15:38.63
10,000 metres details	Shitaye Eshete  Bahrain	32:17.29 CR	Alia Saeed  United Arab Emirates	32:39.39	Ayumi Hagiwara  Japan	32.47.44
100 metres hurdles details	Ayako Kimura  Japan	13.25	Anastassiya Soprunova  Kazakhstan	13.44	Jayapal Hemasree  India	14.01
400 metres hurdles details	Satomi Kubokura  Japan	56.82	Manami Kira  Japan	57.78	Jo Eun-Ju  South Korea	58.21
3000 metres steeplechase details	Ruth Jebet  Bahrain	9:40.84 CR	Sudha Singh  India	9:56.27	Pak Kum Hyang  North Korea	10:09.80
4 × 100 metres relay details	China (CHN) Tao Yujia Li Manyuan Lin Huijun Wei Yongli	44.01	Japan (JPN) Saori Kitakaze Chisato Fukushima Mayumi Watanabe Anna Fujimori	44.38	Thailand (THA) Phatsorn Jaksuninkorn Orranut Klomdee Tassaporn Wannakit Jintara Seangdee	44.44
4 × 400 metres relay details	India (IND) Nirmla Tintu Luka Anu Mariam Jose Poovamma Raju Machettira	3:32.26	China (CHN) Chen Lin Cheng Chong Geng Qingyu Zhao Yanmin	3:35.31	Japan (JPN) Asami Chiba Sayaka Aoki Satomi Kubokura Manami Kira	3:35.72
High jump details	Nadiya Dusanova  Uzbekistan	1.90 m	Svetlana Radzivil  Uzbekistan	1.88 m	Marina Aitova  Kazakhstan	1.88 m
Pole vault details	Li Ling  China	4.54 m CR	Ren Mengqian  China	4.40 m	Sukanya Chomchuendee  Thailand	4.15 m
Long jump details	Sachiko Masumi  Japan	6.55 m	Anastasiya Juravleva  Uzbekistan	6.36 m	Mayookha Johny  India	6.30 m
Triple jump details	Anastasiya Juravleva  Uzbekistan	14.18 m	Aleksandra Kotlyarova  Uzbekistan	13.89 m	Irina Litvinenko Ektova  Kazakhstan	13.75 m
Shot put details	Liu Xiangrong  China	18.67 m	Leyla Rajabi  Iran	18.18 m	Gao Yang  China	17.76 m
Discus throw details	Su Xinyue  China	55.88 m	Jiang Fengjing  China	55.70 m	Li Tsai-Yi  Chinese Taipei	55.32 m
Hammer throw details	Wang Zheng  China	72.78 m CR	Liu Tingting  China	67.16 m	Masumi Aya  Japan	63.41 m
Javelin throw details	Li Lingwei  China	60.65 m CR	Nadeeka Lakmali  Sri Lanka	60.16 m NR	Risa Miyashita  Japan	55.30 m
Heptathlon details	Wassana Winatho  Thailand	5818 pts	Ekaterina Voronina  Uzbekistan	5599 pts	Chie Kiriyama  Japan	5451 pts

  *   Host nation (India)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	16	6	5	27
2	Bahrain (BHR)	5	7	3	15
3	Japan (JPN)	4	6	10	20
4	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	4	2	1	7
5	Uzbekistan (UZB)	3	4	1	8
6	India (IND)*	2	6	9	17
7	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	1	2	5
8	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	2	1	0	3
9	Qatar (QAT)	1	2	1	4
10	Thailand (THA)	1	0	2	3
11	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	0	0	1
	Tajikistan (TJK)	1	0	0	1
13	Iran (IRI)	0	3	0	3
14	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	2	1	3
15	Kuwait (KUW)	0	2	0	2
16	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	1	2
17	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	2	2
18	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	1	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
	Oman (OMA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (20 entries)		42	43	41	126

Medal table

• Medal Table Rankings. Athletics Federation of India. Retrieved on 2013-07-07.

Results

• Final Results^{[permanent dead link‍]}. Athletics Federation of India. Retrieved on 2013-07-07.

• Official website