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Events at the 2013 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	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	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 2013 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex. The final took place on 4 July.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Zhao Yanmin  China	M. R. Poovamma  India	Gretta Taslakian  Lebanon

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advanced to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	M. R. Poovamma	India	53.60	Q
2	1	Anu Mariam Jose	India	53.66	Q
3	1	Yuliya Rakhmanova	Kazakhstan	53.95	Q
4	1	Gretta Taslakian	Lebanon	53.98	Q
4	2	Zhao Yanmin	China	53.98	Q
6	1	Cheng Chong	China	54.10	q
7	1	Chandrika Rasnayake	Sri Lanka	54.16	q
8	2	Nirmala	India	54.62	Q
9	2	Yekaterina Yermak	Kazakhstan	54.66
10	2	Nining Souhaly	Indonesia	57.14
11	1	Zakia Sultana	Bangladesh	1:01.62
12	2	Dil Maya Karki	Nepal	1:01.63

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Zhao Yanmin	China	52.49
	M. R. Poovamma	India	53.37
	Gretta Taslakian	Lebanon	53.43
4	Anu Mariam Jose	India	53.49
5	Cheng Chong	China	54.25
6	Yuliya Rakhmanova	Kazakhstan	54.34
7	Nirmala	India	55.40
	Chandrika Rasnayake	Sri Lanka	56.88

• Results