Events at the 2009 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
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 5000 metres event at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships was held at the Guangdong Olympic Stadium on November 10.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Xue Fei	China	16:05.19
	Tejitu Daba	Bahrain	16:05.45	PB
	Kavita Raut	India	16:05.90
4	Noriko Matsuoka	Japan	16:09.53
5	Viktoriia Poliudina	Kyrgyzstan	16:21.58	PB
6	Shitaye Eshete	Bahrain	16:24.91	PB
7	Jhuma Khatun	India	17:13.10
8	Battsetseg Baatarkhuu	Mongolia	17:29.90
9	Melinder Kaur Ragbir Singh	Malaysia	17:57.70

• Final results