Athletics at the 1966 Asian Games

Athletics
at the 1966 Asian Games
Athletics ; at the 1966 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	10–15 December
	← 1962 1970 →

Athletics was contested at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand from December 10 to December 15.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Mani Jegathesan Malaysia	10.5	C. Kunalan Singapore	10.5	Hideo Iijima Japan	10.5
200 m details	Mani Jegathesan Malaysia	21.5	Ajmer Singh India	21.5	Thambu Krishnan Malaysia	21.6
400 m details	Ajmer Singh India	47.1	Yoshinori Sakai Japan	47.4	Masami Yoshida Japan	47.5
800 m details	Bhogeswar Baruah India	1:49.4 GR	Subramaniam Ramasamy Malaysia	1:49.5	Mamoru Morimoto Japan	1:49.6
1500 m details	Keisuke Sawaki Japan	3:47.3 GR	Subramaniam Ramasamy Malaysia	3:48.0	Satsuo Iwashita Japan	3:48.1
5000 m details	Keisuke Sawaki Japan	14:22.0 GR	Kazuo Tsuchiya Japan	14:23.1	Lucien Rosa Ceylon	14:56.0
10,000 m details	Kazuo Tsuchiya Japan	30:27.8	Sunao Shirai Japan	30:36.8	Lucien Rosa Ceylon	31:06.6
110 m hurdles details	Ghulam Raziq Pakistan	14.4	Yoshinobu Hamada Japan	14.5	Ishtiaq Mubarak Malaysia	14.7
400 m hurdles details	Kiyoo Yui Japan	51.7 GR	Kazuhiko Itagaki Japan	52.3	Nathan Andyappan Malaysia	53.0
3000 m steeplechase details	Taketsugu Saruwatari Japan	8:53.6 GR	Ahmad Mirhosseini Iran	8:56.5	Nobuyoshi Matsuda Japan	9:05.2
4 × 100 m relay details	Malaysia Thambu Krishnan Mohd Ariffin Ahmad Rajalingam Gunaratnam Mani Jegathesan	40.6 GR	Indonesia Soepardi Agus Sugiri Bambamg Wahjudi Jootje Pesak Oroh	41.0	Philippines Rogelio Onofre Remegio Vista Arnulfo Valles William Mordeno	41.3
4 × 400 m relay details	Japan Toru Honda Masami Yoshida Yoshinori Sakai Kiyoo Yui	3:09.1 GR	Malaysia Victor Asirvatham Rengan Pakkri Nathan Andyappan Thambu Krishnan	3:13.1	Singapore Bava Natahar Ho Mun Cheong Gunasena Migale C. Kunalan	3:13.4
Marathon details	Kenji Kimihara Japan	2:33:23	Morio Shigematsu Japan	2:35:04	Lee Sang-hoon South Korea	2:40:56
High jump details	Bhim Singh India	2.05	Osamu Shimizu Japan	2.03	Teymour Ghiasi Iran	2.00
Pole vault details	Tetsuo Hirota Japan	4.70 GR	Yoshizo Uryu Japan	4.60	Hong Sang-pyo South Korea	4.40
Long jump details	Hiroomi Yamada Japan	7.48	Takayuki Okazaki Japan	7.39	Su Wen-ho Republic of China	7.31
Triple jump details	Kosei Gushiken Japan	15.61	Satoshi Shimo Japan	15.54	Labh Singh India	15.49
Shot put details	Joginder Singh India	16.22 GR	Yoshihisa Ishida Japan	16.13	Jalal Keshmiri Iran	16.02
Discus throw details	Praveen Kumar India	49.62 GR	Jalal Keshmiri Iran	49.30	Balkar Singh India	47.64
Hammer throw details	Takeo Sugawara Japan	62.90	Shigenobu Murofushi Japan	60.02	Praveen Kumar India	57.18
Javelin throw details	Nashatar Singh Sidhu Malaysia	72.92	Takeshi Ikeda Japan	68.24	Yumio Miyoshi Japan	67.86
Decathlon details	Wu Ah-min Republic of China	7003	Yukio Nogami Japan	6613	Hiroomi Yamada Japan	6553

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Miho Sato Japan	12.3	Ritsuko Sukegawa Japan	12.4	Debra Marcus Israel	12.5
200 m details	Debra Marcus Israel	25.3	Miyoko Tsujishita Japan	25.3	Kishiko Ikeda Japan	25.7
400 m details	Mary Rajamani Malaysia	56.3 GR	Han Myung-hee South Korea	57.5	Yasuyo Mishima Japan	57.7
800 m details	Hana Shezifi Israel	2:10.5 GR	Yoko Miyamoto Japan	2:12.7	Yasuyo Mishima Japan	2:13.6
80 m hurdles details	Ritsuko Sukegawa Japan	11.2 =GR	Takako Abe Japan	11.4	Manjit Walia India	11.4
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Ritsuko Sukegawa Miho Sato Kishiko Ikeda Miyoko Tsujishita	47.1 GR	Republic of China Chi Cheng Yeh Chu-mei Tien Ah-mei Huang Pi-yun	47.8	Malaysia Mary Rajamani Cheryl Dorall Jacqueline Kleinman Rajemah Sheikh Ahmad	48.8
High jump details	Mami Takeda Japan	1.60 =GR	Lolita Lagrosas Philippines	1.58	Cheong Wai Hing Singapore	1.55
Long jump details	Chi Cheng Republic of China	5.95 =GR	Emiko Komaru Japan	5.83	Christine Forage India	5.69
Shot put details	Ryoko Sugiyama Japan	14.48 GR	Yuko Sawada Japan	13.92	Wu Jin-yun Republic of China	12.83
Discus throw details	Josephine de la Viña Philippines	47.58 GR	Yuko Tsunoda Japan	42.34	Han Dong-si South Korea	41.08
Javelin throw details	Misako Katayama Japan	49.44 GR	Sachiko Senzaki Japan	42.50	Marcelina Alonso Philippines	40.90
Pentathlon details	Michiko Okamoto Japan	4468 GR	Yeh Chu-mei Republic of China	3951	Lolita Lagrosas Philippines	3889

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	18	22	10	50
2	Malaysia (MAL)	5	3	4	12
3	India (IND)	5	1	5	11
4	Republic of China (ROC)	2	2	2	6
5	Israel (ISR)	2	0	1	3
6	Philippines (PHI)	1	1	3	5
7	Pakistan (PAK)	1	0	0	1
8	Iran (IRN)	0	2	2	4
9	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	3	4
10	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	2	3
11	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	0	1
12	Ceylon (CEY)	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 entries)		34	34	34	102