Athletics at the 1951 Asian Games

Athletics
at the 1951 Asian Games
Athletics ; at the 1951 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	8–11 March
Nations	11
	1954 →

Athletics was contested at the 1951 Asian Games in National Stadium, New Delhi, India from 8 March to 11 March.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Lavy Pinto India	10.8 =GR	Toshihiro Ohashi Japan	11.0	Tomio Hosoda Japan	11.1
200 m details	Lavy Pinto India	22.0 GR	Marian Gabriel India	22.5	Tomio Hosoda Japan	22.6
400 m details	Eitaro Okano Japan	50.7 GR	Amit Singh Bakshi India	50.8	Govind Singh India	51.4
800 m details	Ranjit Singh India	1:59.3 GR	Kulwant Singh India	1:59.7	Kikuo Moriya Japan	2:00.6
1500 m details	Nikka Singh India	4:04.1 GR	Susumu Takahashi Japan	4:04.4	Kikuo Moriya Japan	4:05.4
5000 m details	Ali Baghbanbashi Iran	15:54.2 GR	Pritam Singh India	15:57.8	Soichi Tamoi Japan	15:59.0
10,000 m details	Soichi Tamoi Japan	33:49.3 GR	Ryosuke Takasugi Japan	34:32.0	Gurbachan Singh India	34:58.8
110 m hurdles details	Ng Liang Chiang Singapore	15.2 GR	Michitaka Kinami Japan	15.3	Lloyd Valberg Singapore	15.7
400 m hurdles details	Eitaro Okano Japan	54.2 GR	Teja Singh India	56.9	Ng Liang Chiang Singapore	57.6
3000 m steeplechase details	Susumu Takahashi Japan	9:30.4 GR	Ali Baghbanbashi Iran	9:31.8	Ajit Singh India	9:37.8
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Masaji Tajima Toshihiro Ohashi Tomio Hosoda Kazuta Ikoma	42.7 GR	India Lavy Pinto Marian Gabriel Ram Swaroop Alfred Shamin	42.8	Philippines Genaro Cabrera Tito Almagro Jovencio Ardina Bernabe Lovina	43.9
4 × 400 m relay details	India Amit Singh Bakshi Govind Singh Balwant Singh Karan Singh	3:24.2 GR	Japan Yorio Mizuyoke Ichiro Tao Fumio Nishiuchi Eitaro Okano	3:24.4	Philippines Bienvenido Llaneta Bernabe Lovina Tomas Bennet Genaro Cabrera	3:35.8
Marathon details	Chhota Singh India	2:42:58.6 GR	Katsuo Nishida Japan	2:49:03.0	Surat Singh Mathur India	2:53:49.8
10,000 m walk details	Mahabir Prasad India	52:31.4 GR	Takeo Sato Japan	52:34.8	Kesar Singh India	52:54.0
50 km walk details	Bakhtawar Singh India	5:44:07.4 GR	B. Das India	5:44:14.6	Takeo Sato Japan	5:54:47.4
High jump details	Andres Franco Philippines	1.93 GR	Yukio Ishikawa Japan	1.91	Maram Sudarmodjo Indonesia	1.89
Pole vault details	Bunkichi Sawada Japan	4.11 GR	M. A. Akbar Ceylon	3.69	Shuhei Nishida Japan	3.61
Long jump details	Masaji Tajima Japan	7.14 GR	Baldev Singh India	6.99	Takashi Aso Japan	6.98
Triple jump details	Yoshio Iimuro Japan	15.18 GR	Takashi Aso Japan	14.25	Hendarsin Indonesia	14.24
Shot put details	Madan Lal India	13.78 GR	Sukeo Denda Japan	13.40	Norimi Sato Japan	12.83
Discus throw details	Makhan Singh India	39.92 GR	Norimi Sato Japan	39.29	Aurelio Amante Philippines	38.14
Hammer throw details	Fumio Kamamoto Japan	46.65 GR	Somnath Chopra India	43.35	Kishen Singh India	42.32
Javelin throw details	Haruo Nagayasu Japan	63.97 GR	Parsa Singh India	50.38	Matulessy Indonesia	48.99
Decathlon details	Fumio Nishiuchi Japan	6324 GR	Bunkichi Sawada Japan	5860	Khurshid Ahmed India	5099

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Kiyoko Sugimura Japan	12.6	Roshan Mistry India	12.8	Kimiko Okamoto Japan	12.9
200 m details	Kimiko Okamoto Japan	26.0 GR	Laura Dowdswell Singapore	27.2	Mary D'Souza India	28.0
80 m hurdles details	Kyoko Yoneda Japan	12.8 GR	Laura Dowdswell Singapore	13.2	Taeko Sato Japan	13.5
4 × 100 m relay details	Japan Kimiko Okamoto Taeko Sato Ayako Yoshikawa Kiyoko Sugimura	51.4 GR	India Mary D'Souza Roshan Mistry Banoo Gulzar Pat Mendonca	51.9	Indonesia Triwulan Darwati Surjowati Lie Djiang Nio	54.4
High jump details	Kyoko Yoneda Japan	1.49 GR	Taeko Sato Japan	1.44	Marie Semoes India	1.37
Long jump details	Kiyoko Sugimura Japan	5.91 GR	Ayako Yoshikawa Japan	5.18	Sylvia Gauntlet India	4.52
Shot put details	Toyoko Yoshino Japan	11.90 GR	Fumi Kojima Japan	10.42	Barbara Webster India	9.02
Discus throw details	Toyoko Yoshino Japan	42.10 GR	Fumi Kojima Japan	35.51	Annie Salamun Indonesia	25.43
Javelin throw details	Toyoko Yoshino Japan	36.25 GR	Miyoko Kato Japan	35.33	Barbara Webster India	26.70

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	20	17	11	48
2	India (IND)	10	12	12	34
3	Singapore (SIN)	1	2	2	5
4	Iran (IRN)	1	1	0	2
5	Philippines (PHI)	1	0	3	4
6	Ceylon (CEY)	0	1	0	1
7	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	5	5
Totals (7 entries)		33	33	33	99

Participating nations

References

Asian Games Results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
Women's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
Men's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.

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Athletics at the 1951 Asian Games

Medalists

Men

Women

Medal table

Participating nations

References

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