2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 2008 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was an international indoor athletics event took place in Doha, Qatar, between 14 and 16 February.

2008 Asian Indoor Championships
DatesFebruary 14–16
Host cityQatar Doha, Qatar
VenueASPIRE Dome
Events26
Participation202 athletes from
29 nations

Results edit

Men edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 m Samuel Francis
  Qatar
6.62
CR
Leung Chun Wai
  Hong Kong
6.79 Vyacheslav Muravyev
  Kazakhstan
6.79
400 m Liu Xiaosheng
  China
47.82
CR
Sergey Zaikov
  Kazakhstan
48.12 Ali Shirook
  United Arab Emirates
48.24
NR
800 m Yusuf Saad Kamel
  Bahrain
1:48.03
=CR
Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei
  Iran
1:48.68 Masato Yokota
  Japan
1:49.30
1500 m Thamer Kamal Ali
  Qatar
3:40.86
CR
Chatholi Hamza
  India
3:41.18
NR
Abubaker Ali Kamal
  Qatar
3:42.50
3000 m Sultan Khamis Zaman
  Qatar
7:49.31 Surendra Singh
  India
7:49.47
NR
James Kwalia
  Qatar
7:50.76
60 m hurdles Ji Wei
  China
7.79 Abdul Rashid
  Pakistan
7.98 Muhammad Sajjad
  Pakistan
8.01
4×400 m relay   Saudi Arabia
Yonas Al-Hosah
Ali Al-Deraan
Ismail Al-Sabiani
Edrees Hawsawi
3:14.25
CR
  India
V. B. Bineesh
Gurvinder Pal Singh
Virender Kumar Pankaj
Thannickkal Aboobcker
3:16.53   Qatar
Mohamed Sagayroon
Adam Ali
Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla
Azmy Sulaiman
3:17.93
High jump Sergey Zasimovich
  Kazakhstan
2.24
CR
Majed Al-Din Ghazal
  Syria
2.21 Rashid Al-Mannai
  Qatar
2.18
Pole vault Daichi Sawano
  Japan
5.45 Takafumi Suzuki
  Japan
5.35 Leonid Andreev
  Uzbekistan
5.35
Long jump Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi
  Saudi Arabia
8.24
AR
Saleh Al-Haddad
  Kuwait
7.88
NR
Hussein Al-Sabee
  Saudi Arabia
7.72
Triple jump Roman Valiyev
  Kazakhstan
16.32 Amarjeet Singh
  India
16.24
NR
Theerayut Philakong
  Thailand
16.04
NR
Shot put Ahmad Gholoum
  Kuwait
18.55
CR
Om Prakash Karhana
  India
18.37 Yao Yongguang
  China
18.16
Heptathlon P. J. Vinod
  India
5561 pts
=NR
Hadi Sepehrzad
  Iran
5515 pts
NR
Hiromasa Tanaka
  Japan
5306 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 m Roqaya Al-Gassra
  Bahrain
7.40
CR, NR
Wang Yingju
  China
7.47 Nongnuch Sanrat
  Thailand
7.49
400 m Roqaya Al-Gassra
  Bahrain
53.28
CR, NR
Marina Maslyonko
  Kazakhstan
53.38 Mandeep Kaur
  India
54.28
800 m Sinimol Paulose
  India
2:03.43
CR, NR
Sushma Devi
  India
2:04.66 Margarita Matsko
  Kazakhstan
2:04.85
1500 m Sinimol Paulose
  India
4:15.42
CR, NR
Sushma Devi
  India
4:21.78 Sara Bakheet
  Bahrain
4:26.70
3000 m Preeja Sreedharan
  India
9:12.26
CR, NR
Kavita Raut
  India
9:26.01 Sara Bakheet
  Bahrain
9:40.47
60 m hurdles Liu Jing
  China
8.31
CR
Anastassiya Soprunova
  Kazakhstan
8.34 Leelavathi Veerappan
  India
9.21
4×400 m relay   India
Mandeep Kaur
Manjit Kaur
Sini Jose
Chitra K. Soman
3:37.46
AR
  Kazakhstan
Tatyana Azarova
Marina Maslyonko
Viktoriya Yalovtseva
Anna Gavriushenko
3:38.10   Thailand
Jutamass Tawoncharoen
Saowalee Kaewchuay
Kanya Harnthong
Treewadee Yongphan
3:43.22
High jump Tatyana Efimenko
  Kyrgyzstan
1.91 Anna Ustinova
  Kazakhstan
1.91 Yekaterina Yevseyeva
  Kazakhstan
1.88
Pole vault Ikuko Nishikori
  Japan
4.10 Roslinda Samsu
  Malaysia
4.10 Takayo Kondo
  Japan
4.10
Long jump Chen Yaling
  China
6.39 Anju Bobby George
  India
6.38 M. A. Prajusha
  India
6.09
Triple jump Olga Rypakova
  Kazakhstan
14.23
CR
Li Qian
  China
13.76 Liu Yanan
  China
13.39
Shot put Gong Lijiao
  China
18.12
CR
Iolanta Ulyeva
  Kazakhstan
15.99 Juttaporn Krasaeyan
  Thailand
14.73
Pentathlon Irina Naumenko
  Kazakhstan
4235 pts Wassana Winatho
  Thailand
4184 pts
NR
Olga Lapina
  Kazakhstan
3906 pts
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table edit

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  India59317
2  China5229
3  Kazakhstan46414
4  Qatar3047
5  Bahrain3025
6  Japan2136
7  Saudi Arabia2013
8  Kuwait1102
9  Kyrgyzstan1001
10  Iran0202
11  Thailand0145
12  Pakistan0112
13  Hong Kong0101
  Malaysia0101
  Syria0101
16  United Arab Emirates0011
  Uzbekistan0011
Totals (17 entries)26262678

Participating nations edit

A total of 29 nations were represented by athletes competing at the 2008 championships.

References edit

External links edit