2015 Asian Youth Athletics Championships

The 2015 Asian Youth Athletics Championships was the first edition of the biennial, continental athletics competition for Asian athletes aged fifteen to seventeen. It was held in Doha, Qatar from 8–11 May. A total of forty events were contested, with the events divided evenly between the sexes. The event programme mirrored that of the previous IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics, with the exception of a boy's decathlon, rather than the octathlon.

1st Asian Youth Athletics Championships
Dates8–11 May 2015
Host cityDoha, Qatar
VenueSuheim Bin Hamad Stadium
LevelYouth
Events40

The event was established following the 78th council meeting of the Asian Athletics Association in March 2014. The body's president Dahlan Jumaan al-Hamad cited the creation of the championships as a way of boosting the grassroots-level development of the sport in Asia and raise the importance of continental level competition among the region's countries.[1]

China easily topped the medal table with half of their 32 medals being gold. Chinese Taipei won the next most gold medals, with four, while India had the second largest overall medal haul at fourteen medals. Kazakhstan (three golds, eight medals) and Japan (nine medals) were the other leading nations of the tournament. A total of 27 of the participating nations reached the medal table.[2][3]

The highest level performance at the competition came from Chinese girls' javelin thrower Yu Yuzhen, whose winning throw of 61.97 m (203 ft 3+34 in) was the world youth best for the 500-gramme youth implement. Yu Shu Shen of Chinese Taipei was the only athlete to win two individual titles, doing so in the boys' 100 metres and 200 metres.[2]

An anti-doping outreach and sports ethics programme was held in conjunction with the competition, with the achievements of Liu Xiang and Koji Murofushi being held up as examples of Olympic champions from Asia who promoted an anti-doping culture.[4]

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   Shen Yu-sen (TPE) 10.48   Tang Yao (CHN) 10.60   Burhan Wardhani (INA) 10.81
200 metres   Shen Yu-sen (TPE) 21.69   Wu Zhitao (CHN) 22.01   Ogsa Agfreansa (INA) 22.16
400 metres   Wu Yu Ang (CHN) 47.55   Nattapong Kongkraphan (THA) 48.02   Russel Alexander Nasir Taib (MAS) 49.07
800 metres   Beant Singh (IND) 1:52.26   Mohaamed Raheem Zghair Al-Bzaznah (IRQ) 1:54.92   Saeed Hassan Olwani (KSA) 1:55.84
1500 metres   Huang Peng (CHN) 4:05.85   Lee Kyeong-ho (KOR) 4:07.08   Hikaru Oya (JPN) 4:07.27
3000 metres   Tadwi Kishan Narshi (IND) 8:26.24   Chihiro Ono (JPN) 8:37.29   Yaser Salim Ba Gharb (YEM) 8:37.65
110 metres hurdles   Fares Khaled Alsaid (KUW) 13.92   Bo Xiaoshuai (CHN) 14.02   Irwan Suadi (INA) 14.36
400 metres hurdles   Witthawat Thumcha (THA) 52.45   Darshana Kuamrabatagallalage (SRI) 52.88   Kim Hyun-bin (KOR) 52.93
2000 metres steeplechase   Muhand Khamis Saifeldin (QAT) 5:54.34   Luo Chun (CHN) 5:56.99   Duc Le Trung (VIE) 6:00.59
Medley relay   China (CHN)
Tang Yao
Wu Zhitao
Zeng Sen
Wu Yu Ang
1:53.34   India (IND)
Nuzrat
Beant Singh
Chirag
Chandan Bauri
1:53.74   Saudi Arabia (KSA)
Abdulelah Ahmed Al Nashri
Saad Ahmed Sabbai
Ahmed Saleh Mahda
Saeed Hassan Olwani
1:55.81
10,000 m walk   Zhang Jun (CHN) 44:00.87   Shuqi Guo (CHN) 45:25.93   Song Yun-hwa (KOR) 48:34.39
High jump   Ding Shuo (CHN) 2.15 m   Roshan Dammika Ranatungage (SRI) 2.12 m   Hussein Falah Hasan Al-Ibraheemi (IRQ) 2.12 m
Pole vault   Yeh Yao-Wen (TPE) 4.90 m   Muntadher Falih Abdulwahid (IRQ) 4.65 m   Teuku Tegar Abadi (INA) 4.50 m
Long jump   Kim Young-bin (KOR) 7.49 m   Yugo Sakai (JPN) 7.31 m   Jose Jerry Belibestre (PHI) 7.26 m
Triple jump   Muhammed Afzal (PAK) 15.44 m   Chamal Kumarasiri Liyana Waduge (SRI) 15.39 m   Sonu Kumar (IND) 15.08 m
Shot put   Ma Hao-Wei (TPE) 19.43 m   Ashish Bhalothia (IND) 17.76 m   Hiroshi Ikegawa (JPN) 17.51 m
Discus throw   Sajjad Hassen Zare (IRI) 53.06 m   Eric Yee (SIN) 52.55 m   Du Haonan (CHN) 48.99 m
Hammer throw   Xu Wenji (CHN) 75.15 m   Ashish Jakhar (IND) 71.79 m   Miraj Ali (IND) 64.91 m
Javelin throw   Vladyslav Palyunin (UZB) 79.11 m   Mohd Hadish (IND) 75.52 m   Abhishek Drall (IND) 74.72 m
Decathlon   Mohamed Alferas (KUW) 6671 pts   Rajesh R (IND) 5867 pts   Ahmed Yaseen Alyaseen (KSA) 5703 pts

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   Poon Hang Wai (HKG) 12.27   Lea Paul Obeid (LIB) 12.32   Hu Siyu (CHN) 12.32
200 metres   Huang Jiaxin (CHN) 24.67   Sayaka Morita (JPN) 25.16   Kugapriya Chandran (SIN) 25.35
400 metres   Salwa Eid Naser (BHR) 53.02   Jisna Mathew (IND) 53.84   Shereen Samson Vallabouy (MAS) 55.14
800 metres   Arina Kleshchukov (KGZ) 2:14.73   Misato Kaneko (JPN) 2:15.04   Sara Joe Rafik Kortbawi (LIB) 2:19.64
1500 metres   Dalila Abdulkadir Gosa (BHR) 4:19.95   Nozomi Tanaka (JPN) 4:25.00   Dawajila (CHN) 4:37.64
3000 metres   Fatuma Jewaro Chebsi (BHR) 9:30.17   Xia Yuyu (CHN) 9:53.03   Anumol Thampi (IND) 10:24.98
100 metres hurdles   Deng Xuelin (CHN) 13.62   Lam Yan Tung (HKG) 14.22   Lin Hsiao-Hui (TPE) 14.24
400 metres hurdles   Yamani Dulanjalee Mudiyanselage (SRI) 61.27   Qui Zhangyen (CHN) 62.61   Adelina Akhmetova (KAZ) 63.27
2000 metres steeplechase   Tian Wanhua (CHN) 7:01.06   Choe Kang Bok (PRK) 7:14.88   Lada Fomina (KAZ) 7:16.08
Medley relay   China (CHN)
Hu Siyu
heng Gange
Huang Jiaxin
Liang Nuo
2:13.32   Kazakhstan (KAZ)
Kamila Niyazova
Adelina Akhmetova
Mariya Ovchinnikova
Anastassiya Ksyanova
2:17.72   Bahrain (BHR)
Shaika Mohamed Rabeaa
Salwa Eid Naser Naser
Dalila Abdulkadir Gosa
Fatuma Jewaro Chebsi
2:19.04
5000 m walk   Ma Zhenxia (CHN) 23:45.19   Qiji Zhouma (CHN) 24:05.84   Kana Kimura (JPN) 24:59.04
High jump   Safina Sadullaeva (UZB) 1.74 m   Wong Yuen Nam (HKG) 1.71 m   Nadezhda Dubovitskaya (KAZ) 1.68 m
Pole vault   Anna Danilovskaya (KAZ) 3.70 m   Devi Ayu Febriana (INA) 3.40 m   Fatima Othman Al Absi (QAT) 2.00 m
Long jump   Kanae Sugimora (JPN) 5.90 m   Lee Hui-jin (KOR) 5.82 m   Zeng Rui (CHN) 5.81 m
Triple jump   Mariya Ovchinnikova (KAZ) 12.81 m   Chen Jie (CHN) 12.77 m   Viktoriya Dirdina (UZB) 12.34 m
Shot put   Liu Ziyue (CHN) 16.08 m   Lee Yu-ri (KOR) 16.00 m   Liu Xiuerui (CHN) 15.36 m
Discus throw   Dong Xiaocen (CHN) 45.58 m   Fatima Al Hosani (UAE) 41.80 m   Seema (IND) 41.14 m
Hammer throw   Shang Ningyu (CHN) 66.59 m   Yao Kailun (CHN) 60.16 m   Amineh Kashiri (IRI) 48.25 m
Javelin throw   Yu Yuzhen (CHN) 61.97 m WYB   Song Linyi (CHN) 51.89 m   Lee Ga-hui (KOR) 50.53 m
Heptathlon   Zhou Jingjing (CHN) 4242 pts   Viktoriya Ryazantseva (KAZ) 3909 pts   Aleksandra Yukevskaya (UZB) 3857 pts

Medal table

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Key
  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  China1611532
2  Chinese Taipei4015
3  Kazakhstan3238
4  Bahrain3014
5  India26614
6  Uzbekistan2024
7  Kuwait2002
8  Japan1539
9  South Korea1337
10  Sri Lanka1304
11  Hong Kong1203
12  Thailand1102
13  Iran1012
  Qatar*1012
15  Pakistan1001
16  Iraq0213
17  Indonesia0145
18  Lebanon0112
  Singapore0112
20  North Korea0101
  United Arab Emirates0101
22  Saudi Arabia0033
23  Malaysia0022
24  Philippines0011
  Vietnam0011
  Yemen0011
Totals (26 entries)404041121

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Avison, Ben (2014-03-04). Doha to host 2015 Asian Youth Athletics Championships Archived 2015-05-12 at the Wayback Machine. Host City. Retrieved on 2015-05-13.
  2. ^ a b Georgiotis, Vassilis (2015-05-12). China tops medal table at the 1st Asian Youth Championships in Doha. IAAF. Retrieved on 2015-05-13.
  3. ^ Total Medals Table- Boy & girl[permanent dead link]. Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved on 2015-05-13.
  4. ^ Anti-doping outreach programme features at Asian Youth Championships. IAAF (2015-05-13). Retrieved on 2015-05-17.
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Preceded by
Inaugural Championships
1st Asian Youth Athletics Championships
2015
Doha, Qatar
Succeeded by
2017
Bangkok, Thailand