Athletics at the 1997 West Asian Games

At the 1997 West Asian Games. the athletics events were held in Tehran, Iran in November 1997. It had a men's only programme containing twenty-two track and field events. All performances were affected by the altitude of the host city (3,900 ft; 1,200 m).

Athletics
at the 1997 West Asian Games
VenueAzadi Stadium
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The host nation dominated the proceedings, winning half of the gold medals on offer (11) and more than half of the total medals with its haul of 38 medals. Kuwait was a comfortable second with eight golds among its fifteen medals, while Jordan was a distant third with one gold in its total of five medals. Seven nations reached the medal table in the athletics competition.

The competition was of a relatively low standard for an international athletics meet. Virtually all the performances were closer to the level expected in elite women's competitions. Among the better performers were Maksim Smetanin, a 1996 Olympian from Kyrgyzstan who won the triple jump with 15.90 metres. Two young athletes in the throws discus thrower Abbas Samimi (aged 20), sprinter Fawzi Al-Shammari (aged 18) and hammer thrower Dilshod Nazarov (aged 15) secured their first major medals at an international meeting – all went on to claim multiple medals at the Asian Games and Asian Athletics Championships later in their careers.

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m Musaed Al-Azemi
  Kuwait
10.83 Abdolghaffar Saghar
  Iran
10.87 Fawzi Al-Shammari
  Kuwait
11.05
200 m Khaled Al-Johar
  Kuwait
21.34 Musaed Al-Azemi
  Kuwait
21.37 Maisam Delvarian
  Iran
22.05
400 m Khaled Al-Johar
  Kuwait
46.51 Fawzi Al-Shammari
  Kuwait
48.17 Mehdi Jelodarzadeh
  Iran
49.07
800 m Mohammad Reza Molaei
  Iran
1:54.40 Boris Kaveshnikov
  Kyrgyzstan
1:54.73 Mehdi Jelodarzadeh
  Iran
1:55.58
1500 m Ahmad Yazdanian
  Iran
3:57.74 Farhad Heidari
  Iran
3:58.24 Rasoul Mohammadbeigi
  Iran
4:14.33
5000 m Jafar Babakhani
  Iran
14:39.04 Awad Al-Hasini
  Jordan
14:43.94 Ahmad Zarekar
  Iran
14:45.57
10,000 m Ahmad Zarekar
  Iran
30:32.38 Awad Al-Hasini
  Jordan
30:56.80 Ebrahim Etaati
  Iran
31:15.01
110 m hurdles Bader Abbas
  Kuwait
14.42 Zeyad Abdulrazak
  Kuwait
14.70 Fadin Mohammadzadeh
  Iran
14.92
400 m hurdles Hamid Reza Fardinpour
  Iran
52.53 Majid Foroutannia
  Iran
53.49 Baýmyrat Aşirmyradow
  Turkmenistan
54.35
3000 m steeplechase Jafar Babakhani
  Iran
9:12.10 Abolfazl Mahmoudian
  Iran
9:12.17 Karim Seyedin
  Iran
10:25.26
4 × 100 m relay   Kuwait 42.09   Iran 43.87   Turkmenistan 43.92
4 × 400 m relay   Kuwait 3:11.63   Iran 3:13.93   Turkmenistan 3:32.37
10,000 m walk Gholamreza Zare
  Iran
45:34 Ahmad Fazeli
  Iran
46:55 Hamid Reza Kahrizi
  Iran
47:23
High jump Fakhredin Fouad
  Jordan
2.10 Hassan Banitorfi
  Iran
2.00 Juma Niýazow
  Turkmenistan
1.95
Alireza Ghiasi
  Iran
Pole vault Hassan Mirseifi
  Iran
4.20 Mehdi Mobini
  Iran
4.20 Abdolmajid Sotoudehnia
  Iran
4.10
Long jump Khaled Al-Bakheet
  Kuwait
7.35 Husein Al-Youhah
  Kuwait
7.19 Aleksandr Tumanow
  Turkmenistan
6.79
Triple jump Maksim Smetanin
  Kyrgyzstan
15.90 Mehrzad Charkhian
  Iran
15.75 Khaled Al-Bakheet
  Kuwait
15.35
Shot put Ali Rahmani
  Iran
16.97 Ali Sayyah
  Iran
16.51 Tareq Al-Najjar
  Jordan
15.80
Discus throw Abbas Samimi
  Iran
52.90 Tareq Al-Najjar
  Jordan
51.90 Fariborz Malek
  Iran
51.04
Hammer throw Naser Al-Jarallah
  Kuwait
64.06 Ghorban Salahi
  Iran
63.80 Dilshod Nazarov
  Tajikistan
59.94
Javelin throw Firas Al-Mahamid
  Syria
71.10 Ghanem Zaid
  Kuwait
65.94 Danghatar Yaghouti
  Iran
65.84
Decathlon Ali Feizi
  Iran
6213 Abdollah Hedayati
  Iran
5958 Hamid Asiabi
  Iran
5935

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Iran (IRI)11131438
2  Kuwait (KUW)85215
3  Jordan (JOR)1315
4  Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)1102
5  Syria (SYR)1001
6  Turkmenistan (TKM)0055
7  Tajikistan (TJK)0011
Totals (7 entries)22222367

References

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