2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
# 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships

The 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships was the sixth edition of the international indoor athletics event between Asian nations. It took place at the Vocational and Technical College Athletics Hall in Hangzhou, China, between 15 and 16 February. The city was confirmed as the host in September 2013 at the 77th Council Meeting of the Asian Athletics Association. This was the second time the city held the event, successively following on from the 2012 Championships. A total of 28 nations were represented at the tournament comprising 26 track and field events.

Qatar won the most gold medals – its contingent of African-born athletes won four of the five men's running events. Its sole native medallist, Mutaz Essa Barshim, gave one of the best performances of the meet with 2.36 m in the men's high jump (one centimetre short of his Asian record) to take his third consecutive title. The host nation China won the most medals overall, with four golds in a haul of twenty. Most of China's medals came from the field events, where it had at least one medallist in each event on the men's and women's sides. Kazakhstan ranked a clear third with four champions and twelve medals in total. From the fifteen nations at reached the medal table, Uzbekistan, Kuwait, Japan and Iran were others that frequently featured on the podium.

Four championship records were improved during the course of the two-day competition. Kazakhstan's men's 4×400 m relay team knocked a second off Saudi Arabia's mark from 2008. Maryam Jamal's time in the women's 3000 metres was a six-second improvement from the previous record by compatriot Shitaye Eshete. China's Wu Shuijiao improved her own record from 2012 with a run of 8.02 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles, which was also a Chinese indoor record. Svetlana Radzivil raised the women's high jump best to 1.96 m, erasing Marina Aitova's height of 1.93 m that had stood since 2006.

Four athletes successfully defended their titles from 2012: Dmitriy Karpov in the men's heptathlon, Maryam Tousi in the women's 400 metres, Mutaz Essa Barshim in the men's high jump, and Wu Shuijiao in the women's 60 m hurdles. Mohamad Al-Garni and Maryam Jamal were the only two competitors who won two individual golds, each of them completing a 1500/3000 metres double. Betlhem Desalegn was the women's runner-up in both those events, and sprinter Maryam Tousi was the only other runner to take multiple individual medals.

## Results

### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 60 metres | Samuel Francis (QAT) | 6.61 | Femi Ogunode (QAT) | 6.62 | Reza Ghasemi (IRI) | 6.68 |
| 400 metres | Mehdi Zamani (IRI) | 48.25 | Sergey Zaykov (KAZ) | 48.37 | Ahmed Mubarak Saleh (OMA) | 48.51 |
| 800 metres | Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT) | 1:50.27 | Ibrahim Al-Zafairi (KUW) | 1:50.86 | Yasuhiro Nakamura (JPN) | 1:50.94 |
| 1500 metres | Mohamad Al-Garni (QAT) | 3:48.79 | Hamza Driouch (QAT) | 3:49.55 | Omar Al-Rasheedi (KUW) | 3:50.79 |
| 3000 metres | Mohamad Al-Garni (QAT) | 8:08.65 | Abubaker Ali Kamal (QAT) | 8:09.48 | Tetsuya Yoroizaka (JPN) | 8:11.73 |
| 60 metres hurdles | Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel (KUW) | 7.80 | Yaqoub Mohamed Al-Youha (KUW) | 7.90 | Huang Hao (CHN) | 7.90 |
| 4×400 m relay | Kazakhstan Dmitriy Korabelnikov Igor Kondratyev Omirserik Bekenov Sergey Zaikov | 3:12.94 NR/CR | China Zhang Huadong Qin Jian Chen Jianxin Zhu Chenbin | 3:13.43 | Oman Obaid Al-Quraini Ahmed Al-Marjabi Othman Al-Busaidi Ahmed Mubarak Salah | 3:13.49 |
| High jump | Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) | 2.36 m | Majd Eddin Ghazal (SYR) | 2.20 m | Zhang Guowei (CHN) | 2.20 m |
| Pole vault | Hsieh Chia-Han (TPE) | 5.15 m | Zhou Bo (CHN) | 5.15 m | Ryo Tanaka (JPN) | 5.15 m |
| Long jump | Saleh Abdelaziz Al-Haddad (KUW) | 7.94 m NR | Mohammad Arzandeh (IRI) | 7.80 m NR | Jie Lei (CHN) | 7.76 m |
| Triple jump | Fu Haitao (CHN) | 16.21 m | Roman Valiyev (KAZ) | 16.16 m | Ruslan Kurbanov (UZB) | 16.00 m |
| Shot put | Om Prakash Karhana (IND) | 19.07 m | Wang Guangfu (CHN) | 18.64 m | Li Jun (CHN) | 18.52 m |
| Heptathlon | Dmitriy Karpov (KAZ) | 5752 pts | Akihiko Nakamura (JPN) | 5693 pts NR | Leonid Andreev (UZB) | 5561 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 60 metres | Tao Yujia (CHN) | 7.36 | Olga Safronova (KAZ) | 7.41 | Maryam Tousi (IRI) | 7.50 |
| 400 metres | Maryam Tousi (IRI) | 54.24 | Yuliya Rakhmanova (KAZ) | 54.37 | Olga Andreyeva (KAZ) | 55.74 |
| 800 metres | Tatyana Yurchenko (KAZ) | 2:14.20 | Kseniya Faiskanova (KGZ) | 2:14.47 | Tatyana Neroznak (KAZ) | 2:14.61 |
| 1500 metres | Maryam Jamal (BHR) | 4:19.42 | Betlhem Desalegn (UAE) | 4:19.83 | Viktoria Poludina (KGZ) | 4:25.36 |
| 3000 metres | Maryam Jamal (BHR) | 8:43.16 NR/CR | Betlhem Desalegn (UAE) | 8:46.54 NR | Alia Saeed Mohammed (UAE) | 8:56.78 |
| 60 metres hurdles | Wu Shuijiao (CHN) | 8.02 NR/CR | Anastassiya Soprunova (KAZ) | 8.27 | Sun Yawei (CHN) | 8.37 |
| 4×400 m relay | Kazakhstan Elina Mikhina Tatyana Yurchenko Olga Andreyeva Yuliya Rakhmanova | 3:42.45 | Thailand Karat Srimuang Atchima Eng-Chuan Pornpan Hoemhuk Treewadee Yongphan | 3:42.55 | China Zhou Yanling Chen Jingwen Li Manyuan Wang Huan | 3:43.89 |
| High jump | Svetlana Radzivil (UZB) | 1.96 m NR/CR | Zheng Xingjuan (CHN) | 1.91 m | Zhao Jian (CHN) | 1.80 m |
| Pole vault | Tomomi Abiko (JPN) | 4.30 m | Xu Huiqin (CHN) Ren Mengqian (CHN) | 4.15 m | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| Long jump | Yurina Hiraka (JPN) | 6.34 m | Darya Reznichenko (UZB) | 6.30 m | Jiang Yanfei (CHN) | 6.22 m |
| Triple jump | Anastasiya Juravleva (UZB) | 13.60 m | Aleksandra Kotlyarova (UZB) | 13.45 m | Li Xiaohong (CHN) | 13.43 m |
| Shot put | Sofiya Burkhanova (UZB) | 16.80 m | Bian Ka (CHN) | 16.60 m | Lin Chia-Ying (TPE) | 16.52 m |
| Pentathlon | Wang Qingling (CHN) | 4246 pts | Yuliya Tarasova (UZB) | 3985 pts | Irina Karpova (KAZ) | 3951 pts |

## Medal table

* Host nation (China)

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Qatar | 5 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | China* | 4 | 7 | 9 | 20 |
| 3 | Kazakhstan | 4 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| 4 | Uzbekistan | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | Kuwait | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 6 | Japan | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | Iran | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 8 | Bahrain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Chinese Taipei | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | India | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | United Arab Emirates | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Syria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Thailand | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Oman | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 26 | 27 | 25 | 78 |

## Participating nations

* Bahrain (3)
* China (51)
* Chinese Taipei (12)
* Hong Kong (9)
* India (5)
* Indonesia (4)
* Iran (11)
* Iraq (1)
* Japan (12)
* Kazakhstan (20)
* Kyrgyzstan (8)
* Kuwait (7)
* Lebanon (4)
* Macau (6)
* Malaysia (5)
* Mongolia (6)
* Oman (7)
* Pakistan (3)
* Philippines (3)
* Qatar (10)
* Singapore (5)
* South Korea (1)
* Syria (1)
* Thailand (8)
* Tajikistan (1)
* Turkmenistan (5)
* United Arab Emirates (2)
* Uzbekistan (17)

## National records

A total of 20 national records were set at the championships. Non-medalling national record performances are listed below.

| Gender | Event | Athlete | Nation | Mark |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Men | 60 metres | Eric Cray | Philippines | 6.75/6.77 |
| Men | 400 metres | Chan Ka Chun | Hong Kong | 49.00 |
| Men | 800 metres | Jian Yong Leo Fang | Singapore | 1:55.63 |
| Men | 60 m hurdles | Arumugam Suresh | India | 8.08 |
| Men | 60 m hurdles | Rio Maholtra | Indonesia | 8.25 |
| Men | Triple jump | Mohamed Youssef Al-Sahabi | Bahrain | 15.97 |
| Women | 60 metres | Fong Yee Pui | Hong Kong | 7.55/7.55 |
| Women | 60 metres | Shanti Veronica Pereira | Singapore | 7.61/7.62 |
| Women | Long jump | Maria Natalia Londa | Indonesia | 6.18 |
