Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou, China from 21 to 27 November 2010. A total of 47 events were contested – 24 by men and 23 by women – matching the Olympic athletics programme. The 42 track and field events on the programme were hosted at the Aoti Main Stadium (Guangdong Olympic Stadium) while the marathons and racewalking competitions took place around the city's University Town (sharing a venue with the triathlon). Sixteen Asian Games records were broken during the seven-day competition.Asian Games Records (as at 27.11.2010). Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved on 2010-11-28.
China, the host country, topped the medal table having won 13 gold medals and 36 medals overall. India (12 medals overall) and Bahrain both won five golds, but Japan (with four golds) had the second-largestoverall medal haul with twenty. A number of countries had double-digit medal totals: Kazakhstan and South Korea won four gold medals each, with hauls of eleven and ten medals respectively. Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan were the next best performing National Olympic Committees.Athletics - Medal Standings. gz2010. Retrieved on 2010-11-28. A total of 574 athletes (comprising 351 men and 223 women) from 41 nations took part in the competition. Bhutan, Brunei, Jordan and Pakistan were the only nations without a representative in the events.
One of the primary attractions of the competition was Chinese Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang – the stadium filled with around 70,000 spectators on the day he defended his title and he won gold in a Games record time. Chinese women completed 1–2 podium finishes in the shot put, discus and hammer throws while Zhou Chunxiu and Zhu Xiaolin took the top two spots in the women's marathon. Japan's Chisato Fukushima took a 100/200 metres sprint double and also won a bronze in the relay. Preeja Sreedharan of India broke two national records, almost completing a 5000 and 10,000 metres double, but was beaten by Mimi Belete in the former event. Femi Ogunode – a Nigerian-born athlete representing Qatar – won golds in both the 200 m and 400 m at the age of nineteen. Little-known Lao Yi won the men's 100 m after the favourites (Masashi Eriguchi and Samuel Francis) were both eliminated in the semi-finals.
Schedule ●1st day●Final dayHHeatsQQualificationSSemifinalsFFinal Event↓/Date → 21stSun 22ndMon 23rdTue 24thWed 25thThu 26thFri 27thSat Men's 100 m H S F Men's 200 m H F Men's 400 m H F Men's 800 m H F Men's 1500 m H F Men's 5000 m F Men's 10,000 m F Men's 110 m hurdles H F Men's 400 m hurdles H F Men's 3000 m steeplechase F Men's 4 × 100 m relay H F Men's 4 × 400 m relay H F Men's marathon F Men's 20 km walk F Men's 50 km walk F Men's high jump Q F Men's pole vault F Men's long jump F Men's triple jump F Men's shot put F Men's discus throw F Men's hammer throw F Men's javelin throw F Men's decathlon ● ● Women's 100 m H S F Women's 200 m H F Women's 400 m H F Women's 800 m H F Women's 1500 m F Women's 5000 m F Women's 10,000 m F Women's 100 m hurdles H F Women's 400 m hurdles H F Women's 3000 m steeplechase F Women's 4 × 100 m relay H F Women's 4 × 400 m relay F Women's marathon F Women's 20 km walk F Women's high jump F Women's pole vault F Women's long jump F Women's triple jump F Women's shot put F Women's discus throw F Women's hammer throw F Women's javelin throw F Women's heptathlon ● ●
Medalists
Men 100 m 10.24 10.26 10.28200 m 20.43 20.74 20.83400 m 45.12 45.32 45.71800 m 1:45.45 1:45.88 1:46.191500 m 3:36.49 3:37.09 3:38.395000 m 13:47.86 13:48.55 13:49.3110,000 m 27:32.72 27:33.09 27:40.07110 m hurdles 13.09 13.38 13.48400 m hurdles 49.96 50.29 50.373000 m steeplechase 8:25.89 8:26.27 8:30.964 × 100 m relay Lu BinLiang JiahongSu BingtianLao Yi 38.78 Wang Wen-tangLiu Yuan-kaiTsai Meng-linYi Wei-chen 39.05 Poommanus JankemWachara SondeeJirapong MeenapraSittichai Suwonprateep 39.094 × 400 m relay Ismail Al-SabianiMohammed Al-SalhiHamed Al-BishiYousef Masrahi 3:02.30 Yusuke IshitsukaKenji FujimitsuHideyuki HiroseYuzo Kanemaru 3:02.43 Lin YangDeng ShijieChang PengbenLiu Xiaosheng 3:03.66Marathon 2:11:11 2:12:46 2:12:5320 km walk 1:20:50 1:21:57 1:22:4750 km walk 3:47:04 3:47:34 3:47:41High jump 2.27 2.232.19Pole vault 5.50 5.30Shared silver Long jump 8.11 8.05 7.96 Triple jump 16.94 16.86 16.84 Shot put 20.57 19.59 19.48 Discus throw 67.99 63.46 63.13 Hammer throw 76.44 68.90 68.72 Javelin throw 83.15 79.92 79.65 Decathlon 8026 7808 7755
Women 100 m 11.33 11.34 11.43200 m 23.62 23.74 23.87400 m 51.97 52.68 52.70800 m 2:00.29 2:00.91 2:01.361500 m 4:08.22 4:09.58 4:10.425000 m 15:15.59 15:15.89 15:16.5410,000 m 31:50.47 31:51.44 31:53.27100 m hurdles 13.23 13.24 13.27400 m hurdles 56.15 56.76 56.833000 m steeplechase 9:55.47 9:55.71 10:01.254 × 100 m relay Phatsorn JaksuninkornNeeranuch KlomdeeLaphassaporn TawoncharoenNongnuch Sanrat 44.09 Tao YujiaLiang QiupingJiang LanYe Jiabei 44.22 Mayumi WatanabeMomoko TakahashiYumeka SanoChisato Fukushima 44.414 × 400 m relay Manjeet KaurSini JoseAshwini AkkunjiMandeep Kaur 3:29.02 Marina MaslyonkoViktoriya YalovtsevaMargarita MatskoOlga Tereshkova 3:30.03 Zheng ZhihuiTang XiaoyinChen LinChen Jingwen 3:30.89 Marathon 2:25:00 2:26:35 2:27:0620 km walk 1:30:06 1:30:34 1:32:34High jump 1.95 1.93 1.90 Pole vault 4.30 4.30 4.15 Long jump 6.53 6.50 6.49 Triple jump 14.78 14.18 13.85 Shot put 19.94 19.67 17.51 Discus throw 66.18 64.04 61.94 Hammer throw 72.84 68.17 62.94 Javelin throw 61.56 58.72 57.51 Heptathlon 5783 5606 5415
Medal table
Participating nations A total of 574 athletes from 41 nations competed in athletics at the 2010 Asian Games:Athletics - Number of Entries by NOC . gz2010. Retrieved on 2010-11-28.
References
Day reports
External links Athletics site of 2010 Asian Games