Summary of Japanese Medalists at Asian Athletics Championships

Overall: gold: 4 silver: 6 bronze: 10
Men: gold: 1 silver: 3 bronze: 4
Women: gold: 3 silver: 3 bronze: 6

20th Asian Athletics Championships
Pune, India, July 3-7, 2013
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Men's 200 m Final +0.7 m/s
1. Xie Zhenye (China) - 20.87
2. Fahad Mohammed Alsubaie (Saudi Arabia) - 20.912
3. Kei Takase (Japan) - 20.918

Men's 400 m Final
1. Yousef Ahmed Masrahi (Saudi Arabia) - 45.08
2. Ali Khamis (Bahrain) - 45.65
3. Yuzo Kanemaru (Japan) - 45.95

Men's 110 m Hurdles Final +0.1 m/s
1. Jiang Fan (China) - 13.61
2. Abdulaziz Almandeel (Kuwait) - 13.78
3. Wataru Yazawa (Japan) - 13.88

Men's 400 m Hurdles Final
1. Yasuhiro Fueki (Japan) - 49.86
2. Cheng Wen (China) - 50.07
3. Satinder Singh (India) - 50.35

Men's 3000 m SC
1. Tarek Mubarak Taher (Bahrain) - 8:34.77
2. Dejene Regassa Mootoma (Bahrain) - 8:37.40
3. Tsuyoshi Takeda (Japan) - 8:48.48

Men's 4x100 m Relay Final
1. Hong Kong - 38.94
2. Japan - 39.11
3. China - 39.17

Men's 4x400 m Relay
1. Saudi Arabia - 3:02.53 - MR
2. Japan - 3:04.46
3. Sri Lanka - 3:04.92

Men's Decathlon
1. Dmitriy Karpov (Kazakhstan) - 8037 - MR
2. Akihiko Nakamura (Japan) - 7620
3. Leonid Andreyev (Uzbekistan) - 7383

Women's 100 m Final -0.3 m/s
1. Wei Yongli (China) - 11.29
2. Chisato Fukushima (Japan) - 11.53
3. Tao Yujia (China) - 11.63

Women's 1500 m
1. Betlhem Belayneh Desalegn (U.A.E.) - 4:13.67
2. Gebregeiorges Mimi Belete (Bahrain) - 4:14.04
3. Ayako Jinnouchi (Japan) - 4:16.73

Women's 10000 m
1. Shitaye Eshete Habtegebrel (Bahrain) - 32:17.29 - MR
2. Alia Saeed (U.A.E.) - 32:39.39
3. Ayumi Hagiwara (Japan) - 32:47.44

Women's 100 m Hurdles Final -0.5 m/s
1. Ayako Kimura (Japan) - 13.25
2. Anastassiya Soprunov (Kazakhstan) - 13.44
3. Hemasree J (India) - 14.01

Women's 400 m Hurdles
1. Satomi Kubokura (Japan) - 56.82
2. Manami Kira (Japan) - 57.78
3. Jo Eun-Ju (South Korea) - 58.21

Women's Long Jump
1. Sachiko Masumi (Japan) - 6.55 m +0.0 m/s
2. Anastasiya Juravleva (Uzbekistan) - 6.36 m -0.1 m/s
3. Mayookha Johny (India) - 6.30 m +0.0 m/s

Women's Hammer Throw
1. Wang Zheng (China) - 72.78 m - MR
2. Liu Tingting (China) - 67.16 m
3. Masumi Aya (Japan) - 63.41 m

Women's Javelin Throw
1. Li Lingwei (China) - 60.65 m - MR
2. Nadeeka Lakmali (Sri Lanka) - 60.16 m (MR)
3. Risa Miyashita (Japan) - 55.30 m

Women's 4x100 m Relay
1. China - 44.01
2. Japan - 44.38
3. Thailand - 44.44

Women's 4x400 m Relay
1. India - 3:32.26
2. China - 3:35.31
3. Japan - 3:35.72

Women's Heptathlon
1. Wassana Winatho (Thailand) - 5818
2. Yekaterina Voronina (Uzbekistan) - 5599
3. Chie Kiriyama (Japan) - 5451

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