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Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Review


Athletics at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games wrapped yesterday with China leading its medal standings at 17 gold medals, 14 silver and 8 bronze. Hosts Japan were next with 10 gold, 12 silver, 10 bronze, and the mostly African-born Bahrain team 3rd with 9 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze.

Thailand's Puripol Boonson was the unofficial MVP of the Games, winning the men's 100 m on Sept. 25 in a MR and NR 9.90 (+0.1), tying the 200m AR on Sept. 27 with a 19.88 (-0.3) MR for his 2nd gold, running a monster men's 4x100 m anchor leg on Sept. 28 to put Thailand into 4th just 0.06 out of the medals, and then powering the Thai team to silver in the mixed 4x100 m relay on Sept. 29.

U.A.E.'s Mariam Kareem was another highlight in the women's 400 mH, running 54.31 to set a new U20 AR, NR and MR. Japan's Taiju Goto delivered the Asian Games's other U20 AR, running 47.93 for silver behind Qatari Bassem Hemeida's 47.82.

Not counting the race walks, 13 other meet records were set this time, along with new national records from:
  • Vithya Ramraj (IND), women's 400 mH - 54.75
  • Parul Chaudhary (IND), women's 3000 mSC - 9:08.67
  • Misaki Morota (JPN), women's pole vault - 4.55 m
  • Joshua Atkinson (THA), men's 400 m - 44.90
  • Sawan Barwal (IND), men's marathon - 2:11:37
Alongside Boonson, Bahrain's Winfred Yavi was another heavy hitter this time around, winning gold in the women's 5000 m, 10000 m, and 3000 mSC, where she set a MR 9:04.36. Indian's Gulveer Singh also had a solid Games, missing out on gold but taking silver in the men's 1500 m in a 3:36.72 PB, bronze in the men's 5000 m, and silver in the men's 10000 m. Japan's Nozomi Tanaka was the other triple individual medalist with bronze in the women's 1500 m and silver in both the 5000 m and 10000 m. Double medalists included:
  • Yujie Chen (CHN), gold in women's 100 m with 11.06 (-0.4) MR, silver in women's 200 m
  • Shanti Pereira (SGP), silver in women's 100 m, gold in women's 200 m
  • Nelly Korir (BRN), gold in women's 1500 m with 4:04.50 MR, silver in women's 800 m
  • Parul Chaudhary (IND), bronze in women's 5000 m and 3000 mSC with 9:08.67 NR
  • Birhanu Balew (BRN), gold in men's 5000 m and 10000 m
Women's pole vault NR holder Misaki Morota turned in the performance of the Games from the home team, setting a new NR of 4.55 m to win gold. Japan's other gold medalists included:
  • Mako Fukube, women's 100 mH
  • Yuri Tanaka, women's heptathlon
  • Ko Ochiai, men's 800 m with 1:44.48 MR
  • Kazuto Iizawa, men's 1500 m with 3:36.35 MR
  • Ryuji Miura, men's 3000 mSC with 8:17.36 MR
  • Yuma Maruyama, men's decathlon
  • Ichitaka Yamashita, men's marathon
  • Hayato Katsuki, men's marathon race walk
  • Men's 4x400 m relay (Fuga Sato, Shinya Hayashi, Kenki Imaizumi, Joseph Nakajima)

Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games

Nagoya, Aichi, 23-29 Sept., 2026

Women

Women's 100 m  - Sept. 25
1. Yujie Chen (CHN) - 11.06 - MR
2. Shanti Pereira (SGP) - 11.21
3. Edidiong Odiong (BRN) - 11.33
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4. Midori Mikase (JPN) - 11.43

Women's 200 m - Sept. 27
1. Shanti Pereira (SGP) - 22.78
2. Yujie Chen (CHN) - 22.93
3. Harita Bhadra (IND) - 23.20
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4. Abigail Ido (JPN) - 23.21

Women's 400 m - Sept. 26
1. Salwa Naser (BRN) - 49.20 - MR
2. Zahra Zarei Manoujan (IRI) - 52.38
3. Prachi (IND) - 53.21 m
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7. Nanako Matsumoto (JPN) - 54.29

Women's 800 m - Sept. 29
1. Hongjiao Wu (CHN) - 2:04.49
2. Nelly Korir (BRN) - 2:05.16
3. Victoria Bossong (PHI) - 2:05.34
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4. Rin Kubo - 2:05.46
5. Ayano Shiomi - 2:05.76

Women's 1500 m - Sept. 26
1. Nelly Korir (BRN) - 4:04.50 - MR
2. Chunhui Li (CHN) - 4:05.50 - PB
3. Nozomi Tanaka (JPN) - 4:06.14
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8. Mizuki Michishita (JPN) - 4:21.24

Women's 5000 m - Sept. 28
1. Winfred Yavi (BRN) - 15:10.18
2. Nozomi Tanaka (JPN) - 15:11.65
3. Parul Chaudhary (IND) - 15:14.61
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4. Yuma Yamamoto (JPN) - 15:17.84

Women's 10000 m - Sept. 24
1. Winfred Yavi (BRN) - 32:39.18
2. Nozomi Tanaka (JPN) - 32:41.54
3. Seema (IND) - 32:50.05

1. Mako Fukube (JPN) - 12.74
2. Hitomi Nakajima (JPN) - 12.78
3. Yanni Wu (CHN) - 13.12

1. Mariam Kareem (UAE) - 54.31 - MR, NR, U20 AR
2. Adelina Zems (KAZ) - 54.58 - PB
3. Vithya Ramraj (IND) - 54.75 - NR
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6. Honoka Aoki (JPN) - 56.24
8. Satsuki Umehara (JPN) - 57.90

1. Winfred Yavi (BRN) - 9:04.36 - MR
2. Norah Jeruto Tanui (KAZ) - 9:06.82
3. Parul Chaudhary (IND) - 9:08.67 - NR
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5. Miu Saito (JPN) - 9:27.56
7. Manami Nishiyama (JPN) - 10:11.39

1. China - 42.96
2. Thailand - 43.51
3. Japan - 43.52

1. India - 3:29.69
2. Bahrain - 3:30.21
3. China - 3:31.02
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4. Japan - 3:31.44

Women's High Jump - Sept. 29
1. Barnokhon Sayfullaeva (UZB) - 1.90 m - PB
2. Kristina Ovchinnikova (KAZ) - 1.87 m
3. Pooja (IND) - 1.84 m
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8. Yuzuki Ishioka (JPN) - 1.80 m
9. Nagisa Takahashi (JPN) - 1.80 m

Women's Pole Vault - Sept. 25
1. Misaki Morota (JPN) - 4.55 m - NR
2. Chunge Niu (CHN) - 4.50 m
3. Baranica Elangovan (IND) - 4.15 m
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5. Akari Osakaya (JPN) - 4.00 m

Women's Long Jump - Sept. 27
1. Yingying Huang (CHN) - 6.55 m
2. Ancy Sojan Edappilly (IND) - 6.53 m
3. Mengyi Tan (CHN) - 6.46 m
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5. Sumire Hata (JPN) - 6.39 m
10. Ayaka Kora (JPN) - 5.96 m

1. Sharifa Davronova (UZB) - 14.35 m
2. Yingying Huang (CHN) - 14.12 m
3. Li Yi (CHN) - 13.83 m
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6. Akari Funada (JPN) - 13.42 m

Women's Shot Put - Sept. 25
1. Jiayuan Song (CHN) - 19.40 m
2. Linru Zhang (CHN) - 18.14 m
3. Kaur Manpreet (IND) - 17.17 m

1. Bin Feng (CHN) - 63.83 m
2. Zhichao Jiang (CHN) - 62.25 m
3. Subenrat Insaeng (THA) - 61.43 m
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5. Nanaka Kori (JPN) - 56.22 m

1. Jiale Zhang (CHN) - 78.27 m - MR
2. Jie Zhao (CHN) - 74.83 m
3. Joy Iris McArthur (JPN) - 68.42 m
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8. Raika Murakami (JPN) - 63.09 m

1. Ziyi Yan (CHN) - 70.46 m - MR
2. Haruka Kitaguchi (JPN) - 62.70 m
3. Sae Takemoto (JPN) - 62.15 m

Women's Heptathlon - Sept. 25
1. Yuri Tanaka (JPN) - 5920
2. Nanaka Kajiki (JPN) - 5673
3. Alina Chistyakova (KAZ) - 5568

Women's Marathon - Sept. 26
1. Shitaye Eshete (BRN) - 2:27:31
2. Cuomu Ciren (CHN) - 2:27:43
3. Mikuni Yada (JPN) - 2:27:56
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4. Sayaka Sato (JPN) - 2:28:14

1. Linking Yang (CHN) - 1:33:40
2. Kristina Morozova (KAZ) - 1:35:25
3. Yunyan Jiang (CHN) - 1:35:26
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4. Ayane Yanai (JPN) - 1:39:24
7. Ayumi Sugibayashi (JPN) - 1:46:13

1. Danzen Quzong (CHN) - 3:26:09 - NR
2. Li Ma (CHN) - 3:32:26
3. Yukiko Umeno (JPN) - 3:34:59
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4. Maika Yagi (JPN) - 3:36:40

Men

Men's 100 m - Sept. 25
1. Puripol Boonson (THA) - 9.90 - MR, NR
2. Ali al Balushi (OMA) - 10.04 - PB
3. Malham Al Balushi (OMA) - 10.11 - PB

Men's 200 m - Sept. 27
1. Puripol Boonson (THA) - MR, AR tie
2. Youwen Huang (CHN) - 20.45
3. Soshi Mizukubo (JPN) - 20.56

Men's 400 m - Sept. 26
1. Joshua Atkinson (THA) - 44.90 - NR
2. Suleiman Abdulrahman (UAE) - 44.99
3. Joseph Nakajima (JPN) - 45.22
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6. Shinya Hayashi (JPN) - 45.77

Men's 800 m - Sept. 29
1. Ko Ochiai (JPN) - 1:44.48 - MR
2. Ali Amirian (IRI) - 1:45.10
3. Abubaker Abdalla (QAT) - 1:45.25 - PB
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7. Nanaki Manno (JPN) - 1:47.59

Men's 1500 m - Sept. 28
1. Kazuto Iizawa (JPN) - 3:36.35 - MR
2. Gulveer Singh (IND) - 3:36.72 - PB
3. Nagiya Mori (JPN) - 3:37.92

Men's 5000 m - Sept. 29
1. Birhanu Balew (BRN) - 13:30.79
2. Tomonori Yamaguchi (JPN) - 13:31.43
3. Gulveer Singh (IND) - 13:32.75
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4. Nagiya Mori (JPN) - 13:35.55

Men's 10000 m - Sept. 25
1. Birhanu Balew (BRN) - 28:27.51
2. Gulveer Singh (IND) - 28:29.38
3. Albert Kiptoo (BRN) - 28:34.38
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5. Yamato Yoshii (JPN) - 29:06.64

1. Yuanjiang Chen (CHN) - 13.15
2. Rachid Muratake (JPN) - 13.29
3. John Tolentino (PHI) - 13.48

1. Bassem Hemeida (QAT) - 47.82
2. Taiju Goto (JPN) - 47.93 - U20 AR
3. Chung-Wei Lin (TPE) - 48.74 - PB
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6. Kazuki Kurokawa (JPN) - 49.41

1. Ryuji Miura (JPN) - 8:17.36 - MR
2. Ryoma Aoki (JPN) - 8:17.60 - PB
3. Zakaria El Ahlaami (QAT) - 8:18.13

1. China - 38.17
2. Taiwan - 38.32
3. South Korea - 38.43
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5. Japan - 38.57

1. Japan - 3:00.75
2. Qatar - 3:00.93
3. India - 3:01.61

Men's High Jump - Sept. 27
1. Chao-Hsuan Fu (TPE) - 2.25 m
2. Sarvesh Kushare Anil (IND) - 2.25 m
3. Sanghyeok Woo (KOR) - 2.22 m
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4. Hirokazu Sakai (JPN) - 2.18 m
7. Ryoichi Akamatsu (JPN) - 2.10 m

Men's Pole Vault - Sept. 29
1. Ernest John Obiena (PHI) - 5.91 m - MR
2. Jie Yao (CHN) - 5.70 m
3. Chenyang Li (CHN) - 5.70 m
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9. Tomoya Karasawa (JPN) - 5.35 m
11. Masaki Ejima (JPN) - 5.20 m

Men's Long Jump - Sept. 28
1. Yuhao Shi (CHN) - 8.17 m
2. Murali Sreeshankar (IND) - 8.07 m
3. Anvar Anvarov (UZB) - 8.06 m
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5. Riku Ito (JPN) - 7.97 m
6. Yuki Hashioka (JPN) - 7.94 m

Men's Triple Jump - Sept. 26
1. Wen Su (CHN) - 17.42 m - MR
2. Manato Miyao (JPN) - 16.77 m - PB
3. Yinglong Ma (CHN) - 16.75 m

Men's Shot Put - Sept. 26
1. Mohammadreza Tayebise (IRI) - 20.81 m - MR
2. Tajinderpal Singh Toor (IND) - 20.64 m
3. Mohammed Tolu (KSA) - 20.48 m

Men's Discus Throw - Sept. 24
1. Abuduaini Tuergong (CHN) - 64.26 m
2. Nanjun Wu (CHN) - 61.58 m
3. Sadegh Samimishalamzari (IRI) - 60.32 m
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4. Yuji Tsutsumi (JPN) - 59.82 m
6. Masateru Yugami (JPN) - 58.53 m

Men's Hammer Throw - Sept. 25
1. Sukhrob Khodjaev (UZB) - 74.38 m
2. Shota Fukuda (JPN) - 71.78 m
3. Mohammed Aldubaibi (KSA) - 71.53 m
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4. Tatsuta Nakagawa (JPN) - 71.48 m

1. Rumesh Pathirage (SRI) - 88.55 m
2. Yashvir Singh (IND) - 85.72 m - PB
3. Rohit Yadav (IND) - 84.35 m
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5. Yuta Sakiyama (JPN) - 78.74 m
10. Rin Suzuki (JPN) - 71.73 m

Men's Decathlon - Sept. 27
1. Yuma Maruyama (JPN) - 8123
2. Xinghua Chen (CHN) - 8012
3. Tejaswin Shankar (IND) - 7934
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7. Keisuke Okuda (JPN) - 7230

Men's Marathon - Sept. 26
1. Ichitaka Yamashita (JPN) - 2:10:49
2. Sawan Barwal (IND) - 2:11:37 - NR
3. Peiyou Feng (CHN) - 2:12:13
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11. Yuya Yoshida (JPN) - 2:18:33

1. Shengji Shi (CHN) - 1:23:32
2. Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN) - 1:28:01
3. Byeongkwang Choe (KOR) - 1:28:35
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4. Kento Yoshikawa (JPN) - 1:29:28

1. Hayato Katsuki (JPN) - 3:03:36
2. Yingcheng Zhou (CHN) - 3:06:40
3. Motofumi Suwa (JPN) - 3:08:57

Mixed Relays

1. China - 40.78
2. Thailand - 40.87
3. India - 41.06
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5. Japan - 41.24

1. Bahrain - 3:12.87 - MR
2. India - 3:14.46
3. Vietnam - 3:14.54
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4. Japan - 3:15.52

1. China - 17 gold, 14 silver, 8 bronze
2. Japan - 10 gold, 12 silver, 10 bronze
3. Bahrain - 9 gold, 2 silver, 2 bronze
4. Thailand - 3 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze
5. Uzbekistan - 3 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze
6. India - 1 gold, 9 silver, 14 bronze
7. Iran - 1 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze
8. Qatar - 1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze
9. Taiwan - 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
10. Singapore - 1 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze
10. U.A.E. - 1 gold, 1 silver, 0 bronze
12. Philippines - 1 gold, 0 silver, 2 bronze
13. Sri Lanka - 1 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze
14. Kazakhstan - 0 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze
15. Oman - 0 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
16. South Korea - 0 gold, 0 silver, 3 bronze
17. Saudi Arabia - 0 gold, 0 silver, 2 bronze
18. Vietnam - 0 gold, 0 silver, 1 bronze

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