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Asian Games Preview - Entries, Timetable and Live Results


Back in Japan for the first time in 32 years and representing 60% of the world's population, with more athletes competing across all sports than at the Olympics, the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games are already underway. Athletics competition starts tomorrow and runs through Tuesday the 29th.

Some of the biggest names on the entry list include:
  • Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage (SRI) - men's javelin throw - 2026 World Ultimate Championships gold and 2026 Diamond League champion
  • Haruka Kitaguchi (JPN) - women's javelin throw - 2026 World Ultimate Championships and 2024 Paris Olympics gold
  • Birhanu Balew (BRN) - men's 5000 m/10000 m - 2026 Diamond League 5000 m champion
  • Sanghyeok Woo (KOR) - men's high jump - 2025 Tokyo World Championships silver
  • Hayato Katsuki (JPN) - men's marathon race walk - 2025 Tokyo World Championships bronze
  • Abderrahman Samba (QAT) - men's 400 mH - 2025 Tokyo World Championships bronze
  • Jiale Zhang (CHN) - women's hammer throw - 2025 Tokyo World Championships bronze
  • Winfred Yavi (BRN) - women's 3000 mSC/5000 m/10000 m - 2024 Paris Olympics gold
  • Salwa Eid Naser (BRN) - women's 400 m - 2024 Paris Olympics silver
  • Bin Feng (CHN) - women's discus throw - 2024 Paris Olympics silver
  • Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN) - men's half marathon race walk - 2021 Tokyo Olympics bronze
Japanese athletes have the top seed in 15 events, 11 for men, 3 for women, and the mixed 4x400 m relay. Its best chances of gold look to be:
  • Men's 1500 m, Kazuto Iizawa the only man in the field under 3:36
  • Women's marathon where Mikuni Yada is the only woman under 2:20 in the last 2 years
  • Women's 100 mH, Hitomi Nakajima and Mako Fukube ranked 1-2
  • Men's 110 mH, Rachid Muratake and Shunsuke Izumiya likewise occupying the 2 fastest spots despite problems this season
  • Men's 3000 mSC, Ryuji Miura and Ryoma Aoki ranked 1-2
  • Mixed 4x400 m where Japan is the heavy favorite
  • Men's half marathon race walk with Toshikazu Yamanishi and Kento Yoshikawa ranked 1-2
  • Men's marathon race walk, Hayato Katsuki and Motofumi Suwa being the only entrants to have cleared 3 hours
  • Women's heptathlon where Yuri Tanaka has a best over 300 points higher top rival Alina Chistyakova (KAZ)
  • Men's decathlon where Yuma ;Maruyama has nearly 300 points on Tejaswin Shankar (IND)
Closer competition for gold comes in:
  • Women's 200 m where Veronica Shanti Pereira (SGP) is 0.01 faster than Abigail Fuka Ido
  • Men's 200 m, Puripol Boonson (THA) leading Soshi Mizukubo by 0.04
  • Men's 400 m, with Zurich Diamond League winner Yuki Joseph Nakajima's 44.44 giving him a slight lead over Ammar Ibrahim (QAT) and Suleiman Abdulrahman (UAE)
  • Men's 800 m, where Ko Ochiai is the only man to have broken 1:44 but with patchy results when he's had to face non-Japanese competition so far in his short career
  • Men's marathon where Ichitaka Yamashita is 20 seconds down on Chinese NR holder Peiyou Feng
  • Men's 4x100 m relay, where Japan is only 0.01 ahead of China
  • Men's 4x400 m relay, Japan holding a slight edge over Qatar and India
  • Men's hammer throw, where Shota Fukuda leads Qi Wang (CHN) by only 7 cm
  • Women's javelin, where Haruka Kitaguchi's 68.92 m NR to win the World Ultimate Championships was still almost 3 m short of wunderkind Ziyi Yan (CHN)
Below is a complete schedule for the full week, with the top 8 entries in each event by 2025-26 best performance. Complete entry lists, live results and more can be had here.

Wednesday, Sept. 23

7:30 - Women's / Men's Half Marathon Race Walk Final
Men
Toshikazu Yamanishi (JPN) - 1:20:34
Kento Yoshikawa (JPN) - 1:20:50
Shengji Shi (CHN) - 1:22:33
Chenjie Li (CHN) - 1:23:25
Byeongkwang Choe (KOR) - 1:25:37
Sheng-Qin Lo (TPE) - 1:22:59 (20 km)
Yung-Kuei Chan (TPE) - 1:24:35 (20 km)
Hendro Hendro (INA) - 1:37:47

Women
Yunyan Jiang (CHN) - 1:31:39
Liujing Yang (CHN) - 1:32:08
Ayane Yanai (JPN) - 1:35:57
Kristina Morozova (KAZ) - 1:37:20
Seha Lee (KOR) - 1:38:30
Elmira Kalimullina (KAZ) - 1:39:08
Ayumi Sugibayashi (JPN) - 1:39:43
Violine Intan Puspita (INA) - 1:52:16

Thursday, Sept. 24

10:00 - Women's Heptathlon 100 mH
Yuri Tanaka (JPN) - 6050
Alina Chistyakova (KAZ) - 5737
Nanaka Kajiki (JPN) - 5663
Cai-Juan Chen (TPE) - 5608
Ugilay Norboyeva (UZB) - 5572
Fatemeh Mohitizadeh (IRI) - 5562
Emilia Nova (INA) - 5495
Anamika Kozhinjaparambil (IND) - 5466

10:20 - Mixed 4x400 m Relay Heats
Japan - 3:12.08
China - 3:13.39
India - 3:14.81
Thailand - 3:16.56
Bahrain - 3:17.28
Korea - 3:22.87
Qatar - 3:23.37
Philippines - 3:25.28

10:30 - Men's Triple Jump Heats
Wen Su (CHN) - 17.40 m (+0.3)
Jangwoo Kim (KOR) - 17.13 m (+1.2)
Yinglong Ma (CHN) - 17.11 m (0.0)
Praveen Chithravel (IND) - 17.08 m (-0.9)
Karthik Unnikrishnan (IND) - 16.80 m (+0.6)
Manato Miyao (JPN) - 16.64 m (-1.7)
Ibrakhim Mahkamov (UZB) - 16.49 m (+0.2)
Manh Hung Ho Trong (VIE) - 16.33 m (+0.6)

10:40 - Women's Heptathlon High Jump

19:05 - Men's High Jump Heats
Sanghyeok Woo (KOR) - 2.34 m
Sarvesh Anil Kushare (IND) - 2.31 m
Ryoichi Akamatsu (JPN) - 2.29 m
Mutaz Essa Barshim (QAT) - 2.27 m
A.R. Jothi Shankar (IND) - 2.27 m
Chao-Hsuan Fu (TPE) - 2.27 m
Kampton Kam (SGP) - 2.25 m
T.D.M. Agampodi (SRI) - 2.23 m

19:13 - Women's Heptathlon Shot Put

19:33 - Women's 100 m Heats
Yujie Chen (CHN) - 11.08 (+0.7)
Edidiong Odiong (BRN) - 11.15 (+1.4)
Zion Corrales-Nelson (PHI) - 11.19 (+0.3)
Veronica Shanti Pereira (SGP) - 11.24 (+1.7)
Manqi Ge (CHN) - 11.30 (+0.7)
Midori Mikase (JPN) - 11.33 (+0.6)
Abigail Fuka Ido (JPN) - 11.35 (+0.5)
Sukanda Petraksa (THA) - 11.43 (+1.4)

19:44 - Women's Triple Jump Final
Sharifa Davronova (UZB) - 14.33 m (+1.2)
Yi Li (CHN) - 14.16 m (0.0)
Yiingying Huang (CHN) - 14.12 m (-0.6)
Ilango Asha (IND) - 13.89 m (-0.3)
Mariya Yefremova (KAZ) - 13.87 m (0.0)
Akari Funada (JPN) - 13.87 m (+0.4)
Maria Natalia Londa (INA) - 13.85 m (+1.3)
Parinya Chuaimaroeng (THA) - 13.79 m (+1.3) 

20:08 - Men's 100 m Heats
Puripol Boonson (THA) - 9.94 (+0.7)
Hassan Taftian (IRI) - 10.03 (-1.4)
Yuki Koike (JPN) - 10.06 (+1.4)
Malham Al Balushi (OMA) - 10.07 (+0.9)
Muhammad Azeem Mohd Fahmi (MAS) - 10.09 (-0.1)
Gurindervir Singh (IND) - 10.09 (+0.3)
Zhenye Xie (CHN) - 10.10 (+0.4)
Shuhei Tada (JPN) - 10.10 (+1.4)

20:55 - Men's Discus Throw Final
Abuduaini Tuergong (CHN) - 67.29 m
Masateru Yugami (JPN) - 65.38 m
Nanjun Wu (CHN) - 63.34 m
Muhammad Irfan Shamsuddin (MAS) - 62.87 m
Yuji Tsutsumi (JPN) - 61.76 m
Sadegn Samimishalamzari (IRI) - 60.06 m
Essa Mohamed Al Zenkawi (KUW) - 59.75 m
Moaaz Mohamed Ibrahim (QAT) - 59.03 m

21:00 - Women's Heptathlon 200 m

21:25 - Women's 10000 m Final
Medina Eisa (QAT) - 29:25 (road)
Daisy Jepkemei (KAZ) - 30:48.44
Nozomi Tanaka (JPN) - 30:54.40
Seema (IND) - 32:02.43
Mariya Korobitskaya (KGZ) - 32:57 (road)
Ruth Jebet (BRN) - 33:10.63
Thi Oanh Nguyễn (VIE) - 33:13.23
Winifred Yavi (BRN) - debut

22:15 - Mixed 4x400 m Relay Final

Friday, Sept. 25

10:00 - Women's Heptathlon Long Jump

10:30 - Men's 400 m Heats
Yuki Joseph Nakajima (JPN) - 44.44
Ammar Ibrahim (QAT) - 44.63
Suleiman Abdulrahman (UAE) - 44.85
Vishal Thennarasu Kayalvizhi (IND) - 44.98
Shinya Hayashi (JPN) - 44.98
Kai Liu (CHN) - 45.06
Joshua Atkinson (THA) - 45.13
Rajesh Ramesh (IND) - 45.26

11:25 - Women's Heptathlon Javelin Throw

19:05 - Women's Shot Put Final
Linru Zhang (CHN) - 19.63 m
Jiayuan Song (CHN) - 18.95 m
Ching-Yuan Chiang (TPE) - 18.08 m
Manpreet Kaur (IND) - 17.75 m
Krishna Jayasankar (IND) - 17.35 m
Yu Sun Jeong (KOR) - 16.86 m
Ci-En Wu (TPE) - 16.54 m
Nani Sahara Maryata (MAS) - 16.36 m

19:13 - Women's 100 m Semifinal
19:33 - Men's 100 m Semifinal

20:03 - Women's Pole Vault Final
Chunge Niu (CHN) - 4.73 m
Misaki Morota (JPN) - 4.51 m
Diva Renatta Jayadi (INA) - 4.35 m
Akari Osakaya (JPN) - 4.25 m
Beatrice Elangoan (IND) - 4.23 m
Polina Ivanova (KAZ) - 4.20 m
Anna Cherkashina (KAZ) - 4.10 m
Sooyoung Shin (KOR) - 4.00 m

20:11 - Women's Heptathlon 800 m

20:32 - Men's 10000 m Final
Birhanu Balew (BRN) - 26:54 (road)
Gulveer Singh (IND) - 27:00.22
Mebuki Suzuki (JPN) - 27:05.92
Yamato Yoshii (JPN) - 27:21.45
Wenjie Wang (CHN) - 27:47.53
Albert Rop (BRN) - 28:46.82
Maxim Frolovskiy (KAZ) - 28:50.94
Abhishek Pal (IND) - 29:14.86

20:40 - Men's Hammer Throw Final
Shota Fukuda (JPN) - 74.57 m
Qi Wang (CHN) - 74.50 m
Sukhrob Khodjaev (UZB) - 74.44 m
Ayubkhon Fayozov (UZB) - 74.12 m
Tatsuto Nakagawa (JPN) - 73.93 m
Ashraf Elseify (QAT) - 72.98 m
Mohammed Al Dubaisi (KSA) - 72.93 m
Ywundhul Lee (KOR) - 71.11 m

21:15 - Women's 400 m Heats
Salwa Eid Naser (BRN) - 48.19
Kemi Adekoya (BRN) - 50.28
Jonbibi Hukmova (UZB) - 51.19
Zohra Zarei (IRI) - 51.97
Naomi Johnson (PHI) - 52.10
Nanako Matsumoto (JPN) - 52.14
Prachi (IND) - 52.57
Shereen Samson Vallabouy (MAS) - 52.73

21:43 - Men's 400 m Semifinal
22:05 - Women's 100 m Final
22:15 - Men's 100 m Final

Saturday, Sept. 26

7:30 - Men's Marathon Final
Peiyou Feng (CHN) - 2:05:58
Ichitaka Yamashita (JPN) - 2:06:18
Shumi Dechasa (BRN) - 2:06:49
Yuya Yoshida (JPN) - 2:06:59
Il Ryong Han (PRK) - 2:09:47
Minho Park (KOR) - 2:11:05
Shadrack Kimutai Koech (KAZ) - 2:11:21
Sawan Barwal (IND) - 2:11:58

7:50 - Women's Marathon Final
Mikuni Yada (JPN) - 2:19:57
Shitaye Eshete (BRN) - 2:20:32
Sayaka Sato (JPN) - 2:20:59
Rose Chelimo (BRN) - 2:22:52
Jon Su Gyong (PRK) - 2:25:48
Bing Wu (CHN) - 2:26:01
Cuomu Ciren (CHN) - 2:26:52
Pak Sol Gyong (PRK) - 2:26:54

9:05 - Men's Decathlon 100 m
Yuma Maruyama (JPN) - 8321
Tejaswin Shankar (IND) - 8057
Xinghua Chen (CHN) - 8037
Nodir Norbaev (UZB) - 7633
Keisuke Okuda (JPN) - 7602
Chen-Yu Wang (TPE) - 7546
Noushad Thowfeeq (IND) - 7530
Zaridin Shakirov (UZB) - 7513

9:45 - Men's Decathlon Long Jump
11:00 - Men's Decathlon Shot Put

11:05 / 12:08 - Men's Javelin Throw Heats - Group A/B
Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage (SRI) - 92.62 m
Rohit Yadav (IND) - 87.68
Yuta Sakiyama (JPN) - 87.16 m
Arshad Nadeem (PAK) - 86.40 m
Sumedha Ranasinghe (SRI) - 85.78 m
Yash Vir Singh (IND) - 85.41 m
Rin Suzuki (JPN) - 81.23 m
Taepoong Nam (KOR) - 80.35 m

11:30 - Women's 200 m Heats
Veronica Shanti Pereira (SGP) - 22.78 (-0.1)
Abigail Fuka Ido (JPN) - 22.79 (+1.0)
Yujie Chen (CHN) - 22.84 (+0.3)
Edidiong Odiong (BRN) - 22.39 (+0.7)
Junying Zhu (CHN) - 23.12 (-0.1)
Bhadra Harita (IND) - 23.14 (-0.3)
Thi Cam Tu Le (VIE) - 23.14 (+1.0)
Zahra Zarei (IRI) - 23.16 (+0.1)

12:15 - Men's 200 m Heats
Puripol Boonson (THA) - 20.03 (+0.2)
Soshi Mizukubo (JPN) - 20.07 (+0.5)
Abdulaziz Abdul Atafi (KSA) - 20.14 (+1.8)
Youwen Huang (CHN) - 20.15 (-0.8)
Junhao Shi (CHN) - 20.30 (+1.7)
Animesh Kujur (IND) - 20.32 (+0.8)
Akira Hayashi (JPN) - 20.36 (+0.5)
Malham Al Balushi (OMA) - 20.40 (+0.4)

12:20 - Women's Long Jump Heats
Ancy Sojan Edappilly (IND) - 6.88 m (+0.7)
Yingying Huang (CHN) - 6.76 m (+1.1)
Shaili Singh (IND) - 6.67 m (-0.1)
Mengyi Tan (CHN) - 6.63 m (+1.3)
Tran Thi Loan (VIE) - 6.53 m (-0.5)
Reyhaneh Mobini Arani (IRI) - 6.53 m (+2.0)
Ayaka Kora (JPN) - 6.48 m (+0.8)
Sumire Hata (JPN) - 6.47 m (-0.7)

18:05 - Men's Decathlon Long Jump

19:05 - Men's 110 mH Heats
Rachid Muratake (JPN) - 12.92 (+0.6)
Shunsuke Izumiya (JPN) - 13.00 (+1.2)
Yuanjiang Chen (CHN) - 13.13 (+0.4)
Junxi Liu (CHN) - 13.14 (+1.7)
Tejas Ashok Shirse (IND) - 13.27 (+1.6)
Yuan-Kai Hsieh (TPE) - 13.37 (-0.2)
Oumar Abakar (QAT) - 13.37 (+0.6)
Yi-Kai Lin (TPE) - 13.48 (-0.2)

19:34 - Women's 100 mH Heats
Hitomi Nakajima (JPN) - 12.60 (+0.7)
Mako Fukube (JPN) - 12.72 (-0.2)
Jyothi Yarraji (IND) - 12.85 (0.0)
Yanni Wu (CHN) - 12.85 (+1.2)
Yuwei Lin (CHN) - 12.94 (+1.2)
Bo-Ya Zhang (TPE) - 12.96 (-0.5)
Dina Aulia (INA) - 13.11 (0.0)
Nandhini Kongan (IND) - 13.22 (+1.0)

19:55 - Women's 200 m Semifinal

20:00 - Men's Shot Put Final
Tajinderpal Singh Toor (IND) - 21.03 m
Jialiang Xing (CHN) - 20.95 m
Mohammed Reza Tayebi (IRI) - 20.75 m
Karanveer Singh (IND) - 20.49 m
Hau-Wei Ma (TPE) - 19.88 m
Mohammed Daoud Tolu (KSA) - 19.61 m
Hassan Ajamibakhtiarvand (IRI) - 19.60 m
Djibrine Adoum Ahmat (QAT) - 19.50 m

20:16 - Men's 200 m Semifinal
20:35 - Men's Triple Jump Final

20:51 - Men's 1500 m Heats
Kazuto Iizawa (JPN) - 3:35.90
Jaeung Lee (KOR) - 3:36.01
Nagiya Mori (JPN) - 3:36.53
Gulveer Singh (IND) - 3:36.58
Mohamed Torech (QAT) - 3:36.96
Mubarak Said (QAT) - 3:37.09
Yoonus Shah (IND) - 3:37.55
Dezhu Liu (CHN) - 3:37.61

21:20 - Men's Decathlon 400 m
21:45 - Women's 400 m Final
22:03 - Men's 400 m Final

22:15 - Women's 1500 m Final
Nelly Jepkosgei (BRN) - 3:57.51
Nozomi Tanaka (JPN) - 4:03.00
Chunhui Li (CHN) - 4:06.28
Pooja (IND) - 4:09.84
Mizuki Michishita (JPN) - 4:10.48
Hongjiao Wu (CHN) - 4:11.86
Nayeon Park (KOR) - 4:13.87
Ayana Bolatbekkyzy (KAZ) - 4:18.36

Sunday, Sept. 27

7:30 - Women's / Men's Marathon Race Walk Final
Men
Hayato Katsuki (JPN) - 2:55:28
Motofumi Suwa (JPN) - 2:58:21
Hyunmyeong Joo (KOR) - 3:05:05
Yingcheng Zhou (CHN) - 3:06:15
Yushuai Tang (CHN) - 3:06:31
Nathaniel Seiler (PHI) - 3:13:54
Hendro Hendro (INA) - 3:28:53
Georgiy Sheiko (KAZ) - 2:40:22 (35 km)

Women
Li Ma (CHN) - 3:25:13
Quzong Danzeng (CHN) - 3:27:13
Manju Rani (IND) - 3:33:24
Yukiko Umeno (JPN) - 3:33:47
Maika Yagi (JPN) - 3:36:06
Priyanka (IND) - 3:37:25
Yasmina Toxanbayeva (KAZ) - debut

11:00 - Men's Decathlon 110 mH
11:40 - Men's Decathlon Discus Throw

12:05 - Men's 400 mH Heats
Abderrahman Samba (QAT) - 47.06
Bassem Hemeida (QAT) - 47.56
Taiju Goto (JPN) - 48.09
Kazuki Kurokawa (JPN) - 48.35
Chung-Wei Lin (TPE) - 48.77
Yashas Palaksha (IND) - 49.00
A.A. Kuda Liyanage (SRI) - 49.03
Santhosh Kumar Tamilarasan (IND) - 49.06

12:35 - Women's 400 mH Heats
Kemi Adekoya (BRN) - 53.67
Yingying Kong (CHN) - 55.29
Adelina Zems (KAZ) - 55.69
Honoka Aoki (JPN) - 55.92
Vithya Ramraj (IND) - 56.04
Satsuki Umehara (JPN) - 56.21
Mariam Kareem (UAE) - 56.27
Anu Raghavan (IND) - 56.54

12:40 - Men's Long Jump Heats
Sreeshankar (IND) - 8.38 m (-0.8)
Chenlong Yuan (CHN) - 8.33 m (-1.3)
Yuhao Shi (CHN) - 8.33 m (0.0)
Shahnavaz Khan (IND) - 8.30 m (+1.4)
Anvar Anvarov (UZB) - 8.29 m (+0.7)
Yuki Hashioka (JPN) - 8.22 m (+1.9)
Yu-Tang Lin (TPE) - 8.20 m (+0.4)
Riku Ito (JPN) - 8.11 m (+0.1)

13:20 - Men's Decathlon Pole Vault
19:05 - Men's Decathlon Javelin Throw
19:10 - Women's Long Jump Final
19:35 - Women's 200 m Final
19:45 - Men's 200 m Final
20:08 - Men's 110 mH Final
20:15 - Men's Long Jump Final
20:23 - Women's 100 mH Final

20:36 - Men's 800 m Heats
Ko Ochiai (JPN) - 1:43.45
Ibrahim Chuot (QAT) - 1:44.08
Ebrahim Remaid Alzofairi (KUW) - 1:44.59
Mohammed Afsal Pulikkalakath (IND) - 1:44.93
Ali Amirian (IRI) - 1:44.97
Hatim Aitoulghazi (QAT) - 1:44.99
Nanaki Manno (JPN) - 1:45.31
Xiaoheng Xi (CHN) - 1:45.48

21:03 - Women's Javelin Throw Final
Ziyi Yan (CHN) - 71.74 m
Haruka Kitaguchi (JPN) - 68.92 m
Qianqian Dai (CHN) - 64.38 m
Annu Rani (IND) - 62.59 m
Sae Takemoto (JPN) - 61.74 m
Dilhani Lekamge (SRI) - 60.14 m
Nargiza Kuchkarova (UZB) - 59.39 m
Hui-Jun Li (TPE) - 57.66 m

21:10 - Men's Decathlon 1500 m

21:22 - Women's 3000 mSC Final
Winfred Yavi (BRN) - 8:51.54
Norah Jeruto (KAZ) - 8:59.46
Parul Chaudhary (IND) - 9:12.46
Miu Saito (JPN) - 9:24.72
Ankita (IND) - 9:27.91
Manami Nishiyama (JPN) - 9:40.85
Harim Jo (KOR) - 9:53.09
Tigest Mekonen (BRN) - 10:28.09

21:45 - Women's 4x100 m Relay Heats
China - 42.61
India - 43.85
Thailand - 43.88
Japan - 43.91
Vietnam - 43.91
Hong Kong - 44.96
Bahrain - 45.09
Singapore - 45.52

22:12 - Men's 4x100 m Relay Heats
Japan - 37.84
China - 37.85
Thailand - 38.28
Taiwan - 38.41
Korea - 38.49
Sri Lanka - 38.63
Hong Kong - 38.88
Malaysia - 39.03

Monday, Sept. 28

18:15 - Women's Discus Throw Final
Bin Feng (CHN) - 67.46
Zhichao Jiang (CHN) - 61.85 m
Seema (IND) - 59.73 m
Nanaka Kori (JPN) - 59.23 m
Subenrat Insaeng (THA) - 59.10 m
Yelim Jeong (KOR) - 57.02 m
Yujin Shin (KOR) - 56.98 m
Sanya Yadav (IND) - 56.05 m

18:50 - Mixed 4x100 m Relay Heats
China - 40.55
Thailand - 41.14
India - 41.35
Philippines - 42.06
Hong Kong - 43.03
Uzbekistan - 43.35
Japan - no mark
Qatar - no mark

19:10 - Women's 400 mH Final
19:20 - Men's 400 mH Final

19:42 - Men's 3000 mSC Final
Ryuji Miura (JPN) - 8:03.43
Ryoma Aoki (JPN) - 8:18.63
Avinash Mukund Sable (IND) - 8:20.92
Hamse Dhabar (BRN) - 8:25.89
Adam Ali Musab (QAT) - 8:32.57 (2023)
Trung Cường Nguyễn (VIE) - 8:38.25
Wonbeen Park (KOR) - 8:40.37
Pandu Sukarya (INA) - 8:57.13

19:55 - Men's Long Jump Final

20:05 - Men's 1500 m Final

20:20 - Women's 800 m Heats
Nelly Jepkosgei (BRN) - 1:58.26
Rin Kubo (JPN) - 1:59.52
Hongjiao Wu (CHN) - 2:00.08
Ayano Shiomi (JPN) - 2:01.01
Pooja (IND) - 2:01.03
Victoria Bossong (PHI) - 2:01.33
Chunhui Li (CHN) - 2:05.15
Sabokhat Samiyonova (UZB) - 2:05.54

20:25 - Men's Javelin Throw Final

20:43 - Women's 5000 m Final
Winfred Yavi (BRN) - 14:30.06
Nozomi Tanaka (JPN) - 14:34.10
Norah Jeruto (KAZ) - 14:58.71
Yuma Yamamoto (JPN) - 14:59.89
Parul Chaudhary (IND) - 15:04.26
Seema (IND) - 15:16.20
Yujin Kim (KOR) - 15:33.07
Daisy Jepkemei (KAZ) - 15:54.98 (2023)

21:20 - Men's 4x400 m Relay Heats
Japan - 2:59.74
Qatar - 3:00.15
India - 3:00.32
China - 3:01.59
Sri Lanka - 3:02.16
Vietnam - 3:02.60
Thailand - 3:03.07
Korea - 3:07.20

22:04 - Women's 4x100 m Relay Final
22:23 - Men's 4x100 m Relay Final

Tuesday, Sept. 29

18:15 - Men's Pole Vault Final
Ernest John Obiena (PHI) - 5.91 m
Seifeldin Abdelsalam (QAT) - 5.90 m
Chenyang Li (CHN) - 5.86 m
Jie Yao (CHN) - 5.73 m
Hussain Asim Al Hizam (KSA) - 5.72 m
Masaki Ejima (JPN) - 5.70 m
Patsapong Amsamarng (THA) - 5.70 m
Yan-Han Wu (TPE) - 5.51 m

19:18 - Women's High Jump Final
Pooja (IND) - 1.93 m
Jiawen Lu (CHN) - 1.92 m
Nagisa Takahashi (JPN) - 1.92 m
Ruoxuan Jin (CHN) - 1.90 m
Kristina Ovchinnikova (KAZ) - 1.90 m
Barnokhon Sayfullayeva (UZB) - 1.89 m
Valeriya Gorbatova (UZB) - 1.88 m
Nadezhda Dubovitskaya (KAZ) - 1.87 m

19:35 - Women's Hammer Throw Final
Jiale Zhang (CHN) - 78.64 m
Jie Zhao (CHN) - 78.22 m
Raika Murakami (JPN) - 68.83 m
Ya-Chien Yu (TPE) - 68.39 m
Tanya Chaudhary (IND) - 68.35 m
Joy McArthur (JPN) - 67.76 m
Anushka Yadav (IND) - 67.02 m
Grace Xiu Mei Wong (MAS) - 65.41 m

19:50 - Women's 800 m Final
20:05 - Men's 800 m Final

20:15 - Men's 5000 m Final
Birhanu Balew (BRN) - 12:45.70
Gulveer Singh (IND) - 12:59.77
Nagiya Mori (JPN) - 13:14.18
Tomonori Yamaguchi (JPN) - 13:16.38
Abdikani Hamid (BRN) - 13:31.85
Abhishek Pal (IND) - 13:33.51
Wenjie Wang (CHN) - 13:35.58
Yacine Guermali (PHI) - 13:36.43

20:48 - Mixed 4x100 m Relay Final

21:05 - Women's 4x400 m Relay Final
Vietnam - 3:25.59
China - 3:32.68
India - 3:32.81
Kazakhstan - 3:33.87
Bahrain - 3:34.29
Japan - 3:35.41
Sri Lanka - 3:35.71
Taiwan - 3:41.95

21:17 - Men's 4x400 m Relay Final

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