Athletics at the 1958 Asian Games - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Men's events

100 metres 100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...	Abdul Khaliq Pakistan	10.9	Kyohei Ushio Japan	11.0	Isaac Gomez Philippines	11.1
200 metres 200 metres A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...	Milkha Singh Milkha Singh Milkha Singh is an Indian athlete, who represented India in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo... India	21.6	Abdul Khaliq Pakistan	21.7	Enrique Bautista Philippines	22.2
400 metres 400 metres The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...	Milkha Singh Milkha Singh Milkha Singh is an Indian athlete, who represented India in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo... India	47	Pablo Somblingo Philippines	48.5	Abdul Rahim bin Ahmad Federation of Malaya	48.8
800 metres 800 metres The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...	Yoshitaka Muroya Japan	1:52.1	Mahmoud Khaligh Razavi Iran	1:52.2	Shim Sang-Ok South Korea	1:52.3
1500 metres 1500 metres The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...	Mahmoud Khaligh Razavi Iran	3:57.6	Michio Okayama Japan	3:58.2	Shim Sang-Ok South Korea	3:59.1
5000 metres 5000 metres The 5000 metres is a popular running distance also known as 5 km or 5K in American English. It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics. "5000 metres" refers to racing on a track and "5K" usually refers to a roadrace or cross country event...	Osamu Inoue Japan	14:39.4	Han Sung-Chul South Korea	14:41.8	Ali Baghbanbashi Iran	14:43.0
10000 metres 10000 metres The 10,000 metres or 10K is a common long distance running event. As "10,000 metres" it is a track event, and appears in athletics events such as the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics; as "10K" it is a roadrace or cross country running event...	Takashi Baba Japan	30:48.4	Mubarek Shah Pakistan	30:49.8	Ali Baghbanbashi Iran	30:50.4
Marathon Marathon The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...	Lee Chang-Hoon South Korea	2:32:55	Myitung Naw Myanmar	2:42:46	Nobuyoshi Sadanaga Japan	2:43:44
3000 metre steeplechase	Mubarek Shah Pakistan	9:03.0	Masayaki Nunogami Japan	9:04.2	Susumu Takahashi Japan	9:05.8
110 metres hurdles 110 metres hurdles The 110 metres hurdles is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is incuded in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metre hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are evenly spaced along a straight...	Ghulam Raziq Pakistan	14.4	Yang Chuan-Kwang Yang Chuan-Kwang Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang , was an Olympic decathlete from the Republic of China.... Republic of China	14.8	Hirokazu Yasuda Japan	14.8
400 metres hurdles 400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is an Olympic athletics event in track and field. On a standard outdoor track 400 metres is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium. Runners stay in their lane the entire way after starting out of the blocks and must clear ten hurdles that are evenly...	Tsai Cheng-Fu Republic of China	52.4	Keiji Ogushi Japan	52.8	Yang Chuan-Kwang Yang Chuan-Kwang Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang , was an Olympic decathlete from the Republic of China.... Republic of China	53.0
High jump High jump The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....	Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam Dr Nagalingam Ethirveerasingam represented Sri Lanka in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic Games and three Asian Games.He won the first Asian Games gold medal for Sri Lanka in 1958. He taught in Universities in Sierra Leone, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria and Sri Lanka...	2.03	Noboru Kasamatsu Japan	2.00	Yukio Ishikawa Japan	1.95
Pole vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...	Noriaki Yasuda Japan	4.20	Kozo Akasaka Japan	4.20	Allah Ditta Pakistan	4.20
Long jump Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...	Suh Yong-Joo South Korea	7.54	Yang Chuan-Kwang Yang Chuan-Kwang Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang , was an Olympic decathlete from the Republic of China.... Republic of China	7.49	Muhammad Ramzan Ali Pakistan	7.30
Triple jump Triple jump The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...	Mohinder Singh India	15.62	Koji Sakurai Japan	15.41	Tomio Ota Japan	15.19
Shot put Shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....	Parduman Singh Brar India	15.04	Hitoshi Goto Japan	14.80	Uri Zohar Israel	14.75
Discus throw Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...	Balkar Singh India	47.66	Muhammad Ayoob Pakistan	46.01	Parduman Singh Brar India	45.67
Hammer throw Hammer throw The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle. The name "hammer throw" is derived from older competitions where an actual sledge hammer was thrown...	Muhammad Iqbal Pakistan	60.97	Masuru Urushibata Japan	57.88	Malik Noor Pakistan	54.03
Javelin throw Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...	Muhammad Nawaz Pakistan	69.41	Jalal Khan Pakistan	66.00	Baruch Feinberg Israel	63.78
Decathlon Decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word decathlon is of Greek origin . Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all. Performance is judged on a points system in each event, not...	Yang Chuan-Kwang Yang Chuan-Kwang Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang , was an Olympic decathlete from the Republic of China.... Republic of China	7101	Kiyoshi Kazuki Japan	5968	Shosuke Suzuki Japan	5939
4 x 100 metres relay 4 x 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...	Philippines	41.4	Japan	41.4	Pakistan	41.5
4 x 400 metres relay 4 x 400 metres relay The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...	Japan	3:13.9	Republic of China	3:18.0	Philippines	3:18.2

Women's events

100 metres 100 metres The 100 metres, or 100-metre dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, it is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896...	Inocencia Solis Philippines	12.5	Sakura Fukuyama Japan	12.7	Yuko Kobayashi Japan	12.7
200 metres 200 metres A 200 metres race is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400 m track, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques are needed to successfully run the race. A slightly shorter race, called the stadion and run on a straight track, was the first...	Yuko Kobayashi Japan	25.9	Stephie D'Souza Stephie D'Souza Stephanie "Stephie" D'Souza, nee Sequeira was a sportsperson who represented India in athletics and women's hockey.... India	26.2	Hiroko Shiojiri Japan	26.3
80 metres hurdles 100 metres hurdles The 100 m hurdles are an Olympic track and field athletics discipline run by women . For the race ten hurdles of a height of 83.8 cm are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 100 meters. They are positioned so that they will fall over if bumped into by the runner...	Machiko Iwamoto Japan	11.6	Francisco Sanopal Philippines	11.6	Manolita Cinco Philippines	12.1
High jump High jump The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....	Emi Kamiya Japan	1.58	Lolita Lagrosas Philippines	1.56	Yumiko Kondo Japan	1.54
Long jump Long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...	Visitacion Badana Philippines	5.64	Mikiko Tazaki Japan	5.49	Huang Soon-San Republic of China	5.32
Shot put Shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....	Seiko Obonai Japan	13.26	Motoko Yoshida Japan	13.07	Wu Chin-Yun Republic of China	11.46
Discus throw Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field athletics competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, Discobolus...	Hiroko Uchido Japan	41.90	Seiko Obonai Japan	40.29	Huang Chun-Men Republic of China	33.65
Javelin throw Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...	Yoriko Shida Japan	47.15	Elizabeth Davenport India	46.07	Karnah Soekarta Indonesia	45.03
4 x 100 metres relay 4 x 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners begin in the same stagger as for the individual 400 m race...	Japan	48.6	Philippines	49.0	India	49.4

Medal table

1	Japan	12	15	9	36
2	Pakistan	5	4	4	13
3	India	5	2	2	9
4	Philippines	3	4	4	11
5	Republic of China	2	3	4	9
6	South Korea	2	1	2	5
7	Iran	1	1	2	4
8		1	0	0	1
9	Myanmar	0	1	0	1
10	Israel	0	0	2	2
11	Indonesia	0	0	1	1
11	Federation of Malaya	0	0	1	1

External links

Results - GBR Athletics

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