Athletics at the 1962 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...	Mohammed Sarengat Indonesia	10.74	Manikavasagam Jegathesan Federation of Malaya	10.78	Rogelio Onofre Philippines	10.82
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...	Manikavasagam Jegathesan Federation of Malaya	21.38	Hideo Iijima Japan	21.64	Mohammed Sarengat Indonesia	21.65
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	46.95	Makhan Singh Makhan Singh (Indian athlete) Makhan Singh was one of the illustrious Indian athletes during the 1960s. He was born in Bathulla village in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. He claimed to fame as a result of his famous victories over Milkha Singh in the 1964 National Games in Kolkata... India	47.57	Hirotada Hayase Japan	48.42
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...	Mamoru Morimoto Japan	1:52.66	Dayal Singh India	1:52.73	Amrit Pal India	1:53.43
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...	Mohinder Singh India	3:48.84	Amrit Pal India	3:50.37	Satsuo Iwashita Japan	3:51.57
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...	Mubarak Shah Pakistan	14:27.2	Saburo Yokomizo Japan	14:30.2	Tarlok Singh India	14:31.4
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...	Tarlok Singh India	30:21.58	Teruo Finai Japan	30:21.73	Gurnam Singh Gurnam Singh (athlete) Gurnam Singh was the former Indonesian runner who gained three gold medals to the branch ran to Asian Games the four in Jakarta during 1962, respectively in the number ran the marathon, 5000 and 10000 meters. His success made him be given the gift took the form of 20 cattle, two cars, as well as a... Indonesia	30:47.83
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...	Masayuki Nagata Japan	2:34:55	Muhammad Yusaf Pakistan	2:43:02	Myitung Naw Myanmar	2:49:38
3000 metre steeplechase	Mubarak Shah Pakistan	8:57.90	Saburo Yokomizo Japan	8:59.11	Zenji Okuzawa Japan	9:09.81
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...	Mohammed Sarengat Indonesia	14.42	Ghulam Raziq Pakistan	14.42	Hirokazu Yasuda Japan	14.49
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...	Keiji Ogushi Japan	52.25	Keiko Iijima Japan	52.56	Karu Selvaratnam Federation of Malaya	54.51
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....	Kuniyoshi Sugioka Japan	2.08	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...	1.98	Ciriaco Baronda Philippines	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...	Hisao Morita Japan	4.40	Kuniaki Yamazuki Japan	4.40	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...	Takayuki Okazaki Japan	7.41	Kaihei Oda Japan	7.36	Johannes Awang Papilaya Indonesia	7.25
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...	Koji Sakurai Japan	15.57	Tomio Ota Japan	15.37	Johannes Awang Papilaya Indonesia	14.70
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....	Teruo Itokawa Japan	15.57	Dinshaw Irani India	14.99	Joginder Singh India	14.91
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...	Shozo Yanagawa Japan	47.71	Parduman Singh Brar India	47.01	Sohei Kaneko Japan	46.21
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...	Noboru Okamoto Japan	63.88	Takeo Sugawara Japan	61.66	Muhammed Iqbal Pakistan	59.18
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...	Takashi Miki Japan	74.56	Muhammad Nawaz Pakistan	74.16	Hideta Kanai Japan	70.68
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...	Gurbachan Singh Randhawa Gurbachan Singh Randhawa Gurbachan Singh Randhawa is a former Indian athlete who won gold medal at 1962 Asian Games in decathlon. He participated in 1960 and 1964 Olympics in 110 hurdles, high jump and decathlon. He finished fifth in 110 hurdles at 1964 Tokyo Olympics with timing of 14.07 seconds... India	6739	Shosuke Suzuki Japan	6195	Cyril Pereira Federation of Malaya	5575
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	41.41	Japan	41.62	Federation of Malaya	41.67
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...	India	3:10.46	Federation of Malaya	3:13.93	Japan	3:14.77

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...	Mona Sulaiman Philippines	11.93	Ikuko Yoda Japan	12.35	Takuko Inokuchi Japan	12.39
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...	Mona Sulaiman Philippines	24.63	Haruko Yamazaki Japan	25.86	Nirmila Nimal Dissanayaka	25.92
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...	Chizuko Tanaka Japan	2:18.15	Ryoko Hirano Japan	2:18.55	R. Soewatini Indonesia	2:20.94
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...	Ikuko Yoda Japan	11.60	Francisco Sanopal Philippines	12.00	Kiyoko Shimada Japan	12.06
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....	Kinuko Tsutsumi Japan	1.60	Myint Myint Aye Myanmar	1.50	Tipparpan Leenasana Thailand	1.50
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...	Sachiko Kishimoto Japan	5.75	Fumiko Ito Japan	5.71	Maureen Ann Lee Federation of Malaya	5.31
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	14.04	Yasuko Matsuda Japan	13.71	Mona Sulaiman Philippines	11.97
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...	Keiko Murase Japan	45.90	Seiko Obonai Japan	40.98	Josephine de la Viña Philippines	37.79
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...	Hiroko Sato Japan	48.15	Fujie Abe Japan	47.34	Elizabeth Davenport India	44.82
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	48.67	Japan	48.74	Indonesia	50.71

Medal table

1	Japan	18	19	9	46
2	India	5	5	5	15
3	Philippines	4	1	4	9
4	Pakistan	2	3	2	7
5	Indonesia	2	0	6	8
6	Federation of Malaya	1	2	4	7
7	Myanmar	0	1	1	2
7		0	1	1	2
9	Thailand	0	0	1	1

External links

Results - GBR Athletics

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