At the 2005 East Asian Games

2005 East Asian Games

The 4th East Asian Games was an international multi-sport event for countries in East Asia which was held in Macau, China from October 29 to November 6, 2005.-Sports:...

, the athletics events were held at the Estádio Campo Desportivo

Estádio Campo Desportivo

Estádio Campo Desportivo is a multi-purpose stadium on Taipa, in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, in the People's Republic of China. It was renamed 'Macau Olympic Complex' when the reconstruction of the stadium had been completed....

 in Macau

Macau

Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

, People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

 from 1–4 November. A total of 45 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 22 by female athletes. China easily topped the medal table, winning 26 of the 45 available gold medals and accounting for half of the total female medallists. Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 won 46 medals, 16 of them gold, while South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

 was a clear third with a total of 21 medals. No athletes from either Guam

Guam

Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...

 or Mongolia

Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East and Central Asia. It is bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. Although Mongolia does not share a border with Kazakhstan, its western-most point is only from Kazakhstan's eastern tip. Ulan Bator, the capital and largest...

 reached the podium.

During the four day competition, a total of 11 East Asian Games records were broken. Among these were Liu Xiang

Liu Xiang

Liu Xiang is a Chinese 110 meter hurdler. Liu is an Olympic Gold medalist and World Champion. His 2004 Olympic gold medal was the first in a men's track and field event for China....

's 13.21 seconds run in the 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...

 and a 20.06 m throw in the 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....

 from Zhang Qi

Zhang Qi

Zhang Qi is a male Chinese shot putter.He won the bronze medal at the 2005 Asian Championships and finished fifth at the 2006 Asian Games. He also competed at the 2006 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final....

 (who had set a Chinese record

Chinese records in athletics

The following are the national records in athletics in PR China maintained by Chinese Athletics Association .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:OT = oversized track-External links:*...

 some weeks earlier). The 2000 Olympic Champion Wang Liping

Wang Liping (athlete)

Wang Liping is a Chinese race walker who became an Olympic champion by winning the 20 kilometer event in 2000. Four years later in Athens she finished eighth in the 20 kilometre walk race....

 brought her career to a close with a final gold in the 20 km race walk.

A total of six athletes medalled in multiple individual events: Yuki Nakamura

Yuki Nakamura

is a Japanese football forward who currently plays for the Slovak 2. liga club FK Bodva Moldava nad Bodvou.-References:...

 won both the men's 5000

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...

 and 10,000 metres events, while Hiromi Ominami

Hiromi Ominami

Hiromi Ominami is a Japanese long-distance runner. Her twin sister is Takami Ominami, also a world class marathon runner with a personal best of 2:23:43.-Achievements:...

 won two silvers on the women's side. Lee Duhaeng took 10,000 m silver and 5000 m bronze, Bae Hae-Jin did a bronze double in the 1500/5000 m, and Chen Fu-Pin won the 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...

 silver and 1500 m bronze. In the field events, Yuka Murofushi

Yuka Murofushi

is a Japanese discus and hammer thrower.Murofushi comes from a hammer throwing family, as her father Shigenobu Murofushi is a former Olympian and held the Japanese record for decades, and her brother Koji Murofushi, is the 2004 Olympic champion in the event. Her mother is Serafina Moritz, a former...

 won bronze in both the discus

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...

 and 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...

s.

While the large majority of events featured performances of an international standard, some competitions fell far short of the level expected of a regional games event. Many of Japan's top athletes were absent and a number of Chinese competitors had peaked earlier at the 10th Chinese National Games

10th National Games of the People's Republic of China

The 10th National Games of the People's Republic of China was a multi-sport event that was held in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, from 12–23 October 2005....

 in Nanjing

Nanjing

' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...

. Only one athlete (Takuro Mori) managed to clear the bar in the whole of the men's 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...

 contest, while Hou Fei took bronze in the men's hammer with a small throw of 37.14 (almost half that of the winner). In the women's 4×400 metres relay Macau's bronze medal time of 4:05.61 was over thirty seconds slower than the winning team, and some 50 seconds off the world record time. Furthermore, the distances races were criticised for their slow pacing.

Records

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Liu Qing Liu Qing (athlete) Liu Qing is a female Chinese middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 and 1500 metres.At the 2005 Summer Universiade she finished fourth in the 800 m and won a bronze in the 1500 m, and at the 2006 Asian Games she finished seventh and sixth. She competed in both events at the 2007 World...	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...		2:00.11	GR
Hiroyuki Morikawa	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...		3:48.27	GR
Feng Yun Feng Yun (athlete) Feng Yun is a female Chinese hurdler.Her personal best time is 12.85 seconds, achieved during the heats at the 1999 World Championships in Seville.-Achievements:-References:...	100 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...		13.09	GR
Liu Xiang Liu Xiang Liu Xiang is a Chinese 110 meter hurdler. Liu is an Olympic Gold medalist and World Champion. His 2004 Olympic gold medal was the first in a men's track and field event for China....	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...		13.21	GR
Huang Xiaoxiao Huang Xiaoxiao Huang Xiaoxiao is a female Chinese hurdler who specialises in the 400 metres hurdles.Huang made her first impression on the world stage at the Athletics at the 2003 Summer Universiade, where she took a silver in the 400 m hurdles...	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...		55.33	GR
Yu Chaohong	20 km walk		1:23:51	GR
Zhao Yingying Zhao Yingying Zhao Yingying is a Chinese pole vaulter.She won the silver medal at the 2004 World Junior Championships and the bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games...	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...		4.40	GR
Kim Duk-Hyung	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...		16.79	GR
Zhang Qi Zhang Qi Zhang Qi is a male Chinese shot putter.He won the bronze medal at the 2005 Asian Championships and finished fifth at the 2006 Asian Games. He also competed at the 2006 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final....	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....		20.06	GR
Song Aimin Song Aimin Song Aimin is a Chinese discus thrower.At the 2004 Summer Olympics she was eliminated in the first round of the discus throw competition.Her personal best throw is 65.33 metres, achieved in May 2003 in Shijiazhuang. The Chinese, and Asian, record is currently held by Xiao Yanling with 71.68...	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...		64.32	GR
Zhang Wenxiu Zhang Wenxiu Zhang Wenxiu is a Chinese hammer thrower.She won the 2005 Asian Championships and 2006 Asian Games. She finished tenth at the 2001 World Championships, seventh at the 2004 Olympics, fifth at the 2005 World Championships and fourth at the 2006 World Cup...	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...		72.23	GR
Ma Ning Ma Ning Ma Ning is a female javelin thrower from PR China.Her personal best throw is 62.38 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Shijiazhuang.At the 2004 Summer Olympics she was eliminated in the first round of the javelin throw competition.-Achievements:...	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...		61.95	GR

Key:	WR — World record  AR — Area record GR — Games record  NR — National record National records in athletics National records in athletics are the marks achieved by a nation's best athlete in a particular athletics event. These records are ratified by the respective national athletics governing body...

Men

100 metres		10.40		10.54		10.63
200 metres		20.88		21.34		21.42
400 metres		46.44		47.41		49.43
800 metres		1:48.60		1:49.74		1:50.10
1500 metres		3:48.27 GR		3:50.82		3:52.63
5000 metres		14:05.77		14:16.44		14:24.03
10,000 metres		31:59.69		31:59.72		34:55.56
110 metre hurdles		13.21 GR		13.36		13.89
400 metre hurdles		50.85		51.04		52.08
3000 metre steeplechase		8:40.16		8:45.47		8:50.41
4×100 metre relay	Japan	39.61	Chinese Taipei	39.89	People's Republic of China	39.90
4×400 metre relay	Japan	3:07.70	Chinese Taipei	3:09.06	South Korea	3:12.10
Half marathon		1:08:14		1:08:17		1:08:38
20 km walk		1:23:51 GR		1:24:44		1:25:51
High jump		2.23		2.23		2.20
Pole vault		5.00	Not awarded	—	Not awarded	—
Long jump		7.77 w		7.73		7.72
Triple jump		16.79 GR		16.45		16.38
Shot put		20.06 GR		18.84		18.06
Discus throw		61.74		59.27		54.19
Hammer throw		70.35		66.40		37.14
Javelin throw		79.75		76.96		75.59
Decathlon		7754		7531		7383

Women

100 metres		11.65		11.76		11.95
200 metres		23.78		24.58		24.70
400 metres		52.69		52.93		54.42
800 metres		2:00.11 GR		2:04.57		2:05.45
1500 metres		4:20.54		4:21.77		4:30.56
5000 metres		16:04.56		16:10.77		16:35.35
10,000 metres		32:35.07		32:36.62		34:53.06
100 metre hurdles		13.09 GR		13.44		13.45
400 metre hurdles		55.33 GR		56.54		57.38
4×100 metre relay	Japan	44.88	People's Republic of China	45.37	Hong Kong	46.66
4×400 metre relay	People's Republic of China	3:33.59	Japan	3:36.64	Macau	4:05.61 (NR)
Half marathon		1:16:31		1:16:33		1:18:48
20 km walk		1:34:01		1:34:31		1:35:10
High jump		1.85		1.85		1.70
Pole vault		4.40 GR		4.30		4.30
Long jump		6.54		6.31		6.12
Triple jump		14.08		13.65		13.36
Shot put		18.12		16.89		16.50
Discus throw		64.32 GR		60.13		54.28
Hammer throw		72.23 GR		69.20		63.67
Javelin throw		61.95 GR		61.42		53.37
Heptathlon		5932		5719		5292

Medal table

Key:

1	People's Republic of China	26	19	6	51
2	Japan	16	15	15	46
3	South Korea	3	7	11	21
4	Chinese Taipei	0	3	4	7
5	Macau	0	0	4	4
6=	North Korea	0	0	2	2
6=	Hong Kong	0	0	2	2
—	Mongolia	0	0	0	0
—	Guam	0	0	0	0
Total		45	44	44	133

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