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1975 Asian Championships
Dates	June 9-14
Host city	Seoul, South Korea
Venue	Dongdaemun Stadium
Participation	at least 14 nations
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The second Asian Athletics Championships were held in 1975 in Seoul, South Korea.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -3.5 m/s)	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	10.87	Masahide Jinno  Japan	10.90	Ramaswamy Gnanasekharan  India	11.18
200 metres	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	21.28	Susumu Shimizu  Japan	21.66	Kazuhiko Sakuma  Japan	21.70
400 metres	Sri Ram Singh  India	47.03	Ku Boon-chil  South Korea	47.29	Yoshiharu Tomonaga  Japan	47.30
800 metres	Sri Ram Singh  India	1:47.8a	Takashi Ishii  Japan	1:48.4a	Pratap Kumar  India	1:48.5a
1500 metres	Takashi Ishii  Japan	3:48.6a	Triguna Mani Tiwari  India	3:49.4a	Tang Kuang-chia  Taiwan	3:49.5a
5000 metres	Kunimitsu Ito  Japan	14:00.8a	Shivnath Singh  India	14:01.2a	Hari Chand  India	14:02.4a
10,000 metres	Hari Chand  India	29:12.0a	Shivnath Singh  India	29:14.6a	Kenji Tajima  Japan	29:31.6a
Marathon	Sueki Tanaka  Japan	2:32:06	Susumu Sato  Japan	2:37:51	Jit Bahadur Chetri    Nepal	2:39:06
3000 metre steeplechase	Harbeil Singh  India	8:46.6a	Hitoshi Iwabuchi  Japan	8:56.6a	Noriyuki Nakamura  Japan	8:57.8a
110 metres hurdles (wind: +1.0 m/s)	Tai Shi-yan  Taiwan	14.24	Ahmad Ishtiaq Mubarak  Malaysia	14.45	Shigeo Oki  Japan	14.45
400 metres hurdles	Tai Shi-yan  Taiwan	51.15	Abdulatif Yousef Hashim  Kuwait	51.94	Akira Nishimura  Japan	52.18
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan Kazuhiko Sakuma Kazuo Iwamoto Susumu Shimizu Masahide Jinno	40.38	Singapore Canagasabai Kunalan Yeo Kian Chai Godfrey Jalleh Ong Yeok Phee	41.14	India A.P. Ramaswamy Sunderaraj Shetty Leslie Louis Ramaswamy Gnanasekharan	41.35
4 × 400 metres relay	India Sucha Singh Uday Krishna Prabhu Ranjit Singh Sriram Singh	3:08.2a	Japan Takashi Nagao Yoshiharu Tomonaga Shigeki Matsueda Toshio Mizuno	3:08.9a	Sri Lanka Dervin Perera Appunidage Premachandra Bandula Jayasinghe Wickramesinghe Wimaladasa	3:13.4a
20 kilometre road walk	Khoo Chong Beng  Malaysia	1:40:43	Baldev Singh  India	1:44:17	Nobu Nakamichi  Japan	1:45:26
High jump	Teymour Ghiassi  Iran	2.14	Yoshikazu Okuda  Japan	2.14	Takeyoshi Sawa  Japan	2.11
Pole vault	Yoshiomi Iwama  Japan	5.20	Michio Shimazu  Japan	4.80	Hong Sang-pyo  South Korea	4.20
Long jump	T.C. Yohannan  India	7.65	Kazuaki Norioka  Japan	7.49	Lee Pyong-song  South Korea	7.47
Triple jump	Toshihisa Yoshimoto  Japan	15.87	Hironobu Kobayashi  Japan	15.83	Chen Chin-long  Taiwan	15.82
Shot put	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	17.70	Jagraj Singh Mann  India	17.47	Yoshihisa Ishida  Japan	15.57
Discus throw	Praveen Kumar  India	54.78	Jalal Keshmiri  Iran	53.78	Kiyotaka Kawasaki  Japan	50.44
Hammer throw	Yoshihisa Ishida  Japan	62.84	Nobuyuki Ifuku  Japan	60.28	Raghubir Singh Bal  India	58.80
Javelin throw	Toshihiro Yamada  Japan	74.92	Toshiyuki Shimada  Japan	72.68	Chen Ping-huang  Taiwan	70.04
Decathlon	Suresh Babu  India	6931	Hisashi Iwai  Japan	6912	Masanori Ikuta  Japan	6816

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.8 m/s)	Esther Rot  Israel	11.91	Carolina Rieuwpassa  Indonesia	12.09	Yukiko Osako  Japan	12.13
200 metres	Esther Rot  Israel	23.72	Yukiko Osako  Japan	24.46	Carolina Rieuwpassa  Indonesia	24.52
400 metres	Kim Kyung-Sook  North Korea	56.24	Chee Swee Lee  Singapore	56.41	Keiko Nagasawa  Japan	57.93
800 metres	Lee Chiu-Hsia  Taiwan	2:08.1a	Masae Namba  Japan	2:09.9a	Kumiko Nishi  Japan	2:10.8a
1500 metres	Lee Chiu-Hsia  Taiwan	4:23.0a	Kumiko Nishi  Japan	4:26.4a	Hana Shezifi  Israel	4:27.2a
3000 metres	Lee Chiu-Hsia  Taiwan	9:39.8a	Kwon Nam-Soon  South Korea	9:46.8a	Hana Shezifi  Israel	9:55.2a
100 metres hurdles (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Tomoko Dazai  Japan	14.25	Lin Yet-Hsiang  Taiwan	14.25	Fumiko Yamane  Japan	14.52
400 metres hurdles	Woo Seun-Sook  South Korea	62.89	Marina Chin Leng Sim  Malaysia	63.89	Ting Chun-Yi  Taiwan	64.13
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan Michiko Morita Yukiko Osako Yukiko Tsubota Keiko Yamada	46.73	South Korea "A" Lee In-sook Lee Kyung-ja Kim Bong-sook Bak Bok-seon	48.13	South Korea "B" Kim Kyung-sook Kim Yi-sook Bak Im-hyang Soon Shin-ho	48.28
4 × 400 metres relay	Japan Noriko Kondo Masae Namba Keiko Yamada Keiko Nagasawa	3:40.4a	South Korea Kim Kyung-sook Ra Durk-hua Suh Yeong-hae Lee Kab-soon	3:53.1a	Singapore Chee Swee Lee Glory Barnabas-Varan Hua Kim Chew Lee Tai Jong	3:54.0a
High jump	Hisao Tsuchiya  Japan	1.74	Michiyo Inaoka  Japan	1.74	Ruth Tslochenko  Israel	1.74
Long jump	Keiko Ogawa  Japan	6.15	Kyoko Shimizu  Japan	5.93	Lin Yet-Hsiang  Taiwan	5.82
Shot put	Paik Ok-Ja  South Korea	16.39	Chen Fu-Mei  Taiwan	13.52	Yukari Seo  Japan	13.50
Discus throw	Paik Ok-Ja  South Korea	47.74	Matsuko Takahashi  Japan	46.34	Mikiko Tokita  Japan	45.90
Javelin throw	Keiko Myogai  Japan	53.48	Naomi Shibusawa  Japan	51.40	Lee Bok-Soon  South Korea	49.48
Pentathlon	Kyoko Shimizu  Japan	4064	Ruth Tslochenko  Israel	3687	Hotsumi Harada  Japan	3667

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	15	20	18	53
2	India (IND)	9	5	5	19
3	Taiwan (TWN)	5	2	5	12
4	South Korea (KOR)	3	4	4	11
5	Israel (ISR)	2	1	3	6
6	Thailand (THA)	2	0	0	2
7	Malaysia (MAS)	1	2	0	3
8	Iran (IRN)	1	1	0	2
9	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	0	1
10	Singapore (SIN)	0	2	1	3
11	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	1	2
12	Kuwait (KUW)	0	1	0	1
13	Nepal (NEP)	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		39	39	39	117

External links

• GBR Athletics

• Asian Athletics Championships
• 1975 in athletics (track and field)
• Sport in Seoul
• International athletics competitions hosted by South Korea
• 1975 in South Korean sport
• June 1975 sports events in Asia