Athletics at the 1951 Asian Games

Athletics
at the 1951 Asian Games
Athletics ; at the 1951 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	8–11 March 1951
Nations	11

Athletics was contested at the 1951 Asian Games in National Stadium, New Delhi, India from 8 March to 11 March 1951.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Lavy Pinto India	10.8	Toshihiro Ohashi Japan	11.0	Tomio Hosoda Japan	11.1
200 m	Lavy Pinto India	22.0 GR	Marian Gabriel India	22.5	Tomio Hosoda Japan	22.6
400 m	Eitaro Okano Japan	50.7	Amit Singh Bakshi India	50.8	Govind Singh India	51.4
800 m	Ranjit Singh India	1:59.3 GR	Kulwant Singh India	1:59.7	Kikuo Moriya Japan	2:00.6
1500 m	Nikka Singh India	4:04.1 GR	Susumu Takahashi Japan	4:04.4	Kikuo Moriya Japan	4:05.4
5000 m	Ali Baghbanbashi Iran	15:54.2 GR	Pritam Singh India	15:57.8	Soichi Tamoi Japan	15:59.0
10,000 m	Soichi Tamoi Japan	33:49.6 GR	Ryosuke Takasugi Japan	34:32.0	Gurbachan Singh India	34:58.7
110 m hurdles	Ng Liang Chiang Singapore	15.2 GR	Michitaka Kinami Japan	15.3	Lloyd Valberg Singapore	15.7
400 m hurdles	Eitaro Okano Japan	54.2 GR	Teja Singh India	56.9	Ng Liang Chiang Singapore	57.6
3000 m steeplechase	Susumu Takahashi Japan	9:30.4 GR	Ali Baghbanbashi Iran	9:31.8	Ajit Singh India	9:37.8
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Masaji Tajima Toshihiro Ohashi Tomio Hosoda Kazuta Ikoma	42.7 GR	India Alfred Shamin Ram Swaroop Marian Gabriel Lavy Pinto	42.8	Philippines Bernabe Lovina Jovencio Ardina Tito Almagro Genaro Cabrera	43.9
4 × 400 m relay	India Govind Singh Amit Singh Bakshi Balwant Singh Karan Singh	3:24.2 GR	Japan Yorio Mizuyoke Ichiro Tao Fumio Nishiuchi Eitaro Okano	3:24.4	Philippines Bernabe Lovina Bienvenido Llaneta Tomas Bennet Genaro Cabrera	3:35.8
Marathon	Chhota Singh India	2:42:58.6 GR	Katsuo Nishida Japan	2:49:03.0	Surat Mathur India	2:53:49.8
10,000 m walk	Mahabir Prasad India	52:31.4 GR	Takeo Sato Japan	52:34.8	Kesar Singh India	52:54.0
50 km walk	Bakhtawar Singh India	5:44:07.4 GR	B. Das India	5:44:14.6	Takeo Sato Japan	5:54:47.4
High jump	Andres Franco Philippines	1.93 GR	Yukio Ishikawa Japan	1.91	Maram Sudarmodjo Indonesia	1.89
Pole vault	Bunkichi Sawada Japan	4.11 GR	M. A. Akbar Ceylon	3.69	Shuhei Nishida Japan	3.61
Long jump	Masaji Tajima Japan	7.14 GR	Baldev Singh India	6.99	Takashi Aso Japan	6.98
Triple jump	Yoshio Iimuro Japan	15.18 GR	Takashi Aso Japan	14.25	Hendarsin Indonesia	14.24
Shot put	Madan Lal India	13.78 GR	Sukeo Denda Japan	13.40	Norimi Sato Japan	12.83
Discus throw	Makhan Singh India	39.92 GR	Norimi Sato Japan	39.29	Aurelio Amante Philippines	38.14
Hammer throw	Fumio Kamamoto Japan	46.65 GR	Somnath Chopra India	43.35	Kishen Singh India	42.32
Javelin throw	Haruo Nagayasu Japan	63.97 GR	Parsa Singh India	50.38	Matulessy Indonesia	48.99
Decathlon	Fumio Nishiuchi Japan	6324 GR	Bunkichi Sawada Japan	5860	Khurshid Ahmed India	5099

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Kiyoko Sugimura Japan	12.6	Roshan Mistry India	12.8	Kimiko Okamoto Japan	12.9
200 m	Kimiko Okamoto Japan	26.0 GR	Laura Dowdswell Singapore	27.2	Mary D'Souza India	28.0
80 m hurdles	Kyoko Yoneda Japan	12.8 GR	Laura Dowdswell Singapore	13.2	Taeko Sato Japan	13.5
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Kimiko Okamoto Taeko Sato Ayako Yoshikawa Kiyoko Sugimura	51.4 GR	India Banoo Gulzar Mary D'Souza Pat Mendonca Roshan Mistry	51.9	Indonesia Surjowati Triwulan Darwati Lie Djiang Nio	54.4
High jump	Kyoko Yoneda Japan	1.49 GR	Taeko Sato Japan	1.44	Marie Semoes India	1.37
Long jump	Kiyoko Sugimura Japan	5.91 GR	Ayako Yoshikawa Japan	5.18	Sylvia Gauntlet India	4.52
Shot put	Toyoko Yoshino Japan	11.90 GR	Fumi Kojima Japan	10.42	Barbara Webster India	9.02
Discus throw	Toyoko Yoshino Japan	42.10 GR	Fumi Kojima Japan	35.51	Annie Salamun Indonesia	25.43
Javelin throw	Toyoko Yoshino Japan	36.23 GR	Miyoko Kato Japan	35.33	Barbara Webster India	26.70

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	20	17	11	48
2	India (IND)	10	12	12	34
3	Singapore (SIN)	1	2	2	5
4	Iran (IRN)	1	1	0	2
5	Philippines (PHI)	1	0	3	4
6	Ceylon (CEY)	0	1	0	1
7	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	5	5
Totals (7 entries)		33	33	33	99

Participating nations

References

Asian Games Results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
Women's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
Men's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.