Athletics at the 1951 Asian Games

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

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

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Lavy Pinto  Indien	10.8 =GR	Toshihiro Ohashi  Japan	11.0	Tomio Hosoda  Japan	11.1
200 m	Lavy Pinto  Indien	22.0 GR	Marian Gabriel  Indien	22.5	Tomio Hosoda  Japan	22.6
400 m	Eitaro Okano  Japan	50.7 GR	Amit Singh Bakshi  Indien	50.8	Govind Singh  Indien	51.4
800 m	Ranjit Singh  Indien	1:59.3 GR	Kulwant Singh  Indien	1:59.7	Kikuo Moriya  Japan	2:00.6
1500 m	Nikka Singh  Indien	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  Indien	15:57.8	Soichi Tamoi  Japan	15:59.0
10,000 m	Soichi Tamoi  Japan	33:49.3 GR	Ryosuke Takasugi  Japan	34:32.0	Gurbachan Singh  Indien	34:58.8
110 m hurdles	Ng Liang Chiang  Singapur	15.2 GR	Michitaka Kinami  Japan	15.3	Lloyd Valberg  Singapur	15.7
400 m hurdles	Eitaro Okano  Japan	54.2 GR	Teja Singh  Indien	56.9	Ng Liang Chiang  Singapur	57.6
3000 m steeplechase	Susumu Takahashi  Japan	9:30.4 GR	Ali Baghbanbashi  Iran	9:31.8	Ajit Singh  Indien	9:37.8
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Masaji Tajima Toshihiro Ohashi Tomio Hosoda Kazuta Ikoma	42.7 GR	Indien Lavy Pinto Marian Gabriel Ram Swaroop Alfred Shamin	42.8	Philippinen Genaro Cabrera Tito Almagro Jovencio Ardina Bernabe Lovina	43.9
4 × 400 m relay	Indien Amit Singh Bakshi Govind Singh Balwant Singh Karan Singh	3:24.2 GR	Japan Yorio Mizuyoke Ichiro Tao Fumio Nishiuchi Eitaro Okano	3:24.4	Philippinen Bienvenido Llaneta Bernabe Lovina Tomas Bennet Genaro Cabrera	3:35.8
Marathon	Chhota Singh  Indien	2:42:58.6 GR	Katsuo Nishida  Japan	2:49:03.0	Surat Singh Mathur  Indien	2:53:49.8
10,000 m walk	Mahabir Prasad  Indien	52:31.4 GR	Takeo Sato  Japan	52:34.8	Kesar Singh  Indien	52:54.0
50 km walk	Bakhtawar Singh  Indien	5:44:07.4 GR	B. Das  Indien	5:44:14.6	Takeo Sato  Japan	5:54:47.4
High jump	Andres Franco  Philippinen	1.93 GR	Yukio Ishikawa  Japan	1.91	Maram Sudarmodjo  Indonesien	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  Indien	6.99	Takashi Aso  Japan	6.98
Triple jump	Yoshio Iimuro  Japan	15.18 GR	Takashi Aso  Japan	14.25	Hendarsin  Indonesien	14.24
Shot put	Madan Lal  Indien	13.78 GR	Sukeo Denda  Japan	13.40	Norimi Sato  Japan	12.83
Discus throw	Makhan Singh  Indien	39.92 GR	Norimi Sato  Japan	39.29	Aurelio Amante  Philippinen	38.14
Hammer throw	Fumio Kamamoto  Japan	46.65 GR	Somnath Chopra  Indien	43.35	Kishen Singh  Indien	42.32
Javelin throw	Haruo Nagayasu  Japan	63.97 GR	Parsa Singh  Indien	50.38	Matulessy  Indonesien	48.99
Decathlon	Fumio Nishiuchi  Japan	6324 GR	Bunkichi Sawada  Japan	5860	Khurshid Ahmed  Indien	5099

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Kiyoko Sugimura  Japan	12.6	Roshan Mistry  Indien	12.8	Kimiko Okamoto  Japan	12.9
200 m	Kimiko Okamoto  Japan	26.0 GR	Laura Dowdswell  Singapur	27.2	Mary D'Souza  Indien	28.0
80 m hurdles	Kyoko Yoneda  Japan	12.8 GR	Laura Dowdswell  Singapur	13.2	Taeko Sato  Japan	13.5
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Kimiko Okamoto Taeko Sato Ayako Yoshikawa Kiyoko Sugimura	51.4 GR	Indien Mary D'Souza Roshan Mistry Banoo Gulzar Pat Mendonca	51.9	Indonesien Triwulan Darwati Surjowati Lie Djiang Nio	54.4
High jump	Kyoko Yoneda  Japan	1.49 GR	Taeko Sato  Japan	1.44	Marie Semoes  Indien	1.37
Long jump	Kiyoko Sugimura  Japan	5.91 GR	Ayako Yoshikawa  Japan	5.18	Sylvia Gauntlet  Indien	4.52
Shot put	Toyoko Yoshino  Japan	11.90 GR	Fumi Kojima  Japan	10.42	Barbara Webster  Indien	9.02
Discus throw	Toyoko Yoshino  Japan	42.10 GR	Fumi Kojima  Japan	35.51	Annie Salamun  Indonesien	25.43
Javelin throw	Toyoko Yoshino  Japan	36.25 GR	Miyoko Kato  Japan	35.33	Barbara Webster  Indien	26.70

Medal table

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

Participating nations

•  Afghanistan
•  Burma
•  Ceylon
•  Indien (52)
•  Indonesien (17)
•  Iran (8)
•  Japan
•  Nepal
•  Philippinen
•  Singapur
•  Thailand

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.