The fifth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in November 1983 in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Medal summary
Men 100 metres(wind: 0.0 m/s)Suchart Chairsuvaparb 10.47Sumet Promna 10.52Mohamed Purnomo 10.60200 metres(wind: -4.2 m/s)Sumet Promna 21.39Mohamed Purnomo 21.64Jang Jae-keun 21.70400 metresIsidro del Prado 46.24Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef 46.74Mohamed Nordin Jadi 46.76800 metresNajem Abdullah Mutlaq 1:49.43Khalid Khalifa 1:49.97Wang Lung-hua 1:49.981500 metresSuresh Yadav 3:44.74Susumu Yoshida 3:45.67Najem Abdullah Mutlaq 3:45.775000 metresZhang Guowei 14:07.72Raj Kumar 14:22.56Park Kyung-Duk 14:25.8510,000 metresZhang Guowei 29:45.41Park Kyung-Duk 30:04.89Mohammad Vojdanzadeh 30:20.883000 metre steeplechase 8:54.85Hector Begeo 8:55.57Anokh Singh 9:05.80110 metres hurdles(wind: -1.0 m/s)Wu Chin-jing 13.90Yu Zhicheng 14.16Ahmed Hamada Jassim 14.24(NR)400 metres hurdlesAhmed Hamada Jassim 49.43Shigenori Ohmori 50.69Lin Cheng-jih 51.094 × 100 metres relayCai JianmingHe BaodongYu ZhuanghuiYuan Guoqiang40.16Prasit BoonprasertSomsak BoontudSuchart ChairsuvaparbSumet Promna40.25Kim Yong-ilSung Nak-kunChoi Yong-joonPark Sung-jun40.604 × 400 metres relayFahim Abdul-SadaAouf Abdulrahman YousefAbbas Ali LaftaHeitham Nadim3:07.98Ghulam KibriaCharanjit Singh BajwaPavittar SinghRajinder Sharma3:11.02Isidro Del PradoHonesto LarceLeopoldo ArnilloRenato Unso3:11.0920 kilometre road walkChand Ram 1:30:14Zhang Fuzin 1:32:14Buta Singh 1:43:19High jumpZhu Jianhua 2.31Qassim Mohammed 2.10Chin Yi-Shik 2.05Pole vaultZhang Chen 5.00Ku Chin-shui 4.80Sunder Singh Tanwar 4.50Long jumpLiu Yuhuang 7.97Lee Bou-chai 7.70Koji Umemoto 7.60Triple jumpMai Guoqiang 16.25Yasushi Ueta 16.10Park Yeong-jun 15.80Shot putMohammed Al-Zinkawi 17.90Balwinder Singh 16.89Iqbal Singh 16.72Discus throwLi Weinan 55.40Ajmer Singh 52.30Nejim Abdulrazak 51.00Hammer throwXie Yingqi 65.78Masayuki Kawata 65.60Raghubir Singh Bal 60.52Javelin throwMasami Yoshida 79.50Kazuhiro Mizoguchi 70.16Chen Hung-yen 68.20DecathlonLee Fu-an 7641Ku Chin-shui 7438Takeshi Kojo 7277
Women 100 metres(wind: -2.0 m/s)Lydia de Vega 11.82Valapa Pinij 12.01Shen Su-Feng 12.07200 metres(wind: -2.9 m/s)Lydia de Vega 24.07P.T. Usha 24.68Mo Myung-Hee 24.72400 metresP.T. Usha 54.20Junko Yoshida 54.65Lydia de Vega 55.66800 metresHuo Lianzhu 2:08.92Im Chun-Sil 2:09.20Geng Xiuquan 2:10.021500 metresGeng Xiuquan 4:30.72Gao Suju 4:31.10Kim Lyong-Soon 4:31.133000 metresKim Lyong-Soon 9:39.64Kim Chun-Hwa 9:41.34Kim Soon-Hwa 9:47.19100 metres hurdles(wind: -2.0 m/s)Emi Sasaki (Akimoto) 13.63Liu Huajin 13.82Lin Yueh-Hsiang 14.04400 metres hurdlesYoko Sato 59.89Chizuko Akimoto 59.95Agrifina de la Cruz 61.264 × 100 metres relayJaree PatarachSarinee PhenglaorWalapa PinijWanna Popirom46.12Shen Su-fengLin Ruei-erJen Yui-chuLin Li-shui46.42Chizuko AkimotoJunko YoshidaEmi Akimoto-Sasaki46.474 × 400 metres relayRatjai SripetWalapa TangjitnusornUsa ChanaphaniReim Sriteingtrong3:48.62Shen Su-fengLin Ruei-erJen Yui-chuLin Li-shui3:58.52Khadija Al-MatariWannas Abu KartoumahFaten Al-OmariAmneh Odeh Mershed4:17.41High jumpZheng Dazhen 1.84Ge Ping 1.84Kim Hee-sun 1.81Long jumpLiao Wenfen 6.21Elma Muros 6.09Huang Donghuo 6.08Shot putLu Cheng 17.38So Bok-Hui 14.61Woo Kyon-Sun 14.12Discus throwJiao Yunxiang 53.00Chun Hwa-Kyung 47.20Jeanette Ayoub 37.06Javelin throwXin Xiaoli 53.48Lee Huei-Cheng 42.48 – –HeptathlonHisako Hashimoto 5486Ye Lianying 5394Chen Jin-Yun 5075
Medal table
See also 1983 in athletics (track and field)
References GBR Athletics