The athletics at the 1974 Asian Games were held in Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran, Iran. This was the first time that China competed in these games and also the last time that Israel competed.
| Athletics at the 1974 Asian Games | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Aryamehr Stadium |
| Dates | 9–15 September 1974 |
← 1970 1978 → | |
Medalists
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m | Anat Ratanapol Thailand | 10.42 | Masahide Jinno Japan | 10.55 | Suchart Jairsuraparp Thailand | 10.59 |
| 200 m | Anat Ratanapol Thailand | 21.09 GR | Takao Ishizawa Japan | 21.60 | Nusrat Iqbal Sahi Pakistan | 21.79 |
| 400 m | Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa Sri Lanka | 46.21 GR | Reza Entezari Iran | 46.69 | Yoshiharu Tomonaga Japan | 46.77 |
| 800 m | Sriram Singh India | 1:47.57 GR | Reza Entezari Iran | 1:48.50 | Muhammad Siddique Pakistan | 1:48.64 |
| 1500 m | Muhammad Younis Pakistan | 3:49.30 | Susumu Noro Japan | 3:51.17 | Park Suk-kwan South Korea | 3:52.74 |
| 5000 m | Shivnath Singh India | 14:20.50 GR | Yuval Wischnitzer Israel | 14:21.50 | Kenichi Ozawa Japan | 14:22.15 |
| 10,000 m | Yasunori Hamada Japan | 30:49.87 | Shivnath Singh India | 30:51.61 | Makoto Hattori Japan | 31:03.84 |
| 110 m hurdles | Cui Lin China | 14.26 GR | Ishtiaq Mubarak Malaysia | 14.49 | Nasr Sultan Iraq | 14.63 |
| 400 m hurdles | Talib Faisal Iraq | 51.69 GR | Abdullatif Abbas Kuwait | 52.32 | Lehmber Singh India | 52.49 |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Takaharu Koyama Japan | 8:57.95 | Gurmej Singh India | 9:04.00 | Li Wenliang China | 9:06.10 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Thailand Somsak Boontud Suchart Jairsuraparp Kanoksak Chaisanont Anat Ratanapol | 40.14 GR | China Feng Zhenren Luo Guoming Cui Lin Yu Weili | 40.20 | Singapore C. Kunalan Ong Yoke Phee Tan Say Leong Yeo Kian Chye | 40.34 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Sri Lanka Appunidage Premachandra Sunil Gunawardene Kosala Sahabandu Wickremasinghe Wimaladasa | 3:07.40 GR | India P. C. Punappa Lehmber Singh Sucha Singh Sriram Singh | 3:08.73 | Iran Houshang Arshadi Fakhroddin Alamshah Ghasem Koveitipour Reza Entezari | 3:10.10 |
| High jump | Teymour Ghiasi Iran | 2.21 GR | Ni Zhiqin China | 2.16 | Yoshikazu Okuda Japan | 2.08 |
| Pole vault | Yasuhiro Kigawa Japan | 5.00 GR | Cai Zhangxi China | 5.00 =GR | Jiang Yubin China | 4.85 |
| Long jump | T. C. Yohannan India | 8.07 GR | Takayoshi Kawagoe Japan | 7.77 | Satish Pillai India | 7.58 |
| Triple jump | Toshiaki Inoue Japan | 16.45 GR | Mohinder Singh Gill India | 16.25 | Faramarz Asef Iran | 15.97 |
| Shot put | Jalal Keshmiri Iran | 18.04 GR | Bahadur Singh Chauhan India | 17.94 | Jugraj Singh India | 17.64 |
| Discus throw | Jalal Keshmiri Iran | 56.82 GR | Praveen Kumar Sobti India | 53.64 | Salman Hesam Iran | 52.32 |
| Hammer throw | Shigenobu Murofushi Japan | 66.54 | Nirmal Singh Grewal India | 60.02 | Kim Myong-geun North Korea | 59.80 |
| Javelin throw | Toshihiro Yamada Japan | 76.12 GR | Minoru Onda Japan | 76.04 | Zhang Bao China | 73.64 |
| Decathlon | Vijay Singh Chauhan India | 7375 GR | Junichi Onizuka Japan | 7294 | Suresh Babu India | 6836 |
Women
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 m | Esther Roth Israel | 11.90 | He Zufen China | 12.10 | Keiko Yamada Japan | 12.42 |
| 200 m | Esther Roth Israel | 23.79 | He Zufen China | 24.41 | Emiko Konishi Japan | 24.94 |
| 400 m | Chee Swee Lee Singapore | 55.08 GR | Nobuko Kawano Japan | 55.59 | Junaidah Aman Malaysia | 55.78 |
| 800 m | Nobuko Kawano Japan | 2:08.05 | Mikayo Inoue Japan | 2:08.99 | Li Dan China | 2:09.89 |
| 1500 m | Song Meihua China | 4:28.68 | Yang Yanying China | 4:29.17 | Hana Shezifi Israel | 4:31.00 |
| 100 m hurdles | Esther Roth Israel | 13.31 GR | Tomomi Hayashida Japan | 14.28 | Miyuki Iioka Japan | 14.32 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | Japan Sayo Yamato Tomomi Hayashida Emiko Konishi Keiko Yamada | 46.62 GR | China Meng Yuqiong Kang Yueli Xiao Zinong He Zufen | 46.76 | Singapore Eng Chiew Quay Chee Swee Lee Glory Barnabas Maimoon Azlan | 47.10 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Japan Yuko Kitabayashi Mutsuko Otsuka Mikayo Inoue Nobuko Kawano | 3:43.52 GR | Singapore Glory Barnabas Lee Tai Jong Maimoon Azlan Chee Swee Lee | 3:43.85 | Burma Than Than Mar Mar Min Nwe Nwe Yee Than Than Htay | 3:45.06 |
| High jump | Orit Abramovitz Israel | 1.78 GR | Mikiko Sone Japan | 1.78 =GR | Wu Fushan China | 1.74 |
| Long jump | Xiao Jieping China | 6.31 GR | Kang Yueli China | 6.26 | Hiroko Yamashita Japan | 6.15 |
| Shot put | Paik Ok-ja South Korea | 16.28 GR | Gao Yukui China | 15.22 | Kayoko Hayashi Japan | 15.06 |
| Discus throw | Gao Yukui China | 51.84 GR | Dashzevegiin Namjilmaa Mongolia | 47.32 | Matsuko Takahashi Japan | 47.04 |
| Javelin throw | Zhou Maojia China | 53.06 GR | Mieko Takasaka Japan | 52.02 | Keiko Myogai Japan | 47.96 |
| Pentathlon | Kyoko Shimizu Japan | 3890 | Sun Yuxiang China | 3849 | Zhang Yumei China | 3783 |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 10 | 11 | 11 | 32 |
| 2 | China (CHN) | 5 | 10 | 6 | 21 |
| 3 | India (IND) | 4 | 7 | 4 | 15 |
| 4 | Israel (ISR) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 5 | Iran (IRN) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | Thailand (THA) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Sri Lanka (SRI) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Singapore (SIN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Pakistan (PAK) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Iraq (IRQ) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 12 | Malaysia (MAL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Kuwait (KUW) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15 | Burma (BIR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (16 entries) | 35 | 35 | 35 | 105 | |
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