2016 Asian Junior Athletics Championships

17th Asian Junior Athletics Championships
Dates	3–6 June
Host city	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Venue	Thống Nhất Stadium
Level	Junior (under-20)
Events	44
Records set	2 championship records
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The 2016 Asian Junior Athletics Championships was the 17th edition of the international athletics competition for Asian under-20 athletes, organised by the Asian Athletics Association and the Vietnam Athletics Federation. Athletes born between 1997 and 2000 competed in 44 events, divided evenly between the sexes. The competition took place over four days from 3–6 June at Thống Nhất Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. A total of 45 countries entered athletes into the tournament, eighteen of which reached the medal table. The competition, including its opening and closing ceremonies, was broadcast live on Vietnamese carrier VTV6.^[1]

Japan topped the medal table with thirteen gold medals among a total of 27, overturning a long period of Chinese dominance. China was a comfortable second, with 22 medals, half of which were gold. India was the next best performing nation and the only other to reach double digits in the medal count, taking seven golds. The hosts Vietnam took two golds and placed seventh in the medals overall. Two championship records were broken, both by Japanese: Junya Sado won the men's javelin throw in 77.97 m (255 ft 9+1⁄2 in) and Chika Mukai took the 3000 m steeplechase in 10:21.04 minutes.^[2]

Malaysia's Khairul Hafiz Jantan was the most successful athlete of the competition, winning three medals: the 100 metres gold, and silvers in the 200 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay. Yang Chun-han was the only man to take two golds, topping the podium in the latter two events. On the women's side, there were two double gold medallists: Jisna Mathew led India to a 400 m individual and relay double, while Lili Das scored a middle-distance double. Japan's Haruko Ishizuka took 400 m bronze after winning the hurdles gold and her compatriots Shinichi Yukinaga and Nanaka Kori also took minor medals in the discus after becoming shot put winners.^[2]

The event was held in the month before the global 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships. Several of Asia's medallists at that competition were not present at the regional meet, although Qatar's Mohamed Ibrahim Moaaz became a double discus throw champion and India's Neeraj Chopra improved from a silver in Ho Chi Minh to a world under-20 gold with a world junior record throw. The 2016 world under-20 high jump bronze medallist Mohamat Allamine Hamdi managed only sixth on the Asian stage that year.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Khairul Hafiz Jantan  Malaysia	10.36	Ippei Takeda [fr]  Japan	10.41	Abdullah Abkar Mohammed  Saudi Arabia	10.45
200 metres	Yang Chun-han  Chinese Taipei	20.73	Khairul Hafiz Jantan  Malaysia	21.15	Wataru Inuzuka  Japan	21.16
400 metres	Mizuki Obuchi  Japan	47.52	Taha Hussein Yaseen  Iraq	47.55	Abdullah Djimet Souleiman  Saudi Arabia	47.83
800 metres	Amoj Jacob  India	1:51.82	Idriss Mousa Youssouf  Qatar	1:52.28	Mohammed Raheem Al-Bazaznah  Iraq	1:52.78
1500 metres	Ajay Kumar Saroj  India	3:57.55	Idriss Mousa Youssouf  Qatar	3:58.28	Ata Assadi  Iran	4:03.37
5000 metres	Takato Suzuki  Japan	14:16.42	Akira Aizawa  Japan	14:32.08	Gavit Murli Kumar  India	14:49.41
10,000 metres	Sota Watanabe  Japan	31:23.93	Abhishek Pal  India	31:24.06	Tadvi Kisan Narshi  India	32:07.12
110 m hurdles	Mohd Rizzua Haizad Muhamad  Malaysia	14.00	May Mon Paulose  India	14.02	Zhang Tao  China	14.05
400 m hurdles	Yoshihiro Watanabe  Japan	50.86	Feng Zhiqiang  China	51.49	Kim Hyun-bin  South Korea	52.55
3000 m steeplechase	Mohamed Khamis Saifeldin  Qatar	9:26.79	Lê Trung Đức  Vietnam	9:27.40	Lê Quang Hoà  Vietnam	9:31.86
10,000 m walk	Zhang Yao  China	44:33.00	Yasushi Morita  Japan	44:33.79	Song Yun-hwa  South Korea	45:38.45
4×100 m relay	Chinese Taipei (TPE) Yeh Shou-Bo Yang Chun-Han Liu Chao-Hsuan Shen Yu-Sen	39.75	Malaysia (MAS) Asnawi Hashim Badrul Hisyam Abdul Manap Muhammad Haiqal Hanafi Khairul Hafiz Jantan	39.91	Thailand (THA) Chayut Khongprasit Sakchai Laomool Nutthapong Veeravongratanasiri Pipat Nupuang	40.36
4×400 m relay	Thailand (THA) Vitsanu Phosri Nattapong Kongkraphan Phitchaya Sunthonthuam Phanuwat Bunfueangfu	3:11.59	India (IND) Murugan Kiran Malik Pankaj Kupar Harsh Amoj Jacob	3:12.12	Saudi Arabia (KSA) Ahmed Saleh Mahda Abdallah Djimat Souleyman Sabir Said Essa Yasir Yahya Hazazi	3:12.37
High jump	Keitaro Fujita  Japan	2.16 m	Muhammad Syazwan Ahmad  Malaysia	2.14 m	Hussein Al-Ibraheemi  Iraq	2.14 m
Pole vault	Muntadher Faleh Abdulwahid  Iraq	5.25 m	Phassapong Unsum-ang  Thailand	5.20 m =NJR	Ali Mohsen Abed Zid  Iraq	5.10 m
Long jump	Zhong Peifeng  China	7.84 m	Tomoya Nomura  Japan	7.75 m w	Kazuma Adachi  Japan	7.73 m
Triple jump	Sung Jin-syuk  South Korea	16.19 m	Liu Mingxuan  China	16.05 m	Sonu Kumar  India	15.99 m
Shot put	Shinichi Yukinaga  Japan	18.41 m	Amin Lotfollahi  Iran	17.57 m	Mehdi Rostami  Iran	17.53 m
Discus throw	Mohamed Ibrahim Moaaz  Qatar	60.49 m	Yume Ando  Japan	58.80 m NJR	Shinichi Yukinaga  Japan	54.79 m
Hammer throw	Ashish Jakhar  India	69.00 m	Hussein Thamir Abdelwahed  Iraq	65.71 m	Zhalolhon Tilavoldikhuzhayev  Uzbekistan	63.77 m
Javelin throw	Junya Sado  Japan	77.97 m CR	Neeraj Chopra  India	77.60 m	Arshad Nadeem  Pakistan	73.40 m NJR
Decathlon	Yuma Maruyama [de]  Japan	6748 pts	Wang Chen-yu  Chinese Taipei	6624 pts	Krishna Kumar  India	6551 pts

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Liu Qun  China	11.84	Chloe Chan Pui Kei  Hong Kong	11.85 NJR	On-Uma Chattha  Thailand	11.88
200 metres	Lê Tú Chinh  Vietnam	23.94	Supanich Poolkerd  Thailand	24.41	Noor Eewan Syafiqah Md Sabri  Malaysia	24.50
400 metres	Jisna Mathew  India	53.85	Huang Guifen  China	54.92	Haruko Ishizuka  Japan	55.40
800 metres	Lili Das  India	2:06.64	Airi Ikezaki  Japan	2:07.21	Arina Kleshchukova  Kyrgyzstan	2:07.56
1500 metres	Lili Das  India	4:29.50	Mina Ueda  Japan	4:30.76	Harmilankaur Bains  India Pak Jin-hyang  North Korea	4:33.02
3000 metres	Nana Kuraoka  Japan	9:31.46	Pak Jin-hyang  North Korea	9:50.72	Choe Hyon-ju  North Korea	10:01.94
5000 metres	Hana Omori  Japan	16:57.39	Misaki Ogata  Japan	17:04.76	Choe Hyon-ju  North Korea	17:08.79
100 m hurdles	Yu Jiaru  China	13.79	Cheng Tang-hsiu  Chinese Taipei	13.97	Lin Shih-ting  Chinese Taipei	14.11
400 m hurdles	Haruko Ishizuka  Japan	57.91	Khuất Phương Anh  Vietnam	59.78	Lin Yu-chieh  Chinese Taipei	60.02
3000 m steeplechase	Chika Mukai  Japan	10:21.04 CR	Ro Hyo-gong  North Korea	10:31.02	Ju Ok-byol  North Korea	10:41.91
10,000 m walk	Wang Wenjing  China	50:23.89	Cun Hailu  China	50:37.03	Ravina  India	51:09.48
4×100 m relay	Thailand (THA) Parichat Charoensuk On-Uma Chatta Sureewan Runan Suwimon Khongthong	45.23	China (CHN) Liu Qun Huang Guifen Huang Jiaxen Yu Jiaru	45.41	Hong Kong (HKG) Leung Kwan-yi Chan Ka-sin Kong Chun-ki Chloe Chan Pui-kei	45.84 NJR
4×400 m relay	India (IND) Jisna Mathew Shaharbana Sidhique Thadiyan Parambil Subha V Liniet George	3:43.57	Vietnam (VIE) Khuất Phương Anh Can Thi Thuy Nguyen Thi Hang Hoang Thi Minh Hanh	3:44.56 NJR	Thailand (THA) Supanich Poolkerd Thanphimon Kaeodi Manrika Phonyam Apinya Athiwet	3:50.79
High jump	Chai Yanbo  China	1.74 m	Nadezhda Dubovitskaya  Kazakhstan	1.74 m	Tsai Ching-jung  Chinese Taipei	1.71 m
Pole vault	Chen Qiaoling  China	4.15 m	Misaki Morota  Japan	3.80 m	Wu Chia-ju  Chinese Taipei	3.60 m
Long jump	Nguyễn Thị Trúc Mai  Vietnam	6.34 m NJR	Parinya Chuaimaroeng  Thailand	6.28 m NJR	Yao Jiayu  China	6.04 m
Triple jump	Kirthana Ramasamy  Malaysia	13.20 m NJR	Mariya Ovchinnikova  Kazakhstan	13.19 m	Anna Gorodkova  Kazakhstan	12.97 m
Shot put	Nanaka Kori  Japan	15.89 m NJR	Dong Yu  China	14.23 m	Liu Ziyue  China	14.22 m
Discus throw	Yang Huanhuan  China	51.47 m	Nanaka Kori  Japan	48.04 m	Zhou Zixuan  China	46.57 m
Hammer throw	Zhao Fan  China	61.77 m	Ji Li  China	58.11 m	Mingkamon Koomphon  Thailand	56.44 m
Javelin throw	Su Lingdan  China	57.32 m	Chang Chu  Chinese Taipei	53.14 m	Varvara Nazarova  Kazakhstan	52.76 m NR
Heptathlon	Du Jiani  China	5031 pts	Aleksandra Yurkevskaya  Uzbekistan	4859 pts	Nguyễn Linh Na  Vietnam	4564 pts

Key

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	13	10	4	27
2	China (CHN)	11	7	4	22
3	India (IND)	7	4	6	17
4	Malaysia (MAS)	3	3	1	7
5	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	2	3	4	9
	Thailand (THA)	2	3	4	9
7	Vietnam (VIE)*	2	3	2	7
8	Qatar (QAT)	2	2	0	4
9	Iraq (IRQ)	1	2	3	6
10	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	2	3
11	North Korea (PRK)	0	2	4	6
12	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	2	2	4
13	Iran (IRI)	0	1	2	3
14	Hong Kong (HKG)	0	1	1	2
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	1	1	2
16	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	0	0	3	3
17	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		44	44	45	133

Results

• Results (archived)

Daily reports

• Ramsak, Bob (2016-06-05). Jantan and Liu take 100m titles as Asian Junior Championships reach midway point. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-12-28.
• Mulkeen, Jon (2016-06-06). Sado takes surprise javelin victory at Asian Junior Championships. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-12-28.