Athletics at the 1966 Asian Games

The Athletics events at the 1966 Asian Games were contested at the National Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand from 10 to 15 December.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m	Mani Jegathesan Malaysia	10.5	C. Kunalan Singapore	10.5	Hideo Iijima Japan	10.5
200 m	Mani Jegathesan Malaysia	21.5	Ajmer Singh India	21.5	Thambu Krishnan Malaysia	21.6
400 m	Ajmer Singh India	47.1	Yoshinori Sakai Japan	47.4	Masami Yoshida Japan	47.5
800 m	Bhogeswar Baruah India	1:49.4 GR	Ramasamy Subramaniam Malaysia	1:49.5	Mamoru Morimoto Japan	1:49.6
1500 m	Keisuke Sawaki Japan	3:47.3 GR	Ramasamy Subramaniam Malaysia	3:48.0	Satsuo Iwashita Japan	3:48.1
5000 m	Keisuke Sawaki Japan	14:22.0 GR	Kazuo Tsuchiya Japan	14:23.1	Lucien Rosa Ceylon	14:56.0
10,000 m	Kazuo Tsuchiya Japan	30:27.8	Sunao Shirai Japan	30:36.8	Lucien Rosa Ceylon	31:06.6
110 m hurdles	Ghulam Raziq Pakistan	14.4	Yoshinobu Hamada Japan	14.5	Ishtiaq Mubarak Malaysia	14.7
400 m hurdles	Kiyoo Yui Japan	51.7 GR	Kazuhiko Itagaki Japan	52.3	Andyappan Nathan Malaysia	53.0
3000 m steeplechase	Taketsugu Saruwatari Japan	8:53.6 GR	Ahmad Mirhosseini Iran	8:56.5	Nobuyoshi Matsuda Japan	9:05.2
4 × 100 m relay	Malaysia Mohd Ariffin Ahmad Thambu Krishnan Rajalingam Gunaratnam Mani Jegathesan	40.6 GR	Indonesia Jootje Pesak Oroh Soepardi Bambamg Wahjudi Agus Sugiri	41.0	Philippines William Mordeno Remegio Vista Arnulfo Valles Rogelio Onofre	41.3
4 × 400 m relay	Japan Toru Honda Yoshinori Sakai Masami Yoshida Kiyoo Yui	3:09.1 GR	Malaysia Asir Victor Rengan Pakkri Andyappan Nathan Thambu Krishnan	3:13.1	Singapore Natahar Bava Ho Mun Cheong Gunasena Migale C. Kunalan	3:13.4
Marathon	Kenji Kimihara Japan	2:33:23	Morio Shigematsu Japan	2:35:04	Lee Sang-hoon South Korea	2:40:56
High jump	Bhim Singh India	2.05	Osamu Shimizu Japan	2.03	Teymour Ghiasi Iran	2.00
Pole vault	Tetsuo Hirota Japan	4.70 GR	Yoshizo Uryu Japan	4.60	Hong Sang-pyo South Korea	4.40
Long jump	Hiroomi Yamada Japan	7.48	Takayuki Okazaki Japan	7.39	Su Wen-ho Republic of China	7.31
Triple jump	Kosei Gushiken Japan	15.61	Satoshi Shimo Japan	15.54	Labh Singh India	15.49
Shot put	Joginder Singh India	16.22 GR	Yoshihisa Ishida Japan	16.13	Jalal Keshmiri Iran	16.02
Discus throw	Praveen Kumar Sobti India	49.62 GR	Jalal Keshmiri Iran	49.30	Balkar Singh India	47.64
Hammer throw	Takeo Sugawara Japan	62.90	Shigenobu Murofushi Japan	60.02	Praveen Kumar Sobti India	57.18
Javelin throw	Nashatar Singh Sidhu Malaysia	72.92	Takeshi Ikeda Japan	68.24	Yumio Miyoshi Japan	67.86
Decathlon	Wu Ah-min Republic of China	7003	Yukuo Nogami Japan	6613	Hiroomi Yamada Japan	6553

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
100 m	Miho Sato Japan	12.3	Ritsuko Sukegawa Japan	12.4	Debra Marcus Israel	12.5
200 m	Debra Marcus Israel	25.3	Miyoko Tsujishita Japan	25.3	Kishiko Ikeda Japan	25.7
400 m	Mary Rajamani Malaysia	56.3 GR	Han Myung-hee South Korea	57.5	Yasuyo Mishima Japan	57.7
800 m	Hana Shezifi Israel	2:10.5 GR	Yoko Miyamoto Japan	2:12.7	Yasuyo Mishima Japan	2:13.6
80 m hurdles	Ritsuko Sukegawa Japan	11.2 =GR	Takako Abe Japan	11.4	Manjit Walia India	11.4
4 × 100 m relay	Japan Ritsuko Sukegawa Kishiko Ikeda Miho Sato Miyoko Tsujishita	47.1 GR	Republic of China Chi Cheng Tien Ah-mei Yeh Chu-mei Huang Pi-yun	47.8	Malaysia Jacqueline Kleinman Mary Rajamani Rajemah Sheikh Ahmad Cheryl Dorall	48.8
High jump	Mami Takeda Japan	1.60 =GR	Lolita Lagrosas Philippines	1.58	Cheong Wai Hing Singapore	1.55
Long jump	Chi Cheng Republic of China	5.95 =GR	Emiko Komaru Japan	5.83	Christine Forage India	5.69
Shot put	Ryoko Sugiyama Japan	14.48 GR	Yuko Sawada Japan	13.92	Wu Jin-yun Republic of China	12.83
Discus throw	Josephine de la Viña Philippines	47.58 GR	Yuko Tsunoda Japan	42.34	Han Dong-si South Korea	41.08
Javelin throw	Misako Katayama Japan	49.44 GR	Sachiko Senzaki Japan	42.50	Marcelina Alonso Philippines	40.90
Pentathlon	Michiko Okamoto Japan	4468 GR	Yeh Chu-mei Republic of China	3951	Lolita Lagrosas Philippines	3889

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	18	22	10	50
2	Malaysia (MAL)	5	3	4	12
3	India (IND)	5	1	5	11
4	Republic of China (ROC)	2	2	2	6
5	Israel (ISR)	2	0	1	3
6	Philippines (PHI)	1	1	3	5
7	Pakistan (PAK)	1	0	0	1
8	Iran (IRN)	0	2	2	4
9	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	3	4
10	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	2	3
11	Indonesia (INA)	0	1	0	1
12	Ceylon (CEY)	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 entries)	34	34	34	102

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