1987 Asian Championships
Dates	July 22-26
Host city	Singapore,Singapore
Venue	National Stadium
Participation	at least 14 nations
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The seventhAsian Championships in Athletics were held in July 1987 inSingapore.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.0 m/s)	Talal Mansour Qatar	10.41	Cheng Hsin-fu Chinese Taipei	10.56	Li Tao  China	10.57
200 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s)	Talal Mansour Qatar	20.71	Li Feng  China	21.12	Cheng Hsin-Fu Chinese Taipei	21.21
400 metres	Mohammed Al-Malki Oman	45.77	Mohamed Nordin Jadi Malaysia	47.05	Yoshito Toshida  Japan	47.32
800 metres	Ismail Yousef Qatar	1:47.81	Ryu Tae-Kyung South Korea	1:48.00	Ramasamy Haridas Malaysia	1:48.27
1500 metres	Duan Xiuquan  China	3:45.11	Shigeki Nakayama  Japan	3:45.41	Yutaka Hoshino  Japan	3:45.76
5000 metres	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar	14:09.29	Yoshiaki Iwasa  Japan	14:10.91	Cai Shangyan  China	14:11.30
10,000 metres	Cai Shangyan  China	29:47.85	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama Qatar	30:03.02	Lee Sang-Geun South Korea	30:06.79
3000 metre steeplechase	Masashi Otokita  Japan	9:04.21	Ali Ahmed Saleh Qatar	9:08.03	Kim Hyun-Hwa South Korea	9:08.76
110 metres hurdles (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Yang Guang  China	14.04	Yu Zhicheng  China	14.06	Nagi Ghazi Iraq	14.30
400 metres hurdles	Shigenori Ohmori  Japan	50.09	Jasem Al-Douwaila Kuwait	50.46	Nasser Mohammed Qatar	51.15
4 × 100 metres relay	Qatar Jamal Abdallah Sulaiman Faraj Marzouk Saad Muftah Talal Mansour	39.20	China Cai Jianming Li Feng Li Tao Zheng Chen	39.40	Chinese Taipei Chang Yih-yuan Cheng Hsin-fu Lai Cheng-chuan Lee Shin-long	39.68
4 × 400 metres relay	Japan Yuji Yoshioka Seiichi Ibe Yoshito Toyota Ritsuo Hayasaka	3:09.31	Malaysia Joseph Phan Ramasamy Haridas Ismail Hashim Mohamed Nordin Jadi	3:09.72	Chinese Taipei Hsu Ruo-ta Lee Shin-long Lin Kuan-liang Lin Tsai-tien	3:09.86
20 kilometre road walk	Liu Jianli  China	1:33:16	Jung Pil-Hwa South Korea	1:37:49	Yoshihiro Oie  Japan	1:39:44
High jump	Liu Yunpeng  China	2.24	Cho Hyun-wook South Korea	2.22	Ramjit Nairulal Malaysia	2.10
Pole vault	Liang Xueren  China	5.35	Teruhisa Kamiya  Japan	5.15	Ku Chin-shui Chinese Taipei	5.10
Long jump	Kim Won-jin South Korea	8.00	Liu Yuhuang  China	7.98	Wang Shijie  China	7.91
Triple jump	Park Young-Jun South Korea	16.37	Du Benzhong  China	16.37	Noboru Sasano  Japan	15.82
Shot put	Ma Yongfeng  China	18.32	Gong Yitian  China	18.05	Balwinder Singh  India	17.56
Discus throw	Li Weinan  China	56.10	Wang Daoming  China	54.48	Mansour Ghorbani Iran	53.00
Hammer throw	Xie Yingqi  China	66.36	Akiyoshi Ikeda  Japan	65.98	Yu Guangming  China	65.74
Javelin throw	Takahiro Yamada  Japan	72.62	Frans Mahuse Indonesia	72.30	Ji Zhanzheng  China	70.80
Decathlon	Gong Guohua  China	7848	Chen Zebin  China	7554	Lee Fu-an Chinese Taipei	7515

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.4 m/s)	Lydia de Vega Philippines	11.43	P.T. Usha  India	11.74	Tian Yumei  China	11.76
200 metres (wind: -0.8 m/s)	Lydia de Vega Philippines	23.38	Pan Weixin  China	24.06	Hiromi Isozaki  Japan	24.18
400 metres	P.T. Usha  India	52.31	Vandana Shanbagh  India	53.22	Xie Zhiling  China	54.16
800 metres	Choi Se-Bum South Korea	2:05.11	Jiang Shuling  China	2:05.21	Lim Chun-Ae South Korea	2:05.39
1500 metres	Yang Liuxia  China	4:19.29	Noe Hye-Soon South Korea	4:23.52	Kim Ryon-Sun North Korea	4:25.44
3000 metres	Kim Chun-Mae North Korea	9:17.19	Zhang Xiuyun  China	9:17.61	Kim Ryon-Sun North Korea	9:18.76
10,000 metres	Wang Huabi  China	34:56.34	Keiko Honma  Japan	35:31.04	Kim Gun-Hui North Korea	37:04.12
100 metres hurdles (wind: -1.1 m/s)	Feng Yinghua  China	13.56	Chen Wen-Ying Chinese Taipei	13.68	Wang Shu-Hwa Chinese Taipei	14.05
400 metres hurdles	P.T. Usha  India	56.48	Chang Feng-Hua Chinese Taipei	58.62	Hitomi Koshimoto  Japan	59.18
4 × 100 metres relay	China Tian Yumei Zhang Xiaoqiong Pan Weixin Shao Liwei	45.20	India Vandana Shanbagh Vandana Rao Sany Joseph P.T. Usha	45.49	Chinese Taipei Chen Ya-li Jen Yui-chu Huang Kuei-ying Chen Wen-ying	45.66
4 × 400 metres relay	India Ashwini Nachappa Vandana Rao Sany Joseph P.T. Usha	3:34.50	Japan Fumiko Ono Kimika Tateno Mikako Eguchi Hiromi Isozaki	3:39.70	Chinese Taipei Chang Feng-hua Chen Wen-ying Hsu Yi-ling Cheng Fei-ju	3:40.32
10000 metre track walk	An Limei  China	52:40.21	Yuki Nanbu  Japan	53:01.37	Park Hyun-Joo South Korea	53:56.86
High jump	Ni Xiuling  China	1.92	Kim Hee-sun South Korea	1.90	Ye Peisu  China	1.86
Long jump	Wang Zhihui  China	6.70	Liao Wenfen  China	6.51	Li Yong-Ae North Korea	6.23
Shot put	Cong Yuzhen  China	18.17	Choi Mi-Sun South Korea	13.88	Lee Jing-Hua Chinese Taipei	13.33
Discus throw	Xing Ailan  China	58.08	Juliana Effendi Indonesia	43.94	Li Sin-Gum North Korea	43.86
Javelin throw	Li Baolian  China	60.12	Lee Huei-Cheng Chinese Taipei	52.60	Naomi Tokuyama  Japan	50.14
Heptathlon	Dong Yuping  China	6036	Ma Miaolan  China	5460	Wang Shu-Hwa Chinese Taipei	5293

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	21	13	8	42
2	Qatar (QAT)	5	2	1	8
3	Japan (JPN)	4	7	7	18
4	South Korea (KOR)	3	6	4	13
5	India (IND)	3	3	1	7
6	Philippines (PHI)	2	0	0	2
7	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	5	6
8	Oman (OMN)	1	0	0	1
9	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	4	10	14
10	Malaysia (MAS)	0	2	2	4
11	Indonesia (INA)	0	2	0	2
12	Kuwait (KUW)	0	1	0	1
13	Iran (IRN)	0	0	1	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		40	40	40	120

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