ASIAN athletics 2 0 2 0 R a n k i n g s compiled by: Heinrich Hubbeling - ASIAN AA Statistician – 0 C o n t e n t s Page 1 Table of Contents/Abbreviations for countries 2 - 3 Introduction/Details 4 - 10 Asian Continental Records 11 - 45 2020 Rankings – Men events 45 Name changes (to Women´s Rankings) 46 - 79 2020 Rankings – Women events & Mixed 4x400 m 80 Asian athletes in 2020 World TOP 20 lists 81 – 83 Contacts for other publications etc. ============================================================== Abbreviations for countries (as used in this booklet) AFG - Afghanistan KGZ - Kyrghizstan PLE - Palestine BAN - Bangladesh KOR - Korea (South) PRK - D P R Korea BHU - Bhutan KSA - Saudi Arabia QAT - Qatar BRN - Bahrain KUW - Kuwait SGP - Singapore BRU - Brunei LAO - Laos SRI - Sri Lanka CAM - Cambodia LBN - Lebanon SYR - Syria CHN - China MAC - Macau THA - Thailand HKG - Hongkong MAS - Malaysia TJK - Tajikistan INA - Indonesia MDV - Maldives TKM - Turkmenistan IND - India MGL - Mongolia TLS - East Timor IRI - Iran MYA - Myanmar TPE - Chinese Taipei IRQ - Iraq NEP - Nepal UAE - United Arab E. JOR - Jordan OMA - Oman UZB - Uzbekistan JPN - Japan PAK - Pakistan VIE - Vietnam KAZ - Kazakhstan PHI - Philippines YEM - Yemen ============================================================== Cover Photo (courtesy of Worldathletics): Toshikazu Yamanishi -the reigning World & Asian Champ 2019 at 20 km Walk -World Leader 2020 at 20 km Walk (1:17:36) -New Asian Continental Record at 5000 m Walk (18:34.88) (later improved by Koki Ikeda to 18:20.14) 1 I n t r o d u c t i o n With this booklet I present my 32nd consecutive edition of Asian athletics statistics. As in the previous years I am very grateful to the ASIAN ATHLETICS ASSOCIATION and its General Secretary, Mr Shuggu Maran; without this support I would not have been able to realise this project. Just as for the previous editions the publication of such detailed continental rankings was possible only thanks to valuable help from various statisticians and federations. So I would like to express my sincere thanks to Mohammad Abdulwahab (for excellent information from several ARAB countries and for his translations for info in ARAB figures); Ken Nakamura, Yoshimasa Noguchi & Akihiro Onishi (JPN); Xie Zhengmao (CHN); Abdur Roqib (BAN); Dennis Ng (HKG); Umar Yono (INA); Ram.Muralikrishnan & Rahul Pawar (IND); Shirin Aghaie & Bijan Shadmehr (IRI); Alexey Kondrat (KAZ); Ivan Sherbakov (KGZ); Kim Sang-Woo & Chung Young-Hoon (KOR); Majed Basonbul (KSA); Gaby Issa El Khoury & Krystel Saneh (LBN); Jad Adrian Washif (MAS); Ahmed Munthaqim (MDV); Diwakar Lal Amatya (NEP); Muhammad Zafar (PAK); Andrew Pirie (PHI); Mohamed Shahruddin (SGP); Anjana Kalhara, Saman Kumara & Sameera Lakruwan Perera (SRI); Evgeny Shumarin (TJK); Tatyana Stepanisheva (TKM); Mariquita Dos Santos (TLS); Doris Hung & Teng Kuo-Kai (TPE) and Hoang Minh Quyet (VIE); Mirko Jalava (FIN); Winfried Kramer (GER); Carole Fuchs & Michel Saint-Raymond (FRA); Peter Matthews (GBR); György Csiki (HUN); Zbigniew Jonik (POL); Jose Luis Hernandez (SPA) and David Monti (USA); the Athletics Federations of Bangladesh, China, Hongkong, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrghizstan, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Palestine, DPR Korea, Qatar, Singapore, Thailand, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Chinese Taipei, Uzbekistan and Vietnam for their direct and indirect help. Further pieces of information have been taken from various websites, magazines and newspapers. As in the past I am particularly indebted to my very close friends Mirko Jalava (FIN), Winfried Kramer and Jürgen Schmidt (GER) for their excellent cooperation to this project. Unfortunately it was impossible for me and my friends to get the necessary information from the remaining countries in spite of many inquiries, although most probably there were no competitions during 2020 season at all in some of these countries due to the terrific Pandemic situation. All readers are kindly invited to send any additions and/or corrections to the lists as well as 2021 information to the editor and/or to the ASIAN AA. 2 D e t a i l s Just as in the previous editions, the 2020 rankings are divided into two sections in order to show the leading performances from as many Asian countries as possible in addition to the continental Top 30 annual lists, which –for most events - consist of results by athletes from the two leading countries, China and Japan. The division is as follows: a) Asian Top 30 lists (more performers, however, when there are more than 30 athletes among or at least close to the “World TOP 100”) b) other next best performances restricted to 4 performers per country for each event. Additional results (i.e. windy marks, indoor performances and national records outside the limits above) are given in separate sections. For all events up to 400m, main lists are given with fully automatic timing only, but, following the policy of the IAAF, better hand-timed results are also added (with a differential of 0.24 seconds for sprints respectively 0.14 seconds for 400m, 400m hurdles and 4x100 m). I have added those performers with better hand-times separately at the end of each event. With regard to the limited number of national competitions during 2020 season in most Asian AA Member Federations and nearly no Regional/International competitons at all due to the Pandemic crisis, the “Minimum standards” were slightly lowered in several events and there are nearly no athletes added to the following sections from several countries as no competitions were held at all. New Asian records are indicated by ´AR´, new Asian indoor records by ´AIR`, new Asian junior records by ´AJR´ and all new national records by ´NR´. In addition, new national indoor records are shown by `NIR`, but only when better than the relevant national records outdoors. The section with the “Asian Continental Records” (pages 4 – 10) includes for the first time a list of Asian Youth / U 18 records. Exact dates of birth are given where available in the following format: 150501 = 15 May 2001. Those juniors whose exact birthdates are not known are denoted with ´jr´ (i.e. born 2001 or later). For the walks combined lists are given, including both track results (indicated by times given with 1/10 or 1/100 seconds and ´t´) and marks from road races (listed in full seconds only). As for the results of meetings lasting several days and the exact date not known, only the last day is given, preceded by a «-». Due to the COVID-situation, I have done without event by event survey (placings within the world TOP 100 as such survey could not be compared to the lists in prvious years). Therefore I have only compiled a survey with Asian athletes who rank in the world TOP 20 lists. 3 st ASIAN Continental Records (as at 31 Dec 2020) MEN (Olympic events) 100 m 9.91 Femi Seun Ogunode QAT Wuhan 04.06.2015 9.91 Femi Seun Ogunode QAT Gainesville 22.04.2016 9.91 Su Bingtian CHN Madrid 22.06.2018 9.91 Su Bingtian CHN Paris 30.06.2018 200 m 19.88 Xie Zhenye CHN London 21.07.2019 400 m 43.93 Youssef Ahmed Al-Masrahi KSA Beijing 23.08.2015 800 m 1:42.79 Youssef Saad Kamel BRN Monaco 29.07.2008 1500 m 3:29.14 Rashid Ramzi BRN Roma 14.07.2006 5000 m x3) 12:51.96 Albert Rop BRN Monaco 19.07.2013 10000 m 26:38.76 Abdullah Ahmad Hassan QAT Bruxelles 05.09.2003 Marathon 2:04:43 El Hassan El Abbassi BRN Valencia 02.12.2018 3000 m Steeple 7:53.63 Saif Saeed Shaheen QAT Bruxelles 03.09.2004 110 m Hurdles 12.88 Liu Xiang CHN Lausanne 11.07.2006 400 m Hurdles 46.98 Abderrahman Samba QAT Paris 30.06.2018 High Jump 2.43 Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT Bruxelles 05.09.2014 Pole Vault x4) 5.92i Igor Potapovich KAZ Stockholm 19.02.1998 Long Jump 8.48 Mohamed S.Al-Khuwailidi KSA Sotteville 02.07.2006 Triple Jump 17.59 Li Yanxi CHN Jinan 26.10.2009 Shot Put 21.13 Sultan Abdulm. Al-Hebshi KSA Doha 08.05.2009 Discus Throw 69.32 Ehsan Haddadi IRI Tallinn 03.06.2008 Hammer Throw 84.86 Koji Murofushi JPN Praha 29.06.2003 Javelin Throw 91.36 Cheng Chao-Tsun TPE Taipei 26.08.2017 Decathlon 8725 Dmitriy Karpov KAZ Athinai 23/24.08.2004 (10.50w; 7.81; 15.93; 2.09; 46.81 / 13.97; 51.65; 4.60; 55.54; 4:38.11) 20 km Walk/Road 1:16:36 Yusuke Suzuki JPN Nomi 15.03.2015 35 km Walk 2:31:29 Zhen Wang CHN Latina 29.01.2012 50 km Walk/Road 3:36:06 Yu Chaohong CHN Nanjing 22.10.2005 4x100 m Relay 37.43 National Team JPN Doha 05.10.2019 (S.Tada, K.Shiraishi, Y.Kiryu, A.H.Sani Brown) 4x400 m Relay 3:00.56 National Team QAT Jakarta 30.08.2018 (A.Samba, M.N.Abbas, M.J.Youssef, A.H.Haroun) Asian Records or Best Performances in other events 300 m 32.21 Kenji Fujimitsu JPN Hamayama 12.04.2015 600 m 1:15.77 Mohamed Nasir Abbas QAT Pretoria 01.02.2019 1000 m 2:14.72 Youssef Saad Kamel BRN Stockholm 22.07.2008 1 Mile 3:47.97 Dahame Najim Bashir QAT Oslo 29.07.2005 2000 m 4:55.57 Mohamed Sulaiman QAT Roma 08.06.1995 3000 m 7:30.76 Jamal Bilal Salem QAT Doha 13.05.2005 2 Miles 8:13.16 Rashid Ramzi BRN Eugene 08.06.2008 10 km / Road 27:44 Albert Rop BRN Utrecht 07.10.2018 15 km / Road x2) 41:53+ Abraham Cheroben BRN Kobenhavn 17.09.2017 15000 m/Track 43:38.2 Toshihiko Seko JPN Shizuoka 24.09.1983 20 km / Road x2) 55:51+ Abraham Cheroben BRN Kobenhavn 17.09.2017 20000 m/Track 57:48.7 Toshihiko Seko JPN Odawara 11.05.1985 1 Hour 20.410 m Seiji Kushibe JPN Tokyo 20.10.1996 Half-Marathon 58:40 Abraham Cheroben BRN Kobenhavn 17.09.2017 25 km / Road x2) 1:13:14+ Takyuki Matsumiya JPN Kumamoto 27.02.2005 25000 m/Track 1:13:55.8 Toshihiko Seko JPN Christchurch 22.03.1981