Asian Marathon Championships
The Asian Marathon Championships is a biennial international competition in marathon road running for Asian athletes. Organised by the Asian Athletics Association, its creation in 1988 followed decision to drop the 42.195-kilometre (26-mile and 385-yard) race from the programme of events at the Asian Athletics Championships.[1] In that competition, championship marathons were held for men in 1973 and 1975, then finally for both men and women at the 1985.[2]
The first discrete men's and women's Asian championship marathons in 1988 were held at different locations. The men's side was incorporated into that year's Lake Biwa Marathon while the women's side was held within the Nagoya Women's Marathon. The first winners (Masayuki Nishi and Xie Lihua) were not the fastest Asian runners in those races, as only those specifically chosen to represent their nation were eligible to win the Asian title.[3][4][5] The following edition in 1990 saw both sexes compete at the same location and again the races were hosted within a major annual marathon race, this time the Seoul International Marathon, where Korean racers Kim Won-Tak and Lee Mi-Ok claimed both the Asian and Seoul titles.[6]
The 1992 Asian Marathon Championships were held in Bandung, Indonesia, outside of a major race for the first time. This was reverted soon after in 1994, when the men's race was contained at the Beppu-Ōita Marathon and the women in Nagoya for a second time. Since then, each occurrence of the championship has been in one location for both sexes alongside a major city marathon. The Pattaya Marathon has hosted the event twice (2000 and 2011), while the Hong Kong Marathon has served as the venue three times (2002, 2008 and 2013).[3]
East Asian runners have been the most successful at the competition, with the Japanese topping the rankings with nine men's titles and four women's titles across the championship's history. China, South Korea and North Korea have each won four titles between the men's and women's races. North Korea's Kim Kum-Ok is the most successful runner in competition history – she is a three-time winner of the women's championship (2006, 2008 and 2013). Kenichi Kawakubo, Mohammed Abduh Bakhet and Zhang Shujing are the only other runners to have won the championship twice.[3]
Editions
[edit | edit source]- First three championships held within Asian Athletics Championships
| Edition | Year | Race | City | Country | Date | Countries | Athletes |
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| — | 1973 | Asian Athletics Championships | Marikina | Philippines | 23 November | ||
| — | 1975 | Asian Athletics Championships | Seoul | South Korea | 14 June | ||
| — | 1985 | Asian Athletics Championships | Jakarta | Indonesia | 29 September | ||
| 1 | 1988 | Lake Biwa Marathon/ Nagoya Women's Marathon |
Otsu/Nagoya | Japan | 13 March/ 6 March |
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| 2 | 1990 | Seoul International Marathon | Seoul | South Korea | 18 March | ||
| 3 | 1992 | — | Bandung | Indonesia | 4 October | ||
| 4 | 1994 | Beppu-Ōita Marathon/ Nagoya Women's Marathon |
Oita/Nagoya | Japan | 6 February/ 13 March |
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| 5 | 1996 | Chuncheon Marathon | Chuncheon | South Korea | 27 October | ||
| 6 | 1998 | Ayutthaya Marathon | Ayutthaya | Thailand | 8 February | ||
| 7 | 2000 | Pattaya Marathon | Pattaya | Thailand | 2 July | ||
| 8 | 2002 | Hong Kong Marathon | Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 24 February | ||
| 9 | 2004 | JoongAng Seoul Marathon | Seoul | South Korea | 7 November | ||
| 10 | 2006 | Beijing Marathon | Beijing | China | 15 October | ||
| 11 | 2008 | Hong Kong Marathon | Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 17 February | ||
| 12 | 2010 | Pune Marathon | Pune | India | 5 December | ||
| 13 | 2011 | Pattaya Marathon | Pattaya | Thailand | 17 July | ||
| 14 | 2013 | Hong Kong Marathon | Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 24 February | ||
| 15 | 2015 | Hong Kong Marathon | Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 25 January | ||
| 16 | 2017 | — | Dongguan | China | 26 November | ||
| 17 | 2019 | — | Dongguan | China | 22 December | [7] | |
| 19 | 2024 | Hong Kong Marathon | Hong Kong | Hong Kong, China | 21 January | ||
| 20 | 2025 | Jiaxing Marathon | Jiaxing | China | 30 March |
Medallists
[edit | edit source]Men
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Women
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All time medal table (from 1988)
[edit | edit source]| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan | 14 | 15 | 11 | 40 |
| 2 | File:Flag of North Korea.svg North Korea | 7 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| 3 | File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
| 5 | File:Flag of India.svg India | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | File:Flag of Mongolia.svg Mongolia | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 7 | File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 11 | File:Flag of Uzbekistan.svg Uzbekistan | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 13 | File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | File:Flag of the Philippines.svg Philippines | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| File:Flag of Sri Lanka.svg Sri Lanka | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 16 | File:Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 17 | File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (17 entries) | 38 | 38 | 38 | 114 | |
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Asian Marathon Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
- ^ Asian Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
- ^ a b c Asian Championships Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2013-03-02). Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
- ^ Biwa-ko Mainichi Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
- ^ Nagoya International Women's Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
- ^ Seoul International Marathon. Association of Road Racing Statisticians. Retrieved on 2013-09-28.
- ^ Kamino comes from behind to win Asian Marathon Championships . World Athletics (2019-12-22). Retrieved 2020-03-24.
External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website of the Asian Athletics Association
