Asian Games 2023 athletics: India’s results in all events and medal winners - full list
Indian athletes finished with a rich haul of 29 medals - six gold, 14 silver and nine bronze - at Hangzhou 2023. Know India’s athletics medallists and get all results.
Athletics
A 68-member Indian athletics squad, including the likes of Neeraj Chopra, Jyothi Yarraji and Avinash Sable, competed for medals across 37 different events at the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China.
Athletics at the Asian Games 2023 got underway on September 29 and concluded on October 5 with the marathon events. The track and field competitions at the 19th edition of the Asian Games were held at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Centre Stadium.
Athletics turned out to be the most lucrative sport for India at the Asian Games 2023, accounting for a total of 29 medals - six gold, 14 silver and nine bronze. Neeraj Chopra (men's javelin throw), Annu Rani (women's javelin throw), Tajinderpal Singh Toor (men's shot put), Avinash Sable (men's 3000m steeplechase), Parul Chaudhary (women's 5000m) and the quarted of Muhammad Anas, Amoj Jacob, Muhammad Ajmal and Rajesh Ramesh (men's 4x400m relay) accounted for the six top podium finish.
Tejaswin Shankar (men's decathlon) and the mixed 4x400m relay team of Muhammad Ajmal, Vithya Ramraj, Rajesh Ramesh, Subha Venkatesan also reset the national records in their respective events while Vithya Ramraj managed to equal the legendary PT Usha's national mark in the women's 400m hurdles after almost four decades.
Kishore Jena, who finished with a silver medal in men's javelin throw, also managed to breach the Paris 2024 qualifying standards at Hangzhou.
Asian Games 2023 athletics: India team
Men: Neeraj Chopra (javelin throw), Kishore Jena (javelin throw), Tajinderpal Singh Toor (shot put), Sahib Singh (shot put), Sandeep Kumar (20km race walk), Akshdeep Singh (20km race walk), Murali Sreeshankar (long jump), Jeswin Aldrin (long jump), Praveen Chithravel (triple jump), Abdulla Aboobacker (triple jump), Ajay Kumar Saroj (1500m), Jinson Johnson (1500m), Krishan Kumar (800m), Mohammed Afsal Pulikkalakath (800m), T Santhosh Kumar (400m hurdles), Yashas Palaksha (400m hurdles), Karthik Kumar (10,000m), Gulveer Singh (10,000m, 5000m) Avinash Sable (3000m steeplechase, 5000m), Sarvesh Anil Kushare (high jump), Jesse Sandesh (high jump), Tejaswin Shankar (decathlon), Ram Baboo (mixed team 35km race walk), Man Singh (marathon), Belliappa Appachangada Bopaiah (marathon), Nihal Joel William (4x400m mixed relay), Rahul Baby (4x400m mixed relay), Muhammed Anas Yahiya (400m, 4x400m relay, 4x400m mixed relay), Muhammed Ajmal (400m, 4x400m relay), Arokia Rajiv (4x400m relay), Amoj Jacob (4x400m relay), Mijo Chacko Kurian (4x400m relay), Rajesh Ramesh (4x400m relay), Arul Rajalingam (4x400m relay)
Women: Shaili Singh (long jump), Ancy Sojan (long jump), Ankita (5000m), Parul Chaudhary (3000m steeplechase, 5000m), Annu Rani (javelin throw), Kiran Baliyan (shot put), Manpreet Kaur (shot put), Priyanka (20km race walk), Manju Rani (mixed team 35km race walk), Vithya Ramraj (400m hurdles), Sinchal Kaveramma Ravi (400m hurdles), Swapna Barman (heptathlon), Nandini Agasara (heptathlon), Harmilan Bains (800m, 1500m), Chanda (800m), Deeksha (1500m), Tanya Chaudhary (hammer throw), Rachna Kumari (hammer throw), Rubina Yadav (high jump), Pooja (high jump), Jyothi Yarraji (100m hurdles, 200m), Pavithra Vengatesh (pole vault), Sheena Nellickal Varkey (triple jump), Nithya Ramraj (100m hurdles), Soniya Baishya (4x400m relay, 4x400m mixed relay), Florence Barla (4x400m relay), Subha Venkateshan (4x400m relay), Aishwarya Kailash Mishra (4x400m relay, 400m, 4x400m mixed relay), Himanshi Malik (400m, 4x400m relay), Jisna Mathew (4x400m relay, 4x400m mixed relay), Seema Punia (discus throw)
Jyothi Yarraji finished with a silver medal in women's 100m hurdles while Harmilan Bains, Parul Chaudhary and Avinash Sable won two individual medals each. Vithya Ramraj, meanwhile, was part of three different medal distribution ceremonies (silver in women's 400m hurdless, silver in mixed 4x400m relay and silver in women's 4x400m relay).
Among the 37 athletics events with Indian representation at Hangzhou, 16 were men’s events, 19 were for women and the remaining two were mixed team events.