Athletics at the 1934 Far Eastern Championship Games

At the 1934 Far Eastern Championship Games, the athletics events were held in Manila, the Philippines in May.[1] A total of 19 men's athletics events were contested at the competition.[2] The 400 metres hurdles and 4×100 metres relay were contested for the first and only time, replacing the 200 m variants and conforming to the standard Olympic standard. This was the last edition of the games.

X Far Eastern Championship Games
DatesMay
Host cityManila, Philippines
Events19
Participation3 nations


Japan won a third successive athletics title, taking twelve of the nineteen gold medals on offer and completing medal sweeps in four events. The Philippines, the host nation, again took second place as it claimed the other seven titles and had a clean sweep in the 400 metres. Marcelino Andes became the first non-Japanese medallist in the 1500 metres. China won four medals in the competition – far behind the opposition, but a great improvement on the single relay medal from the previous games.[2]

Only two athletes defended their titles from the 1930 Games. Takayoshi Yoshioka won the 200 metres, but was prevented from repeating his sprint double in the 100 metres by Rafael de Leon. Simeon Toribio was the other repeat victor and his third straight win made him the most successful high jumper in the competition's history.[2]

Kenkichi Oshima's triple jump win completed Japan's unbeaten streak in the event. The minor medallists in that event, Naoto Tajima and Masao Harada, were the top two in the long jump here and took gold and silver in the triple jump at the 1936 Summer Olympics two years later.[3] Two other Far Eastern champions took later medals at that Olympics: Miguel White in the 400 m hurdles and Sueo Ōe in the pole vault.[4][5]

Medal summary

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres   Rafael de Leon (PHI) 10.6   Takayoshi Yoshioka (JPN) 10.9   Izuo Anno (JPN) ???
200 metres turn   Takayoshi Yoshioka (JPN) 21.6   Matsuo Taniguchi (JPN) 21.9   Monta Suzuki (JPN) ???
400 metres   German Candara (PHI) 49.8   Nemesio de Guzman (PHI) ???   Serafin Estrada (PHI) ???
800 metres   Kumao Aochi (JPN) 1:57.2   Marcelino Andes (PHI) 1:57.3   Pedro Yatar (PHI) ???
1500 metres   Hideo Tanaka (JPN) 4:03.5   Choshun Ryu (JPN) 4:05.0   Marcelino Andes (PHI) 4:05.5
10,000 metres   Choshun Ryu (JPN) 32:45.5   Hideo Tanaka (JPN) 33:55.7   Tadao Najima (JPN) ???
110 m hurdles   Tadashi Murakami (JPN) 14.8   Felizardo Casia Sr. (PHI) 15.0   Wenceslao Bansale (PHI) ???
400 m hurdles   Miguel White (PHI) 53.0   Constantino Alhambra (PHI) 54.6   Masao Ichihara (JPN) ???
4×100 m relay   Japan (JPN) 42.3   Philippines (PHI) ???   China (CHN) ???
4×400 m relay   Philippines (PHI) 3:20.3   Japan (JPN) 3:20.5   China (CHN) ???
High jump   Simeon Toribio (PHI) 1.93 m   Kazuo Kimura (JPN) 1.93 m   Kiyoshi Adachi (JPN) 1.88 m
Pole vault   Sueo Ōe (JPN) 3.96 m   Fu Baolu (CHN) 3.86 m   Iwao Matsumoto (JPN) 3.86 m
Long jump   Naoto Tajima (JPN) 7.30 m   Masao Harada (JPN) 7.26 m   Niño Ramirez (PHI) 6.96 m
Triple jump   Kenkichi Oshima (JPN) 15.07 m   Masao Harada (JPN) 14.98 m   Naoto Tajima (JPN) 14.95 m
Shot put   Isaoko Abe (JPN) 12.905 m   Chen Baoqiu (CHN) 12.80 m   Mario Branzuela (PHI) 12.65 m
Discus throw   Aurelio Amante (PHI) 42.54 m   Kosaku Kikumoto (JPN) 42.21 m   Kiyoharu Fujita (JPN) 40.35 m
Javelin throw   Saburo Nagao (JPN) 59.81 m   Genzaburo Suzuki (JPN) 59.15 m   Jose Antonio (PHI) 56.25 m
Pentathlon   Hideo Yanada (JPN) 3476.580   Takeshi Yoshizumi (JPN) 3345.425   Saburo Nagao (JPN) 3224.865
Decathlon   Daniel May (PHI) 7094.610 pts   Fusao Kaneki (JPN) 6775.690 pts   Tatsuo Toki (JPN) 6501.070 pts

References

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  1. ^ Bell, Daniel (2003). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. ISBN 0-7864-1026-4.
  2. ^ a b c Far Eastern Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-12-18.
  3. ^ Athletics at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games: Men's Triple Jump. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-01-02.
  4. ^ Migeul White. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-01-02.
  5. ^ Sueo Oe. Sports Reference. Retrieved on 2015-01-02.
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