Athletics at the 2019 South Asian Games

Athletics, aka track and field was among the sports to be contested at the 2019 South Asian Games.[1] The sport was hosted at the Dasarath Stadium.

Athletics at the 13th South Asian Games
Dates3–7 December 2019
Host cityKathmandu
VenueDasarath Stadium
LevelSenior
Events36
Participation7 nations
2016
2025


Hassan Saaid of the Maldives, won his country's first ever South Asian Games gold medal.[2] Sri Lanka topped the medal count, winning a total of 15 gold medals, marking the first time since the 1993 games where the country has topped the athletics medal table.[3]

Medal summary

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Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Nepal)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Sri Lanka (SRI)1513836
2  India (IND)14211449
3  Pakistan (PAK)3249
4  Nepal (NEP)*3148
5  Maldives (MDV)1012
6  Bangladesh (BAN)0134
Totals (6 entries)363834108

Men's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m Hassan Saaid
  Maldives
10.49 Himasha Eashan
  Sri Lanka
10.50 Uzair Rehman
  Pakistan
10.71
200 m Uzair Rehman
  Pakistan
21.15 Vinoj Suranjaya
  Sri Lanka
21.19 Hassan Saaid
  Maldives
21.22
400 m Aruna Darshana
  Sri Lanka
46.69 Lakmal Priyantha
  Sri Lanka
46.79 K. S. Jeevan
  India
47.42
800 m Indunil Herath
  Sri Lanka
1:50.52 Mohammed Afsal
  India
1:51.25 Som Bahadur Kumal
  Nepal
1:51.44
1500 m Ajay Kumar Saroj
  India
3:54.18 Ajeet Kumar
  India
3:57.18 Tanka Karki
  Nepal
3:59.20
5000 m Gopi Chandra Parki
  Nepal
14:54.20 Sunil Dawar
  India
14:55.21 Hari Rimal
  Nepal
14:57.05
10000 m Suresh Kumar
  India
29:33:61 Kumar Shanmugeswaran
  Sri Lanka
30:49:30 Deepak Adhakari
  Nepal
30:50:06
110 m hurdles Surendhar Jayakumar
  India
14.37 Roshan Dhamika
  Sri Lanka
14.42 Maymon Poulose
  India
14.56
400 m hurdles Jabir Madari P.
  India
51.42 Santosh Kumar
  India
51.98 Asanka Indrajit
  Sri Lanka
54.33
4 × 100 m relay   Sri Lanka (SRI)
Himasha Eashan
Chanuka Sandeepa
Vinoj Suranjaya
Yupun Priyadarshana
39.14 GR   India (IND)
Harjit Singh
Gurindervir Singh
Pranav Kalappur
Amiya Kumar Mallick
39.97   Bangladesh (BAN)
Abdur Rouf
MD Ismail
Shariful
MD Hasan
40.76
4 × 400 m relay   Sri Lanka (SRI)
Aruna Darshana
Senira Gunaratne
Rajitha Rajakaruna
Lakmal Priyantha
3:08.04   India (IND)
K. S. Jeevan
Santhosh Kumar
Angrej Singh
M. P. Jabir
3:08.21   Bangladesh (BAN)
MD Abu Taleb
MD Masud Rana
MD Saiful Ismail
MD Jahir
3:15.50
Marathon Kiran Bogati
  Nepal
2:21:17 Rashpal Singh
  India
2:21:57 Shre Singh
  India
2:22:07
High jump Sarvesh Anil Kushare
  India
2.21m GR Chethan Balasubramanya [fr]
  India
Mahfuzur Rahman
  Bangladesh
2.16m

2.16m NR
Not awarded
as there was a tie for silver.
Long jump Lokesh Sathyanathan
  India
7.87m R. Swaminathan
  India
7.77m Al Amin
  Bangladesh
7.60m
Triple jump Karthik Unnikrishnan
  India
16.47m Mohammed Salahuddin
  India
16.16m Safreen Ahmed
  Sri Lanka
15.95m
Shot put Tejinder Pal Singh Toor
  India
20.03m GR Om Prakash Karhana
  India
17.31m Samith Madhusankar
  Sri Lanka
15.55m
Discus throw Kirpal Singh Batth
  India
57.88m Gagandeep Singh
  India
53.57m Shams Ul Haq
  Pakistan
44.31m
Javelin throw Arshad Nadeem
  Pakistan
86.29m GR Shivpal Singh
  India
84.16m Sumeda Ranasinghe
  Sri Lanka
74.97m

Women's events

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m Archana Suseendran
  India
11.80 Amasha de Silva
  Sri Lanka
11.82 Lakshika Sugandhi
  Sri Lanka
11.84
200 m Archana Suseendran
  India
23.66 Najma Parveen
  Pakistan
23.69 NR A. Chandralekha
  India
24.27
400 m Dilshi Kumarasinghe
  Sri Lanka
53.40 Priya Habbathan
  India
54.31 Sahib-e-Asra
  Pakistan
54.58
800 m Dilshi Kumarasinghe
  Sri Lanka
2:06.18 Gayanthika Abeyratne
  Sri Lanka
2:08.52 Lily Das
  India
2:08.97
1500 m Nilani Rathnayake
  Sri Lanka
4:34.34 Chanda
  India
4:34.51 P. U. Chitra
  India
4:35.46
5000 m Nilani Rathnayake
  Sri Lanka
16:55.18 Parul Chaudhary
  India
16:57.49 Priti Lamba
  India
17:09.32
10000 m Santoshi Shrestha
  Nepal
35:07.94 Kavita Yadav
  India
35:07.95 Nilani Lanka Ariyadasa
  Sri Lanka
35:09.02
100 m hurdles Lakshika Sugandi
  Sri Lanka
13.68 Aparna Roy
  India
14.13 Ireshani Ranasinghe
  Sri Lanka
14.18
400 m hurdles Najma Parveen
  Pakistan
1:00.35 NR Kaushalya Madushani
  Sri Lanka
1:00.40 Veerpal Kaur
  India
1:01.38
4 × 100 m relay   Sri Lanka (SRI)
Lakshika Sugandi
Sarangi Silva
Sadeepa Henderson
Amasha de Silva
44.89   India (IND)
Himashree Roy
A. Chandralekha
Archana Suseendran
Daneshwari Ashok
45.36   Pakistan (PAK)
Sahib-e-Asra
Najma Parveen
Aneela Gulzar
Esha Imran
46.74
4 × 400 m relay   Sri Lanka (SRI)
Omaya Udayangani
Gayanthika Abeyratne
Kaushalya Madushani
Dilshi Kumarasinghe
3:41.10   Pakistan (PAK)
Sahib-e-Asra
Aneela Gulzar
Rabia Ashiq
Najma Parveen
3:41.74   India (IND)
Priya Habbathan
Vijayakumari
Manisha Kushwaji
Nancy
3:41.81
Marathon Hiruni Wijayaratne
  Sri Lanka
2:41:27 Pushpa Bhandari
  Nepal
2:50:11 NR Jyoti Gawte
  India
2:52:44
High jump Jishna M.
  India
1.73m Rubina Yadav
  India
Dulanjali Ranasinghe
  Sri Lanka
1.69m Not awarded
as there was a tie for silver.
Long jump Sarangi Silva
  Sri Lanka
6.38m Anjani Pulwansa
  Sri Lanka
6.11m Sandra Babu
  India
6.02m
Triple jump Hashini Paboda
  Sri Lanka
13.21m Vidusha Lakshani
  Sri Lanka
13.14m Bhairabi Roy
  India
12.77m
Shot put Abha Khatua
  India
15.32m Tharika Fernando
  Sri Lanka
14.35m Kachnar Chaudhary
  India
13.66m
Discus throw Navjeet Dhillon
  India
49.85m Survi Biswas
  India
47.31m Ishara Madhurangi
  Sri Lanka
41.29m
Javelin throw Dilhani Lekamge
  Sri Lanka
55.02m Nadeeka Lakmali
  Sri Lanka
54.41m Sharmila Kumari
  India
53.64m

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "SAG: official home page". 2 November 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
  2. ^ Malsa, Mariyam (3 December 2019). "Saaid bags Maldives' first gold medal at SAG". The Edition. Male, Maldives. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  3. ^ Vasudevan, Estelle (7 December 2019). "Sri Lanka crowned Athletics Champs with 15 Golds". www.thepapare.com. Dialog Axiata. Retrieved 7 December 2019.