The inaugural Asian Athletics Championships were held in 1973 at the Rodriguez Sports Center in Marikina, Rizal, Philippines from November 18–23, 1973.^[1][2]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -0.5 m/s)	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	10.4	Suchart Chairsuvaparb  Thailand	10.5	Takao Ishizawa  Japan	10.6
200 metres (wind: +0.2 m/s)	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	21.0	Soo Wen-Ho  Taiwan	21.2	Tokal Mokalam  Philippines	21.6
400 metres	Yoshiharu Tomonaga  Japan	46.8	Koiiro Shika  Japan	47.6	Ho Mun Cheong  Singapore	47.8
800 metres	Muhammad Younis  Pakistan	1:51.2	Sri Ram Singh  India	1:51.5	Kazuyoshi Mizuno  Japan	1:52.2
1500 metres	Kazuyoshi Mizuno  Japan	3:47.4	Muhammad Younis  Pakistan	3:48.2	Dashondha Singh  India	3:50.4
5000 metres	Ichio Sato  Japan	14:16.9	Shivnath Singh  India	14:17.0	Katsuaki Isohata  Japan	14:18.2
10,000 metres	Ichio Sato  Japan	29:54.4	Shivnath Singh  India	29:54.8	Katsuaki Isohata  Japan	29:55.8
Marathon	Cho Je-Hyung  South Korea	2:27:31	Park Chang-Yuel  South Korea	2:33:45	Jit Bahadur Chetri    Nepal	2:35:38
3000 metre steeplechase	Takaharu Koyama  Japan	9:04.0	Shibib Dagher Al-Lami  Iraq	9:10.9	Mohammad Vojdanzadeh  Iran	9:22.0
110 metres hurdles (wind: -2.9 m/s)	Shigeo Oki  Japan	14.3	Ahmad Ishtiaq Mubarak  Malaysia	14.3	Marcelo Benauro  Philippines	14.4
400 metres hurdles	Abdulkadir Guiapar  Philippines	52.2	Talib Faisal Al-Saffar  Iraq	52.7	Tai Shi-Yan  Taiwan	53.1
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan Takao Ishizawa Kazuo Iwamoto Susumu Shimizu Yoshiharu Tomonaga	40.0	Thailand Suchart Chairsuvaparb Somsak Boontud Prasit Boonprasert Anat Ratanapol	40.0	India Abdul Aziz Adrian Kennedy K. Natarajan A.P. Ramaswamy	40.3
4 × 400 metre relay	Japan Susumu Shimizu Yoshiharu Tomonaga Kazuyoshi Mizuno Koiiro Shika	3:10.2	Philippines Abdulkadir Guiapar Clemente Lupangco Santos Magno Ernesto Tabayan	3:12.8	Singapore Ho Mun Cheong Godfrey Jalleh Canagasabai Kunalan Cheah Kim Tech	3:13.2
20 kilometre road walk	Yoshio Morikawa  Japan	1:11:31	Francis Xavier  India		Khoo Chong Beng  Malaysia
High jump	Teymour Ghiassi  Iran	2.15	Kazunori Koshikawa  Japan	2.15	Yon Ismail  Malaysia	2.05
Pole vault	Hisaki Suzuki  Japan	4.36	Hong Sang-pyo  South Korea	4.36
Long jump	Chen Chin-long  Taiwan	7.82w	Soo Wen-Ho  Taiwan	7.57w	Satish Pillai  India	7.53w
Triple jump	Mohinder Singh Gill  India	15.96w	Cheng Ming-chi  Taiwan	15.31	T.C. Yohannan  India	14.96
Shot put	Jagraj Singh Mann  India	17.00	Gurdeep Singh  India	16.37	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	15.75
Discus throw	Jalal Keshmiri  Iran	51.20	Praveen Kumar  India	49.08	Toji Hayashi  Japan	48.04
Hammer throw	Ajmer Singh  India	60.42	Jeung Sub-kil  South Korea	49.20	Oumvan Narith Khmer Republic	41.24
Javelin throw	Allah Dad  Pakistan	63.58	Nashatar Singh Sidhu  Malaysia	63.28	Gopal Kidyoor  India	58.28
Decathlon	Vijay Singh Chauhan  India	7245	Junichi Onizuka  Japan	7076	Chen Chin-long  Taiwan	6752

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +2.3 m/s)	Amelita Alanes  Philippines	11.6w	Michiko Morita  Japan	12.0w	Sayo Yamato  Japan	12.0w
200 metres (wind: +1.1 m/s)	Michiko Morita  Japan	24.7	Amelita Alanes  Philippines	25.0	Satomi Fukuda  Japan	25.2
400 metres	Nobuko Kawano  Japan	55.2	Keiko Ikoma  Japan	56.1	Maimoon Azlan  Singapore	56.1
800 metres	Nobuko Kawano  Japan	2:08.1	Chee Swee Lee  Singapore	2:08.1	Harumi Fugimoto  Japan	2:09.6
1500 metres	Miyako Inoue  Japan	4:26.8	Lee Chiu-Hsia  Taiwan	4:28.0	Rachel Halle  Israel	4:34.6
100 metres hurdles (wind: +4.3 m/s)	Tomomi Hayashida  Japan	13.6w	Lin Yet-Hsiang  Taiwan	13.9w	Gan Bee Wah  Singapore	14.2w
200 metres hurdles (wind: +3.5 m/s)	Tomomi Hayashida  Japan	27.6w	Heather Merican  Singapore	28.5w	Lin Yet-Hsiang  Taiwan	28.6w
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan Sayo Yamato Satomi Fukuda Keiko Ikoma Michiko Morita	46.7	Singapore Glory Barnabas Gan Bee Wah Heather Merican Shirley Fernando	47.0	Philippines ? Aida Mantawel Carmen Torres Amelita Alanes	47.7
4 × 400 metres relay	Philippines Amelita Alanes Aida Mantawel Carmen Torres Rosalinda Yumol	3:48.9	Singapore Maimoon Azlan Glory Barnabas Chee Swee Lee Hua Kim Chew	3:50.1	Taiwan Lin Chun-yu Chi Cheng-Yu 機政玉 Lee Chiu-hsia Huang Chiu-Ching 黃秋錦	3:57.8
High jump	Orit Abramovich  Israel	1.68	Gladys Chai Ng Mei  Malaysia	1.58	Maryam Sedarati  Iran	1.58
Long jump	Kumi Kawada  Japan	6.07	Lin Yet-Hsiang  Taiwan	5.84	Li Hua-Wa  Taiwan	5.71
Shot put	Paik Ok-Ja  South Korea	15.05	Kayoko Hayashi  Japan	13.63	Chen Fu-Mei  Taiwan	12.93
Discus throw	Josephine de la Viña  Philippines	50.74	Kayoko Hayashi  Japan	45.28	Paik Ok-Ja  South Korea	44.52
Javelin throw	Mieko Takasaka  Japan	49.74	Erlinda Lavandia  Philippines	45.38	Proch Thin Kampuchea	43.48
Pentathlon	Lin Chun-Yu  Taiwan	4025	Kumi Kawada  Japan	3963	Li Hua-Wa  Taiwan	3578

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	18	8	8	34
2	India (IND)	4	5	6	15
3	Philippines (PHI)	4	3	3	10
4	Taiwan (TWN)	2	6	7	15
5	South Korea (KOR)	2	3	1	6
6	Thailand (THA)	2	2	0	4
7	Pakistan (PAK)	2	1	0	3
8	Iran (IRN)	2	0	2	4
9	Israel (ISR)	1	0	1	2
10	Singapore (SIN)	0	4	4	8
11	Malaysia (MAS)	0	3	1	4
12	Iraq (IRQ)	0	2	0	2
13	Cambodia (CAM)	0	0	2	2
14	Nepal (NEP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		37	37	36	110

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