Athletics at the 2019 South Asian Games

Athletics
at the 2019 South Asian Games
Athletics ; at the 2019 South Asian Games
Venue	Dasarath Stadium, Kathmandu
Dates	3–7 December 2019
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Athletics or track and field will be among the sports to be contested at the 2019 South Asian Games.^[1] Athletics will be hosted in the Dasarath Stadium. This stadium will also host the games' Opening and Closing Ceremony.

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

Medal table

* Host nation (Nepal)

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Hassan Saaid Maldives	10.49	Himasha Eashan Sri Lanka	10.50	Sami Ullah Pakistan	10.66
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 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	Muhammad Naeem Pakistan	14.30	Surendhar Jayak India	14.37	Roshan Dhamika Sri Lanka	14.42
400 m hurdles	Mehboob Ali Pakistan	50.71	Jabir Madari India	51.42	Santosh Kumar India	51.98

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	39.97	Pakistan (PAK) Sami Ullah Muhammad Shahba Uzair Rehman Muhammad Naeem	40.50
4 × 400 m relay	Sri Lanka (SRI) Aruna Darshana Senira Gunaratne Rajitha Rajakaruna Lakmal Priyantha	3:08.04	India (IND) Jeevan Karekopp Santhosh Kumar Angrej Singh Jabir Madari	3:08.21	Pakistan (PAK) Umar Sadat Mehboob Ali Abdul Mueed Nokar Hussain	3:08.24

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	Chetan Balasubramanya India Mahfuzur Rahman Bangladesh	2.16m	Not awarded as there was a tie for silver.
Long jump	Lokesh Sathyana India	7.87m	Swamithan Rav India	7.77m	Al Amin Bangladesh	7.60m
Triple jump	Karthik Unnikri India	16.47m	Mohammed Salahu 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 Ba 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

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	Chandralekha An India	24.27
400 m	Dilshi Kumarasinghe Sri Lanka	53.40	Priya Habbathan India	54.31	Sahib E Esra 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	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 Chandralekha An Archana Suseendran Daneshwari Ashok	45.36	Pakistan (PAK) Sahib Esra 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 Asra Aneela Gulzab Rajiha 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	Jisna 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

Reference

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

[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.

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