Athletics competitions have been held at the South Asian Games since the inaugural edition of the South Asian Federation Games in 1984 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Athletics or track and field will be among the sports to be contested at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.
Venue and Dates
Athletics will be hosted in the Dasarath Stadium, Kathmandu from 3 to 7 December 2019.
Performance of major countries
India has been the most successful country medal-wise in the last couple of editions of the Games, followed closely by Sri Lanka and Pakistan. In the last edition of SAG, held in Guwahati in 2016, India secured a total of 58 medals in athletics - 28 Gold, 22 Silver and 8 Bronze. Neeraj Chopra recorded the national best in the javelin throw with 82.23 m.
2019 South Asian Games Athletics
Countries participating across the various athletic events are - Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
The events under athletics are as follows -
For the individual events, each participating country may enter two competitors for each of the events. While for team events, each team shall be composed of four athletes from the list of athletes entered for the competition, whether for relays or any other athletics event.
Indian Athletics Team at the South Asian Games 2019
Women’s Squad:
100m and 4x100m Relay: Archana Suseendran, Himashree Roy, A Chandra Lekha, AT Daneshwari, Hina and Kaveri Patil
200m: Archana Suseendran and A Chandra Lekha
400m & 4x400m Relay: Lithika, Vijayakumari, Priya Habbathanahally, Florence Barla, Manisha Kushwaha and Nancy
800m: PU Chitra and Rachna
1500m: Chanda and PU Chitra
5000m: Parul Chaudhary and Preeti Lamba
10000m: Arati Dattatray Patil and Kavita Yadav
100m Hurdles: Aparna Roy and Kanimozhi
400m Hurdles: Jauna Murmu and Veerpal Kaur
Long Jump: Priyanka and Sandra Babu
Triple Jump: Bhairabi Roy and Siva Anbarasi MA
High Jump: M Jashna and Rubina Yadav
Shot Put: Abha Khatua and Kachnar Chaudhary
Discus Throw: Suravi Biswas and Navjeet Kaur
Javelin Throw: Sharmila Kumari and Sanjana Choudhary
Marathon: Jyoti Gawate & Jigmet Dolma
Men’s Squad:
100m: Amiya Kumar Mallick and Gurindervir Singh
200m: Nallabothu Shanmugha Srinivas and VA Shashikanth
400m & 4x400m relay: K S Jeevan, Angrej Singh, Rashid, T Santhosh and Abdul Razak
800m: Mohammed Afsal P and Ankit
1500m: Ajay Kumar Saroj and Ajith Kumar
5000m: Bugatha Srinu and Sunil Dawar
10000m: Suresh Kumar and Ranjeet Kumar Patel
110m Hurdles: Maymon Poulose and Surender Jayakumar
400m Hurdles: Santhosh Kumar T and MP Jabir
Long Jump: Lokesh Sathyanathan and Swamynathan
Triple Jump: Karthik Unnikrishnan and Mohamed Salahuddin
High Jump: Sarvesh Anil Kushare and Chetan Balasubramanya
Shot Put: Tejinderpal Singh Toor and Omprakash Singh Karhana
Discus Throw: Kripal Singh and Gagandeep Singh
Javelin Throw: Shivpal Singh and Arshdeep Singh
Marathon: Rashpal Singh and Sher Singh
4x100m Relay: Amiya Mallick, Gurindervir Singh, Harjith Singh, Lovepreet Singh and Pranav Shashi
