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.Â
Athletics will be hosted in the Dasarath Stadium, Kathmandu from 3 to 7 December 2019.Â
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.Â
Countries participating across the various athletic events are - Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.Â
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.Â
Womenâs Squad:Â
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 NancyÂ
800m: PU Chitra and RachnaÂ
1500m: Chanda and PU ChitraÂ
5000m: Parul Chaudhary and Preeti LambaÂ
10000m: Arati Dattatray Patil and Kavita YadavÂ
100m Hurdles: Aparna Roy and KanimozhiÂ
400m Hurdles: Jauna Murmu and Veerpal KaurÂ
Long Jump: Priyanka and Sandra BabuÂ
Triple Jump: Bhairabi Roy and Siva Anbarasi MAÂ
High Jump: M Jashna and Rubina YadavÂ
Shot Put: Abha Khatua and Kachnar ChaudharyÂ
Discus Throw: Suravi Biswas and Navjeet KaurÂ
Javelin Throw: Sharmila Kumari and Sanjana ChoudharyÂ
Marathon: Jyoti Gawate & Jigmet Dolma
Menâs Squad:Â
100m: Amiya Kumar Mallick and Gurindervir Singh
200m: Nallabothu Shanmugha Srinivas and VA ShashikanthÂ
400m & 4x400m relay: K S Jeevan, Angrej Singh, Rashid, T Santhosh and Abdul RazakÂ
800m: Mohammed Afsal P and AnkitÂ
1500m: Ajay Kumar Saroj and Ajith KumarÂ
5000m: Bugatha Srinu and Sunil DawarÂ
10000m: Suresh Kumar and Ranjeet Kumar PatelÂ
110m Hurdles: Maymon Poulose and Surender JayakumarÂ
400m Hurdles: Santhosh Kumar T and MP JabirÂ
Long Jump: Lokesh Sathyanathan and SwamynathanÂ
Triple Jump: Karthik Unnikrishnan and Mohamed SalahuddinÂ
High Jump: Sarvesh Anil Kushare and Chetan BalasubramanyaÂ
Shot Put: Tejinderpal Singh Toor and Omprakash Singh Karhana
 Discus Throw: Kripal Singh and Gagandeep SinghÂ
Javelin Throw: Shivpal Singh and Arshdeep SinghÂ
Marathon: Rashpal Singh and Sher SinghÂ
4x100m Relay: Amiya Mallick, Gurindervir Singh, Harjith Singh, Lovepreet Singh and Pranav Shashi