The 2014

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event between Asian nations. It took place at the Vocational and Technical College Athletics Hall in

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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

, between 15 and 16 February. The city was confirmed as the host in September 2013 at the 77th Council Meeting of the

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. This was the second time the city held the event, successively following on from the 2012 Championships. A total of 28 nations were represented at the tournament comprising 26

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

events.Medal Table 2014 Asian Indoor Championships
. Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved on 2014-02-17. Qatar won the most

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s – its contingent of African-born athletes won four of the five men's running events. Its sole native medallist,

Mutaz Essa Barshim Mutaz Essa Barshim ( ar, معتز عيسى برشم, Muʿtazz ʿĪsā Baršim; born 24 June 1991) is a Qatari track and field athlete who competes in the high jump and is the current Olympic Champion (2020). He is also the current World Champio ...

, gave one of the best performances of the meet with 2.36 m in the men's high jump (one centimetre short of his Asian record) to take his third consecutive title. The host nation China won the most medals overall, with four golds in a haul of twenty. Most of China's medals came from the field events, where it had at least one medallist in each event on the men's and women's sides. Kazakhstan ranked a clear third with four champions and twelve medals in total. From the fifteen nations at reached the medal table,

Uzbekistan Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic=yes / ; russian: Республика Узбекистан), is a doubly landlocked cou ...

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...

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and

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were others that frequently featured on the podium. Four championship records were improved during the course of the two-day competition. Kazakhstan's men's 4×400 m relay team knocked a second off Saudi Arabia's mark from 2008.

Maryam Jamal Maryam Yusuf Jamal ( ar, مريم يوسف جمال; om, Maryam Yuusuf Jamaal) (born Zenebech Tola) (born 16 September 1984) is an Ethiopian-born Bahraini middle-distance runner. She is the first Bahraini athlete to win an Olympic medal, a gold ...

's time in the women's 3000 metres was a six-second improvement from the previous record by compatriot

Shitaye Eshete Shitaye Eshete Habtegebrel (born 21 May 1990) is an Ethiopian-born long-distance runner who competes internationally for Bahrain. Debut She first began competing for the oil-rich Gulf state in 2009, making her debut at the Asian Cross Countr ...

. China's

Wu Shuijiao Wu Shuijiao (; born 19 June 1991 in Xinyi) is a female Chinese track and field athlete who competes in hurdling. Her personal best for the 100 metres hurdles is 12.93 seconds, set in 2013. Wu was the Chinese champion in the event in 2012 and 20 ...

improved her own record from 2012 with a run of 8.02 seconds in the 60 metres hurdles, which was also a Chinese indoor record. Svetlana Radzivil raised the women's high jump best to 1.96 m, erasing

Marina Aitova Marina Aleksandrovna Aitova, née Korzhova (born 13 September 1982) is a Kazakhstani high jumper. Her personal best jump is 1.99 metres, achieved in July 2009 in Athens. Biography Born in Karaganda, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union, Aitova made her firs ...

's height of 1.93 m that had stood since 2006.Jalava, Mirko (2014-02-16)
Barshim over 2.36m at the Asian Indoor Championships
IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-17. Four athletes successfully defended their titles from 2012:

Dmitriy Karpov Dmitriy Vasilyevich Karpov (Дмитрий Васильевич Карпов; born 23 July 1981 in Karaganda) is an athlete from Kazakhstan who competes in decathlon and heptathlon (the latter during the winter season). He won the bronze medal ...

in the men's heptathlon,

Maryam Tousi Maryam Tousi ( fa, مریم طوسی, born 5 December 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is the Iranian record holder in the 100 m, 200 m, 400 m The 400 metres, or 400-m ...

in the women's

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, Mutaz Essa Barshim in the men's high jump, and Wu Shuijiao in the women's 60 m hurdles.

Mohamad Al-Garni Mohamad Al-Garni (born 2 July 1992) is a Moroccan-born Qatari middle-distance runner. He competed in the 1500 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also kn ...

and Maryam Jamal were the only two competitors who won two individual golds, each of them completing a

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/3000 metres double.

Betlhem Desalegn Betlhem Desalegn Belayneh (Amharic: ቤተልሄም ደሳለኝ በላይነህ; born 13 November 1991 in Addis Ababa) is an Ethiopian-born Emirati middle-distance runner. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she competed in the Women's 1500 metres. ...

was the women's runner-up in both those events, and sprinter Maryam Tousi was the only other runner to take multiple individual medals.

Results

Men

Women

Medal table

Participating nations

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National records

A total of 20

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were set at the championships. Non-medalling national record performances are listed below.6th Asian Indoor Championships
. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.

References

;Results
6th Asian Indoor Championships
. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
6th ASIAN INDOOR ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS Day 1 Results
Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved on 2014-02-17. ;Medal table and participation
Medal Table 2014 Asian Indoor Championships
Asian Athletics Association. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.

External links

2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships on DrinksBreak.comOfficial Asian Athletics Association website
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