The athletics programme at the Nagoya Asian Games ended on 29 September with a run of Games records, according to World Athletics' report on the final day. Ernest John Obiena of the Philippines cleared 5.91m to win the men's pole vault with a Games record, adding to a competition in which the standard of performance rose across the track and the field.
In the women's 5000m, Bahrain's Winfred Yavi won in 15:10.18, with Japan's Nozomi Tanaka a close second in 15:11.65. World Athletics described the victory as completing a distance treble for Yavi. Japan also had cause for celebration on the men's side, where Kazuto Iizawa won the 1500m in 3:36.35 and Ko Ochiai took the 800m in 1:44.48, both Games records.
China took the women's hammer throw, with Zhang Jiale producing a Games record of 78.27m and Zhao Jie second with 74.83m. Japan's Joy McArthur took bronze with 68.42m. In the women's 400m hurdles, 18-year-old Mariam Kareem of the United Arab Emirates won in a Games record 54.31, ahead of Kazakhstan's Adelina Zems (54.58) and India's Vithya Ramraj (54.75).
Rumesh Pathirage won the men's javelin for Sri Lanka with a throw of 88.55m, with India's Yashvir Singh (85.72m) and Rohit Yadav (84.35m) taking silver and bronze. Qatar's Bassem Al Hemeida won the men's 400m hurdles in 47.82, with Japan's Taiju Goto second in 47.93.
India finished the programme with a victory in the women's 4x400m relay in 3:29.69. Taken together, the closing day capped a Games that has produced a steady stream of records and underlined the depth of Asian athletics across sprints, distance, throws and jumps.