Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's 100 metres

Men's 100 metres at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Stadium
Dates	13–14 December
Competitors	25 from 19 nations
Medalists
Koji Ito    Japan   Reanchai Seeharwong    Thailand   Yasukatsu Otsuki    Japan

Main article: Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games

The men's 100 metres competition at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand was held on 13–14 December at the Thammasat Stadium.

Schedule

All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)

Date	Time	Event
Sunday, 13 December 1998	14:30	Heats
	16:50	Semifinals
Monday, 14 December 1998	16:15	Final

Results

Heats

• Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

Heat 1

• Wind: +2.8 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Koji Ito (JPN)	10.03	Q
2	Gennadiy Chernovol (KAZ)	10.40	Q
3	Saad Muftah Al-Kuwari (QAT)	10.49	Q
4	Tao Wu-shiun (TPE)	10.50	q
5	Chiang Wai Hung (HKG)	10.63	q
6	Lương Tích Thiện (VIE)	10.67	q
7	Mohamed Al-Maskari (OMA)	10.72

Heat 2

• Wind: +2.5 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Yasukatsu Otsuki (JPN)	10.33	Q
2	Lin Wei (CHN)	10.39	Q
3	Vissanu Sophanich (THA)	10.47	Q
4	Md Shafiqul Islam (BAN)	10.79
5	Mohamed Al-Aswad (UAE)	10.81
6	Kong Bona (CAM)	11.31

Heat 3

• Wind: +2.4 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Watson Nyambek (MAS)	10.25	Q
2	Vitaliy Medvedev (KAZ)	10.30	Q
3	William To (HKG)	10.50	Q
4	Mohamed Mahbub Alam (BAN)	10.66	q
5	Ram Krishna Chaudhari (NEP)	10.84
6	Thongdy Amnouayphone (LAO)	11.10

Heat 4

• Wind: +3.1 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Chintaka de Zoysa (SRI)	10.28	Q
2	Reanchai Seeharwong (THA)	10.28	Q
3	Zhou Wei (CHN)	10.28	Q
4	Muhammad Riaz (PAK)	10.95
5	Mohammad Chaaban (LIB)	11.37
6	Aleksandr Kozlov (TJK)	12.17

Semifinals

• Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Heat 1

• Wind: +2.4 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Watson Nyambek (MAS)	10.20	Q
2	Yasukatsu Otsuki (JPN)	10.31	Q
3	Chintaka de Zoysa (SRI)	10.34	Q
4	Lin Wei (CHN)	10.42
5	Vissanu Sophanich (THA)	10.46
6	Saad Muftah Al-Kuwari (QAT)	10.54
7	Chiang Wai Hung (HKG)	10.67
8	Mohamed Mahbub Alam (BAN)	10.82

Heat 2

• Wind: +1.9 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Koji Ito (JPN)	10.00	Q, AR
2	Reanchai Seeharwong (THA)	10.23	Q
3	Vitaliy Medvedev (KAZ)	10.31	Q
4	Zhou Wei (CHN)	10.34	q
5	Gennadiy Chernovol (KAZ)	10.36	q
6	Tao Wu-shiun (TPE)	10.41
7	William To (HKG)	10.54
8	Lương Tích Thiện (VIE)	10.66

Final

• Wind: +1.6 m/s

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Koji Ito (JPN)	10.05
	Reanchai Seeharwong (THA)	10.31
	Yasukatsu Otsuki (JPN)	10.31
4	Watson Nyambek (MAS)	10.32
5	Chintaka de Zoysa (SRI)	10.39
6	Vitaliy Medvedev (KAZ)	10.40
7	Gennadiy Chernovol (KAZ)	10.41
8	Zhou Wei (CHN)	10.42

References

• Results (archived)
• Results
• Video of the competition