Japan won three of the four team titles at stake in the Asian Cross Country Championships held in Pune, India, on 22 February 2004.
The Japanese won the senior women’s and junior men and women titles while China took the senior men’s crown.
Han Gang of China and Yumi Sato of Japan won the senior races among the men and women, while Satoru Kitamura of Japan and Bao Guiyin of China were the corresponding winners in the junior section.
Results:
Senior men’s race (12.45km):
1. Han Gang (CHN) 39:45.97
2. Chen Mingfu (CHN) 39:47.42
3. Deng Haiyang (CHN) 40:10.33
4. Santosh Kumar (IND) 40:17.27
5. P. Nagendra Rao (IND) 40:28.28
6. Aman Saini (IND) 40:51.64
7. Aziz Pour Yusuf (IRI) 41:02.86
8. Mehrabi Omid (IRI) 41:06.28
9. Joga Singh (IND) 41:20.23
10. Sergey Milyutin (KAZ) 41:26.10
11. Awadh Hussein (LIB) 41:38.51
12. Al Slaiti Ali (JOR) 42:53.86
13. Al Rawahi Ahmed (OMN) 42:09.64
14. Al Kafraini Mohammad (JOR) 42:53.86
15. Yang Ji Ze (CHN) 42:59.79
Senior women’s race (6.30km):
1. Yumi Sato (JPN) 21:20.05
2. Ayako Suzuki (JPN) 21:53.06
3. Shi Hong Juan (CHN) 22:03.44
4. Mika Matsumoto (JPN) 22:32.41
5. Madhuri Gurnule (IND) 22:33.04
6. Zhang Chong (CHN) 22:39.80
7. Molly Biju (IND) 22:48.42
8. Shastri Devi (IND) 23:03.76
9. Marina Gurbina (KAZ) 23:25.64
10. Pushpa Devi (IND) 23:30.18
11. Paramjeet Kaur (IND) 23:53.13
12. Dinara Agayeva (TKM) 28:05.86
Junior men’s race (8.35km):
1. Satoru Kitamura (JPN) 25:09.76
2. Yuki Sato (JPN) 25:15.68
3. Yuichiro Ueno (JPN) 26:15.66
4. Kenji Higashino (JPN) 26:17.71
5. Sunil Kumar (IND) 26:34.88
6. Mukesh Kumar Yadav (IND) 26:42.95
7. Khazaei Mohammad (IRI) 26:56.59
8. Mukesh Kumar (IND) 27:11.34
9. Arvind Kumar Yadav (IND) 27:18.34
10. Kushal Singh Negi (IND) 27:40.77
11. Nozim Ormatov (TJK) 28:24.23
12. Dovran Amanjayev (TKM) 29:00.56
13. Abdolamir Khazreyan (IRI) 29:07.45
14. Mehdi Jalatianarari (IRI) 29:36.74
15. Hossein Dehbashi (IRI) 29:46.83
Junior women’s race (4.25km):
1. Bao Guiyin (CHN) 13:46.15
2. Misaki Katsumata (JPN) 13:52.11
3. Zhu Yanmei (CHN) 13:53.36
4. Yuko Nohara (JPN) 13:55.21
5. Tomoka Inadomi (JPN) 14:24.16
6. Saori Makishima (JPN) 14:24.16
7. Chisa Fujimoto (JPN) 14:49.98
8. B. U. Maheshwari Devi (IND) 15:17.54
9. Bharati (IND) 15:39.49
10. Renu Joon (IND) 15:57.64
11. Kavita Raut (IND) 16:01.89
12. Rupinder Kaur (IND) 16:04.24
13. Ng Hei Man (HKG) 17:20.36
14. Sophie Golifer (SIN) 17:52.27
15. Calistin Ong (SIN) 17:55.90
