1981 Asian Athletics Championships

The fourth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1981 in Tokyo, Japan.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Suchart Chairsuvaparb  Thailand	10.52	Yuan Guoqiang  China	10.69	Sumet Promna  Thailand	10.74
200 metres	Toshio Toyota  Japan	20.99	Sumet Promna  Thailand	21.16	Hirohito Yamazaki  Japan	21.23
400 metres	Takayuki Isobe  Japan	46.72	Eiji Natori  Japan	46.92	Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef  Iraq	47.22
800 metres	Abraham Rajan  India	1:50.21	Khalid Khalifa  Kuwait	1:50.37	Takatsune Teranishi  Japan	1:50.62
1500 metres	Takashi Ishii  Japan	3:50.63	Sukhwant Singh  India	3:51.88	Sant Kumar  India	3:52.12
5000 metres	Gopal Singh Saini  India	13:52.22	Yasunori Watanabe  Japan	13:55.62	Park Won-Keun  South Korea	13:57.33
10000 metres	Kunimitsu Ito  Japan	28:53.29	Tatsuya Moriguchi  Japan	29:24.77	Kazuyoshi Kudo  Japan	29:30.25
3000 metre steeplechase	Masanari Shintaku  Japan	8:29.09	Gopal Singh Saini  India	8:30.88	Anokh Singh  India	8:52.67
110 metres hurdles	Yoshifumi Fujimori  Japan	14.22	Katsumi Kashiwazaki  Japan	14.33	Satbir Singh  India	14.89
400 metres hurdles	Takashi Nagao  Japan	50.32	Shigenori Ohmori  Japan	50.71	Yukihiro Yoshimatsu  Japan	51.35
High jump	Zhu Jianhua  China	2.30	Takao Sakamoto  Japan	2.24	Shuji Ujino  Japan	2.21
Pole vault	Tomomi Takahashi  Japan	5.20	Rihan Ali Rihan Obeid  Saudi Arabia	4.40	Abdullah Awadh  Saudi Arabia	4.20
Long jump	Liu Yuhuang  China	8.05	Junichi Usui  Japan	7.94w	Toshihisa Yoshimoto  Japan	7.71
Triple jump	Zhou Zhenxian  China	17.05	Masami Nakanishi  Japan	16.61	Yasushi Ueta  Japan	16.10
Shot put	Mohammed Al-Zinkawi  Kuwait	17.87	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	17.38	Vijay Bahadur  India	16.71
Discus throw	Li Weinan  China	53.30	Michio Kita  Japan	51.76	Raghubir Singh Bal  India	50.04
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi  Japan	69.62	Masayuki Kawata  Japan	66.84	Nobuyuki Ifuku  Japan	65.98
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao  China	85.40	Yoshinori Kuriyama  Japan	78.56	Masami Yoshida  Japan	74.42
Decathlon	Sabir Ali  India	7253	Nobuya Saito  Japan	7078	Zu Qilin  China	7074
20 kilometre road walk	Chand Ram  India	1:34:08	Ranjit Singh  India	1:35:20	Vellasamy Subramaniam  Malaysia	1:37:32
4 x 100 metres relay	Japan	39.86	Thailand	40.36	South Korea	40.56
4 x 400 metres relay	Japan	3:07.06	Iraq	3:10.10	India	3:10.54

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Yukiko Osako  Japan	11.91	Usanee Laopinkarn  Thailand	11.97	Emiko Konishi  Japan	12.02
200 metres	Emiko Konishi  Japan	24.46	Tomi Osaka  Japan	24.52	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	24.54
400 metres	Junko Yoshida  Japan	54.89	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	55.39	Saik Oik Cum  Malaysia	55.62
800 metres	Geeta Zutshi  India	2:08.13	Kumiko Mega  Japan	2:09.86	Kim Soon-Hwa  South Korea	2:10.41
1500 metres	Zhang Xiunen  China	4:27.11	Geeta Zutshi  India	4:28.98	Kim Soon-Hwa  South Korea	4:30.81
3000 metres	Akemi Masuda  Japan	9:18.17	Nanae Sasaki  Japan	9:41.85	Jiang Zhourong  China	9:48.07
100 metres hurdles	Emi Akimoto  Japan	13.78	Dai Jianhua  China	13.98	Noriko Ehara  Japan	14.09
400 metres hurdles	Yumiko Aoi  Japan	59.26	Hu Aiping  China	60.68	Manathoor D. Valsamma  India	61.16
High jump	Hisayo Fukumitsu  Japan	1.93	Zheng Dazhen  China	1.84	Megumi Sato  Japan	1.81
Long jump	Wu Feng  China	5.97w	Atsuko Adada  Japan	5.93	Mercy Matthews  India	5.91
Shot put	Shen Lijuan  China	17.75	Kayoko Hayashi  Japan	15.66	Yukari Seo  Japan	15.18
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui  China	59.10	Harumi Suzuki  Japan	48.86	Reiko Honma  Japan	48.00
Javelin throw	Tang Guoli  China	61.64	Naomi Shibusawa  Japan	57.08	Kanae Takahashi  Japan	56.16
Heptathlon	Ye Peisu  China	5445	Tomoko Uchida  Japan	5254	Zaiton Othman  Malaysia	4879
4 x 100 metres relay	Japan	45.70	Thailand	46.43	South Korea	47.85
4 x 400 metres relay	Malaysia	3:46.36	Philippines	3:55.60	India	3:59.80

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	18	19	14	51
2	China	11	4	2	17
3	India	5	5	9	19
4	Thailand	1	4	1	6
5	Kuwait	1	1	0	2
6	Malaysia	1	0	3	4
7	Philippines	0	2	1	3
8	Saudi Arabia	0	1	1	2
8	Iraq	0	1	1	2
10	South Korea	0	0	5	5

See also

• 1981 in athletics (track and field)

External links

• GBR Athletics