1981 Asian Athletics Championships

1981 Asian Championships
Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Date(s)	June 5-7
Main stadium	National Olympic Stadium
Participation	at least 10 nations
← Tokyo 1979 Kuwait City 1983 →

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 × 100 metres relay	Japan	39.86	Thailand	40.36	South Korea	40.56
4 × 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 × 100 metres relay	Japan	45.70	Thailand	46.43	South Korea	47.85
4 × 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
Total		37	37	37	111

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See also: Athletics at the Asian Games

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