1981 Asian Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

1981 Asian Championships

The host stadium

Dates| June 5-7
Host city| Tokyo, Japan
Venue|  National Olympic Stadium
Participation| at least 10 nations

<- Tokyo 1979

Kuwait City 1983 ->

The 1981 Asian Athletics Championships was the fourth edition of the biennial athletics competition for Asian nations, and was held from June 5-7, 1981 in Tokyo, Japan.

## Medal summary

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### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
(wind: -1.3 m/s) | Suchart Chairsuvaparb
Thailand | 10.52  | Yuan Guoqiang
China | 10.69  | Sumet Promna
Thailand | 10.74
200 metres
(wind: 0.0 m/s) | 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
10,000 metres | Kunimitsu Ito
Japan | 28:53.29  | Tatsuya Moriguchi
Japan | 29:24.77  | Kazuyoshi Kudo
Japan | 29:30.25
3000 metres steeplechase | Masanari Shintaku
Japan | 8:29.09  | Gopal Singh Saini
India | 8:30.88  | Anokh Singh
India | 8:52.67
110 metres hurdles
(wind: -0.1 m/s) | 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
4 × 100 metres relay |  Japan
Hideyuki Arikawa
Toshio Toyota
Hirohito Yamazaki
Hideki Ikeda | 39.86  |  Thailand
Somsak Boontud
Suchart Chairsuvaparb
Sumet Promna
Supachart Waranot | 40.36  |  South Korea
Kim Yong-il
Sung Nak-kun
Choi Yong-joon
Suh Mei-guh | 40.56
4 × 400 metres relay |  Japan
Takayuki Isobe
Eiji Natori
Shigenori Ohmori
Takashi Nagao | 3:07.06  |  Iraq
Abbas Al-Aibi
Fahim Abdul-Sada
Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef
Heitham Nadim | 3:10.10  |  India
Murali Kuttan
Uday Krishna Prabhu
Charanjit Singh Bajwa
Sunil Abraham | 3:10.54
20 kilometre road walk | Chand Ram
India | 1:34:08  | Ranjit Singh
India | 1:35:20  | Vellasamy Subramaniam
Malaysia | 1:37:32
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

### Women's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
(wind: +0.4 m/s) | Yukiko Osako
Japan | 11.91  | Usanee Laopinkarn
Thailand | 11.97  | Emiko Konishi
Japan | 12.02
200 metres
(wind: -1.6 m/s) | 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
(wind: -0.9 m/s) | 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
4 × 100 metres relay |  Japan
Tomi Osaka
Yukiko Osako
Emiko Konishi
Emi Akimoto-Sasaki | 45.70  |  Thailand
Walapa Pinij
Usanee Laopinkarn
Pusadee Sangvijit
Buspranee Ratanapol | 46.43  |  South Korea
Lee Young-sook
Mo Myung-hee
Park Mi-sun
Chun Jung-shik | 47.85
4 × 400 metres relay |  Malaysia
Vengadasalam Angamah
Mumtaz Begum Jafaar
Saik Oik Cum
Marina Chin | 3:46.36  |  Philippines
Lydia De Vega
Gloria Acedo
Lorena Morcilla
Lucena Alam | 3:55.60  |  India
Hamida Banu
Manathoor D. Valsamma
Mercy Matthews
Rita Sen | 3:59.80
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

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Japan (JPN)| 18| 19| 14| 51
2|  China (CHN)| 11| 4| 2| 17
3|  India (IND)| 5| 5| 9| 19
4|  Thailand (THA)| 1| 4| 1| 6
5|  Kuwait (KUW)| 1| 1| 0| 2
6|  Malaysia (MAS)| 1| 0| 3| 4
7|  Philippines (PHI)| 0| 2| 1| 3
8|  Iraq (IRQ)| 0| 1| 1| 2
Saudi Arabia (KSA)| 0| 1| 1| 2
10|  South Korea (KOR)| 0| 0| 5| 5
Totals (10 entries)| 37| 37| 37| 111

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