1981 Asian Athletics Championships

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.

1981 Asian Championships
The host stadium
Dates	June 5-7
Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Venue	National Olympic Stadium
Participation	at least 10 nations
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Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

References

• Asian Athletics Championships from GBR Athletics