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