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{{Infobox Athletics Championships
|Name = 1981 Asian Championships
|Logo = Yamazaki-nabisco-Cup final 2004.jpg
|Size = 
|Host city =[[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]
|Optional caption = The host stadium
|Nations participating = at least 10
|Athletes participating = 
|Events =
|Dates = June 5-7
|Stadium =[[National Stadium (Tokyo, 1958)| National Olympic Stadium]]
|Previous = [[1979 Asian Athletics Championships|Tokyo 1979]]
|Next = [[1983 Asian Athletics Championships|Kuwait City 1983]]
}}

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

==Medal summary==

===Men===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
|[[100 metres]]<br><small>(wind: -1.3 m/s)</small>
|[[Suchart Chairsuvaparb]]<br>{{flag|Thailand}}||10.52
|[[Yuan Guoqiang (athlete)|Yuan Guoqiang]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||10.69
|[[Sumet Promna]]<br>{{flag|Thailand}}||10.74
|-
|[[200 metres]]<br><small>(wind: 0.0 m/s)</small>
|[[Toshio Toyota]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||20.99
|[[Sumet Promna]]<br>{{flag|Thailand}}||21.16
|[[Hirohito Yamazaki]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||21.23
|-
|[[400 metres]]
|[[Takayuki Isobe]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||46.72
|[[Eiji Natori]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||46.92
|[[Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef]]<br>{{flag|Iraq|1963}}||47.22
|-
|[[800 metres]]
|[[Abraham Rajan]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||1:50.21
|[[Khalid Khalifa (athlete)|Khalid Khalifa]]<br>{{flag|Kuwait}}||1:50.37
|[[Takatsune Teranishi]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||1:50.62
|-
|[[1500 metres]]
|[[Takashi Ishii (runner)|Takashi Ishii]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||3:50.63
|[[Sukhwant Singh]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||3:51.88
|[[Sant Kumar]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||3:52.12
|-
|[[5000 metres]]
|[[Gopal Singh Saini]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||13:52.22
|[[Yasunori Watanabe (athlete)|Yasunori Watanabe]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||13:55.62
|[[Park Won-Keun]]<br>{{flag|South Korea}}||13:57.33
|-
|[[10,000 metres]]
|[[Kunimitsu Ito]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||28:53.29
|[[Tatsuya Moriguchi]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||29:24.77
|[[Kazuyoshi Kudo (athlete)|Kazuyoshi Kudo]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||29:30.25
|-
|[[3000 metres steeplechase]]
|[[Hisatoshi Shintaku|Masanari Shintaku]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||8:29.09
|[[Gopal Singh Saini]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||8:30.88
|[[Anokh Singh]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||8:52.67
|-
|[[110 metres hurdles]]<br><small>(wind: -0.1 m/s)</small>
|[[Yoshifumi Fujimori]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||14.22
|[[Katsumi Kashiwazaki]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||14.33
|[[Satbir Singh (athlete)|Satbir Singh]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||14.89
|-
|[[400 metres hurdles]]
|[[Takashi Nagao]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||50.32
|[[Shigenori Ohmori]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||50.71
|[[Yukihiro Yoshimatsu]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||51.35
|-
|[[4 × 100 metres relay]]
|{{flagu|Japan}}<br>[[Hideyuki Arikawa]]<br>[[Toshio Toyota]]<br>[[Hirohito Yamazaki]]<br>[[Hideki Ikeda]]||39.86
|{{flag|Thailand}}<br>[[Somsak Boontud]]<br>[[Suchart Chairsuvaparb]]<br>[[Sumet Promna]]<br>[[Supachart Waranot]]||40.36
|{{flag|South Korea}}<br>[[Kim Yong-il (athlete)|Kim Yong-il]]<br>[[Sung Nak-kun]]<br>[[Choi Yong-joon]]<br>[[Suh Mei-guh]]||40.56
|-
|[[4 × 400 metres relay]]
|{{flagu|Japan}}<br>[[Takayuki Isobe]]<br>[[Eiji Natori]]<br>[[Shigenori Ohmori]]<br>[[Takashi Nagao]]||3:07.06
|{{flag|Iraq|1963}}<br>[[Abbas Al-Aibi]]<br>[[Fahim Abdul-Sada]]<br>[[Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef]]<br>[[Heitham Nadim]]||3:10.10
|{{flagu|India}}<br>[[Murali Kuttan]]<br>[[Uday Krishna Prabhu]]<br>[[Charanjit Singh Bajwa]]<br>[[Sunil Abraham (athlete)|Sunil Abraham]]||3:10.54
|-
|[[Racewalking|20 kilometre road walk]]
|[[Chand Ram]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||1:34:08
|[[Ranjit Singh (race walker)|Ranjit Singh]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||1:35:20
|[[Vellasamy Subramaniam]]<br>{{flag|Malaysia}}||1:37:32
|-
|[[High jump]]
|[[Zhu Jianhua]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||2.30
|[[Takao Sakamoto]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||2.24
|[[Shuji Ujino]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||2.21
|-
|[[Pole vault]]
|[[Tomomi Takahashi (pole vaulter)|Tomomi Takahashi]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||5.20
|[[Rihan Ali Rihan Obeid]]<br>{{flag|Saudi Arabia}}||4.40
|[[Abdullah Awadh]]<br>{{flag|Saudi Arabia}}||4.20
|-
|[[Long jump]]
|[[Liu Yuhuang]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||8.05
|[[Junichi Usui]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||7.94w
|[[Toshihisa Yoshimoto]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||7.71
|-
|[[Triple jump]]
|[[Zhou Zhenxian]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||17.05
|[[Masami Nakanishi]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||16.61
|[[Yasushi Ueta]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||16.10
|-
|[[Shot put]]
|[[Mohammed Al-Zinkawi]]<br>{{flag|Kuwait}}||17.87
|[[Bahadur Singh Chouhan]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||17.38
|[[Vijay Bahadur]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||16.71
|-
|[[Discus throw]]
|[[Li Weinan]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||53.30
|[[Michio Kita]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||51.76
|[[Raghubir Singh Bal]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||50.04
|-
|[[Hammer throw]]
|[[Shigenobu Murofushi]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||69.62
|[[Masayuki Kawata]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||66.84
|[[Nobuyuki Ifuku]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||65.98
|-
|[[Javelin throw]]
|[[Shen Maomao]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||85.40
|[[Yoshinori Kuriyama]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||78.56
|[[Masami Yoshida (javelin thrower)|Masami Yoshida]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||74.42
|-
|[[Decathlon]]
|[[Sabir Ali]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||7253
|[[Nobuya Saito]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||7078
|[[Zu Qilin]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||7074
|}

===Women===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event|columns=2}}
|-
|[[100 metres]]<br><small>(wind: +0.4 m/s)</small>
|[[Yukiko Osako]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||11.91
|[[Usanee Laopinkarn]]<br>{{flag|Thailand}}||11.97
|[[Emiko Konishi]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||12.02
|-
|[[200 metres]]<br><small>(wind: -1.6 m/s)</small>
|[[Emiko Konishi]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||24.46
|[[Tomi Osaka]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||24.52
|[[Lydia de Vega]]<br>{{flag|Philippines|1936}}||24.54
|-
|[[400 metres]]
|[[Junko Yoshida]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||54.89
|[[Lydia de Vega]]<br>{{flag|Philippines|1936}}||55.39
|[[Saik Oik Cum]]<br>{{flag|Malaysia}}||55.62
|-
|[[800 metres]]
|[[Geeta Zutshi]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||2:08.13
|[[Kumiko Mega]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||2:09.86
|[[Kim Soon-Hwa]]<br>{{flag|South Korea}}||2:10.41
|-
|[[1500 metres]]
|[[Zhang Xiunen]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||4:27.11
|[[Geeta Zutshi]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||4:28.98
|[[Kim Soon-Hwa]]<br>{{flag|South Korea}}||4:30.81
|-
|[[3000 metres]]
|[[Akemi Masuda]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||9:18.17
|[[Nanae Sasaki]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||9:41.85
|[[Jiang Zhourong]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||9:48.07
|-
|[[100 metres hurdles]]<br><small>(wind: -0.9 m/s)</small>
|[[Emi Akimoto]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||13.78
|[[Dai Jianhua]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||13.98
|[[Noriko Ehara]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||14.09
|-
|[[400 metres hurdles]]
|[[Yumiko Aoi]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||59.26
|[[Hu Aiping]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||60.68
|[[M. D. Valsamma|Manathoor D. Valsamma]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||61.16
|-
|[[4 × 100 metres relay]]
|{{flagu|Japan}}<br>[[Tomi Osaka]]<br>[[Yukiko Osako]]<br>[[Emiko Konishi]]<br>[[Emi Akimoto-Sasaki]]||45.70
|{{flag|Thailand}}<br>[[Walapa Pinij]]<br>[[Usanee Laopinkarn]]<br>[[Pusadee Sangvijit]]<br>[[Buspranee Ratanapol]]||46.43
|{{flag|South Korea}}<br>[[Lee Young-sook]]<br>[[Mo Myung-hee]]<br>[[Park Mi-sun (athlete)|Park Mi-sun]]<br>[[Chun Jung-shik]]||47.85
|-
|[[4 × 400 metres relay]]
|{{flag|Malaysia}}<br>[[Vengadasalam Angamah]]<br>[[Mumtaz Begum Jafaar]]<br>[[Saik Oik Cum]]<br>[[Marina Chin]]||3:46.36
|{{flag|Philippines|1936}}<br>[[Lydia De Vega]]<br>[[Gloria Acedo]]<br>[[Lorena Morcilla]]<br>[[Lucena Alam]]||3:55.60
|{{flagu|India}}<br>[[Hamida Banu]]<br>[[Manathoor D. Valsamma]]<br>[[Mercy Matthews]]<br>[[Rita Sen]]||3:59.80
|-
|[[High jump]]
|[[Hisayo Fukumitsu]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||1.93
|[[Zheng Dazhen]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||1.84
|[[Megumi Sato (athlete)|Megumi Sato]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||1.81
|-
|[[Long jump]]
|[[Wu Feng (athlete)|Wu Feng]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||5.97w
|[[Atsuko Adada]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||5.93
|[[Mercy Kuttan|Mercy Matthews]]<br>{{flagu|India}}||5.91
|-
|[[Shot put]]
|[[Shen Lijuan]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||17.75
|[[Kayoko Hayashi]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||15.66
|[[Yukari Seo]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||15.18
|-
|[[Discus throw]]
|[[Li Xiaohui (discus thrower)|Li Xiaohui]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||59.10
|[[Harumi Suzuki]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||48.86
|[[Reiko Honma]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||48.00
|-
|[[Javelin throw]]
|[[Tang Guoli]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||61.64
|[[Naomi Shibusawa]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||57.08
|[[Kanae Takahashi]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||56.16
|-
|[[Heptathlon]]
|[[Ye Peisu]]<br>{{flagu|China}}||5445
|[[Tomoko Uchida]]<br>{{flagu|Japan}}||5254
|[[Zaiton Othman]]<br>{{flag|Malaysia}}||4879
|}

==Medal table==
{{Medals table
 | caption        = 
 | host           = JPN
 | flag_template  = 
 | event          = 
 | team           = 
 | gold_JPN = 18 | silver_JPN = 19 | bronze_JPN = 14 | host_JPN = yes
 | gold_CHN = 11 | silver_CHN = 4 | bronze_CHN = 2
 | gold_IND = 5 | silver_IND = 5 | bronze_IND = 9
 | gold_THA = 1 | silver_THA = 4 | bronze_THA = 1
 | gold_KUW = 1 | silver_KUW = 1 | bronze_KUW = 0
 | gold_MAS = 1 | silver_MAS = 0 | bronze_MAS = 3
 | gold_PHI = 0 | silver_PHI = 2 | bronze_PHI = 1 | name_PHI = {{flagteam|PHI|1936}}
 | gold_KSA = 0 | silver_KSA = 1 | bronze_KSA = 1
 | gold_IRQ = 0 | silver_IRQ = 1 | bronze_IRQ = 1 | name_IRQ = {{flagteam|IRQ|1963}}
 | gold_KOR = 0 | silver_KOR = 0 | bronze_KOR = 5
}}

==References==
{{reflist}}
*[http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/asc.htm Asian Athletics Championships] from GBR Athletics

{{asian athletics champs}}
{{1981 in athletics}}

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[[Category:Sports competitions in Tokyo]]
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[[Category:1981 in Japanese sport|Asian Championships in Athletics]]
[[Category:1981 in Tokyo|Asian Champion]]
[[Category:June 1981 sports events in Asia|Asian Athletics Championships]]