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.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s)	Suchart Chairsuvaparb Thailand	10.52	Yuan Guoqiang Template:Flagu	10.69	Sumet Promna Thailand	10.74
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Toshio Toyota Template:Flagu	20.99	Sumet Promna Thailand	21.16	Hirohito Yamazaki Template:Flagu	21.23
400 metres	Takayuki Isobe Template:Flagu	46.72	Eiji Natori Template:Flagu	46.92	Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Iraq	47.22
800 metres	Abraham Rajan Template:Flagu	1:50.21	Khalid Khalifa Kuwait	1:50.37	Takatsune Teranishi Template:Flagu	1:50.62
1500 metres	Takashi Ishii Template:Flagu	3:50.63	Sukhwant Singh Template:Flagu	3:51.88	Sant Kumar Template:Flagu	3:52.12
5000 metres	Gopal Singh Saini Template:Flagu	13:52.22	Yasunori Watanabe Template:Flagu	13:55.62	Park Won-Keun South Korea	13:57.33
10,000 metres	Kunimitsu Ito Template:Flagu	28:53.29	Tatsuya Moriguchi Template:Flagu	29:24.77	Kazuyoshi Kudo Template:Flagu	29:30.25
3000 metres steeplechase	Masanari Shintaku Template:Flagu	8:29.09	Gopal Singh Saini Template:Flagu	8:30.88	Anokh Singh Template:Flagu	8:52.67
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Yoshifumi Fujimori Template:Flagu	14.22	Katsumi Kashiwazaki Template:Flagu	14.33	Satbir Singh Template:Flagu	14.89
400 metres hurdles	Takashi Nagao Template:Flagu	50.32	Shigenori Ohmori Template:Flagu	50.71	Yukihiro Yoshimatsu Template:Flagu	51.35
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagu 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	Template:Flagu 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	Template:Flagu Murali Kuttan Uday Krishna Prabhu Charanjit Singh Bajwa Sunil Abraham	3:10.54
20 kilometre road walk	Chand Ram Template:Flagu	1:34:08	Ranjit Singh Template:Flagu	1:35:20	Vellasamy Subramaniam Malaysia	1:37:32
High jump	Zhu Jianhua Template:Flagu	2.30	Takao Sakamoto Template:Flagu	2.24	Shuji Ujino Template:Flagu	2.21
Pole vault	Tomomi Takahashi Template:Flagu	5.20	Rihan Ali Rihan Obeid Saudi Arabia	4.40	Abdullah Awadh Saudi Arabia	4.20
Long jump	Liu Yuhuang Template:Flagu	8.05	Junichi Usui Template:Flagu	7.94w	Toshihisa Yoshimoto Template:Flagu	7.71
Triple jump	Zhou Zhenxian Template:Flagu	17.05	Masami Nakanishi Template:Flagu	16.61	Yasushi Ueta Template:Flagu	16.10
Shot put	Mohammed Al-Zinkawi Kuwait	17.87	Bahadur Singh Chouhan Template:Flagu	17.38	Vijay Bahadur Template:Flagu	16.71
Discus throw	Li Weinan Template:Flagu	53.30	Michio Kita Template:Flagu	51.76	Raghubir Singh Bal Template:Flagu	50.04
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi Template:Flagu	69.62	Masayuki Kawata Template:Flagu	66.84	Nobuyuki Ifuku Template:Flagu	65.98
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao Template:Flagu	85.40	Yoshinori Kuriyama Template:Flagu	78.56	Masami Yoshida Template:Flagu	74.42
Decathlon	Sabir Ali Template:Flagu	7253	Nobuya Saito Template:Flagu	7078	Zu Qilin Template:Flagu	7074

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Yukiko Osako Template:Flagu	11.91	Usanee Laopinkarn Thailand	11.97	Emiko Konishi Template:Flagu	12.02
200 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s)	Emiko Konishi Template:Flagu	24.46	Tomi Osaka Template:Flagu	24.52	Lydia de Vega Philippines	24.54
400 metres	Junko Yoshida Template:Flagu	54.89	Lydia de Vega Philippines	55.39	Saik Oik Cum Malaysia	55.62
800 metres	Geeta Zutshi Template:Flagu	2:08.13	Kumiko Mega Template:Flagu	2:09.86	Kim Soon-Hwa South Korea	2:10.41
1500 metres	Zhang Xiunen Template:Flagu	4:27.11	Geeta Zutshi Template:Flagu	4:28.98	Kim Soon-Hwa South Korea	4:30.81
3000 metres	Akemi Masuda Template:Flagu	9:18.17	Nanae Sasaki Template:Flagu	9:41.85	Jiang Zhourong Template:Flagu	9:48.07
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Emi Akimoto Template:Flagu	13.78	Dai Jianhua Template:Flagu	13.98	Noriko Ehara Template:Flagu	14.09
400 metres hurdles	Yumiko Aoi Template:Flagu	59.26	Hu Aiping Template:Flagu	60.68	Manathoor D. Valsamma Template:Flagu	61.16
4 × 100 metres relay	Template:Flagu 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	Template:Flagu Hamida Banu Manathoor D. Valsamma Mercy Matthews Rita Sen	3:59.80
High jump	Hisayo Fukumitsu Template:Flagu	1.93	Zheng Dazhen Template:Flagu	1.84	Megumi Sato Template:Flagu	1.81
Long jump	Wu Feng Template:Flagu	5.97w	Atsuko Adada Template:Flagu	5.93	Mercy Matthews Template:Flagu	5.91
Shot put	Shen Lijuan Template:Flagu	17.75	Kayoko Hayashi Template:Flagu	15.66	Yukari Seo Template:Flagu	15.18
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui Template:Flagu	59.10	Harumi Suzuki Template:Flagu	48.86	Reiko Honma Template:Flagu	48.00
Javelin throw	Tang Guoli Template:Flagu	61.64	Naomi Shibusawa Template:Flagu	57.08	Kanae Takahashi Template:Flagu	56.16
Heptathlon	Ye Peisu Template:Flagu	5445	Tomoko Uchida Template:Flagu	5254	Zaiton Othman Malaysia	4879

References

• Asian Athletics Championships from GBR Athletics