1981 Asian Athletics Championships


The fourth Asian Championships in Athletics were held in 1981 in Tokyo, Japan.

1981 Asian Championships
DatesJune 5-7
Host city Tokyo, Japan
Venue National Olympic Stadium
Participationat least 10 nations

Medal summary

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres Suchart Chairsuvaparb
 Thailand
10.52 Yuan Guoqiang
 China
10.69 Sumet Promna
 Thailand
10.74
200 metres 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
10000 metres Kunimitsu Ito
 Japan
28:53.29 Tatsuya Moriguchi
 Japan
29:24.77 Kazuyoshi Kudo
 Japan
29:30.25
3000 metre steeplechase Masanari Shintaku
 Japan
8:29.09 Gopal Singh Saini
 India
8:30.88 Anokh Singh
 India
8:52.67
110 metres hurdles 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
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
20 kilometre road walk Chand Ram
 India
1:34:08 Ranjit Singh
 India
1:35:20 Vellasamy Subramaniam
 Malaysia
1:37:32
4 × 100 metres relay  Japan39.86  Thailand40.36  South Korea40.56
4 × 400 metres relay  Japan3:07.06  Iraq3:10.10  India3:10.54

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres Yukiko Osako
 Japan
11.91 Usanee Laopinkarn
 Thailand
11.97 Emiko Konishi
 Japan
12.02
200 metres 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 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
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
4 × 100 metres relay  Japan45.70  Thailand46.43  South Korea47.85
4 × 400 metres relay  Malaysia3:46.36  Philippines3:55.60  India3:59.80

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Japan (JPN)18191451
2 China (CHN)114217
3 India (IND)55919
4 Thailand (THA)1416
5 Kuwait (KUW)1102
6 Malaysia (MAS)1034
7 Philippines (PHI)0213
8 Iraq (IRQ)0112
 Saudi Arabia (KSA)0112
10 South Korea (KOR)0055
Totals (10 nations)373737111


See also

  • 1981 in athletics (track and field)
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