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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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'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