| 1981 Asian Championships | |
|---|---|
 The host stadium | |
| Dates | June 5-7 |
| Host city | Tokyo, Japan |
| Venue | National Olympic Stadium |
| Participation | at least 10 nations |
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.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |