The 2001 Asian Judo Championships were held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from 14 April to 15 April 2001.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra lightweight −60 kg	Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh  Iran	Choi Min-ho  South Korea	Tatsuaki Egusa  Japan
			Dorjpalamyn Narmandakh  Mongolia
Half lightweight −66 kg	Arash Miresmaeili  Iran	Michihiro Omigawa  Japan	Won Yong-choi  North Korea
			Ryu Jung-suk  South Korea
Lightweight −73 kg	Masashi Nitta  Japan	Kim Jae-hoon  South Korea	Khaliuny Boldbaatar  Mongolia
			Rauvan Inatillayev  Kazakhstan
Half middleweight −81 kg	Chu Sung-hoon  South Korea	Damdinsürengiin Nyamkhüü  Mongolia	Mohammad Mehdi Zakeri  Iran
			Takashi Ono  Japan
Middleweight −90 kg	Park Sung-keun  South Korea	Alisher Boqiev  Tajikistan	Tsend-Ayuushiin Ochirbat  Mongolia
			Tadayoshi Takeshita  Japan
Half heavyweight −100 kg	Tomokazu Inoue  Japan	Lee Joon-hoon  South Korea	Abbas Fallah  Iran
			Dastan Primkulov  Kazakhstan
Heavyweight +100 kg	Takumi Saruwatari  Japan	Choi Sung-won  South Korea	Yeldos Ikhsangaliyev  Kazakhstan
			Ochiryn Odgerel  Mongolia
Openweight	Kota Ueguchi  Japan	Erkin Tuyakov  Kazakhstan	Abbas Fallah  Iran
			Ochiryn Odgerel  Mongolia

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Extra lightweight −48 kg	Ri Kyong-ok  North Korea	Kang Sin-hye  South Korea	Erdenechimegiin Gereltuyaa  Mongolia
			Yu Ying-ying  Chinese Taipei
Half lightweight −52 kg	Yuki Yokosawa  Japan	Jang Jae-sim  South Korea	Roongtawan Jindasing  Thailand
			Sholpan Kaliyeva  Kazakhstan
Lightweight −57 kg	Khishigbatyn Erdenet-Od  Mongolia	Ri Myong-hwa  North Korea	Min Kyung-soon  South Korea
			Mayumi Yamada  Japan
Half middleweight −63 kg	Ayumi Tanimoto  Japan	Nurgul Tagayeva  Kazakhstan	Ji Kyong-sun  North Korea
			Lim Jung-sook  South Korea
Middleweight −70 kg	Haruko Kazato  Japan	Je Min-jung  South Korea	Wang Hsiang-wen  Chinese Taipei
			Olesýa Nazarenko  Turkmenistan
Half heavyweight −78 kg	Choi Sook-ie  South Korea	Mizuho Matsuzaki  Japan	Nasiba Salaýewa  Turkmenistan
			Sambuugiin Dashdulam  Mongolia
Heavyweight +78 kg	Midori Shintani  Japan	Choi Sook-ie  South Korea	Juan Hsin-yi  Chinese Taipei
			None awarded
Openweight	Midori Shintani  Japan	Choi Sook-ie  South Korea	Juan Hsin-yi  Chinese Taipei
			Erdene-Ochiryn Dolgormaa  Mongolia

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	9	2	4	15
2	South Korea	3	9	3	15
3	Iran	2	0	3	5
4	Mongolia	1	1	8	10
5	North Korea	1	1	2	4
6	Kazakhstan	0	2	4	6
7	Tajikistan	0	1	0	1
8	Chinese Taipei	0	0	4	4
9	Turkmenistan	0	0	2	2
10	Thailand	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		16	16	31	63