1981 Asian Athletics Championships

1981 Asian Championships
The host stadium
DatesJune 5-7
Host cityTokyo, Japan
Venue National Olympic Stadium
Participationat 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.

Medal summary

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Men's events

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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

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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

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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 entries)373737111

References

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