1981 Asian Athletics Championships

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	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	Japan	21.23
400 metres	Japan	46.72	Japan	46.92	Iraq	47.22
800 metres	Abraham Rajan  India	1:50.21	Kuwait	1:50.37	Japan	1:50.62
1500 metres	Japan	3:50.63	India	3:51.88	Sant Kumar  India	3:52.12
5000 metres	Gopal Singh Saini  India	13:52.22	Japan	13:55.62	South Korea	13:57.33
10,000 metres	Kunimitsu Ito  Japan	28:53.29	Japan	29:24.77	Japan	29:30.25
3000 metres steeplechase	Masanari Shintaku  Japan	8:29.09	Gopal Singh Saini  India	8:30.88	India	8:52.67
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Yoshifumi Fujimori  Japan	14.22	Japan	14.33	India	14.89
400 metres hurdles	Takashi Nagao  Japan	50.32	Japan	50.71	Japan	51.35
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan Toshio Toyota	39.86	Thailand	40.36	South Korea	40.56
4 × 400 metres relay	Japan Takashi Nagao	3:07.06	Iraq	3:10.10	India Murali Kuttan	3:10.54
20 kilometre road walk	Chand Ram  India	1:34:08	Ranjit Singh  India	1:35:20	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	Saudi Arabia	4.40	Saudi Arabia	4.20
Long jump	Liu Yuhuang  China	8.05	Junichi Usui  Japan	7.94w	Japan	7.71
Triple jump	Zhou Zhenxian  China	17.05	Japan	16.61	Yasushi Ueta  Japan	16.10
Shot put	Kuwait	17.87	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	17.38	India	16.71
Discus throw	China	53.30	Japan	51.76	India	50.04
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi  Japan	69.62	Japan	66.84	Japan	65.98
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao  China	85.40	Japan	78.56	Masami Yoshida  Japan	74.42
Decathlon	Sabir Ali  India	7253	Japan	7078	China	7074

Women's events[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Japan	11.91	Usanee Laopinkarn  Thailand	11.97	Japan	12.02
200 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s)	Japan	24.46	Japan	24.52	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	24.54
400 metres	Japan	54.89	Lydia de Vega  Philippines	55.39	Malaysia	55.62
800 metres	Geeta Zutshi  India	2:08.13	Japan	2:09.86	South Korea	2:10.41
1500 metres	China	4:27.11	Geeta Zutshi  India	4:28.98	South Korea	4:30.81
3000 metres	Akemi Masuda  Japan	9:18.17	Nanae Sasaki  Japan	9:41.85	China	9:48.07
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Emi Akimoto  Japan	13.78	China	13.98	Japan	14.09
400 metres hurdles	Japan	59.26	China	60.68	Manathoor D. Valsamma  India	61.16
4 × 100 metres relay	Japan	45.70	Thailand	46.43	South Korea	47.85
4 × 400 metres relay	Malaysia	3:46.36	Philippines	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	China	5.97w	Japan	5.93	Mercy Matthews  India	5.91
Shot put	Shen Lijuan  China	17.75	Japan	15.66	Japan	15.18
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui  China	59.10	Japan	48.86	Japan	48.00
Javelin throw	China	61.64	Japan	57.08	Japan	56.16
Heptathlon	China	5445	Japan	5254	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 nations)		37	37	37	111

References[]

• Asian Athletics Championships from GBR Athletics