1981 Asian Athletics Championships Explained

1981 Asian Championships
Host City:	Tokyo, Japan
Nations Participating:	at least 10
Dates:	June 5-7
Stadium:	National Olympic Stadium
Previous:	Tokyo 1979
Next:	Kuwait City 1983

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

100 metres (wind: -1.3 m/s)	Suchart Chairsuvaparb Thailand	10.52	Yuan Guoqiang	10.69	Sumet Promna Thailand	10.74
200 metres (wind: 0.0 m/s)	Toshio Toyota	20.99	Sumet Promna Thailand	21.16	Hirohito Yamazaki	21.23
400 metres	Takayuki Isobe	46.72	Eiji Natori	46.92	Aouf Abdulrahman Yousef Iraq	47.22
800 metres	Abraham Rajan	1:50.21	Khalid Khalifa Kuwait	1:50.37	Takatsune Teranishi	1:50.62
1500 metres	Takashi Ishii	3:50.63	Sukhwant Singh	3:51.88	Sant Kumar	3:52.12
5000 metres	Gopal Singh Saini	13:52.22	Yasunori Watanabe	13:55.62	Park Won-Keun	13:57.33
10,000 metres	Kunimitsu Ito	28:53.29	Tatsuya Moriguchi	29:24.77	Kazuyoshi Kudo	29:30.25
3000 metres steeplechase	Masanari Shintaku	8:29.09	Gopal Singh Saini	8:30.88	Anokh Singh	8:52.67
110 metres hurdles (wind: -0.1 m/s)	Yoshifumi Fujimori	14.22	Katsumi Kashiwazaki	14.33	Satbir Singh	14.89
400 metres hurdles	Takashi Nagao	50.32	Shigenori Ohmori	50.71	Yukihiro Yoshimatsu	51.35
4 × 100 metres relay	Hideyuki Arikawa Toshio Toyota Hirohito Yamazaki Hideki Ikeda	39.86	Thailand Somsak Boontud Suchart Chairsuvaparb Sumet Promna Supachart Waranot	40.36	Kim Yong-il Sung Nak-kun Choi Yong-joon Suh Mei-guh	40.56
4 × 400 metres relay	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	Murali Kuttan Uday Krishna Prabhu Charanjit Singh Bajwa Sunil Abraham	3:10.54
20 kilometre road walk	Chand Ram	1:34:08	Ranjit Singh	1:35:20	Vellasamy Subramaniam Malaysia	1:37:32
High jump	Zhu Jianhua	2.30	Takao Sakamoto	2.24	Shuji Ujino	2.21
Pole vault	Tomomi Takahashi	5.20	Rihan Ali Rihan Obeid Saudi Arabia	4.40	Abdullah Awadh Saudi Arabia	4.20
Long jump	Liu Yuhuang	8.05	Junichi Usui	7.94w	Toshihisa Yoshimoto	7.71
Triple jump	Zhou Zhenxian	17.05	Masami Nakanishi	16.61	Yasushi Ueta	16.10
Shot put	Mohammed Al-Zinkawi Kuwait	17.87	Bahadur Singh Chouhan	17.38	Vijay Bahadur	16.71
Discus throw	Li Weinan	53.30	Michio Kita	51.76	Raghubir Singh Bal	50.04
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi	69.62	Masayuki Kawata	66.84	Nobuyuki Ifuku	65.98
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao	85.40	Yoshinori Kuriyama	78.56	Masami Yoshida	74.42
Decathlon	Sabir Ali	7253	Nobuya Saito	7078	Zu Qilin	7074

Women's events

100 metres (wind: +0.4 m/s)	Yukiko Osako	11.91	Usanee Laopinkarn Thailand	11.97	Emiko Konishi	12.02
200 metres (wind: -1.6 m/s)	Emiko Konishi	24.46	Tomi Osaka	24.52	Lydia de Vega Philippines	24.54
400 metres	Junko Yoshida	54.89	Lydia de Vega Philippines	55.39	Saik Oik Cum Malaysia	55.62
800 metres	Geeta Zutshi	2:08.13	Kumiko Mega	2:09.86	Kim Soon-Hwa	2:10.41
1500 metres	Zhang Xiunen	4:27.11	Geeta Zutshi	4:28.98	Kim Soon-Hwa	4:30.81
3000 metres	Akemi Masuda	9:18.17	Nanae Sasaki	9:41.85	Jiang Zhourong	9:48.07
100 metres hurdles (wind: -0.9 m/s)	Emi Akimoto	13.78	Dai Jianhua	13.98	Noriko Ehara	14.09
400 metres hurdles	Yumiko Aoi	59.26	Hu Aiping	60.68	Manathoor D. Valsamma	61.16
4 × 100 metres relay	Tomi Osaka Yukiko Osako Emiko Konishi Emi Akimoto-Sasaki	45.70	Thailand Walapa Pinij Usanee Laopinkarn Pusadee Sangvijit Buspranee Ratanapol	46.43	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	Hamida Banu Manathoor D. Valsamma Mercy Matthews Rita Sen	3:59.80
High jump	Hisayo Fukumitsu	1.93	Zheng Dazhen	1.84	Megumi Sato	1.81
Long jump	Wu Feng	5.97w	Atsuko Adada	5.93	Mercy Matthews	5.91
Shot put	Shen Lijuan	17.75	Kayoko Hayashi	15.66	Yukari Seo	15.18
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui	59.10	Harumi Suzuki	48.86	Reiko Honma	48.00
Javelin throw	Tang Guoli	61.64	Naomi Shibusawa	57.08	Kanae Takahashi	56.16
Heptathlon	Ye Peisu	5445	Tomoko Uchida	5254	Zaiton Othman Malaysia	4879

References

• Asian Athletics Championships from GBR Athletics