Competitors for 1981 Asian Athletics Championships
| Athlete | Country | Sports | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fahim Abdul Al-Sada |  IRQ |
ATH | 20 December 1955 |
| Sunil Abraham |  IND |
ATH | |
| Gloria Acedo |  PHI |
ATH | 17 April 1955 |
| Atsuko Adada |  JPN |
ATH | |
| Abbas Murshid Al-Aibi | IRQ |
ATH | 1952 |
| Emi Akimoto-Sasaki | JPN |
ATH | 19 July 1956 |
| Lucena Alam | PHI |
ATH | |
| Sabir Ali | IND |
ATH | 19 April 1955 |
| Vengadasalam Angamah |  MAS |
ATH | 16 June 1954 |
| Yumiko Aoi | JPN |
ATH | 15 March 1960 |
| Abdullah Awadh |  KSA |
ATH | |
| Hamida Banu | IND |
ATH | |
| Somsak Boontud |  THA |
ATH | 24 November 1952 |
| Suchart Chairsuvaparb | THA |
ATH | 13 June 1951 |
| Marina Chin | MAS |
ATH | 19 October 1955 |
| Choi Yong-Joon |  KOR |
ATH | |
| Dai Jianhua |  CHN |
ATH | 25 December 1958 |
| Noriko Ehara | JPN |
ATH | 10 April 1959 |
| Yoshifumi Fujimori | JPN |
ATH | 9 March 1958 |
| Hisayo Fukumitsu | JPN |
ATH | 19 February 1960 |
| Kayoko Hayashi | JPN |
ATH | 7 May 1952 |
| Reiko Honma | JPN |
ATH | 17 August 1958 |
| Hu Aiping | CHN |
ATH | |
| Nobuyuki Ifuku | JPN |
ATH | 20 June 1954 |
| Hideki Ikeda | JPN |
ATH | 1958 |
| Takashi Ishii | JPN |
ATH | 27 August 1954 |
| Kazumi Ishino | JPN |
ATH | 1956 |
| Takayuki Isobe | JPN |
ATH | 1 June 1959 |
| Kunimitsu Ito | JPN |
ATH | 6 January 1955 |
| Mumtaz Begum Jaafar | MAS |
ATH | 30 January 1962 |
| Jeon Jung-Sik | KOR |
ATH | 3 March 1964 |
| Jiang Zhourong | CHN |
ATH | 1 October 1962 |
| Sumiko Kaihara | JPN |
ATH | 17 May 1958 |
| Katsumi Kashiwazaki | JPN |
ATH | 1 September 1953 |
| Masayuki Kawata | JPN |
ATH | 10 January 1959 |
| Khaled Khalifa |  KUW |
ATH | 3 December 1957 |
| Kim Chun-Hui | KOR |
ATH | 14 July 1963 |
| Kim Jong-Il | KOR |
ATH | 11 September 1962 |
| Michio Kita | JPN |
ATH | 30 July 1954 |
| Emiko Konishi | JPN |
ATH | 23 May 1952 |
| Kazuyoshi Kudo | JPN |
ATH | 27 February 1961 |
| Sant Kumar | IND |
ATH | 24 July 1959 |
| Yoshinori Kuriyama | JPN |
ATH | |
| Gopinathan Murali Kuttan | IND |
ATH | 1953 |
| Mercy Kuttan-Mathews | IND |
ATH | 5 October 1960 |
| Usanee Laopingkarn | THA |
ATH | 28 January 1955 |
| Lee Yeong-Suk | KOR |
ATH | 16 December 1965 |
| Li Weinan | CHN |
ATH | 17 February 1957 |
| Li Xiaohui | CHN |
ATH | 12 February 1956 |
| Liu Yuhuang | CHN |
ATH | 25 July 1959 |
| Akemi Masuda | JPN |
ATH | 1 January 1964 |
| Kumiko Mega | JPN |
ATH | 1964 |
| Mo Myeong-Hui | KOR |
ATH | 4 March 1963 |
| Lorena Morcilla | PHI |
ATH | 7 February 1957 |
| Tatsuya Moriguchi | JPN |
ATH | 16 August 1956 |
| Shigenobu Murofushi | JPN |
ATH | 2 October 1945 |
| Haisam Nadim | IRQ |
ATH | 1957 |
| Takashi Nagao | JPN |
ATH | 31 August 1957 |
| Masami Nakanishi | JPN |
ATH | 18 December 1958 |
| Eiji Natori | JPN |
ATH | 11 April 1958 |
| Rihan Obaid | KSA |
ATH | 16 June 1949 |
| Shigenori Omori | JPN |
ATH | 9 July 1960 |
| Tomi Osaka | JPN |
ATH | 16 October 1961 |
| Yukiko Osako | JPN |
ATH | 1 July 1958 |
| Zaiton Othman | MAS |
ATH | 3 May 1959 |
| Park Mi-Seon | KOR |
ATH | 13 September 1964 |
| Park Won-Geun | KOR |
ATH | |
| Uday Krishna Prabhu | IND |
ATH | 12 October 1954 |
| Sumet Promna | THA |
ATH | 9 January 1956 |
| Abraham Rajan | IND |
ATH | 17 November 1957 |
| Siri Chand Ram | IND |
ATH | 26 January 1958 |
| Buspranee Ratanapol | THA |
ATH | |
| Saik Oik Cum | MAS |
ATH | 2 August 1960 |
| Gopal Saini | IND |
ATH | 18 April 1954 |
| Nobuya Saito | JPN |
ATH | |
| Takao Sakamoto | JPN |
ATH | 19 December 1958 |
| Pusadee Sangvijit | THA |
ATH | 23 February 1960 |
| Nanae Sasaki | JPN |
ATH | 8 February 1956 |
| Megumi Sato | JPN |
ATH | 13 September 1966 |
| Rita Sen | IND |
ATH | |
| Seo Mal-Gu | KOR |
ATH | 16 March 1956 |
| Yukari Seo | JPN |
ATH | 31 October 1954 |
| Seong Nak-Gun | KOR |
ATH | 26 February 1962 |
| Shen Lijuan | CHN |
ATH | 4 July 1958 |
| Shen Maomao | CHN |
ATH | 27 March 1957 |
| Naomi Shibusawa | JPN |
ATH | 6 November 1956 |
| Hisatoshi Shintaku | JPN |
ATH | 20 December 1957 |
| Charanjit Singh Bajwa | IND |
ATH | 25 October 1962 |
| Raghubir Singh Bal | IND |
ATH | 20 January 1953 |
| Anokh Singh | IND |
ATH | |
| Bahadur Singh | IND |
ATH | 8 February 1946 |
| Ranjit Singh | IND |
ATH | 25 November 1957 |
| Satbir Singh | IND |
ATH | 10 August 1953 |
| Sukhwant Singh | IND |
ATH | |
| Vijay Bahadur Singh | IND |
ATH | 1946 |
| Vellasamy Subramaniam | MAS |
ATH | 11 May 1949 |
| Harumi Suzuki | JPN |
ATH | 1960 |
| Kanae Takahashi | JPN |
ATH | 24 April 1957 |
| Tomomi Takahashi | JPN |
ATH | 29 January 1956 |
| Tang Guoli | CHN |
ATH | 1961 |
| Walapa Tangjitsusorn | THA |
ATH | 14 June 1953 |
| Takatsune Teranishi | JPN |
ATH | 14 June 1959 |
| Toshio Toyota | JPN |
ATH | 19 July 1956 |
| Tomoko Uchida | JPN |
ATH | 1956 |
| Yasushi Ueta | JPN |
ATH | 13 November 1955 |
| Shuji Ujino | JPN |
ATH | 15 January 1960 |
| Junichi Usui | JPN |
ATH | 5 October 1957 |
| M. D. Valsamma | IND |
ATH | 21 October 1960 |
| Supachart Varanot | THA |
ATH | |
| Lydia de Vega | PHI |
ATH | 26 December 1964 |
| Yasunori Watanabe | JPN |
ATH | 27 September 1951 |
| Wu Feng | CHN |
ATH | |
| Hirohito Yamazaki | JPN |
ATH | 9 February 1961 |
| Ye Peisu | CHN |
ATH | 13 April 1958 |
| Junko Yoshida | JPN |
ATH | 14 December 1960 |
| Masami Yoshida | JPN |
ATH | 17 January 1946 |
| Yukihiro Yoshimatsu | JPN |
ATH | 14 March 1959 |
| Toshihisa Yoshimoto | JPN |
ATH | 18 July 1953 |
| Aouf Abdul Rahman Youssef | IRQ |
ATH | 24 November 1960 |
| Yuan Guoqiang | CHN |
ATH | 3 February 1956 |
| Zhang Xiunen | CHN |
ATH | |
| Zheng Dazhen | CHN |
ATH | 22 September 1959 |
| Zhu Jianhua | CHN |
ATH | 29 May 1963 |
| Zhu Qilin | CHN |
ATH | 1955 |
| Mohamed Al-Zinkawi | KUW |
ATH | 7 October 1953 |
| Zou Zhenxian | CHN |
ATH | 10 November 1955 |
| Geeta Zutshi | IND |
ATH | 2 December 1956 |