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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

External links

• 2001 Asian Judo Championships at JudoInside.com
• Judo Union of Asia