# 2001 Asian Karate Championships

The 2001 Asian Karate Championships are the fifth edition of the Asian Karate Championships, and were held in Genting Highlands, Malaysia from 2 to 4 November 2001.

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual kata | Hideto Tsuchiya Japan | Wang Tsu-hsiang Chinese Taipei | Ku Jin Keat Malaysia |
| Individual kata | Hideto Tsuchiya Japan | Wang Tsu-hsiang Chinese Taipei | Wong Pan Pan Hong Kong |
| Team kata | Malaysia Ku Jin Keat Yeoh Swee King James Ch'ng | Japan Shinichi Hasegawa Katsuhide Hasegawa Yukimitsu Hasegawa | Iran Ebad Feizi Majid Ashjaei Amin Mazareei |
| Team kata | Malaysia Ku Jin Keat Yeoh Swee King James Ch'ng | Japan Shinichi Hasegawa Katsuhide Hasegawa Yukimitsu Hasegawa | Kuwait Alaa Al-Hawaj Mustafa Al-Shatti Haytham Al-Qattan |
| Kumite −55 kg | Puvaneswaran Ramasamy Malaysia | Bambang Maulidin Indonesia | Bader Al-Otaibi Kuwait |
| Kumite −55 kg | Puvaneswaran Ramasamy Malaysia | Bambang Maulidin Indonesia | Hj Eddie Jofriani Hj Johari Brunei |
| Kumite −60 kg | Kenichi Imai Japan | Bakhtiyar Tokseitov Kazakhstan | Tsai Sang-yang Chinese Taipei |
| Kumite −60 kg | Kenichi Imai Japan | Bakhtiyar Tokseitov Kazakhstan | Vladimir Korzh Uzbekistan |
| Kumite −65 kg | Tsunaki Fujimura Japan | Lim Yoke Wai Malaysia | Hasan Basri Indonesia |
| Kumite −65 kg | Tsunaki Fujimura Japan | Lim Yoke Wai Malaysia | Alireza Sarikhani Iran |
| Kumite −70 kg | Yasuhisa Inada Japan | Jasem Vishkaei Iran | Shattyk Yeleussinov Kazakhstan |
| Kumite −70 kg | Yasuhisa Inada Japan | Jasem Vishkaei Iran | Dhojman Moktan Nepal |
| Kumite −75 kg | Ahmad Muneer Kuwait | Mahendran Supremaniam Malaysia | Doniyorbek Kholmatov Uzbekistan |
| Kumite −75 kg | Ahmad Muneer Kuwait | Mahendran Supremaniam Malaysia | Nasser Khajeh-Hosseini Iran |
| Kumite −80 kg | Ryosuke Shimizu Japan | Ali Shaterzadeh Iran | Nael Oweimer Jordan |
| Kumite −80 kg | Ryosuke Shimizu Japan | Ali Shaterzadeh Iran | Khalid Falatah Saudi Arabia |
| Kumite +80 kg | Jaber Al-Hammad Kuwait | Mehran Behnamfar Iran | Hassan Masoud Jordan |
| Kumite +80 kg | Jaber Al-Hammad Kuwait | Mehran Behnamfar Iran | Azamat Kalandarov Uzbekistan |
| Kumite open | Hassan Shaterzadeh Iran | Sawanori Matsuzaki Japan | Lin Huan-wei Chinese Taipei |
| Kumite open | Hassan Shaterzadeh Iran | Sawanori Matsuzaki Japan | Kong Tai Moon Malaysia |
| Team kumite | Japan | Kuwait | Jordan |
| Team kumite | Japan | Kuwait | Iran |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual kata | Atsuko Wakai Japan | Tsai Yi-ling Chinese Taipei | Chan Ka Hing Hong Kong |
| Individual kata | Atsuko Wakai Japan | Tsai Yi-ling Chinese Taipei | Lim Lee Lee Malaysia |
| Team kata | Japan Kasuga Wakabayashi Nao Morooka Mayumi Asano | Indonesia Endah Jubaedah Iin Hasanah Yulianti Syafrudin | Jordan Marina Harb Manar Shath Rada Jasser |
| Team kata | Japan Kasuga Wakabayashi Nao Morooka Mayumi Asano | Indonesia Endah Jubaedah Iin Hasanah Yulianti Syafrudin | Malaysia Lim Lee Lee Jaclyn Ch'ng Thoe Ai Poh |
| Kumite −48 kg | Sachiko Miyamoto Japan | Ng Chai Lin Malaysia | Jenny Zeannet Indonesia |
| Kumite −48 kg | Sachiko Miyamoto Japan | Ng Chai Lin Malaysia | Hoàng Lê Thu Thuỷ Vietnam |
| Kumite −53 kg | Irina Tishina Kazakhstan | Mayuko Okamoto Japan | Sandra Aryani Indonesia |
| Kumite −53 kg | Irina Tishina Kazakhstan | Mayuko Okamoto Japan | Murugaiyan Srirajarajeswari Malaysia |
| Kumite −60 kg | Kanako Iwakiri Japan | Gretchen Malalad Philippines | Premila Supramaniam Malaysia |
| Kumite −60 kg | Kanako Iwakiri Japan | Gretchen Malalad Philippines | Sun Hsiao-yun Chinese Taipei |
| Kumite +60 kg | Sofiya Kaspulatova Uzbekistan | Agnes Tan Malaysia | Natalya Solodilova Kazakhstan |
| Kumite +60 kg | Sofiya Kaspulatova Uzbekistan | Agnes Tan Malaysia | Buthaina Al-Mahsiri Jordan |
| Kumite open | Tomomi Shibuya Japan | Sofiya Kaspulatova Uzbekistan | Hà Thị Kiều Trang Vietnam |
| Kumite open | Tomomi Shibuya Japan | Sofiya Kaspulatova Uzbekistan | Natalya Solodilova Kazakhstan |
| Team kumite | Malaysia | Japan | Jordan |
| Team kumite | Malaysia | Japan | Kazakhstan |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 11 | 4 | 0 | 15 |
| 2 | Malaysia | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | Kuwait | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | Iran | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | Kazakhstan | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | Uzbekistan | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | Indonesia | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | Philippines | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Jordan | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 11 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Brunei | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Nepal | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Saudi Arabia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 19 | 19 | 38 | 76 |