Asia Continental championships · since 1993 
Osaka, Japan 19–27 May 2001
2001 East Asian Games
Osaka, Japan 19–27 May 2001- events
- 45
- medals awarded
- 132
- nations on the podium
- 7
- world records
- 0
Podiums
200m
wind 0.0400m
800m
1500m
OC winner - Clinton Mackevicius (AUS) 3:44.87
5000m
10,000m
Half marathon
3000m steeplechase
110m hurdles
wind 0.0400m hurdles
High jump
Pole vault
Long jump
Triple jump
Shot put
Discus throw
Hammer throw
Javelin throw
20 km race walk
Decathlon
4x100m
3 
Hong Kong
Hong Kong 40.13
4x400m
One team finished.
Medal table
7 nations · 132 medals| # | Nation | Total | Share | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  China PR CHN | 27 | 12 | 10 | 49 | |
| 2 | Japan JPN | 11 | 22 | 18 | 51 | |
| 3 |  Kazakhstan KAZ | 5 | 5 | 6 | 16 | |
| 4 |  Republic of Korea KOR | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | |
| 5 |  Chinese Taipei TPE | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |
| 6 | Hong Kong HKG | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 7 |  Mongolia MGL | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Records set
24 CR- CR Gennadiy Chernovol 100m · Men 10.28
- CR Shingo Suetsugu 200m · Men 20.34
- CR Xu Zizhou 400m · Men 45.25
- CR Mikhail Kolganov 1500m · Men 3:46.43
- CR Katsuhiko Hanada 10,000m · Men 28:42.19
- CR Kazuo Ietani Half marathon · Men 1:04:49
- CR Yasunori Uchitomi 3000m steeplechase · Men 8:33.98
- CR Liu Xiang 110m hurdles · Men 13.42
- CR Tien-Wen Chen 400m hurdles · Men 49.18
- CR Jin-Taek Lee High jump · Men 2.23
- CR Manabu Yokoyama Pole vault · Men 5.60
- CR Koji Murofushi Hammer throw · Men 79.68
- CR Li Rongxiang Javelin throw · Men 81.55
- CR Japan 4x100m · Men 38.93
- CR Japan 4x400m · Men 3:03.74
- CR Liu Xiaomei 200m · Women 22.87
- CR Bo Fanfang 400m · Women 52.31
- CR Dong Yanmei 5000m · Women 15:32.71
- CR Feng Yun 100m hurdles · Women 13.12
- CR Guan Yingnan Long jump · Women 6.61
- CR Liu Hongyu 20 km race walk · Women 1:32:06
- CR Svetlana Kazanina Heptathlon · Women 6078
- CR China PR 4x100m · Women 44.08
- CR China PR 4x400m · Women 3:30.51