Athletics at the 1978 Asian Games

Athletics at the 1978 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	14–19 December
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The 1978 Asian Games were held in National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand from 14 December to 19 December. The event was not sanctioned by the International Amateur Athletics Federation due to the organizers' refusal to invite Israel.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Suchart Jairsuraparp   Thailand	10.44	Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran   India	10.60	Suh Mal-gu   South Korea	10.66
200 m details	Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran   India	21.42	Yasuhiro Harada   Japan	21.54	Anat Ratanapol   Thailand	21.59
400 m details	Abbas Laibi   Iraq	46.71	Uday Krishna Prabhu   India	46.79	Murali Kuttan   India	47.18
800 m details	Sriram Singh   India	1:48.8	Falah Naji   Iraq	1:49.7	Takashi Ishii   Japan	1:49.9
1500 m details	Takashi Ishii   Japan	3:47.5	Muhammad Younis   Pakistan	3:48.0	Ratan Singh Bhadauria   India	3:48.1
5000 m details	Hari Chand   India	14:22.0	Takao Nakamura   Japan	14:27.2	Cui Yulin   China	14:28.1
10,000 m details	Hari Chand   India	30:07.7	Robert   Burma	30:16.9	Ko Ko   Burma	30:18.4
110 m hurdles details	Wang Xunhua   China	14.28	Yoshifumi Fujimori   Japan	14.33	Satbir Singh   India	14.43
400 m hurdles details	Hassan Kadhim   Iraq	50.81 GR	Takashi Nagao   Japan	50.98	Talib Faisal   Iraq	51.24
3000 m steeplechase details	Masanari Shintaku   Japan	8:40.7 GR	Gopal Saini   India	8:44.8	Hitoshi Iwabuchi   Japan	8:46.2
4 × 100 m relay details	Thailand Anat Ratanapol Kanoksak Chaisanont Suchart Jairsuraparp Somsak Boontud	40.32	Japan Akira Harada Yasuhiro Harada Susumu Shimizu Junichi Usui	40.33	China Yuan Guoqiang Zhao Jingyu Fan Xinwen Zou Zhenxian	40.54
4 × 400 m relay details	Japan Eiji Natori Yasuhiro Harada Junichi Usui Takashi Nagao	3:08.3	India Murali Kuttan Harkamaljit Singh Uday Krishna Prabhu Sriram Singh	3:08.4	Iraq Talib Faisal Abbas Laibi Hassan Kadhim Fahim Abdul-Sada	3:09.4
Marathon details	Mineteru Sakamoto   Japan	2:15:29.7 GR	Choe Chang-sop   North Korea	2:15:57.4	Koh Chun-son   North Korea	2:16:10.3
20 km walk details	Hakam Singh   India	1:31:54.4 GR	Subramaniam Vellasamy   Malaysia	1:31:58.8	Khoo Chong Beng   Malaysia	1:33:56.8
High jump details	Takao Sakamoto   Japan	2.20	Kazunori Koshikawa   Japan	2.18	Cui Hongjun   China	2.18
Pole vault details	Tomomi Takahashi   Japan	5.10 GR	Chen Guanghui   China	5.05	Yasuhiro Kigawa   Japan	5.00
Long jump details	Suresh Babu   India	7.85	Junichi Usui   Japan	7.76	Toshihisa Yoshimoto   Japan	7.75
Triple jump details	Masami Nakanishi   Japan	16.56 GR	Zou Zhenxian   China	16.47	Zhou Jianguo   China	16.29
Shot put details	Bahadur Singh Chouhan   India	17.61	Zhao Baoqin   China	17.44	Mohammad Al-Zinkawi   Kuwait	17.40
Discus throw details	Li Weinan   China	56.26	Li Jianguo   China	55.26	Kiyotaka Kawasaki   Japan	53.32
Hammer throw details	Shigenobu Murofushi   Japan	68.26 GR	Yoji Kitano   Japan	63.96	Ji Shaoming   China	63.34
Javelin throw details	Shen Maomao   China	79.24 GR	Toshihiko Takeda   Japan	71.60	Ding Penglin   China	70.70
Decathlon details	Hisashi Iwai   Japan	7003	Prapant Srisathorn   Thailand	6833	Jin Xuewei   China	6743

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Yin Yaping   China	12.20	Yukiko Osako   Japan	12.21	Usanee Laopinkarn   Thailand	12.22
200 m details	Usanee Laopinkarn   Thailand	24.81	Lee Eun-ja   South Korea	24.99	Junko Kushibuchi   Japan	25.05
400 m details	Saik Oik Cum   Malaysia	55.09	Keiko Nagasawa   Japan	55.74	Gao Yanqing   China	56.23
800 m details	Geeta Zutshi   India	2:07.7	Jung Dong-sun   North Korea	2:07.9	Chang Yong-ae   North Korea	2:08.3
1500 m details	Kim Ok-sun   North Korea	4:18.9 GR	Geeta Zutshi   India	4:28.2	Choi Yung-ran   North Korea	4:33.3
3000 m details	Kim Ok-sun   North Korea	9:24.7 GR	Lu Hongxiang   China	9:35.4	Yang Yanying   China	9:36.5
100 m hurdles details	Dai Jianhua   China	13.95	Tamie Motegi   Japan	14.23	Xie Lizhen   China	14.55
400 m hurdles details	Chen Xin   China	1:01.32 GR	Li Sulan   China	1:01.89	Masae Kiguchi   Japan	1:02.09
4 × 100 m relay details	Thailand Usanee Laopinkarn Pusadee Sangvijit Wallapa Pinij Buspranee Ratanapol	46.20 GR	Japan Emiko Konishi Yukiko Osako Junko Kushibuchi Tomoko Maeda	46.78	Philippines Amelita Saberon Lucila Tolentino Lorena Morcilla Lydia Silva-Netto	47.00
4 × 400 m relay details	Japan Keiko Nagasawa Mayumi Kubota Tomoko Maeda Masae Kiguchi	3:46.29	China Gao Yanqing Liang Lihua Guo Guimei Zhang Huifen	3:46.87	North Korea Jang Geun-ok Chang Yong-ae Jung Dong-sun Kim Ok-sun	3:48.78
High jump details	Zheng Dazhen   China	1.88 GR	Tamami Yagi   Japan	1.82	Yang Wenqin   China	1.80
Long jump details	Zou Wa   China	6.28	Angel Mary Joseph   India	6.05	Sumie Awara   Japan	6.05
Shot put details	Shen Lijuan   China	17.70 GR	Lü Cheng   China	16.72	Kayoko Hayashi   Japan	15.59
Discus throw details	Li Xiaohui   China	55.92 GR	Wang Dan   China	51.22	Matsuko Takahashi   Japan	47.22
Javelin throw details	Yao Ruiying   China	57.22 GR	Naomi Shibusawa   Japan	54.98	Li Xia   China	54.08
Pentathlon details	Ye Peisu   China	4133	Angel Mary Joseph   India	3837	Guo Yu   China	3731

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China  (CHN)	12	9	13	34
2	Japan  (JPN)	10	15	10	35
3	India  (IND)	8	7	3	18
4	Thailand  (THA)	4	1	2	7
5	North Korea  (PRK)	2	2	4	8
6	Iraq  (IRQ)	2	1	2	5
7	Malaysia  (MAL)	1	1	1	3
8	Burma  (BIR)	0	1	1	2
	South Korea  (KOR)	0	1	1	2
10	Pakistan  (PAK)	0	1	0	1
11	Kuwait  (KUW)	0	0	1	1
	Philippines  (PHI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		39	39	39	117

References

• Asian Games Results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Women's relay medallists ^{[ usurped ]}. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
• Men's relay medallists ^{[ usurped ]}. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.