Athletics at the 1978 Asian Games

Athletics at the 1978 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	14–19 December 1978
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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	Suchart Jairsuraparp   Thailand	10.44	Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran   India	10.60	Seo Mal-gu   South Korea	10.66
200 m	Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran   India	21.42	Yasuhiro Harada   Japan	21.54	Anat Ratanapol   Thailand	21.59
400 m	Abbas Laibi   Iraq	46.71	Uday K. Prabhu   India	46.79	Murali Kuttan   India	47.18
800 m	Sriram Singh   India	1:48.8	Falah Naji   Iraq	1:49.7	Takashi Ishii   Japan	1:49.9
1500 m	Takashi Ishii   Japan	3:47.5	Muhammad Younis   Pakistan	3:48.0	Ratan Singh Bhadauria   India	3:48.1
5000 m	Hari Chand   India	14:22.0	Takao Nakamura   Japan	14:27.2	Cui Yulin   China	14:28.1
10,000 m	Hari Chand   India	30:07.7	Robert   Burma	30:16.9	Ko Ko   Burma	30:18.4
110 m hurdles	Wang Xunhua   China	14.28	Yoshifumi Fujimori   Japan	14.33	Satbir Singh   India	14.43
400 m hurdles	Hassan Kadhim   Iraq	50.81 GR	Takashi Nagao   Japan	50.98	Talib Faisal   Iraq	51.24
3000 m steeplechase	Masanari Shintaku   Japan	8:40.7 GR	Gopal Saini   India	8:44.8	Hitoshi Iwabuchi   Japan	8:46.2
4 × 100 m relay	Thailand Somsak Boontud Suchart Jairsuraparp Kanoksak Chaisanont Anat Ratanapol	40.32	Japan Yasuhiro Harada Junichi Usui Susumu Shimizu Akira Harada	40.33	China Yuan Guoqiang Fan Xinwen Zhao Jingyu Zou Zhenxian	40.54
4 × 400 m relay	Japan Eiji Natori Junichi Usui Yasuhiro Harada Takashi Nagao	3:08.3	India Murali Kuttan Harkamaljit Singh Uday K. Prabhu Sriram Singh	3:08.4	Iraq Talib Faisal Abbas Laibi Hassan Kadhim Fahim Abdul-Sada	3:09.4
Marathon	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	Hakam Singh   India	1:31:54.4 GR	Vellasamy Subramaniam   Malaysia	1:31:58.8	Khoo Chong Beng   Malaysia	1:33:56.8
High jump	Takao Sakamoto   Japan	2.20	Kazunori Koshikawa   Japan	2.18	Cui Hongjun   China	2.18
Pole vault	Tomomi Takahashi   Japan	5.10 GR	Chen Guanghui   China	5.05	Yasuhiro Kigawa   Japan	5.00
Long jump	Suresh Babu   India	7.85	Junichi Usui   Japan	7.76	Toshihisa Yoshimoto   Japan	7.75
Triple jump	Masami Nakanishi   Japan	16.56 GR	Zou Zhenxian   China	16.47	Zhou Jianguo   China	16.29
Shot put	Bahadur Singh Chauhan   India	17.61	Zhao Baoqin   China	17.44	Mohammad Al-Zinkawi   Kuwait	17.40
Discus throw	Li Weinan   China	56.26	Li Jianguo   China	55.26	Kiyotaka Kawasaki   Japan	53.32
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi   Japan	68.26 GR	Yoji Kitano   Japan	63.96	Ji Shaoming   China	63.34
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao   China	79.24 GR	Toshihiko Takeda   Japan	71.60	Ding Penglin   China	70.70
Decathlon	Hisashi Iwai   Japan	7003	Prapant Srisathorn   Thailand	6833	Jin Xuewei   China	6743

Women

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

External links

• Results (ATFS)