| Gymnastics at the 1986 Asian Games | |
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| Venue | Olympic Gymnastics Arena |
| Dates | 21–24 September 1986 |
Gymnastics was contested at the 1986 Asian Games, held in Seoul, South Korea from September 21, 1986, to September 24, 1986. Only artistic events were contested.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team |  China Guo Linsheng Li Ning Lou Yun Wang Chongsheng Xu Zhiqiang Yang Yueshan |  South Korea Han Chung-sik Joo Young-sam Kwon Soon-seong Lee Jeong-sik Park Jong-hoon Yoon Chang-seon |  Japan Yukihiro Hayase Hiroyuki Konishi Koichi Mizushima Hiroaki Okabe Koji Sotomura Kyoji Yamawaki |
| Individual all-around | Li Ning  China | Yang Yueshan China | Lou Yun China |
| Floor | Li Ning China | Yang Yueshan China | Park Jong-hoon  South Korea |
| Pommel horse | Yang Yueshan China | Li Ning China | Joo Young-sam South Korea |
| Rings | Li Ning China | Kwon Soon-seong South Korea | Lou Yun China |
| Vault | Lou Yun China | Kyoji Yamawaki Japan | Park Jong-hoon South Korea |
| Parallel bars | Kwon Soon-seong South Korea | Park Jong-hoon South Korea | Koichi Mizushima Japan |
| Lou Yun China | |||
| Horizontal bar | Yang Yueshan China | Li Ning China | Yukihiro Hayase Japan |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team | China Chen Cuiting Huang Qun Ma Ying Qin Qizhi Wang Huiying Yu Feng | South Korea Han Kyung-im Jeon Hea-ryung Seo Seon-ang Seo Yeon-hee Shim Jae-young Suk Soo-kwang | Japan Asako Inoue Noriko Mochizuki Maiko Morio Tomoko Okabe Sawako Wada Yoko Yamanaka |
| Individual all-around | Chen Cuiting China | Huang Qun China | Yu Feng China |
| Vault | Ma Ying China | Chen Cuiting China | Suk Soo-kwang South Korea |
| Uneven bars | Huang Qun China | Shared gold | Yu Feng China |
| Seo Yeon-hee South Korea | |||
| Balance beam | Seo Seon-ang South Korea | Huang Qun China | Han Kyung-im South Korea |
| Floor | Chen Cuiting China | Yu Feng China | Shim Jae-young South Korea |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China (CHN) | 12 | 8 | 5 | 25 |
| 2 | South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 |
| 3 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Totals (3 entries) | 15 | 13 | 15 | 43 | |
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