| Gymnastics at the 1998 Asian Games | |
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| Venue | Land Sports Complex |
| Dates | 8–13 December 1998 |
Gymnastics was contested at the 1998 Asian Games in IMPACT Hall, Bangkok, Thailand.
| Gymnastics at the 1998 Asian Games | |
|---|---|
| | |
| Venue | Land Sports Complex |
| Dates | 8–13 December 1998 |
Gymnastics was contested at the 1998 Asian Games in IMPACT Hall, Bangkok, Thailand.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team |  China Huang Xu Li Xiaopeng Xing Aowei Yang Wei Zhang Jinjing Zhao Sheng |  South Korea Cho Seong-min Kim Dong-hwa Lee Jang-hyung Lee Joo-hyung Yeo Hong-chul You Won-kil |  Japan Mutsumi Harada Akihiro Kasamatsu Yasuhiro Ogawa Yoshihiro Saito Naoya Tsukahara Isao Yoneda |
| Individual all-around | Huang Xu  China | Yang Wei China | Naoya Tsukahara Japan |
| Floor | Yang Wei China | Kim Dong-hwa  South Korea | Li Xiaopeng China |
| Pommel horse | Xing Aowei China | Shared gold | Huang Xu China |
Pae Gil-su  North Korea | Chiang Chien-tung  Chinese Taipei | ||
| Rings | Amornthep Waewsang  Thailand | Huang Xu China | Chen Kuang-hui Chinese Taipei |
| Yoshihiro Saito Japan | |||
| Vault | Yeo Hong-chul South Korea | Li Xiaopeng China | Naoya Tsukahara Japan |
| Parallel bars | Li Xiaopeng China | Zhang Jinjing China | Shared silver |
Alexey Dmitriyenko  Kazakhstan | |||
| Kim Chang-gyu North Korea | |||
| Jong U-chol North Korea | |||
| Horizontal bar | Zhang Jinjing China | Yoshihiro Saito Japan | Xing Aowei China |
| Lee Joo-hyung South Korea |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team | China Dong Weihua Pu Yunfei Wang Weixiao Zhou Xiaojing | Japan Mikako Iwamoto Rieko Matsunaga Yukari Murata | South Korea Cho Eun-jung Choi Ye-lim Kim Eun-hae Kim Min-jung |
| Individual all-around | Zhou Xiaojing China | Yun Myong-ran North Korea | Wang Weixiao China |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China (CHN) | 14 | 6 | 5 | 25 |
| 2 |  North Korea (PRK) | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 |  Thailand (THA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 6 |  Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 7 |  Uzbekistan (UZB) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 |  Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (8 entries) | 17 | 18 | 20 | 55 | |
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