Weightlifting at the 1978 Asian Games

Weightlifting at the 1978 Asian Games
Dates	10–16 December 1978
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Weightlifting was contested at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand. The competition included only men's events for ten different weight categories.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Han Gyong-si   North Korea	Im Jung-gwan   North Korea	Cai Juncheng   China
56 kg	Yang Eui-yong   North Korea	Lee Myung-su   South Korea	Muhammad Manzoor   Pakistan
60 kg	Song Sung-rim   North Korea	Tan Hanyong   China	Takashi Saito   Japan
67.5 kg	Kazumasa Hirai   Japan	Zhao Xinmin   China	Ri Gwang-ju   North Korea
75 kg	Mohamed Tarabulsi   Lebanon	Tamotsu Sunami   Japan	An Won-geun   North Korea
82.5 kg	Kaoru Sato   Japan	Ryu Dong-il   North Korea	Talal Hassoun   Iraq
90 kg	Ahn Ji-young   South Korea	Hafidh Shihab   Iraq	Sann Myint   Burma
100 kg	Mitsumasa Sato   Japan	Raef Ftouni   Lebanon	Han Jin-suk   North Korea
110 kg	Talal Najjar   Syria	Song Zhenzhu   China	Tsuneji Shibasaki   Japan
+110 kg	Yang Huaiqing   China	Tariq Al-Adeeb   Iraq	Mahmoud Mansour   Iraq

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	North Korea  (PRK)	3	2	3	8
2	Japan  (JPN)	3	1	2	6
3	China  (CHN)	1	3	1	5
4	Lebanon  (LIB)	1	1	0	2
	South Korea  (KOR)	1	1	0	2
6	Syria  (SYR)	1	0	0	1
7	Iraq  (IRQ)	0	2	2	4
8	Burma  (BIR)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan  (PAK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		10	10	10	30

References

• Results 10 December
• Results 11 December
• Results 13 December
• Results 17 December

External links

• Results