| Bridge at the 2018 Asian Games | |
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| Venue | Jakarta International Expo |
| Dates | 21 August – 1 September 2018 |
| Competitors | 213 from 14 nations |
Contract bridge at the 2018 Asian Games was held at the Jakarta International Expo, Jakarta, Indonesia from 21 August to 1 September 2018. [1]
China finished first in the medal table by winning 3 gold medals.
| Q | Qualification | S | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 21st Tue | 22nd Wed | 23rd Thu | 24th Fri | 25th Sat | 26th Sun | 27th Mon | 28th Tue | 29th Wed | 30th Thu | 31st Fri | 1st Sat | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's pair | Q | Q | S | S | F | F | |||||||
| Men's team | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | S | F | ||||||
| Women's pair | Q | Q | S | S | F | F | |||||||
| Mixed pair | Q | Q | S | S | F | F | |||||||
| Mixed team | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | S | F | ||||||
| Supermixed team | Q | Q | Q | Q | Q | S | F | ||||||
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's pair |  India Pranab Bardhan Shibhnath Sarkar |  China Yang Lixin Chen Gang |  Indonesia Henky Lasut Freddy Eddy Manoppo |
 Hong Kong Mak Kwok Fai Lai Wai Kit | |||
| Men's team |  Singapore Fong Kien Hoong Loo Choon Chou Desmond Oh Kelvin Ong Poon Hua Zhang Yukun | Hong Kong Lai Wai Kit Lau Pik Kin Mak Kwok Fai Ng Chi Cheung Wan Siu Kau Zen Wei Peu | India Ajay Khare Debabrata Majumder Sumit Mukherjee Jaggy Shivdasani Rajeshwar Tiwari Raju Tolani |
| China Chen Gang Ju Chuancheng Shi Haojun Shi Zhengjun Yang Lixin Zhuang Zejun | |||
| Women's pair | China Ran Jingrong Wu Shaohong |  Chinese Taipei Wu Yu-fang Tsai Wen-chuan | Hong Kong Yeung Hoi Ning Pearlie Chan |
| China Huang Yan Wang Nan | |||
| Mixed pair | Chinese Taipei Yang Hsin-lung Lu Yi-zu | Chinese Taipei Fan Kang-wei Tsai Po-ya | Indonesia Taufik Gautama Asbi Lusje Olha Bojoh |
 Thailand Terasak Jitngamkusol Taristchollatorn Chodchoy | |||
| Mixed team | China Li Liang Xun Yonghong Zhang Yizhuo Hu Wen Yang Jinghui Zhu Aiping | Thailand Somchai Baisamut Terasak Jitngamkusol Kridsadayut Plengsap Taristchollatorn Chodchoy Kanokporn Janebunjong Chodchoy Sophonpanich | India Rajeev Khandelwal Gopinath Manna Bachiraju Satyanarayana Hema Deora Himani Khandelwal Kiran Nadar |
| Indonesia Taufik Gautama Asbi Bill Mondigir Robert Parasian Lusje Olha Bojoh Elvita Lasut Julita Grace Joice Tueje | |||
| Supermixed team | China Fu Zhong Hou Xu Li Jie Liu Jing Shen Qi Wang Wenfei | Hong Kong Ho Hoi Tung Ho Wai Lam Pearlie Chan Charmian Koo Flora Wong Yeung Hoi Ning | Chinese Taipei Liu Ming-chien Wang Shao-yu Chen Yin-shou Lin Yin-yu Liu Pei-hua So Ho-yee |
| Indonesia Jemmy Boyke Bojoh Michael Bambang Hartono Franky Steven Karwur Bert Toar Polii Rury Andhani Conny Eufke Sumampouw |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China (CHN) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 3 | India (IND) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | Singapore (SGP) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 6 | 6 | 12 | 24 | |
A total of 213 athletes from 14 nations competed in bridge at the 2018 Asian Games:
Bangladesh (5) China (24) Chinese Taipei (18) Hong Kong (16) India (24) Indonesia (22)
Japan (12)
Jordan (10)
Malaysia (10)
Pakistan (11)
Philippines (12)
Saudi Arabia (4) Singapore (24) Thailand (21)
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