Athletics at the 1978 Asian Games

Athletics ; at the 1978 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	14–19 December

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	Suh 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 Krishna 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 Anat Ratanapol Kanoksak Chaisanont Suchart Jairsuraparp Somsak Boontud	40.32	Japan Akira Harada Yasuhiro Harada Susumu Shimizu Junichi Usui	40.33	China Yuan Guoqiang Zhao Jingyu Fan Xinwen Zou Zhenxian	40.54
4 × 400 m relay	Japan Eiji Natori Yasuhiro Harada Junichi Usui Takashi Nagao	3:08.3	India Murali Kuttan Harkamaljit Singh Uday Krishna 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	Subramaniam Vellasamy 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 Chouhan 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 Usanee Laopinkarn Pusadee Sangvijit Wallapa Pinij Buspranee Ratanapol	46.20 GR	Japan Emiko Konishi Yukiko Osako Junko Kushibuchi Tomoko Maeda	46.78	Philippines Amelita Saberon Lucila Tolentino Lorena Morcilla Lydia Silva-Netto	47.00
4 × 400 m relay	Japan Keiko Nagasawa Mayumi Kubota Tomoko Maeda Masae Kiguchi	3:46.29	China Huang Dongsheng 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
8	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
10	Pakistan (PAK)	0	1	0	1
11	Kuwait (KUW)	0	0	1	1
11	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 nations)		39	39	39	117

References

Asian Games Results. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
Women's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.
Men's relay medallists. Incheon2014. Retrieved on 2014-10-04.

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