Wrestling at the 1978 Asian Games

Wrestling at the 1978 Asian Games
Dates	11–14 December 1978
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Wrestling was one of the sports which was held at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand between 11 and 14 December 1978. The competition included only men's freestyle events.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Takashi Irie  Japan	Jang Se-hong  North Korea	Kim Hwa-kyung  South Korea
52 kg	Yuji Takada  Japan	Kim Jong-kyu  South Korea	Dorjzovdyn Ganbat  Mongolia
57 kg	Hideaki Tomiyama  Japan	Muhammad Azeem  Pakistan	Kim Eui-kon  South Korea
62 kg	Yang Jung-mo  South Korea	Norio Yamazaki  Japan	Abdul Waheed  Pakistan
68 kg	Zevegiin Oidov  Mongolia	Akira Miyahara  Japan	Go Jin-won  South Korea
74 kg	Rajinder Singh  India	Katsuya Kawada  Japan	Jamtsyn Davaajav  Mongolia
82 kg	Masaru Motegi  Japan	Aduuchiin Baatarkhüü  Mongolia	Abdul-Rahman Breesam  Iraq
90 kg	Kartar Singh  India	Chimidiin Gochoosüren  Mongolia	Gao Jing  China
100 kg	Hiroshi Yamamoto  Japan	Jamtsyn Bor  Mongolia	Muhammad Salahuddin  Pakistan
+100 kg	Yoshiaki Yatsu  Japan	Satpal Singh  India	Javed Iqbal  Pakistan

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	6	3	0	9
2	India (IND)	2	1	0	3
3	Mongolia (MGL)	1	3	2	6
4	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	3	5
5	Pakistan (PAK)	0	1	3	4
6	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
7	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		10	10	10	30

• Freestyle result

• UWW Database