Athletics at the 1978 Asian Games

Athletics
at the 1978 Asian Games

Venue| National Stadium
Dates| 14–19 December

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1982 →

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

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### Men

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details | Suchart Jairsuraparp
Thailand | 10.44  | Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran
India | 10.60  | Suh Mal-gu
South Korea | 10.66
200 m
details | Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran
India | 21.42  | Yasuhiro Harada
Japan | 21.54  | Anat Ratanapol
Thailand | 21.59
400 m
details | Abbas Laibi
Iraq | 46.71  | Uday Krishna Prabhu
India | 46.79  | Murali Kuttan
India | 47.18
800 m
details | Sriram Singh
India | 1:48.8  | Falah Naji
Iraq | 1:49.7  | Takashi Ishii
Japan | 1:49.9
1500 m
details | Takashi Ishii
Japan | 3:47.5  | Muhammad Younis
Pakistan | 3:48.0  | Ratan Singh Bhadauria
India | 3:48.1
5000 m
details | Hari Chand
India | 14:22.0  | Takao Nakamura
Japan | 14:27.2  | Cui Yulin
China | 14:28.1
10,000 m
details | Hari Chand
India | 30:07.7  | Robert
Burma | 30:16.9  | Ko Ko
Burma | 30:18.4
110 m hurdles
details | Wang Xunhua
China | 14.28  | Yoshifumi Fujimori
Japan | 14.33  | Satbir Singh
India | 14.43
400 m hurdles
details | Hassan Kadhim
Iraq | 50.81
GR | Takashi Nagao
Japan | 50.98  | Talib Faisal
Iraq | 51.24
3000 m steeplechase
details | Masanari Shintaku
Japan | 8:40.7
GR | Gopal Saini
India | 8:44.8  | Hitoshi Iwabuchi
Japan | 8:46.2
4 × 100 m relay
details |  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
details |  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
details | 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
details | 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
details | Takao Sakamoto
Japan | 2.20  | Kazunori Koshikawa
Japan | 2.18  | Cui Hongjun
China | 2.18
Pole vault
details | Tomomi Takahashi
Japan | 5.10
GR | Chen Guanghui
China | 5.05  | Yasuhiro Kigawa
Japan | 5.00
Long jump
details | Suresh Babu
India | 7.85  | Junichi Usui
Japan | 7.76  | Toshihisa Yoshimoto
Japan | 7.75
Triple jump
details | Masami Nakanishi
Japan | 16.56
GR | Zou Zhenxian
China | 16.47  | Zhou Jianguo
China | 16.29
Shot put
details | Bahadur Singh Chouhan
India | 17.61  | Zhao Baoqin
China | 17.44  | Mohammad Al-Zinkawi
Kuwait | 17.40
Discus throw
details | Li Weinan
China | 56.26  | Li Jianguo
China | 55.26  | Kiyotaka Kawasaki
Japan | 53.32
Hammer throw
details | Shigenobu Murofushi
Japan | 68.26
GR | Yoji Kitano
Japan | 63.96  | Ji Shaoming
China | 63.34
Javelin throw
details | Shen Maomao
China | 79.24
GR | Toshihiko Takeda
Japan | 71.60  | Ding Penglin
China | 70.70
Decathlon
details | Hisashi Iwai
Japan | 7003  | Prapant Srisathorn
Thailand | 6833  | Jin Xuewei
China | 6743

### Women

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details | Yin Yaping
China | 12.20  | Yukiko Osako
Japan | 12.21  | Usanee Laopinkarn
Thailand | 12.22
200 m
details | Usanee Laopinkarn
Thailand | 24.81  | Lee Eun-ja
South Korea | 24.99  | Junko Kushibuchi
Japan | 25.05
400 m
details | Saik Oik Cum
Malaysia | 55.09  | Keiko Nagasawa
Japan | 55.74  | Gao Yanqing
China | 56.23
800 m
details | Geeta Zutshi
India | 2:07.7  | Jung Dong-sun
North Korea | 2:07.9  | Chang Yong-ae
North Korea | 2:08.3
1500 m
details | 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
details | Kim Ok-sun
North Korea | 9:24.7
GR | Lu Hongxiang
China | 9:35.4  | Yang Yanying
China | 9:36.5
100 m hurdles
details | Dai Jianhua
China | 13.95  | Tamie Motegi
Japan | 14.23  | Xie Lizhen
China | 14.55
400 m hurdles
details | Chen Xin
China | 1:01.32
GR | Li Sulan
China | 1:01.89  | Masae Kiguchi
Japan | 1:02.09
4 × 100 m relay
details |  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
details |  Japan
Keiko Nagasawa
Mayumi Kubota
Tomoko Maeda
Masae Kiguchi | 3:46.29  |  China
Gao Yanqing
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
details | Zheng Dazhen
China | 1.88
GR | Tamami Yagi
Japan | 1.82  | Yang Wenqin
China | 1.80
Long jump
details | Zou Wa
China | 6.28  | Angel Mary Joseph
India | 6.05  | Sumie Awara
Japan | 6.05
Shot put
details | Shen Lijuan
China | 17.70
GR | Lü Cheng
China | 16.72  | Kayoko Hayashi
Japan | 15.59
Discus throw
details | Li Xiaohui
China | 55.92
GR | Wang Dan
China | 51.22  | Matsuko Takahashi
Japan | 47.22
Javelin throw
details | Yao Ruiying
China | 57.22
GR | Naomi Shibusawa
Japan | 54.98  | Li Xia
China | 54.08
Pentathlon
details | Ye Peisu
China | 4133  | Angel Mary Joseph
India | 3837  | Guo Yu
China | 3731

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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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
South Korea (KOR)| 0| 1| 1| 2
10|  Pakistan (PAK)| 0| 1| 0| 1
11|  Kuwait (KUW)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Philippines (PHI)| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (12 entries)| 39| 39| 39| 117

## References

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

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