Athletics at the 1978 Asian Games

The 1978 Asian Games were held in Bangkok, Thailand. The event was not sanctioned by the International Amateur Athletics Federation due to the organizers' refusal to invite Israel.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Suchart Chairsuvaparb  Thailand	10.44	R. Gnanasekharan  India	10.60	Suh Mel-Guh  South Korea	10.66
200 metres	R. Gnanasekharan  India	21.42	Yasuhiro Harada  Japan	21.54	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	21.59
400 metres	Abbas Laibi  Iraq	46.71	Uday Krishna Pradhu  India	46.79	Murali Kuttan  India	47.18
800 metres	Sriram Singh  India	1:48.8a	Falah Naji  Iraq	1:49.7a	Takashi Ishii  Japan	1:49.9a
1500 metres	Takashi Ishii  Japan	3:47.5a	Muhammad Younis  Pakistan	3:48.0a	Rattan Singh  India	3:48.1a
5000 metres	Hari Chand  India	14:22.0a	Takao Nakamura  Japan	14:27.2a	Cui Yulin  China	14:28.1a
10,000 metres	Hari Chand  India	30:07.7a	Robert  Burma	30:16.9a	Ko Ko  Burma	30:18.4a
3000 metres steeplechase	Masanari Shintaku  Japan	8:40.7a	Gopal Saini  India	8:44.8a	Hitoshi Iwabuchi  Japan	8:46.2a
110 metres hurdles	Wang Xunhua  China	14.28	Yoshifumi Fujimori  Japan	14.33	Satbir Singh  India	14.43
400 metres hurdles	Hassan Kadhim  Iraq	50.81	Takashi Nagao  Japan	50.98	Talib Faisal  Iraq	51.24
4×100 metres relay	Thailand Anat Ratanapol Kanoksukd Jatasanont Suchart Chairsuvaparb Somsakdi Boontud	40.32	Japan Akira Harada Yasuhiro Harada Susumu Shimizu Junichi Usui	40.33	China Yuan Kuochiang Chao Chingyu Fan Hsinwen Zhou Zhenxian	40.54
4×400 metres relay	Japan Eiji Natori Yasuhiro Harada Junichi Usui Takashi Nagao	3:08.3a	India Murli Kuttan Harkamaljit Singh Uday Krishna Pradhu Sri Ram Singh	3:08.4a	Iraq Talib Faisal Abbas Laibi Hassan Kadhim Fahim Abdul-Sada	3:09.4a
Marathon	Mineteru Sakamoto  Japan	2:15:30	Chang Sop-Choe  North Korea	2:15:58	Go Chun-Son  North Korea	2:16:11
20 kilometres road walk	Hakam Singh  India	1:31:55	Vellasamy Subramaniam  Malaysia	1:31:59	Khoo Chong Beng  Malaysia	1:33:57
High jump	Takao Sakamoto  Japan	2.20	Kazunori Koshikawa  Japan	2.18	Zui Hongchun  China	2.18
Pole vault	Tomomi Takahashi  Japan	5.10	Chen Kuanghui  China	5.05	Yosuhiro 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	Zhou Zhenxian  China	16.47	Zhou Xianguo  China	16.29
Shot put	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	17.61	Zhao Baoqin  China	17.44	Mohammed Al-Zinkawi  Kuwait	17.40
Discus throw	Li Weinan  China	56.26	Li Zheng  China	55.26	Kiyotaka Kawasaki  Japan	53.32
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi  Japan	68.26	Youji Kitano  Japan	63.96	Ji Shaoming  China	63.34
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao  China	79.24	Toshihiko Takeda  Japan	71.60	Ting Penlin  China	70.70
Decathlon	Hisashi Iwai  Japan	7003	Prapant Srisathorn  Thailand	6833	Chin Zuewei  China	6743

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Ying Yaping  China	12.20	Yukiko Osako  Japan	12.21	Usanee Laopinkarn  Thailand	12.22
200 metres	Usanee Laopinkarn  Thailand	24.81	Lee Eun-Ja  South Korea	24.99	Junko Kushibuchi  Japan	25.05
400 metres	Saik Oik Cum  Malaysia	55.09	Keiko Nagasawa  Japan	55.74	Kao Yenching  China	56.23
800 metres	Geeta Zutshi  India	2:07.7a	Jung Dong-Sun  North Korea	2:07.9a	Chang Yong-ae  North Korea	2:08.3a
1500 metres	Kim Ok-Sun  North Korea	4:18.9a	Geeta Zutshi  India	4:28.2a	Choi Yung-Ran  North Korea	4:32.7a
3000 metres	Kim Ok-Sun  North Korea	9:24.7a	Lü Hongxiang  China	9:35.4a	Yang Yenying  China	9:36.5a
100 metres hurdles	Dai Jianhua  China	13.95	Tamie Motegi  Japan	14.23	Xie Lixen  China	14.55
400 metres hurdles	Zhan Xin  China	61.32	Li Sulan  China	61.89	Masae Kiguchi  Japan	62.09
4×100 metres relay	Thailand Usanee Loupinkarn Pusadee Sandvijit Wallapa Pinji B Ratanapol	46.2	Japan Emiko Konishi Yukiko Osako Junko Kushibuchi Tomoko Maeda	46.78	Philippines Amerlita Saberon Lucila Tolentino Lorena Morcilla Lydia Silvanetto	47.72
4×400 metres relay	Japan Keiko Nagasawa Mayumi Kubota Tomoko Maeda Masae Kiguchi	3:46.29	China Huang Tungsheng Liang Lihua Kuo Kueimei Chang Huifen	3:46.87	North Korea Jang Geun-Ok Chang Yong-ae Jung Dong-Sun Kim Ok-Sun	3:48.78 NR
High jump	Zheng Dazhen  China	1.88	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	Lu Cheng  China	16.72	Kayoko Hayashi  Japan	15.59
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui  China	55.92	Wang Tan  China	51.22	Matsuko Takahashi  Japan	47.22
Javelin throw	Yao Juiying  China	57.22	Naomi Shibusawa  Japan	54.98	Li Xia  China	54.08
Pentathlon	Ye Peisu  China	4133	Angel Mary Joseph  India	3837	Guo Yu  China	3829

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	12	9	13	34
2	Japan	10	15	10	35
3	India	8	7	3	18
4	Thailand	4	1	2	7
5	North Korea	2	2	4	8
6	Iraq	2	1	2	5
7	Malaysia	1	1	1	3
8	Burma	0	1	1	2
8	South Korea	0	1	1	2
10	Pakistan	0	1	0	1
11	Philippines	0	0	1	1
	Kuwait	0	0	1	1

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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