Athletics at the 1978 Asian Games

Athletics at the 1978 Asian Games
Venue	National Stadium
Dates	14–19 December
← 1974 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[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Suchart Jairsuraparp  Thailand	10.44	Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran  India	10.60	South Korea	10.66
200 m	Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran  India	21.42	Japan	21.54	Anat Ratanapol  Thailand	21.59
400 m	Abbas Laibi  Iraq	46.71	India	46.79	Murali Kuttan  India	47.18
800 m	Sriram Singh  India	1:48.8	Iraq	1:49.7	Japan	1:49.9
1500 m	Japan	3:47.5	Muhammad Younis  Pakistan	3:48.0	India	3:48.1
5000 m	Hari Chand  India	14:22.0	Japan	14:27.2	China	14:28.1
10,000 m	Hari Chand  India	30:07.7		30:16.9		30:18.4
110 m hurdles	China	14.28	Yoshifumi Fujimori  Japan	14.33	India	14.43
400 m hurdles	Hassan Kadhim  Iraq	50.81 GR	Takashi Nagao  Japan	50.98	Iraq	51.24
3000 m steeplechase	Masanari Shintaku  Japan	8:40.7 GR	Gopal Saini  India	8:44.8	Japan	8:46.2
4 × 100 m relay	Thailand Anat Ratanapol Suchart Jairsuraparp Somsak Boontud	40.32	Japan Junichi Usui	40.33	China Zou Zhenxian	40.54
4 × 400 m relay	Japan Junichi Usui Takashi Nagao	3:08.3	India Murali Kuttan Sriram Singh	3:08.4	Iraq Abbas Laibi Hassan Kadhim Fahim Abdul-Sada	3:09.4
Marathon	Japan	2:15:29.7 GR	Choe Chang-sop	2:15:57.4	Koh Chun-son	2:16:10.3
20 km walk	Hakam Singh  India	1:31:54.4 GR	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	China	2.18
Pole vault	Tomomi Takahashi  Japan	5.10 GR	China	5.05	Japan	5.00
Long jump	Suresh Babu  India	7.85	Junichi Usui  Japan	7.76	Japan	7.75
Triple jump	Japan	16.56 GR	Zou Zhenxian  China	16.47	China	16.29
Shot put	Bahadur Singh Chouhan  India	17.61	China	17.44	Mohammad Al-Zinkawi	17.40
Discus throw	China	56.26	China	55.26	Japan	53.32
Hammer throw	Shigenobu Murofushi  Japan	68.26 GR	Japan	63.96	China	63.34
Javelin throw	Shen Maomao  China	79.24 GR	Japan	71.60	China	70.70
Decathlon	Japan	7003	Thailand	6833	China	6743

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	China	12.20	Japan	12.21	Usanee Laopinkarn  Thailand	12.22
200 m	Usanee Laopinkarn  Thailand	24.81	South Korea	24.99	Japan	25.05
400 m	Malaysia	55.09	Japan	55.74	China	56.23
800 m	Geeta Zutshi  India	2:07.7		2:07.9	Chang Yong-ae	2:08.3
1500 m		4:18.9 GR	Geeta Zutshi  India	4:28.2		4:33.3
3000 m		9:24.7 GR	China	9:35.4	China	9:36.5
100 m hurdles	China	13.95	Japan	14.23	China	14.55
400 m hurdles	China	1:01.32 GR	China	1:01.89	Japan	1:02.09
4 × 100 m relay	Thailand Usanee Laopinkarn	46.20 GR	Japan	46.78	Philippines Amelita Saberon Lucila Tolentino	47.00
4 × 400 m relay	Japan	3:46.29	China	3:46.87	Chang Yong-ae	3:48.78
High jump	Zheng Dazhen  China	1.88 GR	Japan	1.82	Yang Wenqin  China	1.80
Long jump	China	6.28	Angel Mary Joseph  India	6.05	Sumie Awara  Japan	6.05
Shot put	Shen Lijuan  China	17.70 GR	China	16.72	Japan	15.59
Discus throw	Li Xiaohui  China	55.92 GR	China	51.22	Japan	47.22
Javelin throw	China	57.22 GR	Japan	54.98	China	54.08
Pentathlon	China	4133	Angel Mary Joseph  India	3837	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	(PRK)	2	2	4	8
6	Iraq (IRQ)	2	1	2	5
7	Malaysia (MAL)	1	1	1	3
8	(BIR)	0	1	1	2
	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
10	Pakistan (PAK)	0	1	0	1
11	(KUW)	0	0	1	1
	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.