Badminton at the 1978 Asian Games

Badminton at the 1978 Asian Games
Dates	9–20 December
Nations	11
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Badminton tournaments were held for the fifth time at the 8th Asian Games in 1978 from 9 December to 20 December in Bangkok, Thailand.

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Liem Swie King  Indonesia	Han Jian  China	Iie Sumirat  Indonesia
			Luan Jin  China
Men's doubles	Indonesia Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata	China	China
Men's team	Indonesia Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata Rudy Heryanto Hariamanto Kartono Liem Swie King Iie Sumirat	China Han Jian Luan Jin	Thailand Bandid Jaiyen
			Pakistan
Women's singles	Liang Qiuxia  China	Liu Xia  China	Thailand
			Saori Kondo  Japan
Women's doubles	Indonesia Verawaty Wiharjo Imelda Wiguno	China	Indonesia Theresia Widiastuti
			Thailand
Women's team	China Liang Qiuxia Liu Xia Zhang Ailing	Indonesia Ivana Lie Tjan So Gwan Theresia Widiastuti Imelda Wiguno Verawaty Wiharjo	Japan Saori Kondo Atsuko Tokuda Emiko Ueno Yoshiko Yonekura Hiroe Yuki
			Thailand
Mixed doubles	China Zhang Ailing	Indonesia Hariamanto Kartono Theresia Widiastuti	Indonesia Christian Hadinata Imelda Wiguno
			China

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Indonesia (INA)	4	2	3	9
2	China (CHN)	3	5	3	11
3	Thailand (THA)	0	0	4	4
4	Japan (JPN)	0	0	2	2
5	(HKG)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		7	7	14	28

Participating nations[]

Semifinal results[]

Discipline	Winner	Runner-up	Score
Men's singles	Han Jian	Iie Sumirat	15–6, 15–1
	Liem Swie King	Luan Jin	15–5, 18–13
Women's singles	Liang Qiuxia		12–11, 11–5
	Liu Xia	Saori Kondo	11–5, 11–4
Men's doubles			15–3, 15–5
	Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata		17–14, 15–7
Women's doubles		Theresia Widiastuti	15–5, 15–12
	Imelda Wiguno Verawaty Wiharjo		15–7, 15–6
Mixed doubles	Hariamanto Kartono Theresia Widiastuti		15–8, 15–11
	Zhang Ailing	Christian Hadinata Imelda Wiguno	12–15, 15–7, 15–5

Final results[]

Discipline	Winner	Finalist	Score
Men's singles	Liem Swie King	Han Jian	15–7, 15–11
Women's singles	Liang Qiuxia	Liu Xia	11–6, 11–5
Men's doubles	Ade Chandra Christian Hadinata		15–8, 15–10
Women's doubles	Imelda Wiguno Verawaty Wiharjo		–, –
Mixed doubles	Zhang Ailing	Hariamanto Kartono Theresia Widiastuti	–, –

References[]

• Team results

External links[]

• Badminton Asia