Boxing at the 1978 Asian Games

Boxing at the 1978 Asian Games
Venue
Dates	10–18 December
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The Boxing Tournament at the 1978 Asian Games was held in Bangkok Recreation Center, Bangkok, Thailand from 10 to 18 December 1978.

South Korea finished first in medal table, winning five gold medals.

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight (48 kg)	Thailand	Ri Byong-uk	Japan
			Pakistan
Flyweight (51 kg)	Japan	Indonesia
			Muhammad Sadiq  Pakistan
Bantamweight (54 kg)	Hwang Chul-soon  South Korea
			Thailand
Featherweight (57 kg)	Ku Yong-jo	Pakistan	South Korea
			Ravsalyn Otgonbayar  Mongolia
Lightweight (60 kg)	Choi Chung-il  South Korea	Ruben Mares  Philippines	Yukio Odagiri  Japan
Light welterweight (63.5 kg)	South Korea	Vichit Praianan  Thailand	Khastyn Jamgan  Mongolia
			C. C. Machaiah  India
Welterweight (67 kg)	South Korea	Thailand	Malaysia
			Iraq
Light middleweight (71 kg)	South Korea	Rabieb Sangnual  Thailand	India
			Pakistan
Middleweight (75 kg)	Wiem Gommies  Indonesia	Jang Bong-mun	Mongolia
			South Korea
Light heavyweight (81 kg)	Iqbal Muhammad  Pakistan	Kim Nam-hee  South Korea	Thailand
			Indonesia
Heavyweight (+81 kg)	Imtiaz Mahmood  Pakistan	India	Indonesia
			South Korea

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	5	1	3	9
2	Pakistan (PAK)	2	1	3	6
3	Thailand (THA)	1	3	2	6
4	(PRK)	1	2	0	3
5	Indonesia (INA)	1	1	2	4
6	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
7	India (IND)	0	1	2	3
8	(BIR)	0	1	1	2
9	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	0	1
10	Mongolia (MGL)	0	0	3	3
11	(SRI)	0	0	2	2
12	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia (MAL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		11	11	22	44

References[]

• Amateur Boxing

External links[]

• OCA official website