Volleyball at the 1978 Asian Games

Volleyball at the 1978 Asian Games
Dates	10–19 December
Nations	16
← 1974 1982 →

Volleyball events were contested at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

Medalists[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	South Korea Chang Yoon-chang Kang Doo-tae Kang Man-soo Kim Ho-chul Lee In Moon Yong-kwan Park Ki-won Yoo Jung-tak	Japan Takashi Maruyama Katsutoshi Nekoda Tetsuo Nishimoto Katsumi Oda Kenji Shimaoka Mikiyasu Tanaka	China
Women	Japan Yumi Egami Juri Yokoyama	China Chen Zhaodi Lang Ping Sun Jinfang Yang Xi Zhang Jieyun Zhang Rongfang Zhou Xiaolan	South Korea Baik Myung-sun Byon Kyung-ja Yoon Young-nae Yu Kyung-hwa

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	1	1	0	2
2	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
3	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
Totals (3 nations)		2	2	2	6

Results[]

Men[]

Preliminary round[]

Pool A[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR
1	Burma	4	4	0	8	12	0	MAX
2	Iraq	4	3	1	7	9	3	3.000
3	Thailand	4	2	2	6	6	9	0.667
4	Pakistan	4	1	3	5	5	11	0.455
5	Hong Kong	4	0	4	4	3	12	0.250

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Dec	Thailand	3–1	Hong Kong
10 Dec	Iraq	3–0	Pakistan
11 Dec	Thailand	0–3	Iraq
11 Dec	Hong Kong	0–3	Burma
12 Dec	Iraq	0–3	Burma
12 Dec	Thailand	3–2	Pakistan
13 Dec	Burma	3–0	Pakistan
13 Dec	Iraq	3–0	Hong Kong
14 Dec	Pakistan	3–2	Hong Kong
14 Dec	Thailand	0–3	Burma

Pool B[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR
1	Japan	4	4	0	8	12	0	MAX
2	Kuwait	4	3	1	7	9	3	3.000
3	Bangladesh	4	2	2	6	6	7	0.857
4	United Arab Emirates	4	1	3	5	—	—	—
5	Nepal	4	0	4	4	—	—	—

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Dec	Nepal	0–3	Kuwait
10 Dec	Japan	3–0	Bangladesh
11 Dec	Japan	3–0	Nepal
11 Dec	Bangladesh	3–1	United Arab Emirates
12 Dec	Japan	3–0	Kuwait
12 Dec	United Arab Emirates	–	Nepal
13 Dec	Kuwait	3–0	United Arab Emirates
13 Dec	Bangladesh	3–0	Nepal
14 Dec	Kuwait	3–0	Bangladesh
14 Dec	Japan	3–0	United Arab Emirates

Pool C[]

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Dec	South Korea	3–0	India
10 Dec	China	3–0
11 Dec	India	3–0	Bahrain
11 Dec	South Korea	1–3	China	12–15	9–15	15–4	8–15		44–49
12 Dec	South Korea	3–0
12 Dec	China	3–0	Bahrain
13 Dec	China	3–0	India
13 Dec		3–0	Bahrain
14 Dec	South Korea	3–0	Bahrain
14 Dec		–	India

Classification 7th–12th[]

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
15 Dec	United Arab Emirates	0–3
16 Dec	Pakistan	3–0	Thailand
16 Dec	India	3–0	United Arab Emirates
17 Dec	Bangladesh	3–0	United Arab Emirates
18 Dec	Pakistan	2–3	United Arab Emirates
19 Dec	Pakistan	3–0	Thailand
19 Dec	India	3–0

Final round[]

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
15 Dec	China	0–3	South Korea	14–16	8–15	7–15			29–46
15 Dec	Burma	3–1	Iraq
15 Dec	Japan	3–0	Kuwait
16 Dec	China	3–0	Kuwait
16 Dec	Japan	3–1	Iraq
16 Dec	Burma	0–3	South Korea
17 Dec	Burma	0–3	Japan
17 Dec	China	3–0	Iraq
17 Dec	Kuwait	0–3	South Korea
18 Dec	Iraq	0–3	Kuwait
18 Dec	Burma	0–3	China
18 Dec	Japan	3–1	South Korea
19 Dec	Iraq	0–3	South Korea
19 Dec	Burma	3–0	Kuwait
19 Dec	Japan	–	China

Women[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR
1	Japan	5	5	0	10	15	1	15.000
2	China	5	4	1	9	12	4	3.000
3	South Korea	5	3	2	8	10	6	1.667
4	North Korea	5	2	3	7	7	9	0.778
5	Thailand	5	1	4	6	3	13	0.231
6	Hong Kong	5	0	5	5	1	15	0.067

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Dec	China	3–1	North Korea
10 Dec	Thailand	0–3	Japan
10 Dec	South Korea	3–0	Hong Kong
12 Dec	China	3–0	Hong Kong
12 Dec	Thailand	0–3	North Korea
12 Dec	Japan	3–1	South Korea
14 Dec	Japan	3–0	China
14 Dec	North Korea	3–0	Hong Kong
14 Dec	Thailand	0–3	South Korea
16 Dec	Thailand	0–3	China
16 Dec	Japan	3–0	Hong Kong
16 Dec	South Korea	3–0	North Korea	15–6	15–10	15–4			45–20
18 Dec	Thailand	3–1	Hong Kong
18 Dec	Japan	3–0	North Korea
18 Dec	China	3–0	South Korea	15–4	15–9	15–6			45–19

References[]

• Men's Results
• Women's Results