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 Al-Aibi Iraq	46.71	Uday Krishna Pradhu India	46.79	Murali Kuttan India	47.18
800 metres	Sriram Singh India	1:48.8a	Falah Naji Jarallah 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	Hussein Kadhum Iraq	50.81	Takashi Nagao Japan	50.98	Talib Faisal Al-Saffar 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 Al Saffar Abbas Al Aibi Kasim Hassan Sada Fahim	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 Jang Yung-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.