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.

Athletics
at the 1978 Asian Games
VenueNational Stadium
Dates14–19 December
← 1974
1982 →

Medalists

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Suchart Jairsuraparp
  Thailand
10.44 Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran
  India
10.60 Suh Mal-gu
  South Korea
10.66
200 m
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Ramaswamy Gnanasekaran
  India
21.42 Yasuhiro Harada
  Japan
21.54 Anat Ratanapol
  Thailand
21.59
400 m
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Abbas Laibi
  Iraq
46.71 Uday Krishna Prabhu
  India
46.79 Murali Kuttan
  India
47.18
800 m
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Sriram Singh
  India
1:48.8 Falah Naji
  Iraq
1:49.7 Takashi Ishii
  Japan
1:49.9
1500 m
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Takashi Ishii
  Japan
3:47.5 Muhammad Younis
  Pakistan
3:48.0 Ratan Singh Bhadauria
  India
3:48.1
5000 m
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Hari Chand
  India
14:22.0 Takao Nakamura
  Japan
14:27.2 Cui Yulin
  China
14:28.1
10,000 m
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Hari Chand
  India
30:07.7 Robert
  Burma
30:16.9 Ko Ko
  Burma
30:18.4
110 m hurdles
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Wang Xunhua
  China
14.28 Yoshifumi Fujimori
  Japan
14.33 Satbir Singh
  India
14.43
400 m hurdles
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Hassan Kadhim
  Iraq
50.81
GR
Takashi Nagao
  Japan
50.98 Talib Faisal
  Iraq
51.24
3000 m steeplechase
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Masanari Shintaku
  Japan
8:40.7
GR
Gopal Saini
  India
8:44.8 Hitoshi Iwabuchi
  Japan
8:46.2
4 × 100 m relay
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  Thailand
Anat Ratanapol
Kanoksak Chaisanont
Suchart Jairsuraparp
Somsak Boontud
40.32   Japan
Akira Harada
Yasuhiro Harada
Susumu Shimizu
Junichi Usui
40.33   China
Yuan Guoqiang
Zhao Jingyu
Fan Xinwen
Zou Zhenxian
40.54
4 × 400 m relay
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  Japan
Eiji Natori
Yasuhiro Harada
Junichi Usui
Takashi Nagao
3:08.3   India
Murali Kuttan
Harkamaljit Singh
Uday Krishna Prabhu
Sriram Singh
3:08.4   Iraq
Talib Faisal
Abbas Laibi
Hassan Kadhim
Fahim Abdul-Sada
3:09.4
Marathon
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Mineteru Sakamoto
  Japan
2:15:29.7
GR
Choe Chang-sop
  North Korea
2:15:57.4 Koh Chun-son
  North Korea
2:16:10.3
20 km walk
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Hakam Singh
  India
1:31:54.4
GR
Subramaniam Vellasamy
  Malaysia
1:31:58.8 Khoo Chong Beng
  Malaysia
1:33:56.8
High jump
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Takao Sakamoto
  Japan
2.20 Kazunori Koshikawa
  Japan
2.18 Cui Hongjun
  China
2.18
Pole vault
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Tomomi Takahashi
  Japan
5.10
GR
Chen Guanghui
  China
5.05 Yasuhiro Kigawa
  Japan
5.00
Long jump
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Suresh Babu
  India
7.85 Junichi Usui
  Japan
7.76 Toshihisa Yoshimoto
  Japan
7.75
Triple jump
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Masami Nakanishi
  Japan
16.56
GR
Zou Zhenxian
  China
16.47 Zhou Jianguo
  China
16.29
Shot put
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Bahadur Singh Chouhan
  India
17.61 Zhao Baoqin
  China
17.44 Mohammad Al-Zinkawi
  Kuwait
17.40
Discus throw
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Li Weinan
  China
56.26 Li Jianguo
  China
55.26 Kiyotaka Kawasaki
  Japan
53.32
Hammer throw
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Shigenobu Murofushi
  Japan
68.26
GR
Yoji Kitano
  Japan
63.96 Ji Shaoming
  China
63.34
Javelin throw
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Shen Maomao
  China
79.24
GR
Toshihiko Takeda
  Japan
71.60 Ding Penglin
  China
70.70
Decathlon
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Hisashi Iwai
  Japan
7003 Prapant Srisathorn
  Thailand
6833 Jin Xuewei
  China
6743

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
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Yin Yaping
  China
12.20 Yukiko Osako
  Japan
12.21 Usanee Laopinkarn
  Thailand
12.22
200 m
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Usanee Laopinkarn
  Thailand
24.81 Lee Eun-ja
  South Korea
24.99 Junko Kushibuchi
  Japan
25.05
400 m
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Saik Oik Cum
  Malaysia
55.09 Keiko Nagasawa
  Japan
55.74 Gao Yanqing
  China
56.23
800 m
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Geeta Zutshi
  India
2:07.7 Jung Dong-sun
  North Korea
2:07.9 Chang Yong-ae
  North Korea
2:08.3
1500 m
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Kim Ok-sun
  North Korea
4:18.9
GR
Geeta Zutshi
  India
4:28.2 Choi Yung-ran
  North Korea
4:33.3
3000 m
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Kim Ok-sun
  North Korea
9:24.7
GR
Lu Hongxiang
  China
9:35.4 Yang Yanying
  China
9:36.5
100 m hurdles
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Dai Jianhua
  China
13.95 Tamie Motegi
  Japan
14.23 Xie Lizhen
  China
14.55
400 m hurdles
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Chen Xin
  China
1:01.32
GR
Li Sulan
  China
1:01.89 Masae Kiguchi
  Japan
1:02.09
4 × 100 m relay
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  Thailand
Usanee Laopinkarn
Pusadee Sangvijit
Wallapa Pinij
Buspranee Ratanapol
46.20
GR
  Japan
Emiko Konishi
Yukiko Osako
Junko Kushibuchi
Tomoko Maeda
46.78   Philippines
Amelita Saberon
Lucila Tolentino
Lorena Morcilla
Lydia Silva-Netto
47.00
4 × 400 m relay
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  Japan
Keiko Nagasawa
Mayumi Kubota
Tomoko Maeda
Masae Kiguchi
3:46.29   China
Huang Dongsheng
Liang Lihua
Guo Guimei
Zhang Huifen
3:46.87   North Korea
Jang Geun-ok
Chang Yong-ae
Jung Dong-sun
Kim Ok-sun
3:48.78
High jump
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Zheng Dazhen
  China
1.88
GR
Tamami Yagi
  Japan
1.82 Yang Wenqin
  China
1.80
Long jump
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Zou Wa
  China
6.28 Angel Mary Joseph
  India
6.05 Sumie Awara
  Japan
6.05
Shot put
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Shen Lijuan
  China
17.70
GR
Lü Cheng
  China
16.72 Kayoko Hayashi
  Japan
15.59
Discus throw
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Li Xiaohui
  China
55.92
GR
Wang Dan
  China
51.22 Matsuko Takahashi
  Japan
47.22
Javelin throw
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Yao Ruiying
  China
57.22
GR
Naomi Shibusawa
  Japan
54.98 Li Xia
  China
54.08
Pentathlon
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Ye Peisu
  China
4133 Angel Mary Joseph
  India
3837 Guo Yu
  China
3731

Medal table

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  China (CHN)1291334
2  Japan (JPN)10151035
3  India (IND)87318
4  Thailand (THA)4127
5  North Korea (PRK)2248
6  Iraq (IRQ)2125
7  Malaysia (MAL)1113
8  Burma (BIR)0112
  South Korea (KOR)0112
10  Pakistan (PAK)0101
11  Kuwait (KUW)0011
  Philippines (PHI)0011
Totals (12 entries)393939117

References

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