Basketball at the 1998 Asian Games

Basketball was one of the many sports which was held at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand between 8 December and 19 December 1998. China again swept all their assignments en route to their 5th title in the men's tournament, while Japan notched their 2nd title after thrashing China in the women's final.

Basketball at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Gymnasium 1 Suphan Buri Provincial Gymnasium
Date	8–19 December 1998
Nations	12
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Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	China Fan Bin Gong Xiaobin Hu Weidong Li Nan Li Xiaoyong Liu Qiang Liu Yudong Mengke Bateer Sun Jun Wang Zhizhi Zhang Jingsong Zhang Wenqi	South Korea Cho Sang-hyun Choo Seung-gyun Hyun Joo-yup Jung Jae-kun Kang Dong-hee Kim Byong-chul Kim Joo-sung Kim Sung-chul Lee Eun-ho Lee Sang-min Moon Kyung-eun Seo Jang-hoon	Philippines Johnny Abarrientos Marlou Aquino Allan Caidic Kenneth Duremdes Dennis Espino E. J. Feihl Jojo Lastimosa Jun Limpot Vergel Meneses Alvin Patrimonio Olsen Racela Andy Seigle
Women details	Japan Noriko Hamaguchi Rie Hattori Kaori Kawakami Satomi Miki Mutsuko Nagata Akemi Okazato Taeko Oyama Chisako Shimada Yuko Tsukahara Kagari Yamada Kumiko Yamada Mayumi Yoshiyama	China Chen Bin Sui Feifei Jiang Xu Liu Yuexiu Ma Chengqing Ma Zongqing Miao Bo Miao Lijie Pan Wei Wang Fuying Wang Ling Zheng Dongmei	South Korea Cho Hey-jin Chun Joo-weon Hong Jung-ae Jang Sun-hyoung Jung Sun-min Kim Ji-yoon Kim Kwe-ryong Lee Eun-young Lee Jong-ae Park Jung-eun Yang Hee-youn Yoo Young-joo

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
2	Japan (JPN)	1	0	0	1
3	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	1	2
4	Philippines (PHI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		2	2	2	6

Final standing

Men

Further information: Basketball at the 1998 Asian Games – Men

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	China	7	7	0
	South Korea	7	6	1
	Philippines	7	5	2
4	Kazakhstan	7	3	4
5	Chinese Taipei	6	4	2
6	Thailand	6	2	4
7	Iran	6	2	4
8	United Arab Emirates	6	1	5
9	Uzbekistan	5	3	2
10	Japan	5	2	3
11	Hong Kong	5	1	4
12	Kyrgyzstan	5	0	5

Women

Further information: Basketball at the 1998 Asian Games – Women

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	Japan	4	4	0
	China	4	2	2
	South Korea	5	4	1
4	Chinese Taipei	5	2	3
5	Kazakhstan	4	2	2
6	Philippines	3	0	3
7	Thailand	3	0	3

References

• Men's Results
• Women's Results

External links

• XIII Asian Games Basketball
• 13th Asian Games Men's Basketball