Weightlifting at the 1978 Asian Games

Weightlifting was contested at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand. The competition included only men's events for ten different weight categories.

Weightlifting at the 1978 Asian Games
Dates	10–16 December 1978
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Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Han Gyong-si  North Korea	Im Jung-gwan  North Korea	Cai Juncheng  China
56 kg	Yang Eui-yong  North Korea	Lee Myung-su  South Korea	Muhammad Manzoor  Pakistan
60 kg	Song Sung-rim  North Korea	Tan Hanyong  China	Takashi Saito  Japan
67.5 kg	Kazumasa Hirai  Japan	Zhao Xinmin  China	Ri Gwang-ju  North Korea
75 kg	Mohamed Tarabulsi  Lebanon	Tamotsu Sunami  Japan	An Won-geun  North Korea
82.5 kg	Kaoru Sato  Japan	Ryu Dong-il  North Korea	Talal Hassoun  Iraq
90 kg	Ahn Ji-young  South Korea	Hafidh Shihab  Iraq	Sann Myint  Burma
100 kg	Mitsumasa Sato  Japan	Raef Ftouni  Lebanon	Han Jin-suk  North Korea
110 kg	Talal Najjar  Syria	Song Zhenzhu  China	Tsuneji Shibasaki  Japan
+110 kg	Yang Huaiqing  China	Tariq Al-Adeeb  Iraq	Mahmoud Mansour  Iraq

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	North Korea (PRK)	3	2	3	8
2	Japan (JPN)	3	1	2	6
3	China (CHN)	1	3	1	5
4	Lebanon (LIB)	1	1	0	2
	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
6	Syria (SYR)	1	0	0	1
7	Iraq (IRQ)	0	2	2	4
8	Burma (BIR)	0	0	1	1
	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		10	10	10	30

References

• Results 10 December
• Results 11 December
• Results 13 December
• Results 17 December

External links

• Results