Weightlifting at the 1978 Asian Games

Weightlifting was contested at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

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-soo  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
Total		10	10	10	30

References

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

External links

• Weightlifting Database