Boxing at the 1978 Asian Games

The Boxing Tournament at the 1978 Asian Games was held in Bangkok Recreation Center, Bangkok, Thailand from 10 to 18 December 1978.

Boxing at the 1978 Asian Games
Venue	Bangkok Recreation Center
Dates	10–18 December 1978
Competitors	94 from 17 nations
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South Korea finished first in medal table, winning five gold medals.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Light flyweight (48 kg)	Siri Supanya  Thailand	Ri Byong-uk  North Korea	Koki Suzuki  Japan
			Ali Bux  Pakistan
Flyweight (51 kg)	Koki Ishii  Japan	Johny Riberu  Indonesia	Wijaya Nimal Perera  Sri Lanka
			Muhammad Sadiq  Pakistan
Bantamweight (54 kg)	Hwang Chul-soon  South Korea	Nyo Win  Burma	Sumanasiri Caldera  Sri Lanka
			Pradit Srisathit  Thailand
Featherweight (57 kg)	Ku Yong-jo  North Korea	Khan Muhammad  Pakistan	Jung Taek-dong  South Korea
			Ravsalyn Otgonbayar  Mongolia
Lightweight (60 kg)	Choi Chung-il  South Korea	Ruben Mares  Philippines	Yukio Odagiri  Japan
			Haram Khan  Burma
Light welterweight (63.5 kg)	Kim In-chang  South Korea	Vichit Praianan  Thailand	Khastyn Jamgan  Mongolia
			C. C. Machaiah  India
Welterweight (67 kg)	Hwang Choong-jai  South Korea	Wallop Totassa  Thailand	Yusoff Hashim  Malaysia
			Intisar Jabbar  Iraq
Light middleweight (71 kg)	Park Il-chun  South Korea	Rabieb Sangnual  Thailand	Muluk Singh  India
			Muhammad Saeed  Pakistan
Middleweight (75 kg)	Wiem Gommies  Indonesia	Jang Bong-mun  North Korea	D. Erdenee  Mongolia
			Park Young-kyu  South Korea
Light heavyweight (81 kg)	Iqbal Muhammad  Pakistan	Kim Nam-hee  South Korea	Sangob Wichensan  Thailand
			Benny Maniani  Indonesia
Heavyweight (+81 kg)	Imtiaz Mahmood  Pakistan	Brij Mohan Sharma  India	Krismanto  Indonesia
			Kim Ki-choon  South Korea

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	5	1	3	9
2	Pakistan (PAK)	2	1	3	6
3	Thailand (THA)	1	3	2	6
4	North Korea (PRK)	1	2	0	3
5	Indonesia (INA)	1	1	2	4
6	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
7	India (IND)	0	1	2	3
8	Burma (BIR)	0	1	1	2
9	Philippines (PHI)	0	1	0	1
10	Mongolia (MGL)	0	0	3	3
11	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	0	2	2
12	Iraq (IRQ)	0	0	1	1
	Malaysia (MAL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		11	11	22	44

Participating nations

A total of 94 athletes from 17 nations competed in boxing at the 1978 Asian Games:

•  Burma (3)
•  Hong Kong (5)
•  India (8)
•  Indonesia (7)
•  Iraq (2)
•  Japan (7)
•  Malaysia (3)
•  Mongolia (5)
•  Nepal (2)
•  North Korea (7)
•  Pakistan (11)
•  Philippines (6)
•  Singapore (1)
•  South Korea (11)
•  Sri Lanka (4)
•  Syria (2)
•  Thailand (10)

References

• Amateur Boxing

External links

• OCA official website