Weightlifting at the 1978 Asian Games

Weightlifting
at the 1978 Asian Games
Weightlifting ; at the 1978 Asian Games
Dates	10–16 December 1978
	← 1974 1982 →

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

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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

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
4	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
8	Pakistan (PAK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		10	10	10	30

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