1978 Bangkok Asian Games | |
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Official logo | |
City |
Bangkok, Thailand |
Team Gold Medalist |
China
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All-Around Gold Medalist |
He Xiumin (CHN) |
Vault Gold Medalist |
Choe Jong-Sil (PRK) |
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist |
Ma Yanhong (CHN) |
Balance Beam Gold Medalist |
Zhu Zheng (CHN) |
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist |
Ma Wenchu (CHN) |
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Succeeded by |
The 8th Asian Games were held from December 9, 1978 to December 20, 1978 in Bangkok, Thailand. Originally, the host city was Singapore but Singapore dropped its plan to host the Games due to financial problems. And then Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan was decided to host the 8th Games. But Islamabad also dropped its plan to host the Asian Games due to conflicts with Bangladesh and India.
Format of Competition[]
The gymnastics competition was carried out in three stages:
- Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The combined scores of all team members determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The six highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
- Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by her in Competition II.
- Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast on that particular apparatus during Competition I and all of the points earned by her on that particular apparatus in Competition III.
Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.
Results[]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Team | China
He Xiumin |
North Korea
Choe Jong-Sil |
Japan
Kano Yayoi |
All-Around | He Xiumin China (CHN) |
Liu Yajun China (CHN) |
N/A |
Vault | Choe Jong-sil North Korea (PRK) |
Chung Jin Ai South Korea (KOR) |
Ma Wenchu China (CHN) |
Uneven Bars | Ma Yanhong China (CHN) |
Zhu Zheng China (CHN) |
Jong Hyang-suk North Korea (PRK) |
Balance Beam | Zhu Zheng China (CHN) |
Park Jung-Sook South Korea (KOR) |
Liu Yajun China (CHN) |
Floor Exercise | Ma Wenchu China (CHN) |
Wang Ping China (CHN) |
Kano Yayoi Japan (JPN) |
Medal Count[]
Rank | Country | Total | |||
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1 | China | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
2 | North Korea | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
3 | South Korea | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
4 | Japan | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Asian Games | |
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Tehran 1974 • Bangkok 1978 • New Delhi 1982 • Seoul 1986 • Beijing 1990 • Hiroshima 1994 • Bangkok 1998 • Busan 2002 • Doha 2006 • Guangzhou 2010 • Incheon 2014 • Jakarta and Palembang 2018 • Hangzhou 2022 • Nagoya 2026 |