Weightlifting at the 1998 Asian Games

Weightlifting at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thunder Dome
Dates	7–14 December 1998
Competitors	163 from 25 nations

The weightlifting competition took place from December 7 to December 14 at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok Land Sports Complex, Bangkok, Thailand.

Schedule

A

Group A

Event↓/Date →	7th Mon	8th Tue	9th Wed	10th Thu	11th Fri	12th Sat	13th Sun	14th Mon
Men's 56 kg	A
Men's 62 kg		A
Men's 69 kg			A
Men's 77 kg				A
Men's 85 kg					A
Men's 94 kg						A
Men's 105 kg							A
Men's +105 kg								A
Women's 48 kg	A
Women's 53 kg		A
Women's 58 kg			A
Women's 63 kg				A
Women's 69 kg					A
Women's 75 kg						A
Women's +75 kg							A

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
56 kg	Lan Shizhang  China	Wang Shin-yuan  Chinese Taipei	Mehdi Panzvan  Iran
62 kg	Le Maosheng  China	Dmitriy Lomakin  Kazakhstan	Hiroshi Ikehata  Japan
69 kg	Kim Hak-bong  South Korea	Wan Jianhui  China	Kim Myong-jung  North Korea
77 kg	Zhan Xugang  China	Mohammad Hossein Barkhah  Iran	Sergey Filimonov  Kazakhstan
85 kg	Shahin Nassirinia  Iran	Yuan Aijun  China	Bakhtiyor Nurullaev  Uzbekistan
94 kg	Andrey Makarov  Kazakhstan	Kourosh Bagheri  Iran	Chun Yong-sung  South Korea
105 kg	Cui Wenhua  China	Anatoly Khrapaty  Kazakhstan	Choi Jong-kun  South Korea
+105 kg	Kim Tae-hyun  South Korea	Igor Khalilov  Uzbekistan	Hossein Rezazadeh  Iran

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Liu Xiuhua  China	Kay Thi Win  Myanmar	Sri Indriyani  Indonesia
53 kg	Yang Xia  China	Li Feng-ying  Chinese Taipei	Swe Swe Win  Myanmar
58 kg	Chen Yanqing  China	Ri Song-hui  North Korea	Khassaraporn Suta  Thailand
63 kg	Lei Li  China	Karnam Malleswari  India	Chen Jui-lien  Chinese Taipei
69 kg	Sun Tianni  China	Win Win Maw  Myanmar	Wu Mei-yi  Chinese Taipei
75 kg	Wei Xiangying  China	Kim Soon-hee  South Korea	Aye Mon Khin  Myanmar
+75 kg	Ding Meiyuan  China	Aye Aye Aung  Myanmar	Chen Hsiao-lien  Chinese Taipei

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	11	2	0	13
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	2	5
3	Iran (IRI)	1	2	2	5
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	2	1	4
5	Myanmar (MYA)	0	3	2	5
6	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	2	3	5
7	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	1	2
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	1	1	2
9	India (IND)	0	1	0	1
10	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)	0	0	1	1
	Thailand (THA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		15	15	15	45

Participating nations

A total of 163 athletes from 25 nations competed in weightlifting at the 1998 Asian Games:

•  Bangladesh (2)
•  China (15)
•  Chinese Taipei (15)
•  India (7)
•  Indonesia (5)
•  Iran (8)
•  Japan (15)
•  Jordan (2)
•  Kazakhstan (10)
•  Kuwait (1)
•  Kyrgyzstan (4)
•  Lebanon (3)
•  Malaysia (2)
•  Myanmar (7)
•  Nepal (4)
•  North Korea (10)
•  Pakistan (2)
•  Philippines (4)
•  Qatar (3)
•  South Korea (13)
•  Syria (5)
•  Thailand (15)
•  Turkmenistan (2)
•  Uzbekistan (8)
•  Vietnam (1)

References

• Weightlifting Database
• Results