Sailing at the 1998 Asian Games

Sailing (as Yachting) was contested at the 1998 Asian Games from December 8 to December 13. Competition took place in various sailing disciplines at the Ao-dongtarn Jomtien Beach in Pattaya, Chonburi Province.

Sailing at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Ao-dongtarn Jomtien Beach
Dates	8–13 December 1998
Competitors	122 from 16 nations

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mistral light	Arun Homraruen  Thailand	Ted Huang  Chinese Taipei	Li Mingdong  China
Mistral heavy	Oka Sulaksana  Indonesia	Motokazu Kenjo  Japan	Kookiat Sakulfaeng  Thailand
Raceboard light	Zhou Yuanguo  China	Sam Wong  Hong Kong	Ok Duck-pil  South Korea
Raceboard heavy	Suhaimee Moohammadkasem  Thailand	Chen Zhanying  China	Hong A-ram  South Korea
Optimist	Chae Bong-jin  South Korea	Mohd Nazmi Sharif  Malaysia	Roy Tay  Singapore
Laser	Kim Ho-kon  South Korea	Kevin Lim  Malaysia	Cao Xiaobo  China
420	Singapore Siew Shaw Her Colin Ng	South Korea Park Jong-woo Kim Hyeong-tae	Thailand Wiwat Poonpat Kitipong Khambang
470	South Korea Kim Dae-young Jung Sung-ahn	Japan Eiichiro Hamazaki Masato Takaki	Singapore Tan Wearn Haw Charles Lim

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mistral	Lee Lai Shan  Hong Kong	Huang Ying  China	Masako Imai  Japan
Optimist	Kim Suk-kyong  South Korea	Shen Xiaoying  China	Prapawadee Damdangdee  Thailand
Europe	Zhang Hong  China	Aiko Saito  Japan	Tracey Tan  Singapore
420	Singapore Joan Huang Naomi Tan	Thailand Wandee Vongtim Theeranoot Vongruck	Hong Kong Mou Lap Kam Lee Chun Yi
470	China Yang Xiaoyan Li Dongying	Japan Chizuko Ijima Makiko Ikuta	South Korea Kim Myoung-hwa Jung Eun-suk

Open

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
OK	Jin Hong-chul  South Korea	Anthony Kiong  Singapore	Prasertsak Moolprasert  Thailand
Super Moth	Damrongsak Vongtim  Thailand	Malik Sulaiman  Malaysia	Zahid Rauf  Pakistan
Enterprise	South Korea Chung Yoon-gil Lim Jin-young	Pakistan Mamoon Sadiq Munir Sadiq	Sri Lanka Lalin Jirasinha Krishan Janaka

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	6	1	3	10
2	China (CHN)	3	3	2	8
3	Thailand (THA)	3	1	4	8
4	Singapore (SIN)	2	1	3	6
5	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	1	1	3
6	Indonesia (INA)	1	0	0	1
7	Japan (JPN)	0	4	1	5
8	Malaysia (MAS)	0	3	0	3
9	Pakistan (PAK)	0	1	1	2
10	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	0	1
11	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		16	16	16	48

Participating nations

A total of 122 athletes from 16 nations competed in sailing at the 1998 Asian Games:

•  China (13)
•  Chinese Taipei (3)
•  Hong Kong (14)
•  India (7)
•  Indonesia (3)
•  Japan (11)
•  Kazakhstan (1)
•  Kuwait (2)
•  Malaysia (3)
•  Pakistan (10)
•  Philippines (3)
•  Qatar (1)
•  Singapore (11)
•  South Korea (15)
•  Sri Lanka (4)
•  Thailand (21)

References

• Results

External links

• Olympic Council of Asia