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Volleyball at the 1978 Asian Games
Dates	10–19 December 1978
Nations	16
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Volleyball events were contested at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	South Korea Cha Joo-hyun Chang Yoon-chang Chung Kang-sup Kang Doo-tae Kang Man-soo Kim Ho-chul Kim Kab-je Lee Hee-wan Lee In Moon Yong-kwan Park Ki-won Yoo Joong-tak	Japan Haruhiko Hanawa Shohei Iwatsuki Yoshio Kobayashi Takashi Maruyama Katsutoshi Nekoda Tetsuo Nishimoto Katsumi Oda Kenji Shimaoka Mikiyasu Tanaka Yoshinori Tanaka Shinichiro Tsujiai	China Chen Fulin Chen Gang Hou Jie Hu Jin Li Jianxin Wang Jiawei Wang Qingheng Xu Zhen Zheng Zongyuan Zhou Zhongyu
Women details	Japan Yumi Egami Yoshie Ishikawa Yoko Kawamata Kazuko Ogawa Keiko Okushima Kayoko Sudo Juri Yokoyama Terie Yuki	China Chen Zhaodi Han Xiaohua Lang Ping Li Wenxiu Qi Lixia Sun Jinfang Yang Xi Zhang Jieyun Zhang Rongfang Zhou Xiaolan	South Korea Baik Myung-sun Byon Kyung-ja Kim Ae-hee Kim Hwa-bok Kwak Sun-ok Kweon In-sook Lim Hae-sook Shim Soon-ok Shin Sang-sun Yang Soon-duk Yoon Young-nae Yu Kyung-hwa

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	1	1	0	2
2	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	1	2
3	China (CHN)	0	1	1	2
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

Results

Men

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	Qualification
1	Burma	4	4	0	8	12	0	MAX	Final round
2	Iraq	4	3	1	7	9	3	3.000
3	Thailand	4	2	2	6	6	9	0.667	Classification 7th–12th
4	Pakistan	4	1	3	5	5	11	0.455
5	Hong Kong	4	0	4	4	3	12	0.250

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Dec	Thailand	3–1	Hong Kong
10 Dec	Iraq	3–0	Pakistan
11 Dec	Thailand	0–3	Iraq
11 Dec	Hong Kong	0–3	Burma
12 Dec	Iraq	0–3	Burma
12 Dec	Thailand	3–2	Pakistan
13 Dec	Burma	3–0	Pakistan
13 Dec	Iraq	3–0	Hong Kong
14 Dec	Pakistan	3–2	Hong Kong
14 Dec	Thailand	0–3	Burma

Pool B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	Qualification
1	Japan	4	4	0	8	12	0	MAX	Final round
2	Kuwait	4	3	1	7	9	3	3.000
3	Bangladesh	4	2	2	6	6	7	0.857	Classification 7th–12th
4	United Arab Emirates	4	1	3	5	—	—	—
5	Nepal	4	0	4	4	—	—	—

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Dec	Nepal	0–3	Kuwait
10 Dec	Japan	3–0	Bangladesh
11 Dec	Japan	3–0	Nepal
11 Dec	Bangladesh	3–1	United Arab Emirates
12 Dec	Japan	3–0	Kuwait
12 Dec	United Arab Emirates	–	Nepal
13 Dec	Kuwait	3–0	United Arab Emirates
13 Dec	Bangladesh	3–0	Nepal
14 Dec	Kuwait	3–0	Bangladesh
14 Dec	Japan	3–0	United Arab Emirates

Pool C

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Dec	South Korea	3–0	India
10 Dec	China	3–0	Saudi Arabia
11 Dec	India	3–0	Bahrain
11 Dec	South Korea	1–3	China	12–15	9–15	15–4	8–15		44–49
12 Dec	South Korea	3–0	Saudi Arabia
12 Dec	China	3–0	Bahrain
13 Dec	China	3–0	India
13 Dec	Saudi Arabia	3–0	Bahrain
14 Dec	South Korea	3–0	Bahrain
14 Dec	Saudi Arabia	–	India

Classification 7th–12th

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
15 Dec	United Arab Emirates	0–3	Saudi Arabia
16 Dec	Pakistan	3–0	Thailand
16 Dec	India	3–0	United Arab Emirates
17 Dec	Bangladesh	3–0	United Arab Emirates
18 Dec	Pakistan	2–3	United Arab Emirates
19 Dec	Pakistan	3–0	Thailand
19 Dec	India	3–0	Saudi Arabia

Final round

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
15 Dec	China	0–3	South Korea	14–16	8–15	7–15			29–46
15 Dec	Burma	3–1	Iraq
15 Dec	Japan	3–0	Kuwait
16 Dec	China	3–0	Kuwait
16 Dec	Japan	3–1	Iraq
16 Dec	Burma	0–3	South Korea
17 Dec	Burma	0–3	Japan
17 Dec	China	3–0	Iraq
17 Dec	Kuwait	0–3	South Korea
18 Dec	Iraq	0–3	Kuwait
18 Dec	Burma	0–3	China
18 Dec	Japan	3–1	South Korea
19 Dec	Iraq	0–3	South Korea
19 Dec	Burma	3–0	Kuwait
19 Dec	Japan	–	China

Women

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR
1	Japan	5	5	0	10	15	1	15.000
2	China	5	4	1	9	12	4	3.000
3	South Korea	5	3	2	8	10	6	1.667
4	North Korea	5	2	3	7	7	9	0.778
5	Thailand	5	1	4	6	3	13	0.231
6	Hong Kong	5	0	5	5	1	15	0.067

Date		Score		Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5	Total
10 Dec	China	3–1	North Korea
10 Dec	Thailand	0–3	Japan
10 Dec	South Korea	3–0	Hong Kong
12 Dec	China	3–0	Hong Kong
12 Dec	Thailand	0–3	North Korea
12 Dec	Japan	3–1	South Korea
14 Dec	Japan	3–0	China
14 Dec	North Korea	3–0	Hong Kong
14 Dec	Thailand	0–3	South Korea
16 Dec	Thailand	0–3	China
16 Dec	Japan	3–0	Hong Kong
16 Dec	South Korea	3–0	North Korea	15–6	15–10	15–4			45–20
18 Dec	Thailand	3–1	Hong Kong
18 Dec	Japan	3–0	North Korea
18 Dec	China	3–0	South Korea	15–4	15–9	15–6			45–19

References

• Men's Results
• Women's Results

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