Karate at the 1998 Asian Games

Karate at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Gymnasium 7
Dates	15–17 December 1998

Karate was competed by men and women at the 1998 Asian Games in Rangsit Sports Complex, Bangkok, Thailand. Kata was contested along with Kumite. There were 11 gold medals contested for this sport. All competition took place on December 15, 16 and 17.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata	Ryoki Abe  Japan	Alaeddin Nekoufar  Iran	Abdullah Kadir  Indonesia
Kumite −55 kg	Muralitharan Chandra  Malaysia	Bader Al-Otaibi  Kuwait	Isfan Tanjung  Indonesia
			Lê Tùng Dương  Vietnam
Kumite −60 kg	Arief Taufan Syamsuddin  Indonesia	None awarded	Sambar Bahadur Gole  Nepal
			Adnan Laoundi  Syria
Kumite −65 kg	Norihide Narazaki  Japan	Chen Teng-tien  Chinese Taipei	Đỗ Tuấn Cương  Vietnam
			Eakarach Loongban  Thailand
Kumite −70 kg	Muniandy Rajoo  Malaysia	Mehdi Amouzadeh  Iran	Raafat Al-Karad  Syria
			Shizuo Shiina  Japan
Kumite −75 kg	Alireza Katiraei  Iran	Takahiro Niki  Japan	Arivalagan Ponniah  Malaysia
			Ahmad Al-Khaledi  Kuwait
Kumite +75 kg	Jaber Al-Hammad  Kuwait	Ali Shaterzadeh  Iran	Suresh Rao Subramaniam  Malaysia
			Chu Tien-lai  Chinese Taipei

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kata	Atsuko Wakai  Japan	Omita Olga Ompi  Indonesia	Lim Lee Lee  Malaysia
Kumite −53 kg	Eri Fujioka  Japan	Sandra Aryani  Indonesia	Chang Chin-chih  Chinese Taipei
			Phạm Hồng Hà  Vietnam
Kumite −60 kg	Li Wan-yu  Chinese Taipei	Phạm Hồng Thắm  Vietnam	Nilawati Daud  Indonesia
			Phetlada Ausabay  Thailand
Kumite +60 kg	Izumi Nabeki  Japan	Panadda Tamchuchaichana  Thailand	Premila Supramaniam  Malaysia
			Hà Thị Kiều Trang  Vietnam

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	5	1	1	7
2	Malaysia (MAS)	2	0	4	6
3	Iran (IRI)	1	3	0	4
4	Indonesia (INA)	1	2	3	6
5	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	1	1	2	4
6	Kuwait (KUW)	1	1	1	3
7	Vietnam (VIE)	0	1	4	5
8	Thailand (THA)	0	1	2	3
9	Syria (SYR)	0	0	2	2
10	Nepal (NEP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		11	10	20	41

References

• Results

External links

• Olympic Council of Asia