Basketball at the 1998 Asian Games

Basketball at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Provincial Gymnasium Thammasat University
Date	December 8, 1998 (1998-12-08)–December 19, 1998 (1998-12-19)
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Basketball was one of the many sports which was held at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand between 8 December and 19 December 1998. China again swept all their assignments en route to their 5th title in the men's tournament, while Japan notched their 2nd title after thrashing China in the women's final.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	China Fan Bin Gong Xiaobin Hu Weidong Li Nan Li Xiaoyong Liu Qiang Liu Yudong Mengke Bateer Sun Jun Wang Zhizhi Zhang Jingsong Zhang Wenqi	South Korea Cho Sang-hyun Choo Seung-gyun Hyun Joo-yup Jung Jae-kun Kang Dong-hee Kim Byong-chul Kim Joo-sung Kim Sung-chul Lee Eun-ho Lee Sang-min Moon Kyung-eun Seo Jang-hoon	Philippines Johnny Abarrientos Marlou Aquino Allan Caidic Kenneth Duremdes Dennis Espino E. J. Feihl Jojo Lastimosa Jun Limpot Vergel Meneses Alvin Patrimonio Olsen Racela Andy Seigle
Women	Japan Noriko Hamaguchi Rie Hattori Kaori Kawakami Satomi Miki Mutsuko Nagata Akemi Okazato Taeko Oyama Chisako Shimada Yuko Tsukahara Kagari Yamada Kumiko Yamada Mayumi Yoshiyama	China Chen Bin Sui Feifei Jiang Xu Liu Yuexiu Ma Chengqing Ma Zhongging Miao Bo Miao Lijie Pan Wei Wang Fuying Wang Ling Zheng Dongmei	South Korea Cho Hey-jin Chun Joo-weon Hong Jung-ae Jang Sun-hyoung Jung Sun-min Kim Ji-yoon Kim Kwe-ryong Lee Eun-young Lee Jong-ae Park Jung-eun Yang Hee-youn Yoo Young-joo

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	1	1	0	2
2	Japan	1	0	0	1
3	South Korea	0	1	1	2
4	Philippines	0	0	1	1
Total		2	2	2	6

Results

Men

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
China	4	2	2	0
Thailand	3	2	1	1
Hong Kong	2	2	0	2

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
South Korea	4	2	2	0
Iran	3	2	1	1
Uzbekistan	2	2	0	2

Group C

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
Chinese Taipei	4	2	2	0
United Arab Emirates	3	2	1	1
Japan	2	2	0	2

Group D

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
Philippines	4	2	2	0
Kazakhstan	3	2	1	1
Kyrgyzstan	2	2	0	2

Quarter-final round

Group E

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
China	6	3	3	0
Kazakhstan	5	3	2	1
Chinese Taipei	4	3	1	2
Iran	3	3	0	3

Group F

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
South Korea	6	3	3	0
Philippines	5	3	2	1
Thailand	4	3	1	2
United Arab Emirates	3	3	0	3

Classification round

9-12 places group

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
Uzbekistan	6	3	3	0
Japan	5	3	2	1
Hong Kong	4	3	1	2
Kyrgyzstan	3	3	0	3

7th place match

5th place match

Medal round

	Semi-finals				Final
	December 18
	China	82
	Philippines	73
					December 19
					China	112
					South Korea	92
					Third place
	December 18			December 19
	South Korea	101		Philippines	73
	Kazakhstan	64			Kazakhstan	68

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Final standing

Rank	Team
	China
	South Korea
	Philippines
4	Kazakhstan
5	Chinese Taipei
6	Thailand
7	Iran
8	United Arab Emirates
9	Uzbekistan
10	Japan
11	Hong Kong
12	Kyrgyzstan

Women

Preliminary round

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
South Korea	6	3	3	0
Chinese Taipei	5	3	2	1
Kazakhstan	4	3	1	2
Thailand	3	3	0	3

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L
Japan	4	2	2	0
China	3	2	1	1
Philippines	2	2	0	2

5th place match

Medal round

	Semi-finals				Final
	December 16
	South Korea	73
	China	80
					December 18
					China	69
					Japan	93
					Third place
	December 16			December 18
	Japan	95		South Korea	92
	Chinese Taipei	76			Chinese Taipei	76

Semifinals

Bronze medal game

Gold medal game

Final standing

Rank	Team
	Japan
	China
	South Korea
4	Chinese Taipei
5	Kazakhstan
6	Philippines
7	Thailand

External links

• XIII Asian Games Basketball
• 13th Asian Games Men's Basketball
• Men's Results
• Women's Results