title: Cycling at the 1978 Asian Games
text: # Cycling at the 1978 Asian Games
  
  Cycling was contested at the 1978 Asian Games in Huamark Velodrome, Bangkok, Thailand.
  
  ## Medalists
  
  ### Road
  
  | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Road race details | Yoshitaka Nihei Japan | Saleem Shanati Iraq | Jiang Ming China |
  | Team time trial details | Japan Yoshitaka Nihei Toshiaki Nishizawa Tsutomu Okabori Katsuji Teraguchi | South Korea Lee Young-kyu Shin In-soo Shin Nam-soo Yang Joon-seng | China Guo Demao Li Jianmin Sun Zhanbo Wu Zengren |
  
  ### Track
  
  | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Sprint details | Yoshikazu Cho Japan | Takashi Ebina Japan | Park Il-woo South Korea |
  | 1 km time trial details | Lee Kwan-sun South Korea | Takashi Ebina Japan | Zhang Lihua China |
  | Individual pursuit details | Toshiaki Ikeura Japan | Park Il-woo South Korea | Xu Yongqing China |
  | Team pursuit details | South Korea Lee Jong-moon Lee Kwan-sun Park Il-woo Shin Nam-soo | China Huang Jun Liu Fu Ma Jianmin Wu Shucheng | Japan Kazuhiro Arai Toshiaki Ikeura Akira Kunisue Hiroyashi Soeta |
  
  ## Medal table
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
  | 2 | South Korea (KOR) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
  | 3 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
  | 4 | Iraq (IRQ) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
  | Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |
  