title: 1997 Asian Judo Championships
text: # 1997 Asian Judo Championships
  
  The 1997 Asian Judo Championships were held in Manila, Philippines 22 November to 23 November 1997.
  
  ## Medal overview
  
  ### Men's events
  
  | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Extra-lightweight (60 kg) details | Kozo Sekiguchi (JPN) | Yeh Hsin-Hung (TPE) | Tariel Kaziev (KAZ) |
  | Extra-lightweight (60 kg) details | Kozo Sekiguchi (JPN) | Yeh Hsin-Hung (TPE) | Kang Myong-Chang (PRK) |
  | Half-lightweight (65 kg) details | Kim Jong-Won (KOR) | Pankaj Sharma (IND) | Ryuji Sonoda (JPN) |
  | Half-lightweight (65 kg) details | Kim Jong-Won (KOR) | Pankaj Sharma (IND) | Kai Kang (CHN) |
  | Lightweight (71 kg) details | Kwak Dae-Sung (KOR) | Khaliuny Boldbaatar (MGL) | Takehisa Iwakawa (JPN) |
  | Lightweight (71 kg) details | Kwak Dae-Sung (KOR) | Khaliuny Boldbaatar (MGL) | Pae Song-Nam (PRK) |
  | Half-middleweight (78 kg) details | Yoon Dong-Sik (KOR) | Farkhod Turaev (UZB) | Kwak Ok-Chol (PRK) |
  | Half-middleweight (78 kg) details | Yoon Dong-Sik (KOR) | Farkhod Turaev (UZB) | Ruslan Seilkhanov (KAZ) |
  | Middleweight (86 kg) details | Cho Byung-Ok (KOR) | Kosei Arikawa (JPN) | Teng Guangyin (CHN) |
  | Middleweight (86 kg) details | Cho Byung-Ok (KOR) | Kosei Arikawa (JPN) | Mussa Zalpulayev (KAZ) |
  | Half-heavyweight (95 kg) details | Sergey Shakimov (KAZ) | Park Sung-Keun (KOR) | Wei Fuouiang (CHN) |
  | Half-heavyweight (95 kg) details | Sergey Shakimov (KAZ) | Park Sung-Keun (KOR) | Teruya Ishida (JPN) |
  | Heavyweight (+95 kg) details | Jun Konno (JPN) | Ochir Odgerel (MGL) | Huang Ho-Suei (TPE) |
  | Heavyweight (+95 kg) details | Jun Konno (JPN) | Ochir Odgerel (MGL) | Vyacheslav Berduta (KAZ) |
  | Openweight details | Katsuyuki Masuchi (JPN) | Park Sung-Keun (KOR) | Huang Ho-Suei (TPE) |
  | Openweight details | Katsuyuki Masuchi (JPN) | Park Sung-Keun (KOR) | Vyacheslav Berduta (KAZ) |
  
  ### Women's events
  
  | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Extra-lightweight (48 kg) details | Yoo Hi-Joon (KOR) | Atsuko Nagai (JPN) | Li Lingling (CHN) |
  | Extra-lightweight (48 kg) details | Yoo Hi-Joon (KOR) | Atsuko Nagai (JPN) | Yu Shu-Chen (TPE) |
  | Half-lightweight (52 kg) details | Kye Sun-Hui (PRK) | Kim Hae-Sook (KOR) | He Ji (CHN) |
  | Half-lightweight (52 kg) details | Kye Sun-Hui (PRK) | Kim Hae-Sook (KOR) | Shinko Sato (JPN) |
  | Lightweight (56 kg) details | Ri Myong-Hwa (PRK) | Zheng Linli (CHN) | Jeon Soh-Young (KOR) |
  | Lightweight (56 kg) details | Ri Myong-Hwa (PRK) | Zheng Linli (CHN) | Masako Otsuka (JPN) |
  | Half-middleweight (61 kg) details | Jung Sung-Sook (KOR) | Kie Kusakabe (JPN) | Marina Mikheyeva (UZB) |
  | Half-middleweight (61 kg) details | Jung Sung-Sook (KOR) | Kie Kusakabe (JPN) | Li Shufang (CHN) |
  | Middleweight (66 kg) details | Song Jianfeng (CHN) | Natsuko Sano (JPN) | Wu Meiling (TPE) |
  | Middleweight (66 kg) details | Song Jianfeng (CHN) | Natsuko Sano (JPN) | Kim Myong-Hui (PRK) |
  | Half-heavyweight (72 kg) details | Li Yanfu (CHN) | Yeh Wen-Hua (TPE) | Saki Yoshida (JPN) |
  | Half-heavyweight (72 kg) details | Li Yanfu (CHN) | Yeh Wen-Hua (TPE) | Olesya Nazarenko (TKM) |
  | Heavyweight (+72 kg) details | Miho Ninomiya (JPN) | Shon Hyun-Me (KOR) | Lee Hsiao-Hung (TPE) |
  | Heavyweight (+72 kg) details | Miho Ninomiya (JPN) | Shon Hyun-Me (KOR) | Sharma Bittu (IND) |
  | Openweight details | Miho Ninomiya (JPN) | Li Yanfu (CHN) | Nadejda Jeltakova (TKM) |
  | Openweight details | Miho Ninomiya (JPN) | Li Yanfu (CHN) | Lee Hsiao-Hung (TPE) |
  
  ### Medals table
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | South Korea | 6 | 4 | 1 | 11 |
  | 2 | Japan | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
  | 3 | China | 2 | 2 | 6 | 10 |
  | 4 | North Korea | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
  | 5 | Kazakhstan | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
  | 6 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
  | 7 | Mongolia | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
  | 8 | India | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
  | 8 | Uzbekistan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
  | 10 | Turkmenistan | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
  | Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 16 | 16 | 33 | 65 |
  