1974 Tehran Asian Games

1974 Tehran Asian Games
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City	Tehran, Iran
Team Gold Medalist	China Ding Zhaofang Jiang Shaoyi Ning Xiaolin Wang Guiping Wang Xuejun Xin Guiqiu
All-Around Gold Medalist	Jiang Shaoyi (CHN)
Vault Gold Medalist	Yoshida Reiko (JPN)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Jo Yoon-Hi (PRK) Jiang Shaoyi (CHN)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Jiang Shaoyi (CHN)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Jiang Shaoyi (CHN)
Preceded by	N/A
Succeeded by	1978 Bangkok Asian Games

The 1974 Asian Games were held in Tehran, Iran from September 1, 1974, to September 16, 1974. It was the first time that gymnastics was included as the medal sport in the Asian Games, and only artistic events were contested. In the Games, only four participating National Olympic Committees (NOCs) succeeded in winning any medal.

Women's events were widely perceived as being dominated by the China, who claimed nine medals in total, including five golds.

Format of Competition

The gymnastics competition was carried out in three stages:

• Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which all gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. The combined scores of all team members determined the final score of the team. The thirty-six overall highest scoring gymnasts qualified to the individual all-around competition. The six highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
• Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast during Competition I and all of the points earned by her in Competition II.
• Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast was composed of half the points earned by that gymnast on that particular apparatus during Competition I and all of the points earned by her on that particular apparatus in Competition III.

Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	China Ding Zhaofang Jiang Shaoyi Ning Xiaolin Wang Guiping Wang Xuejun Xin Guiqiu	North Korea Hwang Jo-Ya Jo Yoon-Hi Kim Choon-so Pak Yung-sook	Japan Hanyu Kazue Kito Cheiko Nagaoka Kumiko Nakamoto Yuko Wantanabe Misa Yoshida Reiko
All-Around	Jiang Shaoyi China (CHN)	Ning Xiaolin China (CHN)	Xin Guiqiu China (CHN)
Vault	Yoshida Reiko Japan (JPN)	Hwang Jo-Ya North Korea (PRK)	Jo Yoon-Hi North Korea (PRK)
Uneven Bars	Jo Yoon-Hi North Korea (PRK) Jiang Shaoyi China (CHN)	N/A	Hwang Jo-Ya North Korea (PRK)
Balance Beam	Jiang Shaoyi China (CHN)	Xin Guiqiu China (CHN)	Jo Yoon-Hi North Korea (PRK)
Floor Exercise	Jiang Shaoyi China (CHN)	Ning Xiaolin China (CHN)	Jo Yoon-Hi North Korea (PRK)

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	China	5	3	1	9
2	North Korea	1	2	4	7
3	Japan	1	0	1	2