1998 Bangkok Asian Games

1998 Bangkok Asian Games
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City	Bangkok, Thailand
Team Gold Medalist	China Bi Wenjing Kui Yuanyuan Ling Jie Liu Xuan Meng Fei Xu Jing
All-Around Gold Medalist	Liu Xuan (CHN)
Vault Gold Medalist	Kui Yuanyuan (CHN)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Bi Wenjing (CHN)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Liu Xuan (CHN)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Xu Jing (CHN)
Preceded by	1994 Hiroshima Asian Games
Succeeded by	2002 Busan Asian Games

The 13th Asian Games were held from December 6 to December 20, 1998 in Bangkok, Thailand. This was the first time that Thailand bid for the event after it shouldered the two postponed hosting rights in 1970 and 1978.

Format of Competition

No compulsory routines were performed in artistic gymnastics. Instead, all participating gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, participated in a qualification round. The results of this competition determined which teams and individuals participated in the remaining competitions, which included:

• The team competition, in which the six highest scoring teams from qualifications competed. Each team of six gymnasts could have up to five gymnasts perform on each apparatus, and only the four highest scores counted toward the team total.
• The all-around competition, in which the thirty-six highest scoring individuals in the all-around competed. Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final.
• The event finals, in which the eight highest scoring individuals on each apparatus competed. Each country was limited to two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	China Bi Wenjing Kui Yuanyuan Ling Jie Liu Xuan Meng Fei Xu Jing	Japan Hashiguchi Miho Kitamura Ayako Ohata Yuki Okumoto Eri Sugawara Risa Yamamoto Satomi	Kazakhstan Olga Kozhevnikova Olga Nuraliyeva Oxana Yemelyanova Irina Yevdokimova Inna Zhuravleva
All-Around	Liu Xuan China (CHN)	Irina Yevdokimova Kazakhstan (KAZ)	Sugawara Risa Japan (JPN)
Vault	Kui Yuanyuan China (CHN)	Svetlana Bakhridinova Uzbekistan (UZB)	Xu Jing China (CHN) Irina Yevdokimova Kazakhstan (KAZ)
Uneven Bars	Bi Wenjing China (CHN)	Kang Sun-Yong South Korea (KOR)	Ohata Yuki Japan (JPN)
Balance Beam	Liu Xuan China (CHN)	Meng Fei China (CHN)	Olga Kozhenvnikova Kazakhstan (KAZ)
Floor Exercise	Xu Jing China (CHN)	Kui Yuanyuan China (CHN)	Sugawara Risa Japan (JPN) Irina Yevdokimova Kazakhstan (KAZ)

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	China	6	2	1	9
2	Kazakhstan	0	1	3	4
3	Japan	0	1	3	4
4	Uzbekistan	0	1	0	1
5	South Korea	0	1	0	1