Women's Asian Basketball Championship 1978

Women's Asian Basketball Championship 1978
7th Asian Women's Basketball Championship
Number of nations	9
Asian champion	South Korea (5th title)
venue	Kuala Lumpur
Opening game	July 25, 1978
Endgame	5th August 1978
Games	36
Basket points	4693   (∅: 130.36 per game)

The 1978 Asian Women's Basketball Championship (officially: 1978 Asian Championship for Women ), the seventh women's Asian basketball championship , took place between July 25 and August 5, 1978 in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , for the second time the championship aligned. The winner was the South Korean national basketball team , which won the women's Asian championship for the fifth time. For the first time a delegation from Sri Lanka took part in the tournament.

Participating teams

 Hong Kong Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka South Korea People's Republic of China
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

mode

The game was played in the form of a round-robin tournament . Each team played the other once, so each team played eight games. There were two points for each win and one point for a defeat. In the event of a tie, the direct comparison decided . The team with the most points became women's basketball Asian champions in 1978.

Results

placement	team	Points	G	V	baskets	Diff
1	South Korea	16	8th	0	711: 247	+464
2	People's Republic of China	15th	7th	1	913: 407	+506
3	Japan	14th	6th	2	727: 323	+404
4th	Malaysia	13	5	3	542: 524	+18
5	Hong Kong	11	3	5	384: 651	−267
6th	Singapore	11	3	5	393: 604	−211
7th	Indonesia	10	2	6th	324: 641	−317
8th	Philippines	10	2	6th	325: 535	−210
7th	Sri Lanka	9	0	9	364: 751	−387

		Malaysia	94  - 43	Sri Lanka
		Points per half: 60:16  , 34:27  .

		People's Republic of China	122  - 55	Singapore
		Points per half: 64  : 25, 58  : 30.

		South Korea	105  - 25	Hong Kong
		Points per half: 47:10  , 58:15  .

		Indonesia	26 -  127	Japan
		Points per half-time: 16: 62 ; 10: 65 .

		Singapore	37 -  58	Malaysia
		Points per half-time: 19: 29 , 18: 29 .

		Sri Lanka	52 -  127	People's Republic of China
		Points per half time: 16: 67 , 36: 60 .

		Indonesia	23 -  109	South Korea
		Points per half time: 12: 56 , 11: 53 .

		Japan	125  - 40	Hong Kong
		Points per half: 61:19  , 64:21  .

		Hong Kong	84  - 54	Sri Lanka
		Points per half: 32:24  , 52:30  .

		People's Republic of China	114  - 56	Malaysia
		Points per half: 52:26  , 62:30  .

South Korea

2  - 0

Philippines

The Philippines team did not play.

		Singapore	30 -  96	Japan
		Points per half time: 14: 45 , 16: 41 .

		Hong Kong	53  - 51	Singapore
		Points per half-time: 22: 30 , 31  : 21st

Philippines

0 -  2

Indonesia

The Philippines team did not play.

		South Korea	142  - 32	Singapore
		Points per half: 70:10  , 72:22  .

		Sri Lanka	37 -  93	Japan
		Points per half time: 20: 50 , 17: 43 .

		Malaysia	101  - 54	Philippines
		Points per half time: 51  : 21, 50  : 33rd

		People's Republic of China	137  - 60	Indonesia
		Points per half time: 77  : 32, 60  : 28th

		Malaysia	92  - 45	Indonesia
		Points per half: 39:20  , 53:25  .

		Philippines	60 -  62	Singapore
		Points per half-time: 28: 31 , 32  : 31st

		Hong Kong	24 -  141	People's Republic of China
		Points per half-time: 12: 70 , 12: 71 .

		Japan	50 -  64	South Korea
		Points per half time: 26: 36 , 24: 28 .

		Singapore	71  - 36	Sri Lanka
		Points per half: 39:19  , 32:17  .

		People's Republic of China	139  - 56	Philippines
		Points per half: 74:18  , 65:38  .

		Indonesia	47 -  57	Hong Kong
		Points per half-time: 24: 26 , 23: 31 .

		South Korea	93  - 39	Malaysia
		Points per half: 46:18  , 47:21  .

		Sri Lanka	17 -  133	South Korea
		Points per half: 13: 63 , 4: 70 .

		Malaysia	76  - 51	Hong Kong
		Points per half: 39:26  , 37:25  .

		Philippines	28 -  138	Japan
		Points per half time: 11: 67 , 17: 51 .

		Philippines	75-61	Sri Lanka
		Points per half time: 45  : 35, 30  : 26th

		Indonesia	47 -  55	Singapore
		Points per half-time: 30: 32 , 17: 23 .

		Japan	41 -  72	People's Republic of China
		Points per half-time: 21: 33 , 20: 39 .

		Hong Kong	50 -  52	Philippines
		Points per half-time: 23: 25 , 27: 27th

		Sri Lanka	64 -  74	Indonesia
		Points per half time: 27: 40 , 37  : 34th

		Malaysia	26 -  87	Japan
		Points per half time: 16: 45 , 10: 42 .

		People's Republic of China	61 -  63	South Korea
		Points per half time: 23: 28 , 38  : 35th

Master South Korea

Fifth championship

Final placement

rank	team
1	South Korea
2	People's Republic of China
3	Japan
4th	Malaysia
5	Hong Kong
6th	Singapore
7th	Indonesia
8th	Philippines
9	Sri Lanka

The first two qualified for the World Cup in South Korea .

Web links

• 1978 Asian Championship for Women ( English )