# Rowing at the 1998 Asian Games

Rowing at the 1998 Asian Games was held in Map Prachan Reservoir, Chonburi Province, Thailand from December 16 to 19, 1998.

## Schedule

| H | Heats | R | Repechages | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 16th Wed | 17th Thu | 18th Fri | 19th Sat |
| Men's single sculls | | | F | |
| Men's double sculls | H | R | | F |
| Men's coxless four | H | R | | F |
| Men's lightweight single sculls | H | R | | F |
| Men's lightweight double sculls | H | R | F | |
| Men's lightweight coxless four | | | F | |
| Women's single sculls | H | R | | F |
| Women's coxless four | | | | F |
| Women's lightweight single sculls | | | F | |
| Women's lightweight double sculls | H | R | | F |
| Women's lightweight quadruple sculls | | | F | |

## Medalists
### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls details | Cai Yukun China | Lasmin Indonesia | Muhammad Akram Pakistan |
| Double sculls details | China Cui Yonghui Li Yang | Japan Kazuaki Mimoto Daisaku Takeda | North Korea Kim Sun-yong Ri Kye-jun |
| Coxless four details | China Zhang Binggui Nie Junliang Sun Jun Dai Haizhen | Japan Shinpei Murai Yukuo Okamoto Tatsuya Mizutani Tatsunori Nishioka | India Birbal Singh Tarlochan Singh Johnson Xavier Jagjit Singh |
| Lightweight single sculls details | Hua Lingjun China | Kim Il-yong North Korea | Muhammad Akram Pakistan |
| Lightweight double sculls details | China Gao Bingrong Liu Jian | Japan Kazuaki Mimoto Daisaku Takeda | North Korea Ri Chol-jin Kim Song-chol |
| Lightweight coxless four details | China Liu Zewu Zhou Guoyang Wang Xutao Mao Zhixing | Japan Yoshitomo Kitanoue Atsushi Obata Hiroya Sato Kazushige Ura | India B. K. K. Thankachan Rampal Singh Pappi Singh Kasam Khan |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Single sculls details | Zhang Xiuyun China | Fenella Ng Hong Kong | Junko Kano Japan |
| Coxless four details | China Liu Lijuan Yang Limei Sun Guangxia Liu Xiaochun | Kazakhstan Irina Dmitriyeva Natalya Orlova Vera Nabiyeva Vera Filimonova | Chinese Taipei Chen Li-chao Yu Chen-chun Feng Mei-hua Chiu Hui-chen |
| Lightweight single sculls details | Ou Shaoyan China | Fenella Ng Hong Kong | Phuttharaksa Neegree Thailand |
| Lightweight double sculls details | China Fan Ruihua Ou Shaoyan | Japan Akiko Iwamoto Yoshie Sugiyama | North Korea Ri Son-yong Mun Won-ok |
| Lightweight quadruple sculls details | China Fan Ruihua Shen Senping Peng Ying Liu Bili | Japan Aiko Asano Yoshie Sugiyama Junko Kano Akiko Iwamoto | North Korea Kim Mi-sun Rim Kum-suk Mun Won-ok Ri Son-yong |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | Hong Kong (HKG) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 5 | Indonesia (INA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | India (IND) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 7 | Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 9 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | Thailand (THA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (10 entries) | Totals (10 entries) | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33 |

## Participating nations

A total of 156 athletes from 15 nations competed in rowing at the 1998 Asian Games:
* China (24)
* Chinese Taipei (8)
* Hong Kong (7)
* India (8)
* Indonesia (4)
* Japan (14)
* Kazakhstan (9)
* North Korea (13)
* Pakistan (5)
* Philippines (13)
* Singapore (3)
* South Korea (14)
* Thailand (23)
* Turkmenistan (2)
* Uzbekistan (9)