Sailing at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Ao-dongtarn Jomtien Beach
Dates	8–13 December 1998
Competitors	122 from 16 nations
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Sailing (as Yachting) was contested at the 1998 Asian Games from December 8 to December 13. Competition took place in various sailing disciplines at the Ao-dongtarn Jomtien Beach in Pattaya, Chonburi Province.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mistral light details	Arun Homraruen  Thailand	Ted Huang  Chinese Taipei	Li Mingdong  China
Mistral heavy details	Oka Sulaksana  Indonesia	Motokazu Kenjo  Japan	Kookiat Sakulfaeng  Thailand
Raceboard light details	Zhou Yuanguo  China	Sam Wong  Hong Kong	Ok Duck-pil  South Korea
Raceboard heavy details	Suhaimee Moohammadkasem  Thailand	Chen Zhanying  China	Hong A-ram  South Korea
Optimist details	Chae Bong-jin  South Korea	Mohd Nazmi Sharif  Malaysia	Roy Tay  Singapore
Laser details	Kim Ho-kon  South Korea	Kevin Lim  Malaysia	Cao Xiaobo  China
420 details	Singapore Siew Shaw Her Colin Ng	South Korea Park Jong-woo Kim Hyeong-tae	Thailand Wiwat Poonpat Kitipong Khambang
470 details	South Korea Kim Dae-young Jung Sung-ahn	Japan Eiichiro Hamazaki Masato Takaki	Singapore Tan Wearn Haw Charles Lim

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mistral details	Lee Lai Shan  Hong Kong	Huang Ying  China	Masako Imai  Japan
Optimist details	Kim Suk-kyong  South Korea	Shen Xiaoying  China	Prapawadee Damdangdee  Thailand
Europe details	Zhang Hong  China	Aiko Saito  Japan	Tracey Tan  Singapore
420 details	Singapore Joan Huang Naomi Tan	Thailand Wandee Vongtim Theeranoot Vongruck	Hong Kong Mou Lap Kam Lee Chun Yi
470 details	China Yang Xiaoyan Li Dongying	Japan Chizuko Ijima Makiko Ikuta	South Korea Kim Myoung-hwa Jung Eun-suk

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
OK details	Jin Hong-chul  South Korea	Anthony Kiong  Singapore	Prasertsak Moolprasert  Thailand
Super Moth details	Damrongsak Vongtim  Thailand	Malik Sulaiman  Malaysia	Zahid Rauf  Pakistan
Enterprise details	South Korea Chung Yoon-gil Lim Jin-young	Pakistan Mamoon Sadiq Munir Sadiq	Sri Lanka Lalin Jirasinha Krishan Janaka

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	6	1	3	10
2	China (CHN)	3	3	2	8
3	Thailand (THA)	3	1	4	8
4	Singapore (SIN)	2	1	3	6
5	Hong Kong (HKG)	1	1	1	3
6	Indonesia (INA)	1	0	0	1
7	Japan (JPN)	0	4	1	5
8	Malaysia (MAS)	0	3	0	3
9	Pakistan (PAK)	0	1	1	2
10	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	1	0	1
11	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		16	16	16	48

A total of 122 athletes from 16 nations competed in sailing at the 1998 Asian Games:

• Results

• Olympic Council of Asia