Swimming at the 1970 Asian Games
Venue	Visutdrarom Swimming Pool
Dates	12–16 December 1970

Swimming was contested at the 1970 Asian Games in National Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand from December 12 to December 16, 1970.

Medalists

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Shojiro Sawa  Japan	55.3 GR	Kunihiro Iwasaki  Japan	56.1	Tan Thuan Heng  Singapore	56.4
200 m freestyle	Kunihiro Iwasaki  Japan	2:01.5	Noboru Waseda  Japan	2:01.9	Jairulla Jaitulla  Philippines	2:03.3
400 m freestyle	Cho Oh-yun  South Korea	4:20.2 GR	Akira Iida  Japan	4:21.2	Toshinori Murata  Japan	4:26.3
1500 m freestyle	Cho Oh-yun  South Korea	17:25.7 GR	Akira Iida  Japan	17:42.7	Toshinori Murata  Japan	17:45.9
100 m backstroke	Tadashi Honda  Japan	1:01.2 GR	Koji Hoshino  Japan	1:02.4	Hsu Tung-hsiung  Republic of China	1:03.7
200 m backstroke	Tadashi Honda  Japan	2:13.2 GR	Koji Hoshino  Japan	2:17.6	Hsu Tung-hsiung  Republic of China	2:18.6
100 m breaststroke	Nobutaka Taguchi  Japan	1:06.3 GR	Amman Jalmaani  Philippines	1:09.9	Phath Sim Onn  Khmer Republic	1:10.8
200 m breaststroke	Nobutaka Taguchi  Japan	2:28.2 GR	Amman Jalmaani  Philippines	2:34.0	Kemalpasa Umih  Philippines	2:35.5
100 m butterfly	Yasuhiro Komazaki  Japan	58.7 GR	Satoshi Maruya  Japan	58.8	Hsu Tung-hsiung  Republic of China	1:01.2
200 m butterfly	Yasuhiro Komazaki  Japan	2:09.0 GR	Satoshi Maruya  Japan	2:16.0	Leroy Goff  Philippines	2:16.3
400 m individual medley	Toru Udo  Japan	4:57.8 GR	Junhachiro Tsutsumi  Japan	5:02.8	Hsu Tung-hsiung  Republic of China	5:05.8
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Japan Shojiro Sawa Kunihiro Iwasaki Noboru Waseda Satoshi Maruya	3:41.9 GR	Philippines Dae Imlani Carlos Brosas Kemalpasa Umih Jairulla Jaitulla	3:52.0	Khmer Republic Eat Kim Heng Tieng Sok Prak Samnang Tan Bunthay	3:52.1
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Japan Noboru Waseda Kunihiro Iwasaki Akira Iida Toshinori Murata	8:14.9 GR	Philippines Jairulla Jaitulla Dae Imlani Kemalpasa Umih Leroy Goff	8:35.8	Singapore Alex Chan Soh Seng Hoi Roy Chan Tan Thuan Heng	8:35.8
4 × 100 m medley relay	Japan Tadashi Honda Nobutaka Taguchi Satoshi Maruya Shojiro Sawa	4:00.4 GR	Philippines Ibnorajik Muksan Amman Jalmaani Leroy Goff Jairulla Jaitulla	4:15.3	Israel Yoav Yaakovi Yohan Kende Dan Stern Moshe Gertel	4:18.1

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Yoshimi Nishigawa  Japan	1:01.0 GR	Shigeko Kawanishi  Japan	1:01.5	Pat Chan  Singapore	1:03.4
200 m freestyle	Yoshimi Nishigawa  Japan	2:13.8 GR	Shigeko Kawanishi  Japan	2:17.3	Pat Chan  Singapore	2:19.0
400 m freestyle	Tae Iguchi  Japan	4:51.8 GR	Pat Chan  Singapore	4:52.4	Eiko Goshi  Japan	5:03.7
100 m backstroke	Yukiko Goshi  Japan	1:08.4 GR	Kikuyo Ishii  Japan	1:08.6	Pat Chan  Singapore	1:11.1
100 m breaststroke	Hitomi Tanigami  Japan	1:18.9 GR	Chieno Shibata  Japan	1:19.8	Shlomit Nir  Israel	1:20.6
200 m breaststroke	Chieno Shibata  Japan	2:46.5 GR	Hitomi Tanigami  Japan	2:51.5	Shlomit Nir  Israel	2:54.3
100 m butterfly	Mayumi Aoki  Japan	1:05.9 GR	Kazuyo Banno  Japan	1:08.4	Tay Chin Joo  Singapore	1:08.9
200 m individual medley	Yoshimi Nishigawa  Japan	2:26.5 GR	Yukari Takemoto  Japan	2:30.5	Pat Chan  Singapore	2:35.9
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Japan Shigeko Kawanishi Yukiko Goshi Yukari Takemoto Yoshimi Nishigawa	4:12.5 GR	Singapore Elaine Sng Jovina Tseng Tay Chin Joo Pat Chan	4:20.4	Republic of China Shen Bao-ni Wang Dai-yu Hsu Yue-yun Shen Pei-ni	4:35.7
4 × 100 m medley relay	Japan Yukiko Goshi Mayumi Aoki Chieno Shibata Yoshimi Nishigawa	4:35.4 GR	Singapore Pat Chan Tay Chin Joo Esther Tan Elaine Sng	4:55.8	Philippines Luz Arzaga Hedy Garcia Susan Papa Luz Laciste	5:08.5

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	22	16	3	41
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	0	0	2
3	Philippines (PHI)	0	5	4	9
4	Singapore (SIN)	0	3	7	10
5	Republic of China (ROC)	0	0	5	5
6	Israel (ISR)	0	0	3	3
7	Khmer Republic (KHM)	0	0	2	2
Totals (7 entries)		24	24	24	72

References

• Sports 123: Asian Games
• Medallists

External links

• Asian Swimming Federation