Asian Games

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Opening ceremony 2006 in Doha

The Asian Games ( Asian Games ), and Pan Asian Games mentioned include sporting competitions Asian States with Olympic character.

history

The Asian Games began in 1913, when the Far Eastern Games were held in Manila . Participating nations at that time were the Philippines , Thailand , the Republic of China , Japan , Malaysia and Hong Kong . By 1934 there were ten events. The eleventh Far Eastern Games were supposed to take place in Osaka in 1938 , but were canceled due to the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War .

After the Second World War , numerous Asian states gained independence. During the 1948 Summer Olympics , Chinese and Filipino athletes encouraged the revival of the Far Eastern Games. In the same year, an Indian sports official invited representatives from 13 countries to a conference on the establishment of an Asian sports association. In 1949 the Asian Games Federation was finally founded . This received a charter based on that of the IOC . The first Asian Games took place from March 4 to 11, 1951 in New Delhi .

In 1962 the Asian Games got into a crisis when the host Indonesia excluded the Republic of China and Israel from participation for political and religious reasons. The IOC then stopped providing support; the IAAF , the AFC and the IMF followed suit. In 1970 and 1978 South Korea and Pakistan could not organize the Asian Games for financial reasons, both times Thailand stepped in . Because of these crises, the Asian NOKs decided to re-establish the Asian Games Federation, and in 1981 the successor organization, the Olympic Council of Asia, was established . 1986 Winter Asian Games took place for the first time .

Over the years, the games became increasingly popular: in the first games in 1951, 489 athletes from 11 nations participated in 6 sports, in 2010 there were 9,704 athletes from 45 nations who competed against each other in 42 sports.

The 2014 Asian Games took place in Incheon , South Korea . On November 8, 2012, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) in Macau awarded the 18th Asian Games in 2019 to the Vietnamese capital Hanoi . She prevailed against the Indonesian Surabaya . Dubai ( UAE ) had previously withdrawn its application. In April 2014, the Vietnamese government officially announced that Vietnam was unable to host the games and returned the order. Jakarta was selected for the new award.

At the end of September 2016, the OCA announced that the 20th Asian Games in Japan would be hosted by Aichi Prefecture and its capital Nagoya and, due to the expected temperatures in autumn, would take place from September 19 to October 4, 2026.

On April 23, 2020, the OCA confirmed that Qatar and Saudi Arabia had applied to host the 2030 Asian Games , while Qatar hosted the Games in 2006, it would be Saudi Arabia's first major athletic event.

List of games

year	output	Host city	Nations	Athletes	sports	Disciplines
1951	I.	New Delhi	11	0489	06th	057
1954	II	Manila	19th	0970	08th	076
1958	III	Tokyo	16	1820	13	097
1962	IV	Jakarta	12	1460	13	088
1966	V	Bangkok	16	1945	14th	143
1970	VI	Bangkok	16	2400	13	135
1974	VII	Tehran	19th	3010	16	202
1978	VIII	Bangkok	19th	3842	19th	201
1982	IX	New Delhi	23	3411	21st	147
1986	X	Seoul	22nd	4839	25th	270
1990	XI	Beijing	36	6122	29	310
1994	XII	Hiroshima	42	6828	34	337
1998	XIII	Bangkok	41	6554	36	376
2002	XIV	Busan	44	7711	38	419
2006	XV	Doha	45	9520	39	424
2010	XVI	Guangzhou	45	9704	42	476
2014	XVII	Incheon	45	9501	36	439
2018	XVIII	Jakarta and Palembang	45	11,720	40	465
2022	XIX	Hangzhou
2026	XX	Nagoya
2030	XXI

List of sports

Badminton since 1962 ( details ) Baseball since 1994 Basketball since 1951 Billiards 1998-2010 ( details ) Bodybuilding 2002-2006 Archery since 1978 Bowling 1978, 1986, since 1994 Boxing since 1954 ( details ) Board games since 2006 Cricket since 2010 Dragon boat since 2010 E-sports from 2022 Fencing 1974–1978, since 1986 Football since 1951 ( details ) Weightlifting 1951–1958, since 1966

Golf since 1982 Handball since 1982 Hockey since 1958 Judo since 1986 Kabaddi since 1990 Canoeing since 1986 Karate since 1994 Athletics since 1951 Modern pentathlon 1994, 2002, since 2010 Equestrian sport 1982–1986, since 1994 Cycling 1951, since 1958 Wrestling since 1954 Roller skating since 2010 Rowing since 1982 Rugby Union since 1998

Shooting since 1954 Sailing 1970, since 1978 Sepak Takraw since 1990 Soft tennis since 1990 Softball since 1990 Squash since 1998 ( details ) Taekwondo 1986, since 1994 Dance sport since 2010 Tennis 1958–1966, since 1974 Table tennis 1958–1966, since 1974 Triathlon since 2006 Gymnastics since 1974 Volleyball since 1958 Water sports since 1951 Wushu since 1990

Medal table

The ten most successful nations are given (1951 to 2010).

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	People's Republic of China	1204	819	608	2631
02	Japan	0910	913	835	2658
03	South Korea	0618	528	674	1820
04th	India	0128	168	260	0556
05	Iran	0128	132	163	0423
06th	Kazakhstan	0110	119	168	0397
07th	Thailand	0109	152	204	0465
08th	Indonesia	0087	116	188	0391
09	North Korea	0074	109	142	0325
10	Philippines	0062	107	195	0364

Other Events

• Indoor Asian Games
• Asian Beach Games

literature

• Stefan Hübner: The Fourth Asian Games (Jakarta 1962) in a Transnational Perspective: Japanese and Indian Reactions to Indonesia's Political Instrumentalization of the Games . In: International Journal of the History of Sport . 29,9 (2012), pp. 1295-1310. ( Online )
• Stefan Huebner: Pan-Asian Sports and the Emergence of Modern Asia, 1913-1974 . NUS Press, Singapore 2016.

Web links

Commons : Asian Games  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Research project on the Far Eastern Championship Games and the early Asian Games
• ocasia.org: Olympic Council of Asia (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ focus.de: Hanoi hosts Asian Games 2019 Article from November 8, 2012
2. ↑ ocasia.org: Hanoi wins bid to host 2019 Asian Games ( Memento from January 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
3. ↑ Vietnam backs out as host of 2019 Asian Games. In: reuters.com. Reuters , April 14, 2014, accessed July 9, 2018 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Asian Games 2026 will rise in Japan , on: sport1.de, from September 25, 2016, accessed April 26, 2020
5. ↑ ^{a b} 2026 Asian Games to be held in autumn to avoid summer heat in Japan , from: xinhuanet.com, August 19, 2018, accessed April 26, 2020
6. ↑ Nicolas Walter: Flash News of the Day - Qatar and Saudi Arabia are competing for the Asian Games 2030 , notes, on: Leichtathletik.de, from April 24, 2020, accessed April 26, 2020
7. ↑ Asian Games 2022 in Hangzhou. In: Sport1.de . September 19, 2014, accessed September 16, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Esports will be an Olympic discipline at the Asian Games in 2022 . In: PC GAMES . ( pcgames.de [accessed on July 29, 2017]).