The Asian Games is a continental multi sport competition first held in New Delhi in 1951 under the Asian Games Federation, more than three decades before the body that governs it today existed. The Olympic Council of Asia, established in New Delhi on 16 November 1982 with thirty four founding National Olympic Committees and now headquartered in Kuwait City, replaced the Asian Games Federation and organized the 1982 New Delhi Games as its first edition under its own charter. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founding DateOpening day of the inaugural 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi; the closing ceremony followed on 11 March 1951. Host HistoryNew Delhi hosted the inaugural 1951 edition. Later hosts include Manila (1954), Tokyo (1958), Jakarta (1962), Bangkok (three times: 1966, 1970 and 1978), Tehran (1974), New Delhi again (1982), Seoul (1986), Beijing (1990), Hiroshima (1994), Bangkok again (1998), Busan (2002), Doha (2006), Guangzhou (2010), Incheon (2014), Jakarta again (2018) and Hangzhou (2023, postponed from 2022). 3 Disputed
Founding Year1951
1951 marks the first Asian Games, held under the earlier Asian Games Federation; the Olympic Council of Asia, the body that governs the Games today, was not established until 1982. Learn More
Three Decades Before Its Own Federation: The Asian Games Before the OCA
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New Delhi hosted the first Asian Games in 1951 under the Asian Games Federation, a body formed specifically to run the new continental competition in the years immediately following the end of the Second World War and the independence of several of the founding nations. That federation kept the Games running across the 1950s, 1960s and into the early 1980s, building a genuine multi decade tradition of continental competition well before the organization that governs the Games today existed.
The Olympic Council of Asia replaced the Asian Games Federation in 1982, established in New Delhi, the same city where the whole tradition had started thirty one years earlier, with thirty four founding National Olympic Committees. The OCA's first Games under its own charter, fittingly, were also held in New Delhi that same year, closing a loop that had opened three decades before with a different governing body running the show.
From New Delhi to New Delhi: Bookending Three Decades of Asian Games History
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It is a coincidence worth noticing rather than a planned symmetry: both the very first Asian Games in 1951 and the first Games organized under the newly formed Olympic Council of Asia in 1982 were held in the same city, New Delhi, thirty one years apart. Between those two editions, the Asian Games Federation ran seven further editions across cities including Manila, Tokyo, Jakarta, Bangkok and Tehran, building the continental profile and the participation base that made the 1982 transition to a permanent, better resourced governing council possible in the first place.
For a reader trying to place a single founding date on the Asian Games, the New Delhi bookends offer a useful discipline: 1951 answers when the competition itself began, 1982 answers when the body that runs it today took charge, and neither date alone tells the whole story on its own.
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Badminton, Sports One of many sports on the Asian Games program; badminton is named here as a marquee example, not an exclusive claim.
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The Asian Games is a continental multi sport competition first held in New Delhi in 1951 under the Asian Games Federation, more than three decades before the body that governs it today existed. The Olympic Council of Asia, established in New Delhi on 16 November 1982 with thirty four founding Nation
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were a multi-sport event celebrated in New Delhi, India from 4 to 11 March 1951.
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athletes from Oceania would be invited to compete in athletics, triathlon, roller skating, weightlifting, and wushu
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athletes from Oceania would be invited to compete in athletics, triathlon, roller skating, weightlifting, and wushu
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sole authority for representation of the Philippines in the Olympic Games, the Asian Games
Indian Olympic Association (Wikipedia)
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responsible for selecting athletes to represent India at the Olympic Games, Asian Games and other international sports competitions
National Olympic Committee of Thailand (Wikipedia)
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Asian Games events organised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)
Indonesian Olympic Committee (Wikipedia)
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Their duty is to organize Indonesian participation in international sporting events, such as Summer Olympic Games, Asian Games, and Southeast Asian Games.
Olga Rypakova (Wikipedia)
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took the heptathlon gold at the 2006 Asian Games
Lee Sang-min (basketball) (Wikipedia)
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He was part of the team at the 1994 Asian Games, 1996 Summer Olympics, 1998 Asian Games and 2002 Asian Games.
Son Min-han (Wikipedia)
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pitching in the 1994 Asian Games, the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2000 Summer Olympics
Wikipedia, Son Heung-min
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Son has also represented South Korea at the 2018 Asian Games, where the team won gold, and the 2011, 2015, 2019, and 2023 editions of the AFC Asian Cup; Korea was the runner-up in 2015.
Wikipedia, P. V. Sindhu
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She is also the reigning Commonwealth Games champion and has won three consecutive singles medals at the Commonwealth Games, a silver medal at the Asian Games, and two bronze medals at the Uber Cup.
Wikipedia, Abhinav Bindra
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Bindra has won seven medals at the Commonwealth Games and three medals at the Asian Games.
Wikipedia, Gukesh Dommaraju
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He was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in the men's team competition.
Harmanpreet Singh, Wikipedia
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Singh also captained the team to win a gold at the 2022 Asian Games.
Wikipedia, Wu Minxia
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Entering her first major championship in 2001, Wu represented China at every Asian Games, Olympic Games and FINA World Aquatics Championships through 2016.
Milkha Singh (Wikipedia)
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He has won gold medals in the 1958 and 1962 Asian Games.
Wikipedia, Chi Cheng
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She won the gold medal in the 100 metres at the 1970 Asian Games in Bangkok in a games record time.
Wikipedia, Kim Soo-nyung
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She competed at the 1990 Asian Games winning a gold medal in the team event and a bronze in the individual.
Wikipedia, Rudy Hartono
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At the 1970 Asian Games held in Bangkok, he won gold in the men's team event and two bronze in the men's doubles and mixed doubles events.
Hardik Singh - Wikipedia
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Singh was part of the side that finished first in both the Asian Champions Trophy and the Hangzhou Asian Games, both played in 2023.
Rustam Kasimdzhanov - Wikipedia
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Kasimdzhanov won gold in the individual men's rapid event at the 2010 Asian Games.
Wikipedia, Nicol David
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David reached the quarterfinals of the previous World Junior Championships in August 1997 in Brazil, as a thirteen-year-old and had since claimed both the Asian junior and senior titles, as well as the gold medal in the Asian Games in December 1998.
Wikipedia, Ju Wenjun
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Her team has won the gold medal in the 42nd Chess Olympiad (in 2016 and 2018), Women's World Team Chess Championship (2009 and 2011), Women's Asian Nations Chess Cup (2012, 2014 and 2016), and 2010 Asian Games.
Wikipedia: Sun Yang
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At the 2014 Asian Games, Sun participated in the 200, 400, and 1500 metre freestyle events.
Yang Wei (gymnast) - Wikipedia
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He also won gold medals in the team event, individual all-around, rings, and parallel bars competitions at the 2006 Asian Games.
Ding Junhui (Wikipedia)
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In December 2006, Ding won three gold medals at the 2006 Asian Games, winning the single, double, and team snooker competitions.
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