After the recent Asian Games in Guangzhou, China; I started to collect the information and data regarding all Asian Games from 1951 to 2010. Few days back; I've presented here my last article about the basic information about Asian Games from 1951-2010. The interest shown by the visitors forced me to further drill down the interesting facts and figures of Asian Games from the inception in 1951 to the 16th Asian Games.
Brief History of Asian Games:
Aisad, an official name for the Asian games, is a multi-sport event held every four years and athletes from all over the Asia compete for their respective countries’ pride. After the break up of the Asian Games Federation (AGF); the games organization was taken over by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) since 1986. But from 1951 to 1982 the Asian Games were organized by the Asian Games Federation (AGF).
The Asian Games are accepted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and are described as the second largest multi-sport event after the Olympic Games.
Thailand has the honour to host Asian Games four times, more than any other nation. Latest Asian Games in Guangzhou were second to be hosted by China after hosting 11th Asian Games in Beijing. In its history, only nine nations have hosted the Asian Games. India has also honour of hosting two Asian Games events. One of them is a record which made for never to be broken is the hosting of first ever Asian Games in 1951 in New Delhi. New Delhi was also honoured to host the 9th Asian Games second time in 1982.
Today I'm starting a series of articles, exclusively tagged as Journey of Success, in which I'll present the information, data, facts and figures about the significant participants/countries of the Asian Games since the inception of the games in 1951 to the latest one in the Guangzhou, China.
Let's start with the latest host of Asian Games - CHINA.
China's Journey of Success in Asian Games:
Since 9th Asian Games in New Delhi, India; China rose up as the super power of Asian Games beating Japan with a small margin of four Gold Medals. Before 1982 Japan enjoyed the number one standing on the medal table in eight consecutive Asian Games. After 1982 there were no looking back for China. Chinese athletes started to set very high standards and China rose up very high in the medal tallies of respective Asian Games after 1982 and onward.
The height of excellence exhibited by Chinese players and athletes in 1990 when China got their first ever chance to host the 11th Asian Games in Beijing. China touched the new peak of medals winning 183 gold medals in 11th Asian Games. And the record was broken in 16th Asian Games in 2010 by none other than China by securing 199 gold medals.
Before 1982 China was just an ordinary participant of Asian Games; but they started to feel the world their presence in 7th Asian Games in Tehran, where they stood on third place after Japan and host Iran. There was a small gap of just 3 gold medals from Iran's second position.
The successful journey of China in the Asian Games is summarized in a tabular form here for sports lovers:
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