Asian Games, 2022

 Asian Games, 2022

        The first-ever Asian Games were held in New Delhi in 1951. Asian Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation from 1951 to 1978. Since 1982, Olympic Council of Asia now regulates the Asian Games.

        The 2022 Asian Games, officially the 19th Asian Games and also known as Hangzhou 2022, was a continental multi-sport event which was held from 23 September to 8 October 2023 in Hangzhou, China.

        Originally scheduled to take place from 10 to 25 September 2022, on 6 May 2022 the Games were postponed to 2023 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The new dates were announced on 19 July 2022. Hangzhou was the third Chinese city to host the Asian Games, after Beijing in 1990 and Guangzhou in 2010.

       The official slogan of the event, "Heart to Heart, @Future", represents the goal of uniting the people and countries of Asia through these games.

        Asian Games is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Indian Ocean and on the north by the Arctic Ocean. Asia is subdivided into 49 countries, five of them (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey) are transcontinental countries lying partly in Europe.

 

        In 2022 Asian Games, for a total of 481 gold medals, over 45 nations had participated in 40 sports over 61 categories.

        India finished their Asian Games 2023 campaign with a record haul of 107 medals - 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze i.e. 4^th position in the medal list. This surpassed India's previous record tally achieved at the last edition at Jakarta 2018, where a 570-strong Indian squad racked up 70 medals - 16 gold, 23 silver and 31 bronze.

        Leading the medal count, China bagged a mammoth 200 golds, with Japan and South Korea trailing behind.

          The medal standings are :-

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	People's Republic of China	201	111	71	383
2	Japan	52	67	69	188
3	Republic of Korea	42	59	89	190
4	India	28	38	41	107
5	Uzbekistan	22	18	31	71
6	Chinese Taipei	19	20	28	67
7	IR Iran	13	21	20	54
8	Thailand	12	14	32	58
9	Bahrain	12	3	5	20
10	DPR Korea	11	18	10	39
11	Kazakhstan	10	22	48	80
12	Hong Kong, China	8	16	29	53
13	Indonesia	7	11	18	36
14	Malaysia	6	8	18	32
15	Qatar	5	6	3	14
16	United Arab Emirates	5	5	10	20
17	Philippines	4	2	12	18
18	Kyrgyzstan	4	2	9	15
19	Saudi Arabia	4	2	4	10
20	Singapore	3	6	7	16
21	Vietnam	3	5	19	27
22	Mongolia	3	5	13	21
23	Kuwait	3	4	4	11
24	Tajikistan	2	1	4	7
25	Macau, China	1	3	2	6
26	Sri Lanka	1	2	2	5
27	Myanmar	1	0	2	3
28	Jordan	0	5	4	9
29	Turkmenistan	0	1	6	7
30	Afghanistan	0	1	4	5
31	Pakistan	0	1	2	3
32	Brunei	0	1	1	2
33	Nepal	0	1	1	2
34	Oman	0	1	1	2
35	Iraq	0	0	3	3
36	Lao P.D.R.	0	0	3	3
37	Bangladesh	0	0	2	2
38	Cambodia	0	0	1	1
39	Lebanon	0	0	1	1
40	Palestine	0	0	1	1
41	Syrian Arab Republic	0	0	1	1