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The Afro-Asian Games were the series of inter-continental multi-sport competitions, held between athletes from Asia and Africa. These Games are one-of-a-kind, since no other sporting competition brings athletes from these two continents together for one event, excluding the Olympic Games. These Games are supposed to be held once every four years.
e. The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a continental multi-sport event held every four years for athletes of Asia. [1] The Games were regulated by Asian Games Federation from the first Games in New Delhi, India in 1951, until the 1978 Games. [2] Since the 1982 Games, they have been organized by the Olympic Council of Asia, after the ...
The 1951 Asian Games, officially known as the First Asian Games (Hindi: प्रथम एशियाई खेल), was a multi-sport event celebrated in New Delhi, India from 4 to 11 March 1951. [1] The Games received names like First Asiad, 1951 Asiad, and New Dehli 1951 (Hindi: नई दिल्ली 1951). A total of 489 athletes ...
The first large-scale Asian–African or Afro–Asian Conference (Indonesian: Konferensi Asia–Afrika), also known as the Bandung Conference, was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on 18–24 April 1955 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. [ 1 ] The twenty-nine countries that participated ...
The games were held from 24 August to 4 September 1962, in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was the first international multi-sport event hosted by the then-17-year-old Southeast Asian country. This was the first of two Asian Games hosted by the city: the second was held in 2018, with Palembang as the co-host. Israel and the Republic of China (ROC) were ...
The 2003 Afro-Asian Games, officially known as the First Afro-Asian Games or I Afro-Asian Games and unofficially known as the Inaugural Afro-Asian Games, was a major international multi-sport event held in Hyderabad, India, [2] from 24 October (excluding football and hockey, which began on 22 October and 23 October respectively) to 1 November 2003.
Asian Games. *Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil. With 492 medals, Indonesia is currently on 11th rank in all times Asian Games medal table. Highest achievement of Indonesia was in 2018 Asian Games at Jakarta and Palembang with 31 golds and 98 total medals. [4]
Athletics at the Asian Games. Athletics is an Asian Games event since 1951 in New Delhi, India. Among major athletics tournaments of the region, it succeeded the athletics at the Far Eastern Championship Games, which had ceased to be held after 1938.