India at the Asian Games
India is a member of the South Asian Zone of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), and has participated in the Asian Games since their inception in 1951. The Indian Olympic Association, established in 1927, and recognised in the same year by the International Olympic Committee, is the National Olympic Committee for India.[1][2]
| India at the Asian Games | |
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| IOC code | IND |
| NOC | Indian Olympic Association |
| Medals Ranked 5th |
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India was one of the first five founding members of the Asian Games Federation on 13 February 1949, in New Delhi; the organisation was disbanded on 26 November 1981 and replaced by the Olympic Council of Asia.[3][4]
Membership of Olympic Council of Asia
India is a member of the South Asian Zone of the Olympic Council of Asia, the governing body of all the sports in Asia, recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the continental association of Asia.[5][6][a] Being a member of South Asian Zone, India also participates in the South Asian Games, sub-regional Games for South Asia.[7]
The Olympic Council of Asia organises five major continental-level multi-sport events: the Asian Summer Games (which are commonly known as the Asian Games), Asian Winter Games, Asian Indoor-Martial Arts Games, Asian Beach Games, and Asian Youth Games. Before 2009, Indoor and Martial Arts were two separate events for indoor and martial arts sports respectively. However, the OCA has since amalgamated them into a single event, the Asian Indoor-Martial Arts Games, which was debuted in 2013 in Incheon, South Korea.[8] As a member of OCA, India is privileged to participate in all these multi-sport events.
Hosted games
New Delhi, the national capital of India, has hosted the Asian Games on two occasions: the inaugural 1951 Asian Games and the 1982 Asian Games.[9]
Asian Games
Medals by Games
- *Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.
India is one of the only seven countries that have competed in all the editions of the Asian Games.[10] The other six are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Thailand.[11] India has won at least one gold medal at every Asian Games, and always ranked within the top 10 nations of the medal table except in the 1990 Asian Games.[12] After completing the 2018 Asian Games, India's medal count is as follows:
A tabular form of the details of the medals won by India is as follows:
| Games | Host Nations | Rank |  Gold |
 Silver |
 Bronze |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 New Delhi[13] | India | 2 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 51 |
| 1954 Manila[13] |  Philippines | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 17 |
| 1958 Tokyo[13] |  Japan | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 |
| 1962 Jakarta[13] |  Indonesia | 3 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 33 |
| 1966 Bangkok[13] |  Thailand | 5 | 7 | 3 | 11 | 21 |
| 1970 Bangkok[13] | Thailand | 5 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 25 |
| 1974 Tehran[13] |  Iran | 7 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 28 |
| 1978 Bangkok[13] | Thailand | 6 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 28 |
| 1982 New Delhi[13] | India | 5 | 13 | 19 | 25 | 57 |
| 1986 Seoul[13] |  South Korea | 5 | 5 | 9 | 23 | 37 |
| 1990 Beijing[13] |  China | 11 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 23 |
| 1994 Hiroshima[13] | Japan | 8 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 23 |
| 1998 Bangkok[13] | Thailand | 9 | 7 | 11 | 17 | 35 |
| 2002 Busan[13] | South Korea | 7 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 36 |
| 2006 Doha[13] |  Qatar | 8 | 10 | 17 | 26 | 53 |
| 2010 Guangzhou | China | 6 | 14 | 17 | 34 | 65 |
| 2014 Incheon[13] | South Korea | 8 | 11 | 9 | 37 | 57 |
| 2018 Jakarta & Palembang | Indonesia | 8 | 16 | 23 | 31 | 70 |
| 2022 Hangzhou | China | 4 | 28 | 38 | 41 | 107 |
| 2026 Aichi–Nagoya | Japan | Future event | ||||
| 2030 Doha | Qatar | |||||
| 2034 Riyadh |  Saudi Arabia | |||||
| Total | 5 | 183 | 238 | 358 | 779 | |
Medals by sport
Note: Board Games included Chess, Go, Bridge and Xiangqi.
| Sport | Rank | Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Athletics |
3 | 85 | 102 | 96 | 283 |
 Shooting |
6 | 16 | 30 | 34 | 80 |
 Wrestling |
7 | 11 | 15 | 39 | 65 |
 Kabaddi |
1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
 Lawn Tennis |
5 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 34 |
 Boxing |
8 | 9 | 17 | 36 | 62 |
 Archery |
3 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 19 |
 Field hockey |
3 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 23 |
 Cue Sports |
3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 15 |
 Equestrian |
3 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 |
 Squash |
3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 18 |
 Golf |
5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
 Board games |
2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
 Rowing |
6 | 2 | 7 | 19 | 28 |
 Diving |
3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
 Football |
6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
 Cricket |
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
 Sailing |
10 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 23 |
 Badminton |
7 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13 |
 Swimming |
14 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 |
 Water polo |
5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
 Weightlifting |
19 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 14 |
 Wushu |
14 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
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17 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
 Kurash |
8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Judo |
17 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
 Roller sports |
7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
 Table tennis |
11 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
 Sepaktakraw |
11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
_pictogram.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Canoeing |
11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Taekwondo |
24 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 5 | 183 | 238 | 358 | 779 |
Most successful athletes
The most successful athletes for India at the Asian Games.[14]
| Athlete | Sport | Years | Sex | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leander Paes | Lawn tennis | 1990–2006 | M | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| P. T. Usha | Athletics | 1982–1994 | F | 4 | 7 | 0 | 11 |
| Jaspal Rana | Shooting | 1994–2006 | M | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Milkha Singh | Athletics | 1958–1962 | M | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Parduman Singh Brar | Athletics | 1954–1962 | M | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Jyothi Surekha Vennam | Archery | 2014–2022 | F | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Manjeet Kaur | Athletics | 2002–2010 | F | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Harinder Pal Sandhu | Squash | 2010–2022 | M | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| M. R. Poovamma | Athletics | 2014–2018 | F | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Navneet Gautam | Kabaddi | 2006–2014 | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Rakesh Kumar | Kabaddi | 2006–2014 | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Ojas Pravin Deotale | Archery | 2022 | M | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Asian Winter Games
Asian Para Games
Medals by Games
India's count is as follows:
A tabular form of the details of the medals won by India is as follows:
[Updated till : 26-10-2023]
| Games | Host Nations | Rank | Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 Guangzhou | China | 15 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 14 |
| 2014 Incheon | South Korea | 15 | 3 | 14 | 16 | 33 |
| 2018 Jakarta | Indonesia | 9 | 15 | 24 | 33 | 72 |
| 2022 Hangzhou | China | 8 | 18 | 23 | 41 | 82 |
| Total | 11 | 37 | 65 | 99 | 201 | |
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
Medals by Games
| Games | Host Nation | Rank | Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asian Indoor Games | ||||||
| 2005 Bangkok[17] | Thailand | 5 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 18 |
| 2007 Macau | China | 6 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 28 |
| 2009 Hanoi[18] |  Vietnam | 7 | 6 | 9 | 25 | 40 |
| Asian Martial Arts Games | ||||||
| 2009 Bangkok | Thailand | 10 | 3 | 7 | 23 | 33 |
| Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games | ||||||
| 2013 Incheon | South Korea | 12 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 2017 Ashgabat |  Turkmenistan | 11 | 9 | 12 | 19 | 40 |
| 2021 Bangkok–Chonburi | Thailand | Future event | ||||
| 2025 Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | |||||
| Total | 9 | 36 | 43 | 90 | 169 | |
Asian Beach Games
Medals by Games
India has participated in both the editions of the Asian Beach Game. In the 2008 Games, India won a total of five medals, including three gold, and ranked seventh in the final medal table.[19] Three gold medals were won by India in the 2010 Asian Beach Games in Muscat, Oman, earning the country sixth place in the medal table.[20]
| Games | Host Nations | Rank | Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 Bali | Indonesia | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 2010 Muscat |  Oman | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 2012 Haiyang | China | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2014 Phuket | Philippines | 20 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| 2016 Da Nang | Vietnam | 16 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 24 |
| 2023 Sanya | China | Future event | ||||
| Total | 11 | 12 | 5 | 29 | 46 | |
Asian Youth Games
Medals by Games
Indian athletes competed in the inaugural Asian Youth Games in Singapore. Indian competitors earned medals in only two sports— athletics and swimming. Four of the five gold medals came from athletics and one came from the swimming competition. Aaron Agnel Dsouza was the only multiple medal winner. Dsouza won a gold in the 200 m freestyle and a bronze in the 100 m freestyle.[21] India's membership in IOC was suspended when the 2013 games took place so Indian athletes competed in the event as independent athletes.
| Games | Host nation | Rank | Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 Singapore |  Singapore | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| 2013 Nanjing | China | 10 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
| 2021 Shantou | China | Cancelled | ||||
| Total | 6 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 25 | |
See also
Notes and references
Notes
- a The National Olympic Committees are all members of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), which is also split among five continental associations: Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa, Pan American Sports Organization, Olympic Council of Asia, European Olympic Committees, and Oceania National Olympic Committees.
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