Asian Games - Sports

Sports

44 sports were presented in Asian Games history, including 2010 Games in Guangzhou.

Sport Years
Aquatics since 1951
Archery since 1978
Athletics since 1951
Badminton since 1962
Baseball since 1994
Basketball since 1951
Board games since 2006
Bodybuilding 2002–2006
Bowling 1978, 1986, since 1994
Boxing since 1954
Canoeing since 1986
Cricket 2010
Cue sports since 1998
Cycling 1951, since 1958
Dancesport 2010
Dragon boat 2010
Equestrian 1982–1986, since 1994
Fencing 1974–1978, since 1986
Football since 1951
Golf since 1982
Gymnastics since 1974
Handball since 1982
Sport Years
Hockey since 1958
Judo since 1986
Kabaddi since 1990
Karate since 1994
Modern pentathlon 1994, 2002, 2010
Roller sports 2010
Rowing since 1982
Rugby union since 1998
Sailing 1970, since 1978
Sepaktakraw since 1990
Shooting since 1954
Softball since 1990
Soft tennis since 1990
Squash since 1998
Table tennis 1958–1966, since 1974
Taekwondo 1986, since 1994
Tennis 1958–1966, since 1974
Triathlon since 2006
Volleyball since 1958
Weightlifting 1951–1958, since 1966
Wrestling since 1954
Wushu since 1990

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Famous quotes containing the word sports:

    “Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “There be some sports are painful, and their labor
    Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
    Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
    Point to rich ends.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
    —Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)