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Second Asian Games |
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Opening
date:
01 May 1954
Closing date:
09 May 1954
Country of the host city:
Philippine (PHI) |
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MANILA 1954 |
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Participating Nations
19
Participants
970
Sports/Events
8
/ 76
Athletics, Swimming, Soccer, Basketball, Weightlifting,
Wrestling, Boxing & Shooting
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The Capital of
Philippines, Manila hosted 2nd Asian Games. The ideals of the
Olympic Movement through the Asian Games were firmly bolstered
at this Games with considerable increase in numbers of
participating countries/NOCs and participants. Although
cycling was excluded, wrestling, boxing, and rifle shooting
were added to bring the total number of sports to 8. As for
the gold medal tally, Japan lead the record with 37,
Philippines as the host country was 2nd with 10, and Korea
doing well as a new comer was 3rd with 8.
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Medals Tally
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Rank |
Nation |
G |
S |
B |
Total |
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1 |
Japan |
38 |
36 |
24 |
98 |
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2 |
Philippines |
14 |
14 |
17 |
45 |
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3 |
Korea |
8 |
6 |
5 |
19 |
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4 |
Pakistan |
4 |
5 |
- |
9 |
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5 |
India |
4 |
4 |
5 |
14 |
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6 |
China |
2 |
4 |
6 |
12 |
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7 |
Burma |
2 |
- |
2 |
4 |
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8 |
Israel |
2 |
- |
1 |
3 |
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9 |
Singapore |
1 |
3 |
4 |
8 |
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10 |
Ceylon |
- |
1 |
1 |
2 |
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11 |
Indonesia |
- |
- |
3 |
3 |
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12 |
Hong Kong |
- |
- |
1 |
1 |
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Total |
75 |
73 |
69 |
218 |
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