Asian Geographic - 08.2018

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ILLUSTRATION ADAPTED FROM SHUTTERSTOCK

China has the highest number of


gold medals to date: 1,355


India and Japan are the only two


countries to have won a gold medal
in each of the Games

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India hosted the first ever Games in
New Delhi in 1951, after Guru Dutt
Sondhi, a member of the Indian
International Olympic Committee,
proposed the idea of a regional games

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Yemen, Palestine, Nepal, Laos and
Afghanistan have all never won a
gold medal

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10


MOST GOLD MEDALS


957

1,355

697

1 ST
2 ND 3 RD
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