The 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games were the largest in the event's history, with 9,704 athletes competing across 476 events from 45 nations.
Key Facts
- Athletes competed
- 9,704
- Sports and disciplines
- 42
- Events held
- 476
- China gold medals (Games record)
- 199
- World records broken
- 3
- Asian records broken
- 103
By the Numbers
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
Guangzhou was selected to host the 16th Asian Games, marking China's second time organizing the event following Beijing 1990. The city and three neighboring municipalities — Dongguan, Foshan, and Shanwei — prepared 53 venues across the region to accommodate the expanded program of 42 sports.
The Games ran from November 12 to 27, 2010, opened by Premier Wen Jiabao on Haixinsha Island along the Pearl River. A record 9,704 athletes from 45 National Olympic Committees competed in 476 events spanning 28 Olympic and 14 non-Olympic sports, making it the largest Asian Games in history to that point.
China dominated the medal tally with a record 199 gold medals, becoming the first nation to surpass 400 total medals in a single Asian Games edition. Macau and Bangladesh each won their first-ever Asian Games gold medals, and six non-Olympic sports were contested for the final time before being dropped from the 2014 program.
Result
at Haixinsha Island / multiple venues, Guangzhou