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Soccer is the nationwide sport of Myanmar (previously Burma). Khin Maung Lwin (Secretary Normal of the Myanmar Olympic Committee) explained, “As in most of the countries all over the planet, soccer is the most popular sport in Myanmar. When our countrywide football team became champions at the 5th Asian Game titles Bangkok 1966 and the 6th Asian Online games Bangkok 1970, football became even far more well-known amid our folks.Aside from that, athletics, sepaktakraw and wushu are also well-liked in our nation.”
Japan won five gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Online games: a single from athletics and four from judo.
Susanthika Jayasinghe turned the second athlete in Sri Lanka -formerly Ceylon- to win a medal in the Olympic Games when she gained the silver medal in the 200m at the 2000 Summer months Olympics in Australia. Sprinting good Susanthika won 100m and 200m gold at the 2007 Asian Championships in Amman (Jordan). At the IAAF Environment Keep track of and Discipline Championships in 2007, she received the bronze medal in the 200m. Susanthika was born on December 17, 1975 in Atnawala, Sri Lanka.
Bangkok (Thailand) has hosted 4 Asian Video games (1966, 1970, 1978, 1998).
Pakistan despatched 32 sportspersons to the 1972 Summer season Olympics in Munich (West Germany). Pakistani athletes competed in 6 sports activities (athletics, boxing, wrestling, weightlifting, subject hockey, sailing).
Sawao Kato was a person of the greatest gymnasts in the 20th century. In the 1960s and 1970s, Kato received numerous global medals in Europe, Asia and Mexico. At the 1968 Olympic Game titles, he received 3 gold medals in the individual all-close to, flooring work out and staff competitors.
Kabbadi is practiced by thousands and thousands of people in Bangladesh and India. Regrettably, it is not an Olympic activity.
Brunei Darussalam -a person of the world’s richest nations- received two bronze medals at the Hiroshima Game titles in 1994.
Voleyball ( males & gals ) was 1st highlighted at the 1964 Olympic Game titles in Tokyo ( Japan ). The host state received the women’s volleyball level of competition. The winners have been: Yuriko Handa, Kinuko Tanida, Emiko Miyamoto, Ayano Shibuki, Massako Kondo, Yoko Fujimoto, Setsuko Sassaki, Yoko Shinozaki, Katsumi Matsumura, Sata Issobe, Yoshiko Matsumura, Masae Kasai.
The Kingdom of Bhutan -it is about 2 situations the size of Massachusetts- has in no way won a medal in any sport at the Asian Games.
Jordan sent 7 athletes to the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992. This Arab place participated in four athletics: athletics (2), capturing (1), table tennis (1) and taekwondo (3).
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) hosted the 1975 Subject Hockey Men’s Earth Championship. Closing standings: 1.India, 2.Pakistan, 3.West Germany, 4.Malaysia, 5.Australia, 6.England, 7.New Zealand, 8.Spain, 9.Holland, 10.Poland, 11.Argentina, 12.Ghana.
The United Arab Emirates gained 22 medals at the 2005 West Asian Games in Doha (Qatar).
Japan is the birthplace of judo. The initial judo globe championships took position in Tokyo (1956). Judo created its debut as an formal sport in the course of the 1964 Summertime Olympics in Japan.
The most preferred athletics in Oman -Arab region- are soccer, volleyball, athletics and handball.
The 1962 Asian Online games were being held in Jakarta, the money metropolis of Indonesia. As hosts, Indonesia received a full of 48 medals and 9 golds. For political causes, Israel and Taiwan did not take part in the Online games.
Ahmed Al Maktoum (United Arab Emirates) received a shooting gold medal at the 2004 Summer time Olympics, which were being held in Athens, Greece. A sportswriter stated, “On a extraordinary day in August in the course of the 2004 Athens Olympic Video games, the United Arab Emirates’ Sheikh Ahmed Bin Hasher Al Maktoum blasted to victory in the men’s double lure shooting occasion, equalling the Olympic record of 189 factors previously established by Australian Russell Mark at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Video games”.
Mongolia sent two female archers to the 1972 Summer season Olympics. They were Natjav Dariimaa and Doljin Demberel.
Tokyo hosted the FIVB Men’s Planet Championship in 2007. Remaining standings:
1.Brazil,
2.Poland,
3.Bulgaria,
4.Serbia & Montenegro,
5.Italy,
6.France,
7.Russia,
8.Japan,
9.Germany,
10.United States,
11.Canada,
12.Puerto Rico,
13.Argentina,
14.Czech Republic,
15.Cuba,
16.Tunisia,
17.China,
18.Greece,
19.South Korea,
20.Venezuela,
21.Australia,
22.Egypt,
23.Iran,
24.Kazakhstan.
Japan has well known athletes: Ryoko Tani (judo), Takehiro Kashima (gymnastics), Kori Murofushi (keep track of & industry), Saori Yoshida (wrestling), Ayumi Tanimoto (martial arts), Mizuki Noguchi (marathon), Kosuke Kitajima (aquatics), Ai Shibata (swimming), Hiroshi Yamamoto (archery).
