19th Asian Games 2023 Winners list

The Asian Games, also known as Asiad, is a multi-sport event held once every four years, bringing together athletes from across Asia to compete in various sports disciplines. It is considered as the biggest sports competition in Asia and the second-largest multi-sport event globally.

Established in 1951, the Games aim to promote unity, friendship, and sportsmanship among Asian nations was initially regulated by the Asian Games Federation (AGF) from 1951 to 1978. 

After the dissolution of the AGF, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) organized the event starting from 1982 onwards.

The Asian Games is recognized by the International Olympic Committee and its emblem depicts the rising sun encompassed by interlocking rings.

The event was scheduled to be held in September 2022 but faced a postponement due to the escalating COVID-19 cases in China. Consequently, the event was rescheduled and is set to take place in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, spanning from September to October 2023.

A significant milestone was achieved in the history of the Asian Games as India, for the first time, surpassed a three-figure mark in its medals tally. 

India's exceptional performance resulted in its best-ever medal count, surpassing the previous record of 70 medals achieved during the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games. This feat marked a historic moment as India crossed the 100-medal mark, becoming the fourth nation after China, Japan, and South Korea to accomplish this milestone.

 The 20th Asian Games will be held in the city of Nagoya, Japan in 2026.

Let's take a quick look through the 19th Asian Games 2022 Winners list for the candidates who are preparing for Kerala PSC Exams.


Highlights of Asian Games 2022

  • Edition – 19th. 
  • Venue – Hangzhou, China.
  • Organized by – Olympic Council of Asia (OCA).
  • The host of the first Asian Games – India (New Delhi, 1951).
    • Opened by – Dr. Rajendra Prasad.
  • Duration – September 23 to  October 8, 2023.
  • Motto of Asian Games 2022 – ‘Heart to heart, @ Future.’
    • Motto of Asian Games – 'Ever Onward' (by Jawaharlal Nehru).
  • Mascot of Asian Games 2022 – Congcong, Lianlian & Chenchen (collectively known as the "Memories of Jiangnan"; Trio of Robots). 
    • Yellow robot, Congcong – Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City.
    • Green robot, Lianlian – the West Lake, a World Heritage site.
    • Blue robot, Chenchen – a dug canal that connects Beijing. and the city of Hangzhou. 
  • Emblem of 2022 Asian Games – Surging Tides.
  • Torch of 19th Asian Games – Eternal Flame.
  • Medal Design of 2022 Asian Games – Shan Shui (Lake & Mountain).
  • The no. of participated Nations – 45.
  • First place in Medal Table – China.
    • Second place – Japan.
    • 3rd – Republic of Korea.
      Asian Games Medal Tally 2022
  • India finished its campaign by securing fourth place
    • Total no. of Medals = 107 (Gold: 28; Silver: 38; Bronze: 41).
  • Official Sponsor of Team India in Asian Games 2022 – Amul.
  • No. of Indian athletes participated in the Asian Games 2022 – 655.
  • India’s flag bearers at 19th Asian Games – Harmanpreet Singh & Lovlina Borgohain.
  • Indian flag-bearer in the closing ceremony – P. R. Sreejesh.  
  • Total no. of events in Asian Games 2022 – 481 in 40 sports (61 disciplines).
  • Name the two new sports/games inducted in the Asian Games 2022 – e-Sports & Breakdancing.
  • Name the sports/games that were included in the Asian Games 2022 but were absent from the 2018 Asiad – Cricket, Go, Xiangqi & Chess.
  • The first gold medals at the Asian Games were all won by – China (Rowing, Shooting & Wushu).
  • The Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Hangzhou Asian Games – Zhang Yufei and Qin Haiyang (Swimmers, China)
  • The Sports in which India won gold medals in 2023 Asian Games – Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Cricket, Equestrian, Kabaddi, Hockey, Squash, Tennis & Shooting.
  • The first Indian woman golfer to win a medal in the Asian Games – Aditi Ashok (Silver).
  • The first Indian woman to win a gold medal in the javelin throw – Annu Rani.
  • The first Indian to win a gold medal in the 3000-m steeplechase – Avinash Sable.
  • The first Indian woman to win a gold medal in the 5000-m race – Parul Chaudhary.
  • India’s first Asian Games doubles gold in badminton was won by – Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty.
  • The Oldest Indian athlete to clinch a medal at the 2022 Asian Games – Jaggy Shivdasani (65-year-old, Silver, Bridge).
  • The Youngest Indian Woman Athlete to win a medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games – Sanjana Bathula (15 years, three months and 11 days old, Bronze, women's 3000m relay Skating).
  • The sports category that brought India its 100th medal in n the 2023 Asian Games – Kabaddi (Women's).


List of Asian Games 2022 Medal Winners 

1. Shooting

  • Total No. of Medals – 22.
    • No. of Gold Medals – 7.
    • No. of Silver Medals – 9.
    • No. of Bronze Medals – 6.
  • India has won the most gold in Shooting (7) at the 2022 Asian Games.
  • India's first gold medal at Asian Games 2022 was won by – Divyansh Panwar, Rudrankksh Patil & Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar (10m Air Rifle Team).
  • Name the Indian woman athlete who won the gold at the Asian Games 2022 with a world record score of 469.6 points in the 50m rifle three positions event – Sift Kaur Samra.
  • Name the 18-year-old Indian athlete who won the gold medal at the Asian Games 2022 with the Asian Games record score of 242.1 points in the 10m Air Pistol event – Palak Gulia.

Medal Event
Gold10m Air pistol
(Men's)
Sarabjot Singh
Shiva Narwal
Arjun Singh Cheema
Gold10m Air Rifle
(Men's)
Divyansh Panwar
Rudrankksh Patil
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
Gold50m Rifle 3 Positions Team
(Men's)
Swapnil Kusal
Akhil Sheoran
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
GoldTrap Team
(Men's)
Kynan Chenai
Prithviraj Tondaiman
Zoravar Singh Sandhu
Gold10m Air Pistol
(Women’s)
Palak Gulia
Gold25m Pistol Team
(Women's)
Manu Bhaker
Esha Singh
Rhythm Sangwan
Gold50m Rifle 3 Positions
(Women's)
Sift Kaur Samra
SilverMen's skeetAnantjeet Singh Naruka
Silver25m sports pistol
(Women's)
Esha Singh
Silver50m rifle 3 positions
(Men's)
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
Silver10m Air Pistol
(Women’s Team)
Mehuli Ghosh
Ramita Jindal
Ashi Chouksey
Silver50m Rifle 3 positions
(Women’s Team)
Manini Kaushik
Sift Kaur Samra
Ashi Chouksey
SilverTrap Team
(Women's)
Preeti Rajak
Manisha Keer
Rajeshwari Kumari
Silver10m Air pistol
(Mixed)
Sarabjot Singh
Divya TS
Silver10m Air pistol
(Women's Team)
Divya TS
Palak Gulia
Esha Singh
Bronze10m Air pistol
(Men's)
Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar
Bronze10m Air pistol
(Women's)
Ramita Jindal
Bronze25m Rapid fire pistol
(Men's Team)
Adarsh Singh
Anish Bhanwala
Vijayveer Sidhu
Bronze50m Rifle 3 positions
(Women's)
Ashi Chouksey
BronzeMen's TrapKynan Chenai
BronzeSkeet team
(Men's)
Anantjeet Singh Naruka
Gurjoat Singh Khangura
Angad Vir Singh Bajwa


2. Athletics

  • India won the most medals in the 2022 Asian Games from Athletics.
  • Total No. of Medals – 29.
    • No. of Gold Medals – 6.
    • No. of Silver Medals – 14.
    • No. of Bronze Medals – 9.
  • The sprinter who equaled the legendary PT Usha's national record in the women's 400m hurdles after almost four decades in the Asian Games – Vithya Ramraj.

Medal Event
Gold3000m Steeplechase
(Men's)
Avinash Sable
Gold5000 m
(Women’s)
Parul Chaudhary
Gold4 x 400m Relay
(Men's)
Muhammed Anas Yahiya
Amoj Jacob
Rajesh Ramesh
Muhammed Ajmal Variyathodi
GoldShot Put
(Men’s)
Tajinderpal Singh Toor
GoldJavelin throw
(Men’s)
Neeraj Chopra
GoldJavelin throw
(Women’s)
Annu Rani
Silver800m
(Men’s)
Mohammed Afsal
Silver800m
(Women’s)
Harmilan Bains
Silver1500m
(Men’s)
Ajay Kumar Saroj
Silver1500m
(Women’s)
Harmilan Bains
Silver10,000m
(Men’s)
Karthik Kumar
SilverLong Jump
(Men's)
Murali Sreeshankar
SilverLong Jump
(Women's)
Ancy Sojan 
Silver100m hurdles
(Women’s)
Jyothi Yarraji
Silver3000m steeplechase
(Women’s)
Parul Chaudhary
SilverDecathlonTejaswin Shankar
SilverJavelin throw
(Men’s)
Kishore Jena
Silver4x400m relay
(Women’s)
Prachi
Vithya Ramraj
Subha Venkatesan
Aishwarya Kailash Mishra
SilverMixed 4x400m relayMuhammad Ajmal
Vithya Ramraj
Rajesh Ramesh
Subha Venkatesan

3. Archery

  • Total No. of Medals – 9.
    • No. of Gold Medals – 5.
    • No. of Silver Medals – 2.
    • No. of Bronze Medals – 2.
Medal Event
GoldCompound Archery
(Men's)
Ojas Pravin Deotale
GoldCompound Archery
(Women's)
Jyothi Surekha Vennam
GoldCompound Archery
(Men's)
Abhishek Verma
Ojas Pravin Deotale
Prathamesh Samadhan Jawkar
GoldCompound Archery
(Women's)
Parneet Kaur
Jyothi Surekha Vennam
Aditi Gopichand Swami
GoldCompound Archery
(Mixed)
Ojas Pravin Deotale
Jyothi Surekha Vennam
SilverCompound Archery
(Men's)
Abhishek Verma
SilverRecurve team
(Men's)
Atanu Das
Tushar Shelke
Dhiraj Bommadevara
BronzeRecurve team
(Women's)
Ankita Bhakat
Bhajan Kaur
Simranjeet Kaur
BronzeCompound Archery
(Women's)
Aditi Swami


4. Squash

  • Total No. of Medals – 5.
    • No. of Gold Medals – 2.
    • No. of Silver Medals – 1.
    • No. of Bronze Medals – 2.
Medal Event
GoldMen's Team
Saurav Ghosal
Abhay Singh
Mahesh Mangaonkar
Harinder Pal Sandhu
GoldMixed doubles
Dipika Pallikal
Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu
SilverMen's singlesSaurav Ghosal
BronzeWomen's TeamAnahat Singh
Tanvi Khanna
Dipika Pallikal
Joshna Chinappa
BronzeMixed TeamAbhay Singh
Anahat Singh


5. Wrestling

  • Total No. of Medals – 6.
    • No. of Silver Medals – 1.
    • No. of Bronze Medals – 5.
Medal Event
SilverMen's freestyle 86kgDeepak Punia
BronzeWomen's 53kgAntim Panghal
BronzeWomen's 62kgSonam Malik
BronzeWomen's 76kgKiran Bishnoi
BronzeMen's freestyle 57kgAman Sehrawat
BronzeGreco-Roman 87kgSunil Kumar


6. Boxing

  • Total No. of Medals – 5.
    • No. of Silver Medals – 1.
    • No. of Bronze Medals – 4.
Medal Event
SilverWomen's 75kgLovlina Borgohain
BronzeWomen's 50kgNikhat Zareen
BronzeWomen's 54kgPreeti Pawar
BronzeWomen's 57kgParveen Hooda
BronzeMen's +92kgNarender Berwal


Rest of the List of the Medal Winners in Asian Games 2022

  • Which cricket team made history by becoming the first to score over 300 runs in a T20I match? Nepal.
    • 314 against Mongolia. 
  • Name the Cricketer who broke Yuvraj Singh’s record for the fastest 50 – Dipendra Singh (eight sixes in 10 balls; Nepal)
  • Significance of Indian men’s cricket team at the 2023 Asian Games – Their debut and their inaugural gold medal win.
  • The Captain of the Indian Cricket Team (Men's) at Asian Games 2022 – Ruturaj Gaikwad.
  • The Captain of the Indian Cricket Team (Women's) at Asian Games 2022 Harmanpreet Kaur.
  • The Captain of the Indian Hockey Team (Men's) at Asian Games 2022 – Harmanpreet Singh.
  • The Captain of the Indian Hockey Team (Women's) at Asian Games 2022 – Savita Punia.
  • No. of times India won gold in Men's Hockey in Asian games – 4 times (1966, 1998, 2014 & 2022).
  • The First Indian equestrian to win an individual medal in dressage – Anush Agarwalla (Bronze, 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games).
  • The first-ever Indian medal in the men's dinghy ILCA-7 event at the Games was won by – Vishnu Saravanan (Bronze).


Medal Event
GoldTennis
(Mixed Doubles)
Rohan Bopanna
Rutuja Bhosale
GoldBadminton
(Men's Doubles)
Chirag Shetty
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
GoldEquestrian
Dressage Team
(after 41 years)
Hriday Chheda
Anush Agarwalla
Divyakriti Singh
Sudipti Hajela
GoldHockey
(Men's)
GoldKabaddi
(Men's)
GoldKabaddi
(Women's)
GoldCricket
(Men's)
SilverWushu
(Women's 60kg sanda)
Naorem Roshibina Dev
SilverChess
(Men's team)
Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi,
Pentala Harikrishna,
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa
SilverChess
(Women's team)
Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli,
Vaishali Rameshbabu,
Vantika Agrawal, Savitha Shri B
SilverBridge
(Men's team)
Raju Tolani, Ajay Prabhakar Khare,
Rajeshwar Tewari, Sumit Mukherjee,
Jaggy Shivdasani, Sandeep Thakral
SilverGolf
(Women's)
Aditi Ashok
SilverBadminton
(Men's)
Kidambi Srikanth, Lakshya Sen, Chirag Shetty,
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, MR Arjun, Dhruva Kapila,
HS Prannoy, Mithun Manjunath, Sai Pratheek,
Rohan Kapoor
SilverTennis
(Men's doubles)
Saketh Myneni
Ramkumar Ramanathan
SilverSailing
(Girl's Dinghy - ILCA4)
Neha Thakur
SilverRowing
(lightweight double sculls)
(Men's)
Arjun Lal Jat
Arvind Singh
SilverRowing
(Men's eight)
Neeraj, Naresh Kalwaniya, Neetesh Kumar,
Charanjeet Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh,
Punit Kumar, Ashish, DU Pande
BronzeBadminton
(Men's singles)
HS Prannoy
BronzeTable tennis
(Women's doubles)
Ayhika Mukherjee
Sutirtha Mukherjee
BronzeSepaktakraw
(Women's regu)
Khushbu, Maipak Devi Ayekam,
Leirentonbi Devi Elangbam,
Priya Devi Elangbam, Chaoba Devi Oinam
BronzeRowing
(Men's pair)
Lekh Ram
Babu Lal Yadav
BronzeRowing
(Men's four)
Jaswinder Singh, Bheem Singh, Punit Kumar,
Ashish
BronzeRowing
(Men's quadruple)
Parminder Singh, Satnam Singh, Jakar Khan,
Sukhmeet Singh
BronzeSailing
(Men's Windsurfer - RS:X)
Eabad Ali
BronzeSailing
(Men's dinghy ICLA7)
Vishnu Saravanan
BronzeCanoe Sprint
(Men's canoe double 1000m)
Arjun Singh, Sunil Singh Salam
BronzeEquestrian
(Individual dressage)
Anush Agarwalla
BronzeRoller skating
(Women's speed skating 3000m relay)
BronzeRoller skating
(Men's speed skating 3000m relay)
BronzeHockey
(Women's)


This section is a must-study topic for the upcoming Kerala PSC exams, try to study it try to study it without getting confused by the name of the athletes and the event/sports in which they participated in, etc.


📝SideNotes:
  • Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports –  Anurag Thakur.
  • Headquarters of Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) – Kuwait.
  • The 18th edition of the Asian Games was held in – Jakarta & Palembang, Indonesia (2018).
  • Father of Asian Games in India – Guru Dutt Sondhi.
  • The first gold medallist at the Asian Games – Sachin Nag (100m freestyle, 1951).
  • The first Indian woman to win an Asian Games medal – Roshan Mistry (Silver, 100m sprint, 1951).
  • The first Indian to win a gold medal in the javelin throw – Neeraj Chopra (2018).
  • The Mascot of the 18th Asian Games – Bhin Bhin, Atung & Kaka.
  • No. of times Asian Games was hosted in India – Twice.
  • India hosted the Asian Games (9th edition of Asian Games) for the second time in – 1982 (New Delhi).
  • The youngest Indian to win a gold medal at the Asian Games – Saurabh Chaudhary (Men’s 10m air pistol, 2018 Jakarta Asian Games).
  • The host of the 2022 Asian Games, China denied entry to 3 Indian athletes namely Nyeman Wangsu, Onilu Tega, and Mepung Lamgu from Arunachal Pradesh. What sport do they compete in? Wushu.
    • Because China doesn't believe Arunachal Pradesh exists, they claim it is part of their territory known as 'Zangnam.'
  • Name the Asian country which has hosted the Asian Games the most times – Thailand (4 times).
  • The Asian Games in which 'cricket' made its debut as a medal sport – 2010 Guangzhou.
    • Cricket made its way to the Asian Games twice: in 2010 & 2014 before returning in 2022.
  • The sportsperson who was recently honoured with Karnataka’s second highest civilian award, the Rajyotsava AwardAditi Ashok.

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