How many Asian Games has Bangkok *** hosted?

Bangkok hosted the Asian Games four times in 1966, 1970, 1978 and 1998, namely the fifth, sixth, eighth and thirteenth games.

Needless to say, the fifth edition was held in Bangkok for the first time. The 5th Bangkok Asian Games

-Time: 1966. 12. 9 ~ 12. 20 (12th)

-Participating countries: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Philippines, Myanmar, Iran, Indonesia, Singapore, Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Israel, Vietnam, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) (18 countries in one country)

-Participate Participants: 2,486

-Competition events: track and field, swimming, football, tennis, basketball, volleyball, table tennis, cycling, boxing, wrestling, weightlifting, shooting, hockey, badminton (one*** 14 events)

The sixth edition was originally supposed to be hosted by South Korea, but South Korea temporarily gave up the hosting rights and had to be temporarily taken over by Bangkok, which has relatively complete sports facilities. The 6th Bangkok Asian Games

-Time: 1970. 12. 9 ~ 12. 20 (12th)

-Participating countries: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, India, Philippines, Myanmar, Iran, Indonesia, Singapore, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Israel, Vietnam, Cambodia (18 countries in total)

-Participate Participants: 2,400

-Competition events: track and field, swimming, football, basketball, volleyball, cycling, boxing, wrestling, weightlifting, shooting, hockey, badminton, sailing (13 events per day) )

In the eighth edition, a similar situation happened again. This time it was Pakistan that gave up the right to host the Asian Games. The reason was that the economy was not good. Bangkok stepped forward again, less than two years before the Asian Games. In 1976, he took over the Asian Games.

The 8th Bangkok Asian Games

-Time: 1978. 12. 9 ~ 12. 20 (12th)

-Participating countries: South Korea, Japan , China, North Korea, Thailand, India, Philippines, Myanmar, Indonesia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh (a ***25 countries)

-Participants: 3,842

-Competition events: track and field, swimming, football, tennis, basketball, volleyball, table tennis Ball, bicycle, boxing, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing, shooting, gymnastics, hockey, badminton, archery, bowling, sailing

(1***19 events)

Final The 13th edition should be the result of the bid. After all, the first three times were already 20 years ago. However, in 1997, Asia had just experienced a financial crisis, and it was not easy to host the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok. However, it did not give up. Maybe it was because it had hosted so many games that it developed feelings for the Asian Games. The 13th Bangkok Asian Games

-Time: 1998. 12. 6 ~ 12. 20 (15th)

-Participating countries: 1***41 countries

-Participants: approximately 9,545

-Slogan: Friendship across borders

-Competition events: track and field, archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, billiards , bowling, boxing, canoeing, cart racing, equestrian, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, kabaddi, karate, rowing, rugby, sepak takraw, shooting, softball, soft tennis , squash, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, martial arts, sailing (36 events in one)