XI Asian Games

Host city	Beijing, China
Motto	Unity, friendship and progress (Chinese: 团结、友谊、进步; pinyin: Tuánjié, yǒuyì, jìnbù)[1]
Nations	31
Athletes	6,122
Events	308 in 27 sports
Opening	22 September 1990
Closing	7 October 1990
Opened by	Yang Shangkun President of China
Closed by	Roy de Silva Acting President of Olympic Council of Asia
Athlete's Oath	Chen Longcan
Torch lighter	Xu Haifeng, Gao Min, and Zhang Rongfang
Main venue	Workers' Stadium
Summer
Winter

The 1990 Asian Games also known as the XI Asiad and the 11th Asian Games (Chinese: 第十一届亚洲运动会; pinyin: Dì shíyī jiè yàzhōu yùndònghuì), were held from September 22 to October 7, 1990, in Beijing, China. This was the first Asian Games held in China.^[2]

Along the 1993 East Asian Games, this event served as a precursor to China's further development in the sporting arena, as before the city went on to bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics (losing to Sydney) and eventually won the bids for the 2001 Summer Universiade,the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics . In a fact with precedent, China dominated the games, grabbing 60% of the gold medals and 34% of the total medal count. China set a new record by becoming the first nation in the history of the Asian Games to cross the 100-gold medal mark and the 300-total medal mark in one edition.

This also marked Taiwan's first participation in the Asian Games as Chinese Taipei.

Bidding process

In 1983, Beijing and Hiroshima demonstrated interest in hosting the 1990 Asian Games. The two cities made formal presentations before the Olympic Council of Asia board.They were evaluated in a meeting of the council in Seoul during 1984, which also served to evaluate the preparations for the next Asian Games and also for the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Beijing eventually won the right to host the 1990 edition, while the team from Hiroshima presented an excellent technical bid, and won the rights to host of the 1994 Asian Games as compensation in an unprecedented move.^[2]

34 votes were needed for selection.

1990 Asian Games bidding result

City	Country	Votes
Beijing	China	44
Hiroshima	Japan	23

Stamps

To commemorate the 11th Asian Games, three different sets of stamps were issued in 1988, 1989 and 1990.^[3]

Mascot

Mascot

The official mascot of this edition was Pan Pan (Chinese: 盼盼), the panda.

Participating National Olympic Committees

The Beijing Asian Games Village, currently North Star Huiyuan Apartments

National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are named according to their official IOC designations and arranged according to their official IOC country codes in 1990. Note that Iraq was suspended by the Olympic Council of Asia from participating at the Asian Games due to the Gulf War which killed first OCA president Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Iraq would only return to compete in the sporting event in 2006.^[4]

Sports

Demonstration sports

• Baseball ()
• Soft tennis ()

Venues

The following venues were used during the Games.^[5][6] Yayuncun Subdistrict, the athlete's village was located in Chaoyang District and is now a residential area.

Medal table

A gold medal of the 1990 Asian Games

The top ten ranked NOCs at these Games are listed below. The host nation, China, is highlighted.

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)*	183	107	51	341
2	South Korea (KOR)	54	54	73	181
3	Japan (JPN)	38	60	76	174
4	North Korea (PRK)	12	31	39	82
5	Iran (IRN)	4	6	8	18
6	Pakistan (PAK)	4	1	7	12
7	Indonesia (INA)	3	6	21	30
8	Qatar (QAT)	3	2	1	6
9	Thailand (THA)	2	7	8	17
10	Malaysia (MAL)	2	2	4	8
11–25	Remaining	5	33	69	107
Totals (25 entries)		310	309	357	976

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