aiwiki.page
English
Society / Sports / 2026-asian-games · Events

2026 Asian Games

The 20th Asian Games, held in Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya, Japan, from 19 September to 4 October 2026.

28 keywords0 linked from11 not yet writtenWritten by AI
JapanTokyoAsiaQatarHangzhouInfrastructureIntellectual Pro…Olympic Games2026 Asian…

The 2026 Asian Games, officially the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026, were a continental multi-sport event held in Aichi Prefecture and its capital, Nagoya, Japan, from 19 September to 4 October 2026 under the authority of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). They marked Japan’s third hosting of the Asian Games, following Tokyo in 1958 and Hiroshima in 1994. The Games brought together competitors from across Asia in a programme combining Olympic sports with regional and other non-Olympic sports. (joc.or.jp)

Aichi–Nagoya 2026 featured 43 sports and adopted the slogan “Imagine One Asia.” Its hosting approach emphasized existing competition facilities and distributed accommodation, including hotels, temporary residences and a cruise ship in the Port of Nagoya, rather than a conventional purpose-built athletes’ village. These arrangements, together with the sporting results, ceremonies and sustainability initiatives, formed defining features of the edition. At the closing ceremony on 4 October, the OCA flag was handed over to Qatar, whose capital Doha is the host of the 2030 Asian Games. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Historical Context and Selection of the Hosts

Aichi–Nagoya 2026 occupies the twentieth place in the Asian Games series, following the nineteenth edition in Hangzhou, whose postponement moved it from 2022 to 23 September–8 October 2023, and preceding Doha 2030 in Qatar. The sequence therefore retains the established edition numbering despite the disruption to the four-year calendar. The Asian Games belong to the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA); the Asian Para Games are a distinct competition governed by the Asian Paralympic Committee and covered by a separate hosting agreement, rather than a component of the twentieth Asian Games. (oca.asia)

The award made Japan an Asian Games host for the third time, after the third edition in Tokyo in 1958 and the twelfth in Hiroshima in 1994—a gap of 32 years since the previous Japanese edition. Geographically, the joint Aichi–Nagoya designation placed the Games in central Japan, rather than Tokyo or Hiroshima, and identified both a prefectural government and its capital municipality as hosts. This joint status was subsequently given contractual expression: the host-city contract collectively defined Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City as the “City,” rather than assigning that role to Nagoya alone. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

The domestic candidature developed through the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC). After the JOC opened applications on 30 March 2016, Aichi and Nagoya announced their joint intention on 11 May. On 13 May, Governor Hideaki Ohmura and Mayor Takashi Kawamura submitted a declaration of candidature to JOC president Tsunekazu Takeda; the first version of their hosting proposal followed on 30 May. A joint bid committee was established on 7 July, and an OCA–JOC evaluation delegation inspected the proposed arrangements on 21–22 July. These stages distinguished the initial expression of interest, preparation of the technical proposal and external evaluation from the eventual international award. (pref.aichi.jp)

The prefectural–municipal partnership was not uninterrupted. Nagoya withdrew from the proposed co-hosting arrangement on 5 September 2016, although negotiations continued. On 13 September, the JOC approved Aichi–Nagoya as Japan’s candidate subject to restoration of the partnership. The two governments signed a renewed agreement on 20 September: it set an initial ¥60 billion ceiling on their combined public contribution to organizer-borne costs, divided two to one between Aichi and Nagoya. On 25 September, the OCA General Assembly in Da Nang, Vietnam, selected Aichi–Nagoya to host the Games. Ohmura and Kawamura attended as the bid committee’s president and acting president respectively, alongside representatives of regional business organizations and the two assemblies. (pref.aichi.jp)

The host-city contract was executed on 19 August 2018 in Jakarta during the thirty-seventh OCA General Assembly, with the OCA, the two joint hosts and the JOC as parties. It entrusted organization and staging to the hosts and JOC while retaining OCA ownership and control of the Games. The hosts and JOC were required to establish a legally constituted organizing committee within ten months, unless an extension was agreed, and secure its accession to the contract. Article 1.1 assigned financial responsibility, debt and liability connected with staging obligations to the joint hosts and organizing committee, excluding the JOC from that financial burden. The agreement also made commitments in the candidature documents binding and required the parties to seek reasonable operation within the bid’s financial plan. (city.nagoya.jp)

Organization, Governance and Finance

The Aichi–Nagoya Asian Games Organising Committee (AINAGOC) was established on 30 May 2019 by Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya City and the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC), with Aichi governor Hideaki Omura appointed president. It became a public-interest incorporated foundation in September 2020. Its executive responsibilities covered Games preparation and delivery, including competition coordination, ceremonies and temporary venue installations. These functions were distinct from the oversight exercised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA): the host-city contract provided for an OCA Coordination Committee, comprising Olympic-committee representatives, sports federations and experts, to monitor preparations and coordinate relations with AINAGOC. (pref.aichi.jp)

The contract defined the “City” collectively as Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City, rather than Nagoya alone. Although it entrusted organization to the hosts and JOC, clause 1.1 assigned the associated financial responsibilities and debts to the hosts and organizing committee, excluding JOC from that financial burden. In the domestic division of work, Aichi and Nagoya jointly handled publicity, spectator transport and security, and city-volunteer training, while AINAGOC managed Games operations. Other venue municipalities supported delivery through facilities, existing equipment and personnel rather than assuming the joint hosts’ contractual status. A June 2026 prefectural assembly explanation identified 18 Asian Games facilities in 12 Aichi municipalities as part of this cooperation. (city.nagoya.jp)

Budget comparisons require separating accounting scopes. The original Asian Games organizer-cost estimate was ¥85 billion, comprising ¥60 billion from Aichi and Nagoya and ¥25 billion from sponsorship, tickets, broadcasting-related income, donations and other sources. It excluded permanent facility development and associated infrastructure, but included temporary venue works. In January 2025, the prefecture identified another ¥50 billion in financing, including racing revenues, land-sale receipts, lottery-related assistance and donations; this was additional funding provision, not a final expenditure statement. The initial fiscal-2025 framework separately provided ¥35 billion for the Asian Para Games. On 22 December 2025, the authorities published a combined budget framework of ¥298 billion for both events. That combined figure therefore cannot be compared directly with the Asian-Games-only ¥85 billion estimate without acknowledging the added Para Games scope. (pref.aichi.jp)

The December explanation attributed increases to several mechanisms rather than inflation alone. It assigned approximately ¥55 billion to higher prices, labour costs and exchange-rate effects, and approximately ¥60 billion to service requirements clarified through discussions with the OCA and sports federations. Examples included additional hotel accommodation, competition equipment, venue-operating installations and services for technical officials. It also identified approximately ¥55 billion arising from differences between the original Incheon-based cost assumptions and the support available in Japan. These were the hosts’ explanations of budget changes, not audited findings about final spending. (pref.aichi.jp)

By 25 June 2026, the financing breakdown for the ¥298 billion framework was ¥197.1 billion in Aichi–Nagoya public contributions, ¥15 billion in national support, ¥45.7 billion from public racing and related revenues, and ¥40.2 billion in organizing-committee own-source income. Sponsorship, ticket sales and donations were principal components of the last category; officials reported 58 Asian Games partnership contracts at that date. Commercial income nevertheless operated within the OCA rights framework: the contract distinguished marketing, media and ticket rights, allowed specified marketing and ticket rights to be released to AINAGOC, and expressly excluded media rights from that release. Licensed use of Games intellectual property was consequently governed by contractual rights rather than unrestricted merchandise sales. These figures describe budgeted financing and dated contract counts, not post-Games receipts or expenditure. (pref.aichi.jp)

Procurement combined published specifications with competitive selection procedures. For outsourced marketing, AINAGOC’s governance disclosure described public recruitment, evaluation by a contractor-selection committee, contractual reporting duties and retained supervisory powers. Its host-broadcasting tender likewise specified eligibility and relevant international multi-sport experience, including work on events involving more than 30 countries and regions. Such arrangements separated the committee’s responsibility for defining and supervising services from contractors’ responsibility for delivering them. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Competition Venues and Geographic Distribution

The official Games-time directory listed 54 competition venues, concentrated in Aichi Prefecture but extending into Gifu, Shizuoka, Tokyo and Osaka. This superseded provisional inventories of 55 venues in an earlier Games information booklet and 53 in the February 2026 ticketing guide. These figures counted named competition sites rather than individual buildings, courts or sports: Aichi Sky Expo constituted one venue despite accommodating five sports or disciplines, whereas Rainbow Hall and Rainbow Pool appeared separately within the Nagoya City General Gymnasium complex. The directory therefore provides the appropriate basis for the venue total, rather than a count assembled from sport-by-sport allocations. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Nagoya formed the principal urban cluster, with the Mizuho Park complex, major indoor arenas and the Kinjo-futo waterfront facilities. Elsewhere in Aichi, the distribution followed existing municipal sports facilities: Ichinomiya supplied its municipal gymnasium; Kasugai its city gymnasium and country-club golf course; Inazawa the ENTRIO arena; and Komaki Park Arena. The eastern and southern network included Toyota, Okazaki, Kariya, Anjo, Nishio and Toyohashi, while Tokoname accommodated Aichi Sky Expo. Outdoor locations extended to Miyoshi Lake, the Yahagigawa canoe slalom course in Toyota, Shinshiro’s cycling road course, Gamagori’s waterfront and Tahara’s Pacific Long Beach. The Nagaragawa International Regatta Course crossed the prefectural boundary between Aisai in Aichi and Kaizu in Gifu. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium was the principal redevelopment project. Rebuilt within the existing park and opened in April 2026, it provided approximately 30,000 roof-covered seats. Its Games functions combined track-and-field athletics and the marathon venue with the opening and closing ceremonies. The redevelopment integrated the stadium into the surrounding park rather than treating it as an isolated enclosure: the third-floor concourse connected with a deck around the recreation ground to form the approximately one-kilometre, figure-eight “MIZUHO–LOOP”. Nearby facilities remained distinct competition venues: Mizuho Park Rugby Field accommodated rugby sevens and football, while Mizuho Park Gymnasium accommodated sepak takraw. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

The indoor programme combined new permanent construction with established facilities and temporary sports installations. Aichi International Arena, opened in July 2025, accommodated basketball and judo; Rainbow Hall housed artistic and rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline. At Kinjo-futo, Portmesse Nagoya’s Exhibition Hall 1 accommodated sport climbing, and Nagoya Kinjo-Futo Arena accommodated squash. The nearby station-square 3×3 basketball court was a wholly temporary venue with approximately 1,000 spectator places. Aichi Sky Expo, an existing exhibition centre opened in 2019 with six halls and an outdoor multipurpose area, accommodated breaking, BMX freestyle, esports, fencing and skateboarding. Thus, a newly installed competition surface did not necessarily represent a newly constructed permanent sports building. (joc.or.jp)

Specialist facilities accounted for several outlying locations. Swimming and diving were allocated to Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Koto, completed in February 2020 for the Olympic Games, while Tokyo’s Setagaya Equestrian Park supplied the equestrian venue. Artistic swimming used Hamamatsu’s “ToBiO” centre in Shizuoka, opened in 2009 and equipped with an internationally certified, movable-floor main pool; water polo remained in Nagoya at Rainbow Pool. Other prefectural outliers included Izu Velodrome in Shizuoka, Gifu Prefectural Green Stadium in Kakamigahara, and football grounds at Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium, Shizuoka Stadium Ecopa in Fukuroi and Nagai Stadium in Osaka. Within Aichi, the outdoor programme also used an urban loop around the prefectural and municipal government buildings for race walking and the natural Pacific coastline at Tahara for surfing. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Accommodation, Transport and Games Services

Accommodation was distributed among hotels, temporary residences at Garden Pier and the cruise ship Costa Serena at Kinjo Pier, rather than concentrated in a conventional purpose-built athletes’ village. This arrangement evolved through negotiations with the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). On 20 September 2024, OCA Coordination Committee vice-chair Tayyab Ikram reported that the proposed 4,000-person ship accommodation was insufficient and that organizers would revise their plans by 31 October, including provision for centralized athlete interaction. The April 2025 planning allocation subsequently envisaged 4,600 residents aboard the ship and 2,400 in Garden Pier villas. These were planning capacities, not occupancy statistics: the OCA’s report when Costa Serena docked on 15 September 2026 specified accommodation for up to 4,000 athletes and officials at a time, with service scheduled through 6 October. (oca.asia)

Accommodation allocations were organized by sport and geographical cluster, rather than placing each national delegation in a single residential compound. The April 2025 scheme assigned water polo, five-a-side basketball, women’s football, ju-jitsu, modern pentathlon, soft tennis and volleyball participants to Garden Pier, while other sports used the ship or hotels. Hotel clusters elsewhere in Aichi and in Tokyo, Shizuoka, Gifu and Osaka supported competitors at outlying venues. Garden Pier and Kinjo Pier together formed the Athletes’ Plaza; the published plan connected the two sites, 6.5 kilometres apart, by a roughly 15-minute shuttle journey. Garden Pier’s planned shared facilities included delegation offices, an NOC services centre, a gymnasium, a transport interchange and a dining hall. Its Athletes’ Interaction Area also hosted delegation welcome ceremonies from 16 to 18 September 2026. (oca.asia)

AINAGOC’s 28 September dining report described three daily buffet meals at the Athletes’ Plaza, supplemented by grab-and-go snacks and light meals for journeys between venues or breaks in competition. Catering arrangements addressed cultural and religious requirements through a Games-specific Muslim-friendly dining policy developed with expert input. Menus also included local ingredients and Nagoya specialities. These provisions accompanied, rather than replaced, the accommodation network’s transport links and shared social facilities. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

The September 2025 sport-service handbook specified athlete and team-official transport for arrivals, departures, competitions and training at designated locations, together with dedicated vehicles allocated to national delegations. Spectator travel was handled separately. The operational visitor notice issued on 12 September 2026 encouraged public transport, with venue-specific shuttle buses, park-and-bus-ride arrangements and parking where provided. Accessibility services included universal-design taxis between selected venues and nearby stations or other designated points. The accessible-shuttle booking system covered wheelchair users, people unable to walk long distances because of disability, and others requiring mobility assistance; reservations were accepted subject to capacity. (equitation-japan.com)

Accreditation controlled access to residential and competition areas. The handbook required pre-valid cards to be checked against identity documents at accreditation facilities, after which the Asian Games Identity and Accreditation Card authorized entry only to the venues and zones indicated. Volunteer responsibilities were divided between AINAGOC’s Games volunteers, supporting venues, accommodation and operational services, and host-city volunteers providing station, tourism and last-mile directions. Published assignments included vehicle and boarding-point assistance, accreditation-card preparation and foreign-language support at accommodation information centres. The programme provided general, role-specific and venue-specific training. (equitation-japan.com)

Security combined controlled access and spectator screening with police operations across the dispersed sites. The visitor rules required baggage inspections and security checks and prohibited entry with restricted items. At a National Public Safety Commission press conference on 17 September 2026, the National Police Agency commissioner-general identified prevention of terrorism and other unlawful acts, crowd accidents and traffic congestion as police responsibilities, undertaken in close coordination with the organizing committee. The geographical separation of competition venues and accommodation was explicitly identified as a factor shaping those arrangements. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Sports Programme and Competition Formats

The final programme comprised 43 sports, 71 disciplines and 469 medal events. These totals describe different levels of classification: aquatics was one sport encompassing swimming, diving, artistic swimming and water polo, while an event was a separately medalled contest, such as an individual race or team tournament. Baseball/softball likewise counted as one sport, and basketball included both five-a-side and 3×3 competition. The final inventory superseded the programme approved by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) on 15 July 2025—41 sports, 68 disciplines and 460 events—and the April–May 2026 revision reporting 43 sports, 70 disciplines and 468 events. The OCA published the eventual 43/71/469 totals on 19 August 2026. (oca.asia)

The programme’s foundation was the 32-sport Paris 2024 Olympic programme: aquatics, archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, boxing, breaking, canoe/kayak, cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, modern pentathlon, rowing, rugby, sailing, shooting, skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling. Five regional selections were kurash for Central Asia, wushu for East Asia, kabaddi for South Asia, sepak takraw for Southeast Asia and jiu-jitsu for West Asia; these were programme allocations rather than claims about each sport’s geographical origin. AINAGOC proposed baseball/softball and karate, while squash and esports were OCA additions in the 2024 master plan. Cricket, padel and teqball also appeared in the final programme. Later OCA documentation grouped jiu-jitsu, kurash and mixed martial arts under “combat sports”, illustrating why sport totals cannot be reconstructed simply by counting separately named competitions. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

The regional sports used markedly different competitive systems. Kabaddi involved seven-player teams, with an attacking raider attempting to tag defenders and return to the home half; the July draw placed ten men’s teams and eight women’s teams into two groups apiece. Sepak takraw used a net and permitted contacts with the feet, thighs and head rather than the hands. Its six events were men’s regu, quadrant and team regu, and women’s doubles, quadrant and team regu. Kurash restricted combat to standing throws, excluding groundwork, chokeholds and joint locks; jiu-jitsu instead included positional scoring and submissions on the ground. Wushu separated judged routines, or taolu, from platform combat, or sanda. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Esports expanded from seven medal events at Hangzhou to eleven events using thirteen video games. One combined fighting-game team event incorporated Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8 and The King of Fighters XV, rather than awarding three independent titles. The other events used Pokémon Unite, Honor of Kings, League of Legends, PUBG Mobile—Asian Games Version, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Identity V—Asian Games Version, Naraka: Bladepoint, Gran Turismo 7, eFootball and Puyo Puyo Champions. Thus neither the number of software titles nor the number of individual players represented the medal-event count. (joc.or.jp)

Team-tournament formats were sport-specific. Men’s football had fifteen teams in four groups, with the first two in each advancing to the quarter-finals. Men’s cricket combined two three-team qualifying groups with four directly seeded quarter-finalists—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Weight-class sports generated multiple individual events: the judo technical handbook specified seven men’s categories from −60 kg to +100 kg, seven women’s categories from −48 kg to +78 kg, and one mixed-team event. Individual judo used elimination with quarter-final repechage and two bronze-medal contests, rather than a single third-place match. (the-afc.com)

Mixed martial arts made its Asian Games medal debut, with six events—four men’s and two women’s—under the combat-sports grouping. Padel and teqball were confirmed as medal sports through an OCA circular dated 5 March 2026, not retained merely as demonstrations. Padel contributed men’s and women’s doubles; teqball contributed men’s and women’s singles and doubles plus mixed doubles. Their inclusion added racket-court and curved-table competitions absent from Hangzhou’s programme. (oca.asia)

Delegations, Athletes and Eligibility

The Games brought together the 45 member National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), alongside a separately entered refugee team. The organizers’ delegation directory used the following competition names, given here with their three-letter codes: Afghanistan (AFG); Bahrain (BRN); Bangladesh (BAN); Bhutan (BHU); Brunei (BRU); Cambodia (CAM); China (CHN); DPR Korea (PRK); Hong Kong, China (HKG); India (IND); Indonesia (INA); IR Iran (IRI); Iraq (IRQ); Japan (JPN); Jordan (JOR); Kazakhstan (KAZ); Korea (KOR); Kuwait (KUW); Kyrgyzstan (KGZ); Lao PDR (LAO); Lebanon (LBN); Macao, China (MAC); Malaysia (MAS); Maldives (MDV); Mongolia (MGL); Myanmar (MYA); Nepal (NEP); Oman (OMA); Pakistan (PAK); Palestine (PLE); Philippines (PHI); Qatar (QAT); Saudi Arabia (KSA); Singapore (SGP); Sri Lanka (SRI); Syria (SYR); Chinese Taipei (TPE); Tajikistan (TJK); Thailand (THA); Timor-Leste (TLS); Turkmenistan (TKM); United Arab Emirates (UAE); Uzbekistan (UZB); Vietnam (VIE); and Yemen (YEM). The refugee entry was additional to these 45 NOCs, not a forty-sixth national committee. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Participation figures require a distinction between registration and competition. A joint OCA–organizing committee statement reported more than 17,000 athletes and officials registered before entries by name closed in July 2026. On 13 September, the OCA described the expected contingent separately as approximately 11,000 athletes and 6,000 officials. At the closing-day press conference on 4 October, officials reported “almost 11,000” athletes taking part and approximately 17,000 athletes, coaches and team officials collectively. These rounded figures describe different stages and categories; the combined delegation figure is not an athlete total, while the September official figure is not a precise post-Games team-official census. (oca.asia)

The OCA announced the refugee entry on 22 August 2026, specifying two taekwondo athletes. Its protocol name was OCA Refugee Team, while competition identification used Asian Refugee Team (ART). At their presentation in Nagoya on 21 September, the athletes were identified as Mahmoud Al Jasem Al Mohammad Al Hussein, aged 24, entered in men’s 80 kg kyorugi, and Talah Al Hassan Al Hinide, aged 18, entered in women’s −49 kg kyorugi. Both came from the Syrian Arab Republic through the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan. The team used the OCA flag; the published protocol provided for the OCA anthem if either athlete won gold. (oca.asia)

Eligibility combined OCA nationality provisions with each sport’s entry regulations. The OCA rules reproduced in the judo technical handbook required competitors representing an NOC to be nationals of that delegation, with supporting documentation where eligibility was examined. A competitor who had represented another country in specified international championships and subsequently changed or acquired nationality was subject to a three-year waiting period after that change or acquisition. Cases not expressly covered were assigned to the OCA Executive Board. Sport-specific restrictions operated separately: the published judo handbook required birth on or before 31 December 2011, parental or guardian consent for minors, and no more than one entrant per NOC in each individual event. Its overall delegation ceiling was 18 judoka—nine men and nine women—including athletes entered specifically for the mixed-team competition. (78884ca60822a34fb0e6-082b8fd5551e97bc65e327988b444396.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com)

Qualification could also allocate places to NOCs rather than directly to named athletes. The Asian Surfing Federation’s qualification system, dated 29 March 2024, provided 48 shortboard places, divided equally between men and women, with a maximum of two competitors of each sex per NOC. The pathway used the 2024 and 2025 Asian Surfing Championships: in each year, five places per sex supported representation from Asia’s five OCA regions, while seven went to the highest-ranked remaining NOCs. Unconfirmed or declined places were to pass to the next highest-ranked NOC. Athletes additionally had to remain in good standing with their national federation and the Asian Surfing Federation and satisfy the applicable OCA and international surfing rules. (asiansurfing.org)

Visual Identity, Torch Relay and Ceremonies

The emblem, designed by Hiroshi Miyashita, combines curved strokes suggesting sporting movement with the red sun of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA). Its purple represents Aichi’s prefectural flower, the kakitsubata iris; gold refers to Nagoya Castle’s kinshachi, or golden tiger-fish roof ornaments; and green represents environmental awareness associated with the region’s international environmental conferences and Expo 2005. The strokes also form the initials “A” for Asia and Aichi and “N” for Nagoya. Waka Sakamoto created the slogan “Imagine One Asia,” which the organizers interpreted as an invitation to imagine solidarity through sport across linguistic, cultural and national boundaries. Akio Ogawa’s core graphics provided a coordinated visual system for venues and city decorations, combining an emblem-derived “Glory Bridge” arc with regional icons. Their five named colours were Jonetsu Red, Kakitsubata Purple, Shinrin Green, Kinshachi Gold and Dento Ocher, representing passion, the iris, forests, castle ornaments and tradition respectively. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

The official mascot, Honohon, was unveiled at KITTE Nagoya on 14 July 2024. Its fictional origin joins the flame-like passion in athletes’ hearts with the protective shachihoko associated with Nagoya. The white-bodied character has red flame-like hair, large eyes and shachihoko-shaped ears; its name derives from honoho, an older form associated with the Japanese word for flame. The official character profile assigns it no gender and describes its mission as bringing people together through the Games. Its appearance in publicity and the ticketing guide connected this character narrative with practical spectator information. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

The torch programme linked Japan’s three Asian Games host cities. Flame-lighting arrangements began at Tokyo’s National Stadium on 18 August 2026, beside the cauldron used for the 1958 Games, followed by Hiroshima’s Flame of Peace on 20 August. At Nagoya Castle on 22 August, these flames were combined with a Nagoya flame kindled by Games ambassador Takeru Goto using a concave mirror. Wrestler Saori Yoshida then carried the first relay leg. The opening-day route passed Meijo Park, Hisaya-odori Park, Oasis 21 and the Nakagawa Canal before the flame divided between two routes. The organizing committee’s itinerary covered 40 participating municipalities, including Nagoya’s 16 wards; examples included Komaki–Owariasahi–Seto and Toyohashi–Tahara–Shinshiro–Toyokawa on 29 August. A separate relay involved 14 schools from 7 to 15 September, and the published programme ended on 18 September before the stadium cauldron-lighting ceremony the following day. (oca.asia)

The opening ceremony on 19 September and closing ceremony on 4 October were held at Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium. Chief director Yukihiko Tsutsumi developed the shared artistic concept “HEART BEAT Aichi-Nagoya”; the opening’s subsidiary theme was “Harmonic Heart Beat.” Its performance elements included a heart-shaped stage, heartbeat sound effects, a violin performance and 240 local dancers forming “WELCOME.” These artistic sequences were distinct from the delegations’ entrance and official protocol. At the closing ceremony, OCA president Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani declared the Games closed and presided over the flag handover to Qatar for Doha 2030. Doha’s presentation featured a horse and rider followed by a filmed journey through the city; high jumper Mutaz Barshim participated in the handover. (lp-ag.tickets-aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Daisuke Shiba designed the medals around fragmented forms reunited into a single achievement, developing their shape through experiments with broken ceramic discs. Each medal measured 80 mm across and 5 mm thick. Gold medals weighed approximately 265 g, silver 264 g and bronze 222 g. The ribbon incorporated iris silhouettes and leaf-like arcs, while the octagonal case referenced the character for eight associated with Nagoya’s civic emblem. The OCA’s published presentation rules specified bronze–silver–gold award order, with the winner occupying the highest podium position; delegation flags were raised while an abbreviated version of the winner’s anthem was played. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Competition Calendar, Results and Records

Competition extended beyond the ceremonial dates of 19 September–4 October 2026. The organizers’ revised calendar, published on 6 July, placed basketball preliminaries as early as 10 September and cricket from 17 September, before the opening ceremony. That document distinguished competition days from gold-medal event days and specified the number of titles allocated to each date; it was a planning revision rather than a results record. The Japanese Olympic Committee’s subsequent date-indexed results directory recorded swimming medal sessions on every day from 20 to 25 September and athletics medal sessions from 23 to 29 September. Diving finals followed on 26–30 September, while football, tennis and hockey titles were decided on 2–3 October. These overlapping schedules distributed finals across the Games rather than reserving medals for a concluding weekend. (old.aichi-nagoya2026.org)

In athletics, the final day, 29 September, included both individual distance races and relay finals. Japan’s Ko Ochiai won the men’s 800 metres in 1:44.48, improving Sajad Moradi’s Asian Games record of 1:45.45 from 2010. Bahrain’s Birhanu Balew retained the men’s 5,000-metre title in 13:30.79, ahead of Japan’s Tomonori Yamaguchi in 13:31.43 and India’s Gulveer Singh in 13:32.75. Japan won the men’s 4 × 400-metre relay in 3:00.75, narrowly ahead of Qatar in 3:00.93; India won the women’s corresponding event in 3:29.69. Rain affected the conditions on the closing athletics day, but the official report recorded completed races rather than cancellations. (oca.asia)

The swimming competition produced distinct world, continental and Games records. World Aquatics reported Japan’s Shin Ohashi winning the men’s 200-metre breaststroke in a world-record 2:04.83, becoming the first swimmer below 2:05 in the event. China’s Zhang Zhanshuo established an Asian record of 1:43.49 in the men’s 200-metre freestyle and Games records of 3:41.28 and 7:42.49 over 400 and 800 metres respectively. His seven gold medals constituted an Asian Games swimming achievement, separate from timed performance records. China’s Yu Zidi recorded a world junior mark of 2:06.10 in the women’s 200-metre individual medley; the junior designation distinguished it from the unrestricted world record. (worldaquatics.com)

Combat-sport results included a same-day sibling double in judo on 30 September. Japan’s Mitsuki Kondo defeated Kazakhstan’s Abiba Abuzhakynova in the women’s under-48-kilogram final, while Hayato Kondo defeated Yeldos Smetov in the men’s under-60-kilogram final. Racket-sport and team-sport milestones followed on 3 October: Coleman Wong secured Hong Kong, China’s first Asian Games tennis gold in men’s singles, and its men’s rugby sevens team defeated China 26–0 for a third consecutive title. In esports, Japan’s Yuki Kurihara defeated Korea’s Kang Dongshin 10–2 in the Puyo Puyo final on 27 September, recovering from losing the opening set. (oca.asia)

Weightlifting illustrated why record totals cannot be equated with separate performances. The Asian Weightlifting Federation’s report of 4 October counted 231 record improvements arising from 112 lifts: 47 world, 56 Asian, 106 Asian Games, 11 junior world and 11 junior Asian records. A single performance could qualify in several categories, while records could change repeatedly during one competition; only 25 of the world records established remained standing when the competition ended. On 28 September, Ro Kwang-ryol’s initially successful-looking 214-kilogram clean and jerk in the men’s 85-kilogram division was overturned on review. He repeated the weight successfully on his final attempt, winning with a world-record total of 379 kilograms. The accepted final lift, rather than the overturned attempt, supplied the result and record reported by the governing bodies. (awf.sport)

Medal Table and Individual Distinctions

The post-Games medal table below records the published standings retrieved on 7 October 2026 at 2:27 p.m. Japan Standard Time; that publication explicitly retained a correction notice rather than identifying the standings as certified final. Ranking is gold-first, followed by silver and then bronze, not by total medals. India therefore placed above Uzbekistan despite both winning 21 golds, because India had 27 silvers against Uzbekistan’s 25. Delegations equal in all three categories shared a rank. (stepout2play.com)

Rank Delegation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 People’s Republic of China 169 89 83 341
2 Japan 83 95 91 269
3 Republic of Korea 39 43 68 150
4 India 21 27 37 85
5 Uzbekistan 21 25 24 70
6 Islamic Republic of Iran 19 18 15 52
7 Thailand 18 13 21 52
8 Kazakhstan 12 24 48 84
9 Hong Kong, China 11 19 24 54
10 Bahrain 11 5 6 22
11 Malaysia 9 7 16 32
12 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 7 13 9 29
13 United Arab Emirates 7 5 1 13
14 Qatar 6 6 6 18
15 Chinese Taipei 5 17 33 55
16 Indonesia 5 11 23 39
17 Philippines 4 9 16 29
18 Saudi Arabia 4 3 10 17
19 Kuwait 4 1 4 9
20 Vietnam 3 3 19 25
21 Singapore 2 9 7 18
22 Tajikistan 2 5 9 16
23 Jordan 2 3 6 11
24 Myanmar 2 1 2 5
25 Macao, China 1 4 1 6
26 Kyrgyzstan 1 3 10 14
27 Mongolia 1 1 13 15
28 Sri Lanka 1 1 1 3
29 Pakistan 0 2 8 10
30 Iraq 0 2 3 5
31 Turkmenistan 0 2 0 2
32 Afghanistan 0 1 2 3
32 Lebanon 0 1 2 3
34 Oman 0 1 1 2
35 Cambodia 0 0 4 4
36 Nepal 0 0 2 2
37 Bangladesh 0 0 1 1
37 Brunei Darussalam 0 0 1 1
37 Lao People’s Democratic Republic 0 0 1 1
37 Syrian Arab Republic 0 0 1 1

The figures agree across the published post-Games tables. Afghanistan and Lebanon shared 32nd place, leaving the next position numbered 34; four delegations shared 37th. Bhutan, Maldives, Palestine, Timor-Leste and Yemen won no medals and were excluded from the ranked medal-winning list, as was the separately entered Asian Refugee Team. At its 4 October wrap-up conference, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) confirmed that 40 of its 45 National Olympic Committees had won medals. (en.wikipedia.org)

Medal allocation did not follow a uniform three-medal pattern. The published aggregate was 470 golds, 469 silvers and 629 bronzes across 469 events. Shared podium places and sport-specific bronze-medal systems must therefore be distinguished from delegation-ranking ties. Wrestling, for example, provided two bronze-medal bouts in a weight category: the men’s freestyle 57 kg results recorded separate third-place contests won by Andrei Belolyubskii and Zou Wanhao. These were two bronze awards within one event, not an additional medal event. (en.wikipedia.org)

China led both gold and overall medal counts, ahead of Japan and the Republic of Korea. Compared with the closing table at Hangzhou in 2023, China’s totals decreased from 201 golds and 383 medals to 169 and 341; Japan increased from 52 and 188 to 83 and 269; Korea decreased from 42 and 190 to 39 and 150. These are raw changes, not like-for-like performance measures: Aichi–Nagoya’s programme comprised 469 events, against Hangzhou’s 481. Hong Kong, China’s Olympic committee separately confirmed that its 11 golds and 54 medals were delegation records. (chinadailyasia.com)

Among individual multiple winners, Chinese swimmer Zhang Zhanshuo won seven gold medals: the men’s 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1,500 m freestyle and three relays. His seventh title, secured on 25 September, established an Asian Games record of 3:41.28 in the 400 m freestyle. Li Bingjie won five golds, combining the women’s 400 m, 800 m and 1,500 m freestyle titles with the 4 × 100 m and 4 × 200 m freestyle relays. Individual relay medals form part of an athlete’s personal tally, whereas each relay victory contributes only one gold to the delegation table. (oca.asia)

The formally selected Games awards were distinct from a ranking by medal quantity. On 4 October 2026, the OCA named Chinese swimmer Yu Zidi female Most Valuable Player and Thai sprinter Puripol Boonson male Most Valuable Player, with USD25,000 awarded to each. Thirteen-year-old Yu won the women’s 200 m butterfly and both individual medleys; the organizing committee identified her as the youngest Games MVP. Boonson won the men’s 100 m and 200 m, clocking 9.90 and 19.88 seconds respectively, and took silver in the mixed 4 × 100 m relay. A five-member OCA panel chaired by Tayyab Ikram selected the recipients, and the presentation took place at the Main Media Centre. (oca.asia)

Broadcasting, Ticketing and Cultural Participation

China Media Group–International Media Port (CMG-IMP), based in Shanghai, was appointed host broadcaster by the organizing committee with Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) approval. Its responsibilities included producing the international television signal and supplying facilities and services to territorial rights-holding broadcasters. At the second World Broadcasters Meeting on 19 May 2026, CMG-IMP outlined planned live coverage of 28 sports and both ceremonies, with the remaining 15 sports covered through electronic news gathering: recorded material for news and highlights rather than continuous live feeds. This production plan was distinct from each broadcaster’s selection of programmes for its domestic audience. (oca.asia)

Principal territorial outlets included TBS Television in Japan and Sony Pictures Networks India in India and the subcontinent. TBS’s designation as an official broadcaster was announced on 4 December 2025 and explicitly included live television coverage; its digital platforms and social media also supported promotion. Sony’s agreement covered television distribution through Sony Sports Network and streaming through Sony LIV. Its published coverage announcement for the men’s cricket final on 3 October identified both platforms as live outlets, distinguishing these services from promotional clips or subsequent highlights. (oca.asia)

Public ticketing began with a regional advance-sale period, 26 February–9 March 2026, for residents of Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Shizuoka, Tokyo and Osaka. A second advance-sale period, 12–31 March, removed geographical restrictions, including for overseas purchasers. General sales opened at 17:00 Japan Standard Time on 30 June, on a first-come, first-served basis. The official shop required an Ouen-ID, or Supporter ID; authorized alternatives included Ticket Pia, TBS Tickets and CBC Ticket Center. Electronic tickets could be displayed on a telephone or printed as PDFs, while agency-issued paper tickets were available through convenience-store counters. (aichi-nagoya2026.spocale.pro)

Tickets were organized by competition session and seating category, with preliminary rounds, semifinals and medal sessions separately identified in the ticketing guide. Published competition prices ranged from ¥1,500 to ¥30,000; hospitality products were separate purchases. General seating categories extended from AA to D where applicable, with discounted child and disability categories and wheelchair tickets including one companion. Late-entry “After 4” tickets provided another session-access option. On 29 September, organizers announced that sales had exceeded one million tickets as of 28 September. This was a sales figure, not a count of spectators entering venues or of complimentary tickets distributed. Separately, a family-invitation scheme announced on 28 April offered up to four places to each of 2,026 selected family groups for the Asian Games; the allocation was not evidence of actual attendance. (lp-ag.tickets-aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Digital information included the official results website and the Bornan Sports Technology-developed official application, which supplied competition schedules, real-time results, athlete profiles and delegation medal breakdowns. Japanese- and English-language ticket information supported international purchasing, while the cultural-programme portal offered English and simplified- and traditional-Chinese interfaces through automated translation. The Asian Games Times, published online as the official daily newspaper, combined previous-day highlights with Games information and local cultural features. Port Messe Nagoya housed the Main Media Centre, integrating the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre; the published media plan specified journalist and photographer workspaces, press-conference facilities and venue mixed zones for post-competition interviews. (apps.apple.com)

ONE ASIA WORLD was the official celebration fan zone at Hisaya-odori Park, with associated spaces at OASIS21 and Sakae Hirobas, scheduled for 19 September–4 October. Its programme combined medalist appearances, Asian food and cultural presentations, interactive sponsor booths and a hospitality lounge. General access did not require a competition ticket, although particular programmes and hospitality areas could require reservations or separate admission. The wider cultural calendar included Nishikawa-school Japanese dance, Nagoya fan-making and lantern workshops on 22 September. School participation also extended beyond spectating: Aichi Prefectural Ichinomiya Commercial High School’s regional-business students presented an athlete-support booth on 20–22 September as part of their community-engagement project. (oneasiaworld-aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Sustainability and Post-Games Use

The published sustainability concept framed Aichi–Nagoya 2026 as a “Social Good” Games, connecting sustainable development with social inclusion and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Its practical emphasis was on using existing venues and accommodation rather than constructing an entirely new Games estate. The organizing committee’s Code of Sustainable Procurement extended this approach to goods, services and construction works, addressing environmental protection, human rights, labour conditions, fair business practices and regional economic activity. It also called for cooperation from suppliers, licensees and their supply chains. These documents established objectives and purchasing standards; their publication did not itself demonstrate supplier compliance or quantify environmental savings. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

The Recycled Medal Project provided a municipal mechanism for recovering materials from discarded small electrical appliances. It covered award medals for both the Asian Games and Asian Para Games, but specified the use of a portion of recovered metals rather than claiming that every medal consisted entirely of recycled material. Collection was demonstrably implemented locally: Handa City collected unwanted mobile phones and smartphones at three locations between 1 October 2025 and 31 July 2026. The project’s guidance also distinguished collection from manufacture: only some appliances collected during the programme would contribute to medals, depending on production schedules and processing requirements. Thus, collection activity and material recovery should not be equated with a published total of metal incorporated into finished medals. (city.handa.lg.jp)

For temporary assets, the sustainability programme favoured leasing equipment and providing movable accommodation capable of subsequent use. Concrete arrangements included an invitation, dated 4 August 2026, for businesses and organizations interested in purchasing or renting accommodation units and associated rooms after the Games. The committee offered to connect prospective users with the owning companies; the notice explicitly did not guarantee a transaction. A separate fourth-round sale of competition and office equipment accepted applications from 14–31 August, with handover scheduled after the Games. These were implemented disposal and reuse procedures, not evidence that every advertised asset had found a new user. Disaster-response accommodation and storage were among the possible later uses discussed by Aichi’s governor in May 2025, rather than documented completed relocations. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Permanent-facility legacy was tied to continuing municipal functions. Nagoya’s published plans described the redeveloped Mizuho Park stadium as a long-term sports-promotion centre; the wider park programme combined renovated facilities, indoor sports provision and the park’s established role as a large-scale evacuation area. These were planned functions, not post-Games utilization statistics. The immediate next use was the separately administered Asian Para Games, scheduled for 18–24 October 2026: its master plan designated Mizuho stadium for the ceremonies, while the announced sports programme envisaged reusing Asian Games venues. This successive use connected the two events operationally without merging their competitions or governing authority. (aichi-nagoya2026.org)

Economic legacy estimates were forecasts covering a much longer period. Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City’s July 2022 study modelled both Games and associated initiatives over 2016–2036, using September 2021 demand assumptions and 2015 national and prefectural input–output tables across 107 industries. Including supply-chain effects and consumption generated by additional employee income, it projected induced production of ¥1.9395 trillion nationally and ¥1.09 trillion within Aichi. The national figure comprised approximately ¥367 billion associated directly with staging the events and ¥1.5724 trillion attributed to broader legacy initiatives. The model excluded negative economic effects and assumed tourism recovery by 2026. Its totals therefore represented neither measured post-Games benefits nor net public returns. (city.nagoya.jp)

Community evidence likewise requires distinctions between awareness, registration and sustained participation. Nagoya’s August 2023 comprehensive-plan survey randomly sampled residents from the municipal register and collected responses by post and online. Among 566 respondents answering a conditional Games-awareness question, 49.8% knew that the event would take place locally in 2026, while 28.8% knew the hosts but not the year. This was a pre-Games awareness baseline, not an assessment of social legacy. An organizing-committee notice of 2 October 2026 subsequently reported approximately 40,000 registered volunteers across the two Games; registration did not establish how many ultimately served or continued volunteering afterward. (city.nagoya.jp)

References

  1. OCA Press Release: OCA announces new dates for the 19th Asian Games - Hangzhouoca.asia
  2. OCA President praises ‘solidarity, unity’ of General Assemblyoca.asia
  3. 18 sports to feature in Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games as AsPC signs Host City Contractasianparalympic.org
  4. History of the Gamesaichi-nagoya2026.org
  5. Overview of the Gamesaichi-nagoya2026.org
  6. アジア競技大会の招致に向けた取組についてpref.aichi.jp
  7. 第20回アジア競技大会の開催決定等についてpref.aichi.jp
  8. 第20回アジア競技大会に係る愛知県と名古屋市の共催合意についてpref.aichi.jp
  9. 第20回アジア競技大会に係る国内候補都市の承認についてpref.aichi.jp
  10. 第20回アジア競技大会に係る合意についてpref.aichi.jp
  11. 第20回アジア競技大会の開催都市が愛知・名古屋に決定されましたpref.aichi.jp
  12. Host City Contract for the 20th Asian Games 2026city.nagoya.jp
  13. 写真で見る主な活動(2019年5月)pref.aichi.jp
  14. アジア・アジアパラ競技大会の経緯pref.aichi.jp
  15. 教育・スポーツ委員会審査状況(令和8年6月25日)pref.aichi.jp
  16. 大会開催による愛知県内への経済効果pref.aichi.jp
  17. アジア・アジアパラ競技大会の予算pref.aichi.jp
  18. 大会経費の主な変動要因についてpref.aichi.jp
  19. Venues – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  20. Nagoya City Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  21. 競技会場案内|愛知・名古屋2026 名古屋市ポータルサイトcity.nagoya.jp
  22. 世界規格の新スタジアム【パロマ瑞穂スタジアム】誕生/5年ぶりに名古屋グランパスの試合が開催されます!promotion.city.nagoya.jp
  23. 瑞穂公園陸上競技場エリアの会場情報nagos-sports.city.nagoya.jp
  24. 53の舞台が紡ぐドラマ!競技会場を要チェック!joc.or.jp
  25. Aichi Sky Expo – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  26. Kinjo Futo Station Square Venue – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  27. Tokyo Aquatics Centre – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  28. “ToBiO” Furuhashi Hironoshin Memorial Hamamatsu Swimming Center – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  29. OCA/AINAGOC hold joint press conference to review CC meetingoca.asia
  30. Technical Delegates receive Asian Games accommodation updateoca.asia
  31. Asian Games ‘floating village’ docks in Nagoya Portoca.asia
  32. OCA CC member expects ‘comfortable and convenient’ Asian Games 2026oca.asia
  33. IOC President, OCA President to visit Asian Games athletes’ villageoca.asia
  34. Take a look inside the Athletes’ Plaza Dininghallaichi-nagoya2026.org
  35. Sport Technical Handbook: Equestrian, Version 2.0equitation-japan.com
  36. Information for Visitorsaichi-nagoya2026.org
  37. アクセシブルシャトル案内サイトaichinagoya-accessible-shuttle.com
  38. ボランティア募集特設サイト|アジア・アジアパラ競技大会volunteer-aichi-nagoya2026.com
  39. 国家公安委員会委員長記者会見要旨npsc.go.jp
  40. Asia ready to shine as Aichi-Nagoya to host historic 20th Asian Gamesoca.asia
  41. OCA Executive Board approves sports programme for 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoyaoca.asia
  42. OCA Executive Board meets in Sanya on eve of 6th Asian Beach Gamesoca.asia
  43. Kabaddi – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  44. About Team Draw Resultsold.aichi-nagoya2026.org
  45. Sepaktakraw – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  46. Kurash – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  47. Jiu Jitsu – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  48. Wushu – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  49. eスポーツ|愛知・名古屋アジア大会|JOCjoc.or.jp
  50. Participating NOCs – Asian Games 2026aichi-nagoya2026.org
  51. 世界の国内・地域オリンピック委員会 アジア大陸 |JOCjoc.or.jp
  52. IOC – ODF Common Codesodf.olympictech.org
  53. Joint Statement by OCA & AINAGOCoca.asia
  54. OCA steps up ‘safe sport’ campaign at Asian Gamesoca.asia
  55. OCA, AINAGOC hold Asian Games wrap-up press conferenceoca.asia
  56. OCA Refugee Team to compete in 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoyaoca.asia
  57. From Azraq to the world stage for OCA Refugee Teamoca.asia
  58. Sport Technical Handbook: Judo, Version 2.078884ca60822a34fb0e6-082b8fd5551e97bc65e327988b444396.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com
  59. Qualification System – Asian Games – Aichi-Nagoya 2026: Asian Surfing Federationasiansurfing.org
  60. Games Emblem, Slogan & Core Graphicsaichi-nagoya2026.org
  61. Official Mascotaichi-nagoya2026.org
  62. Asian Games flame-lighting ceremonies to start in Tokyooca.asia
  63. Olympic wrestling great Yoshida runs first leg of Asian Games torch relay in Nagoyaoca.asia
  64. Torch Relayaichi-nagoya2026.org
  65. Opening Ceremony / Closing Ceremonylp-ag.tickets-aichi-nagoya2026.org
  66. Asian Games Athlete Plaza to host team welcome ceremoniesoca.asia
  67. South Korea Enters, Murofushi Father-Son Light Cauldronchosun.com
  68. OCA President closes 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026oca.asia
  69. Medalaichi-nagoya2026.org
  70. Daily Schedule for the 20th Asian Games, Version 5, 6 July 2026old.aichi-nagoya2026.org
  71. 競技日程・結果|愛知・名古屋アジア大会|JOCjoc.or.jp
  72. Balew, Ochiai, Wu headline dramatic conclusion to Asian Games athleticsoca.asia
  73. Aichi-Nagoya 2026: Records tumble as Ohashi stuns, Zhang makes history and a new generation announces itselfworldaquatics.com
  74. Super siblings lift judo goldoca.asia
  75. Coleman Wong wins historic tennis gold for Hong Kong, Chinaoca.asia
  76. Hong Kong, China storms to three-peat in men's rugby sevensoca.asia
  77. Kurihara, 11, makes history with e-sports goldoca.asia
  78. 231 Records in Nagoya: Weightlifting at the 20th Asian Gamesawf.sport
  79. Ro holds his nerve to lift gold for DPRKoca.asia
  80. Asian Games 2026 Medal Standings | Stepout2playstepout2play.com
  81. 2026 Asian Games medal tableen.wikipedia.org
  82. Asian Games | United World Wrestlinguww.org
  83. China tops Asian Games table for 12th timechinadailyasia.com
  84. 杭州亚运会奖牌榜sport.gov.cn
  85. 2022 Asian Games medal tableen.wikipedia.org
  86. Aichi-Nagoya 20th Asian Games 20262026ag.hkolympic.org
  87. Zhang in seventh heaven after breaking Asian Games recordoca.asia
  88. OCA announces Asian Games MVPs: Yu Zidi, Puripol Boonsonoca.asia
  89. MVP Award Ceremony Heldaichi-nagoya2026.org
  90. CMG-IMP outlines broadcasting plans for 20th Asian Gamesoca.asia
  91. TBS Television comes on board as Official Broadcaster for Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Gamesoca.asia
  92. Sony bags Asian Games broadcast rightsm.economictimes.com
  93. A blockbuster final awaits this Saturday October with live coveragesonypicturesnetworks.com
  94. The 20th Asian Games Official Ticket Informationaichi-nagoya2026.spocale.pro
  95. 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Official Ticket Informationlp-ag.tickets-aichi-nagoya2026.org
  96. Ticketing Guide, version 3.01lp-ag.tickets-aichi-nagoya2026.org
  97. 第20回アジア競技大会 チケット販売枚数100万枚突破!lp-ag.tickets-aichi-nagoya2026.org
  98. 愛知・名古屋2026大会にファミリーを無料でご招待します!!city.nagoya.jp
  99. Asian Games 2026 Appapps.apple.com
  100. 20th Asian Games and Aichi–Nagoya 2026results.asiangames2026.org
  101. SDGsの取り組みaichi-nagoya2026.org
  102. SDG Initiativesaichi-nagoya2026.org
  103. 移動式宿泊施設等の大会後の利活用について(ご案内)aichi-nagoya2026.org
  104. 【募集終了】大会で使用した備品の有償譲渡の第4回公募についてaichi-nagoya2026.org
  105. 2025年5月20日(火曜日)午前10時―知事記者会見pref.aichi.jp
  106. 安全・安心で魅力的な総合運動公園を目指す瑞穂公園整備計画(令和2年度から令和6年度)の概要city.nagoya.jp
  107. Sport programme announced for Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Gamesparalympic.org