Supreme Council of Asian Games of Iran has announced the number and name of sports it will take part in during the 2018 Asian Games, Indonesia.
After several sessions the council announced the final number of athletes and sport fields in a press release on Wednesday, ISNA reported.
A total of 536 athletes including 392 men and 144 women will attend the games in 30 sporting events.
In diving, swimming and water polo, dressage, show jumping, gymnastic, sepak takraw, football, boxing, wrestling, weightlifting and handball Iran will only send men’s teams. In triathlon division Iran will take part with only one woman representing the nation.
Cycling, shooting, rowing, track and field, judo, archery, table tennis, martial arts, climbing, taekwondo, karate, wushu, basketball, kabaddi, fencing, volleyball, squash, tennis, badminton, and paragliding are the sports in which both men and women will compete.
The number of athletes has almost doubled compared to the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. It has climbed from 276 athletes in 24 sports to 536 athletes in 30 fields.
Iran ranked fifth at the Incheon Games with 21 gold, 18 silver and 18 bronze medals. Wrestling with six gold, taekwondo four gold, and karate with three gold medals were the top gold winners. Wrestling was the top medal winner for the country with 12 medals collected by 14 wrestlers.
The best rank for Iran in the history of the Asian Games since its first edition in 1951 in New Delhi, India, was the second place in the seventh edition in Tehran.
The 2018 Asian Games is a pan-Asian multi-sport event to be held from August 18-September 2 in Indonesia in 40 sports.
Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium in Jakarta will host the opening and closing ceremonies.
For the first time, the Asian Games are being co-hosted in two cities; the Indonesian capital of Jakarta and Palembang, the capital of South Sumatra Province.
Events will be held in and around the two cities, including sites in Bandung and province of West Java. Hanoi in Vietnam was originally chosen as the host, but withdrew due to financial reasons.
