The sporting events has ended for real on September 2, 2018. Three weeks of high adrenaline competitions after competitions held. Even though we know that China rules the golds, there are other things happening during the Asiad. Here are the highlights:
NOCs breaking their gold medal haul
Besides the Korea Unified team, five National Olympics Committees broke their record number of gold medals at a single Asian Games in Jakarta-Palembang.
Bahrain won 12 gold medals, breaking its record of nine set in 2014, while Cambodia won two gold medals, which doubled its number from 2014.
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The host, Indonesia, won 31 gold medals, surpassing its record of 11 from 1962, also held in Jakarta. Kyrgyzstan ended up with two gold medals, after it won one in 2002 and one in 2010. And last, Uzbekistan won 21 golds, topping its record total of 15 from 2002.
Oldest and youngest medal winners separated by 66 years
Bunga Nyimas from Indonesia was the youngest medal winner. She took bronze in the women's street event in skateboarding at the age of 12 years and 138 days.
On the other side, Zhang Minjie from China became the youngest gold medal winner, when she won the synchro 10m platform in diving on her 14th birthday.
The oldest medal winner was Bambang Hartono from Indonesia as he was 78 years old when he took bronze in the mixed super team event in bridge.
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Pranab Bardhan from India was the oldest gold medal winner at these Asian Games. At 60 years of age, he was part of the winning men's pair event in bridge.
Indonesia benefiting from new sports
Nine sports were being held for the first time at 2018 Asian Games: bridge, jetski, ju-jitsu, kurash, paragliding, pencak silat, sambo, skateboarding and sports climbing.
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Indonesia won 20 of the available 61 gold medals in these sports combined, by far the most of any NOC as Uzbekistan followed with seven gold medals.
Indonesia was especially dominant in pencak silat, winning 14 of the 16 gold medals, with the other two going to Vietnam.
Japan having great Games in Jakarta
Japan, one of the traditional powerhouses in Asian Games history, had a gold medal total of 75 at these Games.
This was the NOC's second most successful Asian Games, having only surpassed this total when winning 78 golds at the Bangkok 1966 Asian Games.
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Japan broke the 1000-gold medal barrier at these Games when Kensuke Sasaoka was victorious in the skateboard men’s park event on Wednesday 29 August.
Japan also collected its 3000th total medal in the history of the Asian Games when Kaya Isa took silver in the skateboard women’s street event, also on Wednesday 29 August.
Swimmer Ikee is the most successful athlete
Rikako Ikee from Japan won six gold medals. She is the second person to achieve the feat at a specific Asian Games. The first is So Gin Man from People's Republic of Korea, who won seven gold and eight medals overall in men's shooting in 1982.
Ikee herself won eight medals in total, the most of all athletes have won in Jakarta-Palembang Games. It was also the equal-most of all athletes at a specific Games.
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Sun Yang from China ended up with nine gold medals, as he won two in 2010, three in 2014 and four in 2018.
Only three athletes have won more in the history of the Games, they are China athlete Wang Yifu who won 14 in shooting, Pornchai Kaokaew from Thailand who won 10 in sepaktakraw, and Japanese athlete Yoshimi Nishigawa who won 10 in swimming.
Source: asiangames2018.id