▲ Promotional materials are attached at Higashi-Okazaki Station in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on the 14th ahead of the opening of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
Japan, the host nation of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, has formed the largest delegation for this tournament.
According to data compiled by the official tournament information website Game Hub, a total of 10,798 athletes will compete in this event.
Unlike the recent trend in the Olympics where the ratio of male to female athletes is balanced 1-to-1, the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games features significantly more male athletes, with 6,215 men and 4,583 women.
Qatar (190 men, 64 women), Saudi Arabia (122 men, 16 women), Afghanistan (43 men, 7 women), and Iraq (13 men, 1 woman) showed extreme gender imbalances.
Conversely, North Korea (42 men, 65 women), Vietnam (173 men, 175 women), and Singapore (133 men, 171 women) had higher proportions of female athletes.
While China has traditionally fielded the largest delegations, host country Japan registered 919 athletes for this tournament, surpassing China (803) and South Korea (780) to take first place.
Following in 4th place and beyond were Thailand (682), Hong Kong (569), Kazakhstan (547), and India (508).
The delegation with the fewest participating athletes is the Asian Refugee Team, with a total of just 2 athletes, one man and one woman.
This marks the first time a refugee team will participate in a Summer Asian Games, and both athletes will compete in taekwondo.
Mahmoud Jassim Mohammed in the men's 80kg taekwondo event and Tala Hassan Hunaidi in the women's 49kg taekwondo event will challenge for the Asian Refugee Team's first-ever medal.
Excluding the Asian Refugee Team, Brunei registered the fewest athletes.
Brunei is sending a total of 6 athletes, combining 5 men and 1 woman, competing across two sports: karate (1) and wushu (5).
(Photo: Yonhap News)
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