South Asian Games

In 1993, Dhaka became the first country in the history of the SAF Games to play hosts for the second time. These games, originally allotted to Kathmandu, were staged from December 20 to 27, 1993. Eleven disciplines were held. History repeated itself. Like all previous occasions, India returned with a bagful of medals. Out of the 137 medals bagged by India, 60 were gold, 46 silver and 31 bronze. Bhutan and the Maldives could not win a single gold medal. In athletics Ranjit Subasinghe of Sri Lanka created a new games record by running 800 metres in 1 minute 47.56 seconds. India 's Bahadur Singh created a record by running 10,000 metres in 29 minutes 30.23 seconds. Moilly Chakoo of India ran the 3000 metres in 9 minutes 29.01 seconds. In the team championships Nepal and Sri Lanka won gold medals in football and men's tennis respectively whereas Pakistan won the kabaddi championship and men's volleyball gold. India bagged the team title in the events of table tennis (men and wo...

At Colombo in 1991, in terms of medal tally India took the top spot as it had been doing since the inception of the SAF Games in 1984. India went on to improve from 61 gold medals won at Islamabad to 64 gold medals this time. Sri Lanka earned 44 showing a marked improvement in the performance which had been seen their players win only six gold medals at Islamabad . Indian weightlifters did India proud by winning three gold, the same number of silver and bronze medals in each category. A significant feature of the Colombo edition of the SAF Games was that all but two swimming records were shattered in the women's category. In fact swimming was dominated by Sri Lanka, in particular the cousins Jullian Bolling and Dipika Chanmugham. Between them they bagged 13 gold medals to rightly earn the titles of best sportsman and sportswoman of the games respectively. Sri Lankan women emerged winners of the volleyball event whereas women from Nepal bagged the title in table tennis. Pakistan won...

Pakistan's capital Islamabad was the venue for the fourth SAF Games. The games were held there from October, 20 to 27 1989. The number of disciplines remained 10. Playing hosts, Pakistan improved it's performance considerably taking its tally of medals near the 100 mark. It managed to win 97, including 42 gold, 33 silver and 22 bronze. India retained its supremacy in the medals count with a tally of 124, including 61 gold, 43 silver and 20 bronze. The Maldives failed to get any medal for the third time in succession. Several records went off the board especially in the athletic events. Many new records were created and some of them are still to be broken. These include the 110-metre hurdles record created by Ghulam Abbas of Pakistan, clocking 14.11 seconds, and the 3000 metres record created by Abdul Razzak, clocking a time of 8 min 42.43 seconds. The SAF games record of long jump (7.79 metres) was also created by Mohammad Urfaq of Pakistan during the Islamabad games. Vijay Ama...

Wrestling COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL India 8 2 0 10 Pakistan 2 5 2 9 Sri Lanka ...

Weightlifting COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL India 24 6 0 30 Pakistan 6 23 0 29 Sri Lanka ...

Volleyball(MEN) COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL India 1 0 0 1 Pakistan 0 1 0 1 Sri Lanka ...

Swimming COUNTRY GOLD SILVER BRONZE TOTAL India 11 7 7 25 Pakistan 0 0 2 2 Sri Lanka ...