Asian Games 2026 – Which Country Will Win the Most Medals?

[crwth]

+ on the part where China will win the most medals. For 2nd place, I'm thinking Japan or South Korea. Hmm. I think it should be ranked by what medal the country has as well right? Because you may rank higher if you have a lot of gold and fewer silver and bronze medals overall.

Is there some kind of home-advantage thing? Like being a host for the games? In this case, since it's in Japan, maybe the conditions and home-crowd advantage would help.

[Bitcoin Smith]

Sports is differnt kind of politics and not every deserving candidate get the opportunity to represent their country on the bigger level and that is exactly the reason why India isn't winning gold in such competitions. But China picks the best and train them since their childhood just for the exact moment because they want to keep their tradition going while other countries are just sitting within the nation to select the participants based on the influence/religion/case/financial level.

Choosing the sport athlete is about the competitiveness, and no politics shoulda involved in this thing. China fully focused on how to get their best talent while other countries are not even doing it.

Apart from that i agree with your second paragraph. As i know they have the best system to develop their spors athlete called Juguo Tizihi. They develop talents since they're still very young, and push them beyond their limit to only focus in their field. It's something that others countries don't have it who have high index of curroption. While most of countries in asia have high index of corruption.

Anyone who gamble on China to win most of medals is winning their bet, but the problem we have no market to bet on this kind of event.

Well, it seems what CHina is doing looks good from the outer side but the atheletes are forced to live a life that is not in their control and just because their government wants to have more medals on those competitions. Politics should be avoided at all cost that will help the talents from any part of the country will allow them to represent the nation.

As a government they should support them, like provide a job or source of income so they can focus on their sports but not every country can do that.

[sunsilk]

Razed has some of the asian games on its bookie for the volleyball and basketball for women's division.

Only volleyball and basketball are available? I actually dont bet too often on Razed and I wanted to bet on the Women’s Cricket final being played between India and Sri Lanka. I found the market on Stake but the betting limit isnt very high, so I was looking for alternatives of Stake. The men’s cricket matches are also starting, so I am looking for a platform with good betting limits.

Stake now has a section featuring the matches happening at the Asian Games. Just go to their sportsbook section and use the search feature to search for “Asian Games” to see the available markets. The only problem is that the betting limits they are offering on my account are very low.

That's when I've checked yesterday. But as per checking again, there's the cricket, soccer, and water polo.

I think that depends on the schedule and the bookie's information. So, you might want to check it on razed again and see if which provider and games you're interested to bet with since cricket is already added too.

It didn't took long for that to be added just as you have mentioned it.

[Darker45]

Looking at the current medal standing, it seems this is largely a battle between China, Japan, and South Korea. The rest of the participating countries are far far behind there seems to be zero chance any one of them would be able to catch up and take a spot at the top 3, although we're still in the earliest days.

What amazes me is how Hong Kong, which is just a small special region of China with a relatively small population, was able to field the fifth largest contingent. Despite its limitations, Hong Kong has always been consistent in delivering solid athletic performance in Asian Games.

[Mr. Magkaisa]

It's pretty obvious that China will lead the pack and then the second place will most like be Japan. If you look at the 2024 Olympics ranking, the order is pretty much the same when you compare only Asian countries

I still wonder why we see China getting subdivided into Macao china, Hong Kong China, Chinese Taipei...

I think the reason China, Japan and South Korea always lead is because of the high level of discipline and training they instill on players right from Childhood. We do also see those countries front their cultures so much.

Not just that, you can add the budget they are spending on their athletes, the facility they provide to boost the power at intel of their people.
Those country always take care for the best of their countrymen and not just that, they make sure that every talent will be developed.
China will lead  the Asian Games as they are the powerhouse,

[yhiaali3]

Unfortunately, I don't see my country on the list  even though we always participated in the Asian Games before the war, But now it seems we have no teams qualified to win any medals, even though we used to occasionally win some gold medals in some sports.

any way I expect that, as usual, the three major Asian countries, namely China, Japan and South Korea will win the main prizes and top the medal standings.