Asian Games: Sports and participating countries

SEOUL: Full list of the 36 sports and 45 participating countries at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, from September 19 to October 4:

Sports (36): Aquatics (diving, swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo), archery, athletics, badminton, baseball/softball, basketball, bowling (ten-pin), boxing, canoeing (slalom/sprint), cricket, cycling (BMX/mountain bike/road/track), equestrianism (dressage/eventing/show jumping), fencing, field hockey, football, golf, gymnastics (artistic/rhythmic/trampolining), handball, judo, kabaddi, karate, modern pentathlon, rowing, rugby sevens, sailing, sepak takraw, shooting, squash, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis/soft tennis, triathlon, volleyball/beach volleyball, weightlifting, wrestling, wushu

New disciplines introduced for incheon 2014: Soft tennis, compound archery, mixed relay triathlon

Sports dropped after guangzhou 2010: Roller sports, board games, cue sports, dancesport, dragon boating.

Countries (45): Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Krgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Macau, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian territories, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, East Timor, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen.