Bahrain first competed at the Asian Games in 1974. The country won its first Asian Games medal, a bronze in the men's 400 m hurdles through Ahmed Hamada, at the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi. Hamada won Bahrain's first gold medal in the same event at the 1986 Asian Games in Seoul, setting a personal best of 49.31 seconds.
Bahrain made its debut at the Asian Winter Games in 2011 but withdrew from the 2017 edition held in Sapporo after the government declined to fund the team. Bahrain has won 104 medals at the games, including 49 gold medals, 27 silver medals and 28 bronze medals.
Several Bahrain athletes have been sanctioned for doping violations at the Asian Games. Kemi Adekoya was banned for four years after testing positive for stanozolol and was stripped of two gold medals from the 2018 Asian Games. Hassan Chani was banned for four years in 2020 for biological passport abnormalities and was stripped of his men's 10,000 m gold from the same Games. At the 2018 Asian Games, all ten of Bahrain's individual athletics gold medals were won by athletes born in Africa, drawing attention to the country's naturalization practices.
Medal tables Medals by Asian Games
GamesRankGoldSilverBronzeTotal 1974 Tehran 20 0 0 0 0 1978 Bangkok 20 0 0 0 0 1982 New Delhi 19 0 0 1 1 1986 Seoul 12 1 0 1 2 1990 Beijing 26 0 0 0 0 1994 Hiroshima 33 0 0 0 0 1998 Bangkok 31 0 0 0 0 2002 Busan 19 3 2 2 7 2006 Doha 14 7 9 4 20 2010 Guangzhou 14 5 0 4 9 2014 Incheon 12 9 6 4 19 2018 Jakarta / Palembang 11 12 7 7 26 2022 Hangzhou 9 12 3 5 20 2026 Nagoya 10 11 5 6 22 2030 Doha Future event 2034 Riyadh Future event Total 14 49 32 34 104
Medals by Asian Winter Games
Medals by Asian Para Games
GamesRankGoldSilverBronzeTotal 2010 Guangzhou 19 1 2 0 3 2014 Incheon 28 0 1 2 3 2018 Jakarta 28 0 2 1 3 2022 Hangzhou 28 0 0 1 1 Total 29 1 5 4 10
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