Seoul - 1986

The first newspaper in India, James Augustus Hickey's Bengal Gazette, was a weekly out of Kolkata, first published on January 29, 1780. At that time in Asia, only Japan had some means of traditional publishing - yomiuri (sell and read) and kawara-ban (tile-block broadsheet).

From those humble beginnings in 1780, presently more than 2000 newspapers are published in India, in Hindi, English and all Indian languages.

• 83 Asian records and 3 world records were broken, while 2 world records were equalled in the Seoul Asiad.
  
  
• Japanese hammer player Murobushi Shgenobu won the Asian Games gold for the fifth successive time (1970-1986).
  
  
• The star of the 1986 Asian Games was the Payyoli Express - Pilavulakandi Thekkeparambil Usha, better known as P. T. Usha. She won 4 gold medals (and 1 silver), becoming the biggest winner of athletics gold medals in the Seoul Asiad. That was the only result that Indian sports fans could be proud of. The timings of P. T. Usha in the 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 400 metres hurdles, 4 x 100 metres relay and 4 x 400 metres relay are national records to this day.
  
  
• The Seoul Asiad marked the coming of age of South Korean sports. They came second in the Seoul Asiad in the medal tally, displacing Japan. From the 1986 Asiad onwards, China and South Korea would always finish 1-2 in the overall medal count.
  
  
• Hockey would see the emergence of a new star - South Korea. They broke the Pakistan-India monopoly over the Asian Games gold by winning the title. India, for the first time ever, had to be content with the bronze.
  
  
• India's results in hockey were: drew with South Korea 1-1, beat Japan 3-1, beat Thailand 11-0 and beat Hong Kong 10-0.
  
  
• Pakistan's results were: beat Oman 12-0, beat Bangladesh 7-0 and lost to Malaysia 1-2.
  
  
• In the semi-finals, South Korea beat Malaysia 4-1 while Pakistan beat India 3-1. In the final, South Korea beat Pakistan to win the gold.
  
  
• South Korea achieved a double by winning the gold in the women's hockey competition too. South Korea would repeat this feat in the 1994 Hiroshima Asiad when it won both the men's and women's hockey gold medals. India ended up with the bronze medal - the only time that India did not reach the final of the Asian Games men's hockey competition.

Final Standings:

1 - South Korea, 2 - Pakistan, 3 - India, 4 - Malaysia, 5 - Japan, 6 - Hong Kong, 7 - Bangladesh, 8 - Oman, 9 - Thailand

Indian Team:

Players	Mohammad Shaheed (captain), R. S. Rawat, Neel Kamal Singh, Pargat Singh, Vineet Kumar, M. P.  Singh, M. Somaiya, Hardeep Singh, Abdul Azia, B. K. Subramani, Tikken Singh, Jagdeep Singh, Jagbir Singh, Balwinder Singh, Thoiba Singh, Ram Prakash Singh
Officials	Ajitpal Singh and Harmeek Singh (coaches), D. S. Murthy (manager)