A record total of 1,820 athletes representing 20 Asian National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in 13 sports divided into 97 events.
[6] The Japanese 4×100 metres medley relay team of Keiji Hase (backstroke), Masaru Furukawa (breaststroke), Manabu Koga (freestyle) and Takashi Ishimoto (butterfly) won the gold medal with a time of 4:17.2 and broke the world record.
Only the Republic of China managed to improve its position in the medal table compared to the 1954 Asian Games.
South Korean athletes improved their total medal count by eight from 1954, earning third spot on the table.
If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given; they are listed alphabetically by IOC country code.