A total of 991 athletes representing 26 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in these games, competing in 69 events from 11 different sports and disciplines.
[2] In doing so, it also broke the record for the most golds won by a NOC at a single Asian Winter Games (the previous was 29, set by the Japan in 1986).
[4] Athletes from Iran and Kyrgyzstan won the first Asian Winter Games medals for their nations.
If nations are still tied, equal ranking is given; they are listed alphabetically by IOC country code.
* Host nation (Kazakhstan)a There are sources, that display variations in the number of total participating nations, but Indonesia didn't send any athlete but an official who marched with a flag of Indonesia, so number of NOCs which sent athletes to the Games were 26, not 27.