Asian Games 2018: Meet the record-holders in athletics

Here are some of the Games' legends whose performance are yet to be bettered in Asia's biggest stage.

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26 Jul 2018, 10:59 am

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100 M RACE: Men's: Femi Seun Ogunode (Qatar), 2014 Incheon Games, 9.93 (+0.4 m/s). Women's: Susanthika Jayasinghe (Sri Lanka), 2002 Busan, 11.15 (Photos | AFP)

200 M RACE: Men's: Femi Seun Ogunode (Qatar), 2014 Incheon Games, 20.14 (+0.3 m/s). Women's: Damayanthi Dharsha (Sri Lanka), 1998 Bangkok, 22.48 (Photos | AFP)

400 M RACE: Men's: Yousef Masrahi (Saudi Arabia), 2014 Incheon, 44.46. Women's: Kemi Adekoya (Bahrain), 2014 Incheon, 51.11 (Photos | AFP)

110 M HURDLES: Men's: Liu Xiang (China), 2010 Guangzhou, 13.09 (+1.1 m/s). Women's 100 m: Olga Shishigina (Kazakhstan), 1998 Bangkok, 12.63 (Photos | AFP)

POLE VAULT: Men's: Igor Potapovich (Kazakhstan), 1994 Hiroshima, 5.65 m. Women's: Gao Shuying (China), 2002 Busan, 4.35 m (Photos | AFP)

HIGH JUMP: Men's: Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar), 2014 Incheon, 2.33 m. Women's: Svetlana Radzivil (Uzbekistan), 2010 Guangzhou, 1.95 m (Photos | AFP)

JAVELIN THROW: Men's: Zhao Qinggang (China), 2014 Incheon, 89.15 m. Women's: Zhang Li (China), 2014 Incheon, 65.47 m (Photos | AFP)

DISCUS THROW: Men's: Ehsan Hadadi (Iran), 2010 Guangzhou, 67.99 m. Women's: Li Yanfeng (China), 2010 Guangzhou, 66.18 m (Photos | AFP)

MARATHON: Men's: Takeyuki Nakayama (Japan), 1986 Seoul, 2:08:21. Women's: Naoko Takahashi (Japan), 1998 Bangkok, 2:21:47 (Photos | AFP)

SHOT PUT: Men's: Sultan Abdulmajeed A Al Habashi (Saudi Arabia), 2010 Guangzhou, 20.57 m. Women's: Sui Xinmei (China), 1990 Beijing, 20.55 m (Photo | AFP)