Asian archers, long among the best in the world, performed exceptionally well, establishing three meet marks in the newly introduced double target events. At the pool, Asia's aquatic athletes rewrote every record in the book except in the women's 200 meter breast-stroke.
射箭的十二項比賽中，因亞運首度採用雙局制，所有的成績都創了大會紀錄；游泳更厲害，廿九項舊紀錄中，除了女子二百公尺蛙式外，全部被翻新。