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The 1984 South Asian Games (or 1st SAF Games) were held in Kathmandu, Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

, in September 1984. It was the first edition of South Asian Games.

Sports

There were 5 official sports for the 1st SAF Games. They were :-

Athletics
Boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
Football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

Swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

Weightlifting

Medal talley

1	India	44	28	16	88
2	Sri Lanka	7	11	19	37
3	Pakistan	5	3	2	10
4	Nepal	4	12	8	24
5	Bangladesh	2	8	13	23
6	Bhutan	0	0	2	2
7	Maldives	0	0	1	1

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