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, Indonesia in November.Bell, Daniel (2003). ''Encyclopedia of International Games''. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. . A total of 21 men's and 12 women's athletics events were contested at the competition.GANEFO Games
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dominated the athletics competition. China won all but three of the women's events and won eleven gold medals in the men's section. The second most successful nation was North Korea, which won four gold medals, led by a triple gold medal performance by

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. The next most successful nation was the United Arab Republic (combining Egypt and Syria), which swept the men's distance track events, and also won four gold medals. This was a major international event for Chinese and North Korean athletes in particular, as they were excluded from the

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, including the 1962 Jakarta Games held a year earlier. The Asian Games sprint and hurdles champion

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by China's

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. Ni Zhiqin won the men's

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and would break the world record in that event later in his career. His counterpart on the women's side

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was similarly successful, having become the first Chinese world record breaker in 1957 – here she was only runner-up (behind her teammate Wu Fushan) but won the women's pentathlon event. Another high-profile competitor was men's long jump winner Ali Brakchi, an Algerian who represented France at the

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.Ali Brakchi
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Medal summary

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