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A woman sprinter in full stride, with a line of coloured runners behind her, the words “XI Asian Games” in Hindi and English and the emblem of the Games, on a ₹4 stamp.
Athletics at the Asian Games
India Post issued four stamps on 29 September 1990, at ₹1, ₹4, ₹4 and ₹6.50, for the XI Asian Games at Beijing, which ran from 22 September to 7 October. India sent teams in seventeen sports. Athletics was one of the sports at the first Asian Games, held at New Delhi in March 1951, when 489 athletes came from eleven countries and India lit the first Games torch. By the ninth Games, at New Delhi in 1982, there were 4,595 athletes from 33 countries.
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