The athletics at the 1982 Asian Games were held in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, India.
The Asian Games mascots are fictional characters, usually an animal native to the area or human figures, who represent the cultural heritage of the place where the Asian Games are taking place.
 The mascots are often used to help market the Asian Games to a younger audience.
 Every Asian Games since 1982 has its own mascot.
 Appu, the mascot for the 1982 Asian Games, was the first mascot.
Hector Begeo (born June 19, 1964) is a three-time Olympian representing the Philippines.
 He is the national record holder in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase.
 He also place second in the 1983 Asian Athletics Championships and third in the steeplechase at the 1982 Asian Games.
 He is the only Filipino to advance into a semi-final in the 3000 m Steeplechase in an Olympic event during the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
 He also represented the Philippines at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics.
Basketball was one of the 21 sports disciplines held in the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, India.
 South Korea defeated China in the championship rematch and won their 2nd Asian Games title.
 The games were held from November 19 to December 3, 1982.
Kamaljeet Sandhu is a former woman Indian athlete who won gold medal at 1970 Bangkok Asian Games in 400 m race.
 She ran the distance in 57.3 seconds.
 She was the first Indian woman athlete to win gold medal at any Asian games.
 She hails from Punjab state in India.
 She received Padma Shri award in 1971.
 In 1971, she was one of the finalists in the World University Games held at Turin, Italy, in 400 metres race.
 She participated in the Women's 400 metres at the 1972 Munich Olympics, bowing out in the heats.
 Kamaljeet retired from athletics in 1973.
 She was also a national-level basketball and inter-varsity hockey player.
 She went to the 1982 Asian Games as the coach of the Indian women’s sprint team.
The 1954 Asian Games (officially known as the Second Asian Games – Manila 1954) was a multi-sport event held in Manila, Philippines from May 1 to May 9, 1954.
 A total of 970 athletes from 19 Asian National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 76 events from eight sports.
 The number of participating NOCs and athletes were larger than the previous Asian Games held in New Delhi in 1951.
 This edition of the games has a different twist where it did not implement a medal tally system to determine the overall champion but a pointing system.
 The pointing system is a complex system where each athlete were given points according to their achievement like position in athletics or in swimming.
 In the end the pointing system showed to be worthless as it simply ranked the nations the same way in the medal tally system.
 The pointing system was not implemented in future games ever since.
 Jorge B. Vargas was the head of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation (In 1976, was renamed as Philippine Olympic Committee) and the Manila Asian Games Organizing Committee.
 With the second-place finish of the Philippines, only around 9,000 spectators attended the closing ceremony at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.
 The events were broadcast on radio live at DZRH and DZAQ-TV ABS-3 on delayed telecast.
The 1982 Asian Games (also known as the IX Asiad) was a multi-sport event held in Delhi, India, from 12 November to 4 December 1982.
 A total of 3,411 athletes from 33 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in these games, competing in 147 events in 21 sports and 22 disciplines.
 The number of participating countries was the greatest in Asian Games history.
 Handball, equestrian, rowing and golf were included for the first time; fencing and bowling were excluded.
 This medal table ranks the participating NOCs by the number of gold medals won by their athletes.
Ahmed Hamada Jassim (Arabic: أحمد حمادة جاسم‎ ‎ ; born 18 September 1961) is a Bahraini former hurdler who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics.
 He was the 400 metres hurdles champion at the 1986 Asian Games and won hurdles bronze medals at the 1982 Asian Games and 1983 Asian Athletics Championships.
Askari Mohammadian (Persian: عسگری محمدیان‎ ‎ , born 2 March 1963) is a retired Iranian freestyle wrestler.
 He won gold medals at the 1983 Asian Championships and 1986 Asian Games, placing second at the 1982 Asian Games, 1988 and 1992 Olympics, 1989 world and 1989 Asian Championships.
 His 1988 Olympic silver was the only medal for Iran at those Games.
Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium is the national stadium of India, located in Delhi.
 It is named after the first Prime Minister of India.
 It is a 60,000 seat stadium, designed and constructed to meet the international standards for stadiums set by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
 In terms of seating capacity, it is the fourth largest stadium in India, 27th largest stadium in Asia and the 51st largest stadium in the world.

Question: The Athletics at the 1982 Asian Games were held in a stadium named after which individual?
Answer: first Prime Minister of India