2006 ASEAN University Games

XIII ASEAN University Games
Host city Hanoi, Vietnam
Motto ASEAN students for coorperation, creativeness and success
Nations participating 9
Athletes participating 1000
Events 157 in 12 sports
Opening ceremony 16 December
Closing ceremony 22 December
Officially opened by Nguyễn Thiện Nhân
Minister of Education and Training
Main venue Hang Day Stadium
Website aug13.edu.net/moet.gov.vn
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The 2006 ASEAN University Games officially known as the 13th ASEAN University Games was a Southeast Asian university multi-sports event held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 16 to 22 December 2006. This was the first time Vietnam hosted the ASEAN University Games.[1][2][3][4]

Around 1000 athletes participated at the event which featured 157 events in 12 sports. Vietnam is the seventh nation to host the ASEAN University Games after Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines. It was opened by Nguyen Thien Nhan, the Minister of Education and Training of Vietnam at the Hang Day Stadium and Quan Ngua Sports Palace respectively.[5]

The final medal tally was led by host Vietnam, followed by Thailand and Indonesia. Several games and national records were broken during the games. The games were deemed generally successful with the rising standards of university sports competition amongst the Southeast Asian nations.

Development and preparation

The Organising Committee of the 13th ASEAN University Games was formed to oversee the staging of the games.

Venues

The 13th ASEAN University Games had 12 venues for the games.[6]

CityCompetition VenueSports
HanoiNational Sports Complex
My Dinh National Stadium Athletics, Football
My Dinh Aquatics Centre Swimming
Others
Hang Day Stadium Opening ceremony
Hanoi University of Education Table tennis
Quan Ngua Sports Palace Volleyball, Closing ceremony
Hanoi University of Technology Basketball
Ngoai Giao Doan Court Tennis
Cau Giay District Gymnasium Badminton
Vietnam National University, Hanoi Chess
Hanoi University of Agriculture No I Karate
University of Physical Education and Sports No I Pencak silat
Trinh Hoai Duc Gymnasium Taekwondo

Marketing

Carp, the official mascot of the games.

The logo of the 2006 ASEAN University Games is an image of a letter U which is the abbreviation of the word University. The moving U image resembles the circle on the logo of the Olympic movement. The motion of these circles represents the competitiveness, solidarity, ASEAN university students' activeness and creativeness as athletes. The linked 11 circles at the bottom of the U image represents the 11 member countries of ASEAN, The picture of Khue Van Cac – the symbol of the Literature Temple (the first University of Vietnam ) which is placed in the middle of one of the circles, represents Vietnam as a country with university and as a host of the ASEAN University Games. The circles that look like a torch fire represents the ideas of the solidarity, friendship, studying and sporting among the ASEAN students. Red represents courage, blue stands for unity while yellow stands for victory and enthusiasm.[7]

Mascot

The mascot of the 2006 ASEAN University Games is an unnamed carp. In Vietnamese belief, a carp is though to bring many good characteristics such as: The symbol of wealth, prosperity and having many children. The adoption of carp as the games mascot was according to the Vietnamese phrase: a carp, will become a dragon after passing 5 gates of challenges, which means a normal people will become a talent after overcoming many obstacles. The phrase is a great encouragement for students to study and obtain high achievements in exams and to be victorious and intelligent. The two hands of the mascot that raise upwards represents the welcome of all participating delegations to Vietnam. The head represents the belief and the determination of ASEAN students to succeed. The cunning smile and the bachelor hat of the carp represents the intelligence, and naughty characters of the students. The mascot is painted with three major colours : Red, Blue and Yellow. Yellow represents Victory and enthusiasm, red represents courage and blue represents unity.[8]

The games

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held at 19:00 on 16 December 2006 at the Hang Day Stadium. The games was opened by Nguyễn Thien Nhan, the Minister of Education and Training of Vietnam.

Participating nations

Sports

Medal table

A total of 519 medals comprising 157 Gold medals, 156 Silver medals and 206 Bronze medals were awarded to athletes. The host Vietnam's performance was their best overall at that time, and emerged as overall champion of the games.

Key

  *   Host nation (Vietnam)

  *   Host nation (Vietnam)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Vietnam (VIE)*745237163
2 Thailand (THA)423349124
3 Indonesia (INA)27323493
4 Malaysia (MAS)7193763
5 Philippines (PHI)57618
6 Singapore (SIN)252027
7 Laos (LAO)061521
8 Brunei (BRU)0178
9 Cambodia (CAM)0112
Totals (9 nations)157156206519

References

  1. ↑ "ASEAN University Games opens in Vietnam".
  2. ↑ "The 13th ASEAN University Games Gymnasium was highly appreciated".
  3. ↑ "13th ASEAN University Games open".
  4. ↑ "Vietnam chess 13 AUG Chess Result".
  5. ↑ "Vietnam tops medal table at ASEAN University Games".
  6. ↑ "13 AUG venues".
  7. ↑ "Logo and mascot".
  8. ↑ "Logo and mascot". Archived from the original on 19 October 2006.
Preceded by
Surabaya		 ASEAN University Games
Hanoi
XIII ASEAN University Games (2006)		 Succeeded by
Kuala Lumpur
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