2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
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Host city | Ashgabat, Turkmenistan | ||
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Motto | Health, Inspiration, Friendship (Turkmen: Sagdynlyk, Ruhubelentlik, Dostluk) | ||
Nations participating | 63 | ||
Athletes participating | 4012 | ||
Events | 339 in 21 sports | ||
Opening ceremony | September 17 | ||
Closing ceremony | September 27 | ||
Officially opened by |
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow President of Turkmenistan | ||
Torch lighter | Pygy Baýramdurdyyew | ||
Main venue | Olympic Stadium | ||
Website | Official website | ||
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The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (Turkmen: Ýapyk binalarda we söweş sungaty boýunça V Aziýa oýunlary), which is also counted as the 5th Asian Indoor Games, was held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in 2017.[1] Ashgabat, third city in the former Soviet Central Asian region, won the right to host an event of Olympic Council of Asia. The first and second was Astana-Almaty, Kazakhstan who hosted the 2011 Asian Winter Games . The host city was chosen in Kuwait on 19 December 2010.[2] On 6 July 2013 the flag of the Olympic Council of Asia was officially handed over to the mayor of the city of Ashgabat.[3]
Development and preparation
Venues
The Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games were held at the Ashgabat Olympic Complex, which is a unique facility which has no parallel in the Central Asian region. The Complex boasts of over 30 structures, which also includes 15 competition venues, an Athletes' Village and a Paralympic Rehabilitation Medical Center. The construction was launched by the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.[4] On November 5, 2010, the Turkmen President took part in the official stone laying ceremony for the Olympic Village. Investment in the first phase amounted to nearly $2 billion.[5] The second phase of construction cost $3 billion.[6][7][8] The total cost of the Olympic Village was $5 billion and the construction was carried by Turkish construction company Polimeks.
For the convenience of athletes and spectators, the Olympic village have all the necessary infrastructure including social, cultural and shopping centers, hotels, restaurants, cafes, shops, consumer services and car park. The campus are laid with new pedestrian crossings and a monorail.
Several national higher educational institutions are located right next to the Olympic village. The Turkmen State Institute of Economics and Management, Institute of Culture, the State Border Service Academy of Turkmenistan and the National Institute of Sports and Tourism all have their campuses nearby. These universities will make use of the brand new sports facilities, built for the Games, in the future.
Venue | Sports | Capacity |
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Olympic Stadium | Opening and closing ceremonies | 45,000 |
Bowling Centre | Bowling | 500 |
Chess Arena | Chess | 500 |
Billiard Arena | Cue sports | 1,000 |
Velodrome | Cycling | 6,000 |
Taekwondo and Dancesport Arena | Dancesport, Taekwondo | 1,000 |
Equestrian Centre | Equestrian | 645 |
Ice Palace | Futsal | 10,300 |
Indoor Athletics Arena | Indoor athletics | 5,000 |
Tennis Centre | Indoor tennis | 4,000 |
Muay and Ju-jitsu Arena | Ju-jitsu, Muaythai | 861 |
Martial Arts Arena | Kickboxing, Kurash, Sambo | 5,000 |
Aquatics Centre | Short course swimming | 5,000 |
Weightlifting Arena | Weightlifting | 861 |
Main Indoor Arena | Wrestling, Belt wrestling, Traditional wrestling | 15,000 |
Medals
The medal design was revealed on February 16, 2017. The unique design was created by Eng Leong Medallic Industries. The gold, silver and bronze medals have been described as a lasting legacy of the event’s hospitality received in true Turkmen style. A total of 2,000 medals will be produced for the Games, weighing 721 kilograms all-together.[9]
Test events
The Senior Asian Weightlifting Championship, the WAKO Asian Kickboxing Championships, and the Central Asian Short Course Swimming Championships took place concurrently as part of the Inspiring Ashgabat Test Event Series.[10]
- Weightlifting
The Senior Asian Weightlifting Championships competition began 23 April and ended on 29 April at the Weightlifting Arena. Athletes competed for 144 medals which were awarded for snatch, clean & jerk and total in each bodyweight category. Asia has a strong pedigree in weightlifting with 31 of the 45 medals at the Rio 2016 Olympics being awarded to Asian countries.[10]
- Kickboxing
The Martial Arts Arena hosted the Asian Kickboxing Championships between 26–30 April with athletes from up to 20 countries competing over the course of five days. The competition included 27 categories for men and 10 for women which were featured in the Ring and 28 categories for men and 16 for women on the Tatami. The event saw up to 354 medals awarded.[10]
- Short course swimming
In addition to these international competitions the Aquatics Federation of Turkmenistan have organised the first ever Central Asian Short Course Swimming Tournament which consisted of an invitational short course (25) competition in the new Indoor Aquatics Centre. Athletes from neighbouring countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran and Afghanistan will be competed across a number of individual and relay events on 26–27 April 2017.[10]
Events
Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony of the games took place on Sunday, 17 September 2017 at the newly built Olympic Stadium in Ashgabat.[11]
Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony of the games took place on 27 September at the Olympic Stadium. There were live performances from international singers such Russian Nyusha, Lebanese Elissa, English John Newman and many other local musical performers.[12]
Participating National Olympic Committees
All 45 member countries of the Olympic Council of Asia were invited to compete at these Games. For the first time in the Asian Games are attended by 17 Oceania National Olympic Committees.[13][14] Oceania countries will be under full participation, so they will be eligible for medals.
The numbers in parenthesis represents the number of participants entered.
Participating National Olympic Committees |
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Sports
A total of 21 sports are represented for the Indoor and Martial Arts Games: seven Olympic sports (3-on-3 basketball,cycling, taekwondo,tennis, weightlifting and wrestling), four Olympic sports contested only in non-Olympic formats (athletics, equestrian, football, swimming) and eleven non-Olympic sports (bowling, chess, cue sports, dancesport, ju-jitsu, kickboxing, kurash, muaythai, sambo, belt wrestling and traditional wrestling)
Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sports discipline.
3-on-3 basketball (2) () Belt wrestling (58) () Bowling (6) () Chess (10) () Cue sports (13) () Dancesport (11) () Equestrian (3) () Futsal (2) () Indoor athletics (26) () Indoor tennis (5) () Ju-jitsu (17) () Kickboxing (15) () Kurash (15) () Muay Thai (14) () Sambo (23) () Short course swimming (30) () Taekwondo (18) () Track cycling (10) () Traditional wrestling (26) () Weightlifting (16) () Wrestling (18) ()
- Demonstration sports
Electronic sports (4) ()
Calendar
In the following calendar for the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport were held, which numeric representing the number of finals that were contested on that day. On the left the calendar lists each sport with events held during the Games, and at the right how many gold medals were won in that sport. There is a key at the top of the calendar to aid the reader.
OC | Opening ceremony | ● | Event competitions | 1 | Event finals | CC | Closing ceremony |
September 2017 | 16th Sat |
17th Sun |
18th Mon |
19th Tue |
20th Wed |
21st Thu |
22nd Fri |
23rd Sat |
24th Sun |
25th Mon |
26th Tue |
27th Wed |
Gold medals |
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Ceremonies | OC | CC | |||||||||||
● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | |||||||
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ● | ● | 2 | 6 | ||||||
● | ● | ● | 2 | ● | 4 | 4 | 10 | ||||||
● | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 13 | |||||
6 | 5 | 11 | |||||||||||
2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
8 | 8 | 9 | 25 | ||||||||||
10 | 7 | 8 | 25 | ||||||||||
● | 2 | 6 | 7 | 15 | |||||||||
3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | ||||||||||
● | ● | ● | ● | 14 | 14 | ||||||||
9 | 7 | 7 | 23 | ||||||||||
8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 30 | |||||||||
3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 18 | ||||||||
● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ||
1 | ● | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | |||||||
2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 16 | |||||
6 | 8 | 8 | 22 | ||||||||||
12 | 12 | 24 | |||||||||||
14 | 14 | 28 | |||||||||||
3 | 3 | ||||||||||||
3 | 3 | ||||||||||||
13 | 13 | 26 | |||||||||||
Total gold medals | 23 | 0 | 34 | 36 | 34 | 36 | 39 | 27 | 34 | 40 | 38 | 7 | 348 |
September 2017 | 16th Sat |
17th Sun |
18th Mon |
19th Tue |
20th Wed |
21st Thu |
22nd Fri |
23rd Sat |
24th Sun |
25th Mon |
26th Tue |
27th Wed |
Gold medals |
● | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Medal table
Host nation
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 89 | 70 | 86 | 245 | |
2 | 42 | 32 | 23 | 97 | |
3 | 36 | 23 | 59 | 118 | |
4 | 28 | 28 | 40 | 96 | |
5 | 24 | 33 | 74 | 131 | |
6 | 21 | 20 | 29 | 70 | |
7 | 15 | 11 | 15 | 41 | |
8 | 13 | 20 | 37 | 70 | |
9 | 13 | 8 | 19 | 40 | |
10 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 35 | |
11 | 9 | 12 | 19 | 40 | |
12 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 28 | |
13 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 30 | |
14 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 17 | |
15 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | |
16 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 13 | |
17 | 3 | 14 | 34 | 51 | |
18 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 | |
19 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 30 | |
20 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17 | |
21 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 20 | |
22 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 21 | |
23 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
24 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 17 | |
25 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
26 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 12 | |
27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
28 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | |
29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
31 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | |
32 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
33 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Totals (36 nations) | 348 | 349 | 590 | 1287 |
Marketing
Sponsors
Official Partners [15] | Turkmenistan Airlines, Petronas, Dragon Oil, China National Petroleum Corporation, Atos, Hos Zaman, Turkmentelecom |
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Official Supporters[16] | Coca-Cola, LG Electronics, MasterCard, Hyundai Engineering & Construction, Turkmen Ak Yol, Turkmen State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs, Deyhan Bank, Senagat Bank, Turkman Business Bank, The State Commercial Bank of Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan Bank, HalkBank, Huawei, Kamil Market |
See also
References
- ↑ "OCA signs host agreement with Turkmenistan". 19 December 2010.
- ↑ "В 2017 году Туркменистан примет V Азиатские игры в закрытых помещениях". 20 December 2010.
- ↑ "Туркменистан встречает флаг Олимпийского Совета Азии и чествует победителей Азиады-2013". 7 July 2013.
- ↑ "Ускоряя темпы развития спорта высших достижений". 14 September 2012.
- ↑ "Президент Гурбангулы Бердымухамедов совершил рабочую поездку по Ашхабаду". 13 September 2012.
- ↑ "Президент Туркмении ознакомился с новыми проектами застройки Ашхабада". 14 September 2012.
- ↑ "Презентация строительства второй очереди Олимпийского городка". 26 May 2012.
- ↑ "В Ашхабаде прошла презентация строительства второй очереди Олимпийского городка". 27 May 2012.
- ↑ Winters, Max (16 February 2017). "Ashgabat 2017 unveils medal design for Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games". Insidethegames.biz. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
- 1 2 3 4 "Test events". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ↑ Opening Ceremony 5th Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games | Ashgabat2017 YouTube (https://www.youtube.com). Retrieved on 2017-09-30.
- ↑ Ashgabat 2017 Closing Ceremony a dazzling finale
- ↑ "Memorandum on the participation of Oceania in the V Asian Games signed". 28 November 2014.
- ↑ "Turkmenistan President claims Ashgabat 2017 will open "new page in history" of world sport". 8 April 2017.
- ↑ "Official Partners - About us - Ashgabat 2017". www.ashgabat2017.com.
- ↑ "Official Supporters - About us - Ashgabat 2017". www.ashgabat2017.com.