2013 Southeast Asian Games

27th Southeast Asian Games
Motto Green, Clean and Friendship
Nations participating 11
Athletes participating 4730
Events 460 in 37 sports
Opening ceremony 11 December 2013
Closing ceremony 22 December 2013
Officially opened by Nyan Tun
Vice President of Myanmar
Officially closed by Nyan Tun
Vice President of Myanmar
Athlete's Oath Sandi Oo
Torch lighter Maung Wai Lin Tun
Ceremony venue Wunna Theikdi Stadium
Website 27th Southeast Asian Games
27th Southeast Asian Games
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The 2013 Southeast Asian Games (Burmese: 2013 ခုနှစ်အရှေ့တောင်အာရှအားကစားပြိုင်ပွဲ) (2013 hkunhait aashaetaungaarsh aarrkahcarrpyainepwal) officially known as the 27th Southeast Asian Games, was a multi-sport event took place in Naypyidaw, the new capital of Myanmar,[1] as well as in other main cities, Yangon, Mandalay[2] and Ngwesaung Beach[3] with 460 events in 37 sports and disciplines featured in the games.

Myanmar had already hosted the Games in 1961 and 1969 respectively in Yangon, the then capital of Myanmar. For the third time, Myanmar hosted the Southeast Asian Games. Singapore withdrew its hosting rights due to expected delays in the completion of its new national stadium.[4][5] Naypyidaw is the second Myanma city to host the Southeast Asian Games after Yangon. Myanmar is the second nation to host the Southeast Asian Games after Thailand.

The final medal tally was led by Thailand, followed by host Myanmar and Vietnam. Several Asian, Games and National records were broken during the games. Though there were several controversies, the Games were deemed generally successful with Myanmar games hosting experience after 44 years and with the rising standard of competition amongst the Southeast Asian nations.

Organisation

Host selection

Myanmar, Vietnam, Philippines and Thailand have revealed their intentions to host the Games. However, since the latter three nations hosted the 2003, 2005 and 2007 editions, respectively, these countries are ineligible to host this edition.[6][7]

Myanmar held the largest time interval of hosting the games, spanning a time of 44 years.[8] The Southeast Asian Games Federation (SEAGF) Council met in Jakarta on 31 May 2010 unanimously agreed to award the Myanmar Olympic Committee the right to host the 27th edition of the games.[9] Official website of the Olympic Council of Asia also approved the fact that Myanmar would host the 27th Southeast Asian Games in its news launched on 7 June 2010.[10] ASEAN Football Federation (AFF)'s official website also announced that Myanmar would host the games.[11]

Development and preparation

The Myanmar SEA Games Organising Committee (MYASOC) was formed to oversee the staging of the event.

Venues

Yangon
Mandalay
Naypyidaw
Ngwesaung
Host cities
Naypyidaw
Wunna Theikdi Indoor Stadium

Wunna Theikdi Sports Complex

Zayarthiri Sports Complex

Other venues

Yangon
Mandalay
Ngwesaung

Public Transport

As Naypyidaw is yet to be fully developed into a city, only shuttle bus services were provided throughout the games and were used to ferry athletes and officials to and from the airport, games venues and games village. Also providing these services during the games were cities like the urban city of Yangon.

Marketing

Logo and Mascots

The logo of the 2013 Southeast Asian Games is the map of Myanmar. The ball with eleven rings resembling the 11 Southeast Asian countries and the Southeast Asian Games Federation represents the successful holding of Southeast Asian Games in Myanmar and yellow, green and red are the three national colours represented in Myanmar's National Flag. The yellow circle represents equality and fraternity, green color represents love of nature and the green economy and red color represents courage and hard working nature of Myanmar. The circular shape represents complete perfection and endless prosperity among the Southeast Asian countries.[12]

Shwe Yoe & Ma Moe, the official mascot

The official mascot of the 2013 Southeast Asian Games is a couple of owls which are considered lucky charms in Myanmar tradition. Owl is globally taken as the wisest, calmest and balanced animal. But, in Myanmar it is also taken to be auspicious and believed to bring forth luck and prosperity to the family, for which the owl dolls are kept at their homes as lucky charms.[12] The owl as official mascot of Myanmar SEA Games 2013 has a personality: wise, calm, lucky, loyal, and friendly. The personality of an owl is expected to bring forth co-operation, friendship, and better understanding among the participating countries. The male owl is called Shwe Yoe and female owl is called Ma Moe.[13]

Songs

There were several songs composed for the 2013 Southeast Asian Games, which includes the theme song of the games, "Colourful Garden" and many other campaign songs for the games.

Sponsors

A total of 19 sponsors, comprising 15 official sponsors and 4 official supporters sponsored the 2013 Southeast Asian Games with one of the official sponsor, Myanmar Radio and Television as the games official broadcaster.[14]

Official Sponsors

  • Alpine Drinking Water
  • Adma Media
  • Royal Myanmar Teamix
  • Coco's Lighthouse
  • MRTV

Official Sponsors (Continue)

Official Sponsors (Continue)

  • Nationman
  • Yum Yum
  • Voltex
  • Shwe Poe Nan Daw
  • Aroma Zulu Studio

Official Supporters

The Games

Opening ceremony

27th SEA Games opening ceremony at Wunna Theikdi Stadium in Naypyidaw

The opening ceremony was held on 11 December 2013 at the Wunna Theikdi Stadium. It marked the nation's biggest sporting event hosted since 1969. It was lead with pre-launch entertainment and a series of screens beamed a dramatic lights show during the Chinese-backed extravaganza.

Fireworks displays was made upon the entrance of President Thein Sein into the stadium. The theme song "Colourful Garden" was performed during the flag-raising ceremony after performances made by 12,000 school children and the Myanmar Royal Auspicious Orchestra. Chairman of the 27th SEA Games Organising Committee, Vice-President Nyan Tun declared the Games open with another explosion of colourful fireworks that lit up the night. Torch relay was passed through the hands of six former Myanmar athletes before Aye Myint Kyu, the Union Minister for Culture, handed it to a Burmese archer where he lit up the Games cauldron by shooting an arrow into it.

A showcase of arts and culture about history of Burma was made, with dance performances accompanied the ending of the ceremony.[15]

Closing ceremony

The Games had its closing ceremony held at Wunna Theikdi Stadium on 22 December 2013. It was started with an hour of music following the performance of "Colorful Garden", the theme song for the Games and subsequently, "Loyalty of Blood" was later presented by well-known artists May Sweet and May Kha Lar. The musical hors d'oeuvres concluded with all artists joining together in "Be Peaceful". President Thein Sein and his wife Khin Khin Win then entered the stadium, following which the Closing Ceremony was officially opened with a pyrotechnic display.

Four performances were presented with the first directly connected the SEA Games to Myanmar tradition, celebrating the sport of chinlone, which is believed to have first appeared in Myanmar in the 5th century. It then followed with the "Elephant Dance" which about paying tribute to the elephants in Myanmar.

The Closing Ceremony then paid homage to the 135 officially recognised ethnic races diversity of the country with the performance of "Everlasting Myanmar", depicting the rich diversity of the population, and simultaneously the many obstacles on the path to realising a new, peaceful and prosperous modern state.

Medal winners of every participating countries were then paraded onto the stadium floor to the beat of martial music – chants of "Myanmar" ringing through the stadium.

With the procession complete, Vice-President Nyan Tun officially announced the 27th SEA Games concluded, as strobe lights searched the sky and a cornucopia of fireworks exploded over the stadium.

The first SEA Games in Myanmar in 44 years was then finally put to rest with one last volley of fireworks and round of musical performances following the official handing over of SEA Games responsibilities to Singapore, host of the 2015 Southeast Asian Games.[16]

Sports

Myanmar hosted 37 sports, less than the number of sport in 2011 Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia.[9] Organisers did not nominate the sports of beach volleyball and dancesports, because they considered those uniforms unsuitable for Burmese women.[17] Tennis and Gymnastics, are Olympic sports were not played in December. In this edition of the Games, floorball was also contested as a demonstration sport.[18] The following sports below were calendared for the 2013 Southeast Asian Games.

¹ – not an official Olympic Sport.
² – sport played only in the SEAG.
³ – not a traditional Olympic nor SEAG Sport and introduced only by the host country.
° – a former official Olympic Sport, not applied in previous host countries and was introduced only by the host country.
ʰ- sport not played in the previous edition and was reintroduced by the host country.

Participating nations

      Host nation

Country Athletes Officials Reference
IOC Code Name Men Women Total Men Women Total
BRUBrunei Brunei Darussalam
63
9
72
[19][20]
CAMCambodia Cambodia
174
69
243
[21][22]
INAIndonesia Indonesia
393
272
665
221
[23]
LAOLaos Laos
213
130
343
[24]
MASMalaysia Malaysia
347
235
582
242
[25][26]
MYAMyanmar Myanmar
579
411
990
[27]
PHIPhilippines Philippines
133
86
219
114
[28][29]
SINSingapore Singapore
196
114
310
112
[30][31]
THAThailand Thailand
419
327
746
[32][33]
TLSEast Timor Timor-Leste
39
10
49
[34]
VIEVietnam Vietnam
286
225
511
[35][36]
Total284218884730

Medal table

A total of 1531 medals comprising 461 gold medals, 459 silver medals and 611 bronze medals were awarded to athletes. The host Myanmar performance was the best ever yet in Southeast Asian Games history, and were only second to Thailand as overall champion. Athletics awarded 46 gold medals with maximum ones in that year's SEA Games.[37]

      Host nation

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Thailand (THA) 107 94 81 282
2 Myanmar (MYA) 86 62 85 233
3 Vietnam (VIE) 73 86 86 245
4 Indonesia (INA) 65 84 111 260
5 Malaysia (MAS) 43 38 77 158
6 Singapore (SIN) 34 29 45 108
7 Philippines (PHI) 29 34 38 101
8 Laos (LAO) 13 17 49 79
9 Cambodia (CAM) 8 11 28 47
10 Timor-Leste (TLS) 2 3 5 10
11 Brunei (BRU) 1 1 6 8
Total 461 [38] 459[39] 611 1531
Source: Source

Broadcasting

      Host nation

2013 SEA Games Broadcasters rights in Southeast Asia
IOC Code Country Broadcast network Television network Radio network
BRUBrunei Brunei RTB RTB1
Kristal-Astro
Radio Nasional Brunei
CAMCambodia Cambodia NTK TVK RNK Radio
INAIndonesia Indonesia SCM (part of Emtek Group)
Indika Group
Radio & Television of the Republic of Indonesia
SCTV
Indosiar
NET TV
TVRI
Nexmedia
Elshinta TV
O Channel
Radio Elshinta News & Talk
RRI
LAOLaos Laos Lao National Television LNTV LNR
MASMalaysia Malaysia Media Prima
Astro
Radio Televisyen Malaysia
RTM TV1
TV3 Malaysia
TV9 Malaysia
Astro SuperSport
RTM Nasional FM
Hot FM
Fly FM
MYAMyanmar Myanmar MRTV-4 MRTV-4
For Sports
Sky Net
MRNS
PHIPhilippines Philippines ABS-CBN Corporation ABS-CBN
Studio 23
Balls
DZMM TeleRadyo
DZMM Radyo Patrol 630
SINSingapore Singapore MediaCorp MediaCorp Channel 5
MediaCorp HD5
MediaCorp Channel NewsAsia International
MediaCorp Okto
StarHub TV
Mio TV
MediaCorp Radio 938LIVE
THAThailand Thailand T.V.Pool Channel 3
Channel 5
Channel 7
Modernine TV
NBT TV
Modern Radio, NBT Radio
TMLEast Timor Timor Leste RTTL Televisão Timor Leste Radio Timor Leste
VIEVietnam Vietnam VTV
VTC
VTV1
VTV3
VTC3
Voice of Vietnam
2013 SEA Games Broadcasters outside of Southeast Asia
IOC Code Country Network Station Television Station Radio Station
PRC
HKG
MAC
 China
 Hong Kong
 Macau)
China Central Television CCTV-1 (General Channel)
CCTV-2 (Finance Channel)
CCTV-5 (Sports Channel)
CCTV-7 (Military & Agriculture Channel)
CCTV-5+ (Sport Plus Channel)
China National Radio
China Radio International
HKG Hong Kong Fox Sports Networks STAR Sports Asia
Fox Sports
N/A

Concerns and controversies

Event cut down
Controversial decision


See Also

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Preceded by
2011
Jakarta & Palembang, Indonesia
2013
Naypyidaw, Myanmar
Succeeded by
2015
Singapore
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