Afro-Asian Games

Afro-Asian Games

First event	2003 Afro-Asian Games
Occur every	four years
Last event	Yet to be held (2nd Afro-Asian Games in Algiers)
Purpose	Multi sport event for nations of the Asian and African continents

The Afro-Asian Games were the series of inter-continental multi-sport competitions, held between athletes from Asia and Africa. These Games are one-of-a-kind, since no other sporting competition brings athletes from these two continents together for one event, excluding the Olympic Games. These Games are supposed to be held once every four years. They are jointly supervised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), and the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA).

The Afro-Asian Games witness the participation of Asian and African National Olympic Committees (NOCs), along with a few Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) nations. The Inaugural Afro-Asian Games were held in 2003 in Hyderabad, India. The second Games were set to take place in Algiers, Algeria in 2007. However, the Games were indefinitely postponed because "Asians failed to line up the Asian Games gold medalists".^[1] In other words, the games were pronounced as defunct.

List of Afro-Asian Games

Year	Games	Host	Dates	Nations	Competitors			Sports	Top Country On Medal Table
					Men	Women	Total
2003	I	Hyderabad	October 24 – November 1	96			2040	8	China
2007	II	Algiers	cancelled

References

1. "Second Afro-Asian Games Postponed". Xinhua. 2007-07-22. Retrieved 19 December 2010.