Asian Indoor Games

Asian Indoor Games

Abbreviation	AIG
First event	12–19 November 2005 Bangkok, Thailand
Occur every	2 years
Last event	2009 Asian Indoor Games 30 October - 6 November 2009 Hanoi, Vietnam

The Asian Indoor Games were a multi-sport event that was contested every two years among athletes representing countries from Asia. The games were regulated by the Olympic Council of Asia. The first games were held in 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand.

The competition consisted of indoor sports with TV broadcasting potential, a number of which are not included in the Asian Games and Winter Asian Games Programs and are not Olympic sports. The sports program included electronic sports, extreme sports, aerobics, acrobatics, indoor athletics, dance sports, futsal, inline hockey, finswimming, and 25 metres short course swimming. The 2007 Asian Indoor Games in Macau also saw the first major test of FIBA 3x3, a formalized version of three-on-three basketball that saw its official worldwide debut at the 2010 Youth Olympics.^[1] FIBA 3x3 was also contested in the 2009 Games.

Doha was given the rights to hold the fourth edition scheduled for 2011, but a year later, in June 2008, the Qatar Olympic Committee officially withdrew as host citing "unforeseen circumstances".^[2] In response, the OCA said that the 2009 Asian Indoor Games would be the last edition of the games. The Asian Indoor Games and Asian Martial Arts Games would then combine, becoming the quadrennial Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. The inaugural event was held in Incheon, South Korea in 2013.

Editions

The number of gold medal per delegation is indicated in brackets.

Year	Games	Host	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
2005	I	Bangkok	China (24)	Kazakhstan (23)	Thailand (20)
2007	II	Macau	China (52)	Thailand (19)	Hong Kong (15)
2009	III	Hanoi	China (48)	Vietnam (42)	Kazakhstan (21)
2011	IV	Doha	Cancelled

All-time medal count

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	124	69	58	251
2	Thailand (THA)	58	66	89	213
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	53	51	40	144
4	Vietnam (VIE)	44	36	34	114
5	Hong Kong (HKG)	33	27	33	93
6	South Korea (KOR)	31	35	39	105
7	Iran (IRI)	24	24	24	72
8	India (IND)	22	21	43	86
9	Japan (JPN)	19	18	26	63
10	Uzbekistan (UZB)	13	18	21	52
11	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	12	12	24	48
12	Indonesia (INA)	9	4	20	33
13	Qatar (QAT)	8	8	6	22
14	Macau (MAC)	7	13	13	33
15	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	7	4	2	13
16	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	5	0	4	9
17	Malaysia (MAS)	4	8	14	26
18	Laos (LAO)	3	13	19	35
19	Philippines (PHI)	3	6	10	19
20	Singapore (SIN)	2	15	12	29
21	Jordan (JOR)	2	5	7	14
22	Kuwait (KUW)	1	6	9	16
23	Cambodia (CAM)	1	4	7	12
24	Bahrain (BRN)	1	3	1	5
25	Iraq (IRQ)	0	5	8	13
26	Mongolia (MGL)	0	3	9	12
27	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	3	2	5
28	Afghanistan (AFG)	0	2	2	4
29	Pakistan (PAK)	0	2	1	3
29	Syria (SYR)	0	2	1	3
31	Myanmar (MYA)	0	2	0	2
32	Brunei (BRU)	0	1	6	7
33	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	1	2	3
34	Tajikistan (TJK)	0	1	0	1
35	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	3	3
36	Bangladesh (BAN)	0	0	2	2
36	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	2	2
38	Oman (OMA)	0	0	1	1
Total		486	488	594	1568

Sports

Archery () Athletics () Basketball () BMX racing () Bowling () Boxing () Chess () Cue sports () Cycling () Dancesport () Dragon and lion dance ()

Electronic sports () Finswimming () Futsal () Aerobic gymnastics () Hoop takraw () Hockey () Inline skating () Kabbadi () Kickboxing () Kurash () Muaythai ()

Pencak silat () Pétanque () Skateboarding () Sport climbing () Swimming () Shuttlecock () Vovinam () Weiqi () Xiangqi () Wushu ()

References

1. "PR N°13 - Youth Olympic Games: It's Singapore… and it's FIBA 33!" (Press release). International Basketball Federation. 2008-02-21. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
2. Olympic Council of Asia newsreleaseArchived.