Asian Winter Games

Asian Winter Games

Abbreviation	AWG
First event	1986 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan
Occur every	alternatively
Last event	2011 Asian Winter Games in Astana and Almaty, Kazakhstan
Purpose	Multi sport event for nations on the Asian continent

Asian Winter Games
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Games
1986 1990 1996 1999 2003 2007 2011 2017

The Asian Winter Games is a multi-sport event held every four years for members of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) which features winter events. The Japanese Olympic Committee first suggested the idea of holding a winter version of the Asian Games in 1982. Their efforts were rewarded when they were finally given hosting rights for the first edition that was held in Sapporo in 1986, as the city had the infrastructure and expertise gained from hosting of the 1972 Winter Olympics.

From having only seven member nations of the Olympic Council of Asia taking part in the first edition, the number of nations competing in the Winter Asiad has consistently grown. In the 2007 Asian Winter Games in Changchun, 27 out of the 45 members fielded a record number of competitors, while all 45 NOCs sent delegations for the first time ever in Winter Asian history.

Although games in Lebanon in 2009 were considered, they ultimately did not take place.^[1]

List of Games

Map of the Asian Winter Games locations. Countries that have hosted one Winter Games are shaded green, while countries that have hosted two or more are shaded blue.

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

Year	Games	Host city	1st place	2nd place	3rd place
1986	I	Sapporo	Japan (29)	China (4)	South Korea (1)
1990	II	Sapporo	Japan (18)	China (9)	South Korea (6)
1996	III	Harbin	China (15)	Kazakhstan (14)	Japan (8)
1999	IV	Gangwon	China (15)	South Korea (11)	Kazakhstan (10)
2003	V	Aomori	Japan (24)	South Korea (10)	China (9)
2007	VI	Changchun	China (19)	Japan (13)	South Korea (9)
2011	VII	Astana and Almaty	Kazakhstan (32)	Japan (13)	South Korea (13)
2017	VIII	Sapporo^[2]
2021	IX	Beijing^[3]

Medal count

Main article: All-time Asian Winter Games medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	111	123	89	323
2	China (CHN)	82	71	96	249
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	69	51	44	164
4	South Korea (KOR)	58	65	76	199
5	North Korea (PRK)	1	4	11	16
6	Uzbekistan (UZB)	1	2	4	7
7	Lebanon (LIB)	1	1	0	2
8	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	6	7
9	Iran (IRI)	0	1	2	3
10	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	0	1	1
Total		323	319	329	971

Sports

Main article: Asian Games sports

References

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Asian Games

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Summer Games	New Delhi 1951 Manila 1954 Tokyo 1958 Jakarta 1962 Bangkok 1966 Bangkok 1970 Tehran 1974 Bangkok 1978 New Delhi 1982 Seoul 1986 Beijing 1990 Hiroshima 1994 Bangkok 1998 Busan 2002 Doha 2006 Guangzhou 2010 Incheon 2014 Jakarta–Palembang 2018 Hangzhou 2022

Winter Games	Sapporo 1986 Sapporo 1990 Harbin 1996 Gangwon 1999 Aomori 2003 Changchun 2007 Astana–Almaty 2011 Sapporo 2017 Beijing 2021

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Multi-sport events

Global

Olympics	Olympic Games Summer Winter Youth Olympic Games

Continental	African Games Asian Games Summer Winter Beach Indoor and Martial Arts European Games Pacific Games Pan American Games

Associations	Commonwealth Games Inter-Allied Games¹ Island Games Jeux de la Francophonie Lusophony Games Spartakiad of Peoples of the USSR¹ World Outgames

Communities	Croatian World Games Gay Games Islamic Solidarity Games Maccabiah Games Pan Arab Games Pan-Armenian Games Women's Islamic Games¹ World Indigenous Games Worldwide Nomad Games

Disabled sport	Deaflympics Défi sportif IWAS World Games Armed forces Invictus Games Warrior Games Paralympic Games Summer Winter Special Olympics Summer Winter

Professions	Lumberjack World Championship Military World Games World Police and Fire Games

Youth and students	Asian Youth Games Australian Youth Olympic Festival Commonwealth Youth Games CPLP Games European Youth Olympic Festival Gymnasiade International Children's Games SELL Student Games Universiade World Interuniversity Games World Youth Games¹

Other sport	Dew Tour Mind Sports Olympiad SportAccord World Mind Games World Combat Games World Games X Games

Regional

Africa	African Youth Games African Games All-Africa University Games Central African Games¹

Americas	ALBA Games Bolivarian Games CANUSA Games Central American and Caribbean Games Central American Games North American Indigenous Games North American Outgames Pan American Games Parapan American Games South American Beach Games South American Games

Asia	Pan-Asian Asian Games Asian Beach Games Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Asian Indoor Games¹ Asian Martial Arts Games¹ Asian Para Games Asian Winter Games Asian Youth Games Children of Asia International Sports Games¹ Southeast Southeast Asian Games ASEAN Civil Service Games ASEAN School Games ASEAN University Games ASEAN ParaGames Central Asian Games East Asian Games Far Eastern Games¹ South Asian Games West Asian Games

Europe	Black Sea Games EuroGames European Games European Sports Championships European Youth Olympic Festival Games of the Small States of Europe

Oceania	Australasian Police and Emergency Services Games Micronesian Games Pacific Games

Inter-continental	Afro-Asian Games¹ Arafura Games Arctic Winter Games AsiaPacific Outgames FESPIC Games¹ Indian Ocean Island Games Mediterranean Games Nordic Games¹ Pacific Ocean Games¹ Pan Arab Games

National

Americas	Canada Quebec Western Colombia United States amateur juniors seniors

Asia	Bangladesh China All-China Games National Games of China National Peasants' Games India Indian Empire¹ Indonesia Japan Malaysia Para Mongolia Pakistan Philippines National Games Batang Pinoy Palaro Singapore South Korea Summer Winter Thailand youth Vietnam

Europe	Albania¹ Nazi Germany¹ Netherlands Poland (youth) Soviet Union (youth)¹

Oceania	Western Australia (high school)²

NCSG³	Alabama California Florida Massachusetts Missouri Montana Nebraska New York North Carolina North Dakota¹ Texas Wisconsin

Historical¹

Pre Modern Olympics (in chronological order, 1900BC–1852AD)	Tailteann Games Panhellenic Games Ancient Olympic Games Pythian Games Nemean Games Heraean Games Panathenaic Games Roman Games Cotswold Olimpick Games Gog Magog Games Wenlock Olympian Society Annual Games

Alternatives to the Modern Olympics	Aryan Games Friendship Games Games of the New Emerging Forces Goodwill Games Islamic Games Liberty Bell Classic People's Olympiad South African Games Spartakiad Workers' Olympiads

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