5th Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Ashgabat 2017

2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

Host city	Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
Motto	Health, Inspiration, Friendship (Turkmen: Sagdynlyk, Ruhubelentlik, Dostluk)
Nations participating	63
Athletes participating	4012
Events	348 in 21 sports
Opening ceremony	September 17
Closing anniversary	September 27
Officially opened past	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow [1] President of Turkmenistan
Torch lighter	Pygy Baýramdurdyyew
Principal venue	Olympic Stadium
Website	ashgabat2017.com
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The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (Turkmen: Ýapyk binalarda we söweş sungaty boýunça V Aziýa oýunlary/Япык биналарда ве сөвеш сунгаты боюнча V Азия оюнлары), which is as well counted as the 5th Asian Indoor Games, was held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in 2017.^[two] It became the third metropolis in the sometime Soviet countries to win the right of hosting an Olympic Quango of Asia-sanctioned event, post-obit Astana and Almaty in Kazakhstan, which jointly-hosted the 2011 Asian Winter Games. The host city was chosen in Kuwait on xix December 2010.^[3] On half-dozen July 2013 the flag of the Olympic Quango of Asia was officially handed over to the mayor of the metropolis of Ashgabat.^[4]

Development and preparation [edit]

Venues [edit]

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 Circuitous boasts of over 30 structures, which also includes xv competition venues, an Athletes' Hamlet and a Paralympic Rehabilitation Medical Center. The construction was launched by the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.^[5] On November five, 2010, the Turkmen President took part in the official stone laying ceremony for the Olympic Village. Investment in the first stage amounted to nearly $2 billion.^[6] The 2d phase of construction cost $iii billion.^{[seven] [8] [ix]} The total price of the Olympic Village was $five billion and the construction was carried by Turkish construction visitor Polimeks.

For the convenience of athletes and spectators, the Olympic village accept 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 college educational institutions are located right next to the Olympic hamlet. The Turkmen State Constitute of Economic science and Management, Constitute 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 make new sports facilities, congenital for the Games, in the hereafter.

Venue	Sports	Capacity
Olympic Stadium	Opening and closing ceremonies	45,000
Bowling Centre	Bowling	500
Chess Arena	Chess	500
Billiard Arena	Cue sports	1,000
Velodrome	Cycling	vi,000
Taekwondo and Dancesport Arena	Dancesport, Taekwondo	1,000
Equestrian Centre	Equestrian	645
Ice Palace	Futsal	ten,300
Indoor Athletics Arena	Indoor athletics	five,000
Tennis Center	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	five,000
Weightlifting Arena	Weightlifting	861
Primary Indoor Arena	Wrestling, Belt wrestling, Traditional wrestling	15,000

Test events [edit]

The Senior Asian Weightlifting Championship, the WAKO Asian Kickboxing Championships, and the Central Asian Short Class Pond Championships took place concurrently every bit office of the Inspiring Ashgabat Examination Event Series.^[10]

Weightlifting

The Senior Asian Weightlifting Championships contest began 23 April and ended on 29 April at the Weightlifting Loonshit. 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.^[ten]

Kickboxing

The Martial Arts Loonshit 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 x for women which were featured in the Band and 28 categories for men and 16 for women on the Tatami. The event saw upwards to 354 medals awarded.^[10]

Brusk course swimming

In addition to these international competitions the Aquatics Federation of Turkmenistan accept organised the starting time ever Fundamental Asian Short Course Pond Tournament which consisted of an invitational short class (25) contest in the new Indoor Aquatics Heart. Athletes from neighbouring countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Islamic republic of iran and Transitional islamic state of afghanistan volition be competed beyond a number of individual and relay events on 26–27 April 2017.^[10]

Events [edit]

Opening ceremony [edit]

The opening ceremony of the games took place on Sunday, 17 September 2017 at the newly built Olympic Stadium in Ashgabat.

Closing ceremony [edit]

The endmost anniversary of the games took place on 27 September at the Olympic Stadium. In that location were live performances from international singers such Russian Nyusha, Lebanese Elissa, English John Newman and many other local musical performers.^[11]

Participating National Olympic Committees [edit]

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.^{[12] [13]} Oceania countries will be under full participation, so they will be eligible for medals.

Participating National Olympic Committees
Olympic Council of Asia members  Transitional islamic state of afghanistan(158)  Bahrain(xi)  Bangladesh(12)  Bhutan(9)  Brunei(1)  Cambodia(two)  Communist china(198)  Chinese Taipei(99)  Timor-Leste(1)  Hong Kong(114)  Republic of india(211)  Indonesia(99)  Iran(226)  Iraq(52)  Japan(threescore)  Hashemite kingdom of jordan(115)  Kazakhstan(185)  Kyrgyzstan(182)  Laos(7)  Lebanon(68)  Macau(36)  Malaysia(ten)  Maldives(38)  Mongolia(71)  Myanmar(ane)  Nepal(18)  Democratic people's republic of korea(1)  Sultanate of oman(5)  Pakistan(107)  Palestine(28)  Philippines(121)  Qatar(49)  Saudi Arabia(55)  Singapore(12)  Republic of korea(71)  Sri Lanka(21)  Syria(35)  Tajikistan(136)  Thailand(246)  Turkmenistan(493)  United Arab Emirates(61)  Uzbekistan(212)  Vietnam(105)  Yemen(6)  Independent Olympic Athletes(2)  Refugee Team(5)
Oceania National Olympic Committees members  American Samoa(seven)  Commonwealth of australia(18)  Cook Islands(11)  Federated States of Federated states of micronesia(11)  Republic of the fiji islands(28)  Guam(34)  Kiribati(13)  Marshall islands(x)  Nauru(12)  New Caledonia(2)  Palau(10)  Papua New Guinea(ten)  Samoa(16)  Solomon Islands(19)  Tahiti(23)  Tonga(x)  Tuvalu(8)  Vanuatu(xiv)

Sports [edit]

A total of 21 sports are represented for the Indoor and Martial Arts Games: seven Olympic sports (three-on-3 basketball game, cycling, taekwondo, lawn tennis, weightlifting and wrestling), iv Olympic sports contested only in non-Olympic formats (athletics, equestrian, football game, swimming) and xi 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.

Demonstration sports

• Esports (4) (details)

Agenda [edit]

In the following calendar for the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, each blue box represents an event competition, such equally a qualification round, on that twenty-four hours. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-application finals for a sport were held, which numeric representing the number of finals that were contested on that mean solar day. On the left the calendar lists each sport with events held during the Games, and at the correct how many gilded medals were won in that sport. In that location is a key at the elevation of the calendar to aid the reader.

OC

Opening ceremony

●

Event competitions

1

Effect finals

CC

Closing ceremony

September 2017		16th Saturday	17th Lord's day	18th Monday	19th Tue	20th Midweek	21st Thu	22nd Fri	23rd Sat	24th Sun	25th Monday	26th Tue	27th Wed	Gilt medals
Ceremonies			OC										CC
3x3 basketball					●	●	●	●	●	2				ii
Belt wrestling	Alysh							12	12					24
	Belt wrestling				14	14								28
	Kazakh kuresi						3							3
	Pahlavani wrestling						3							3
Bowling							i	ane	1	ane	●	●	two	six
Chess							●	●	●	2	●	four	4	x
Cue sports					●	1	1	3	1	ii	two	3		13
Dancesport											six	5		11
Equestrian							ii		ane					three
Futsal		●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	1	one		2
Indoor athletics				viii	8	9								25
Ju-jitsu		10		7	eight									25
Kickboxing									●	2	vi	7		15
Kurash						three	half dozen	6						15
Muaythai			●	●	●	●	fourteen							14
Sambo										9	vii	7		23
Short course swimming								viii	7	eight	7			30
Taekwondo				three	iv	4	3	4						18
Tennis			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	ane	3	1	v
Runway cycling				1	●	one	one	iii	3					9
Turkmen goresh		thirteen		13										26
Weightlifting				ii	2	2	ii	2	2	2	2			xvi
Wrestling										6	8	eight		22
Total aureate medals		23	0	34	36	34	36	39	27	34	xl	38	7	348
September 2017		16th Sat	17th Sun	18th Mon	19th Tue	20th Wed	21st Thu	22nd Fri	23rd Sat	24th Sun	25th Monday	26th Tue	27th Wed	Aureate medals
Esports											●	2	ii	four

Medal table [edit]

  * Host nation (Turkmenistan)

Doping [edit]

What follows is a list of all the athletes that take tested positive for a banned substance during the Games. Whatsoever medals listed were revoked.

Proper noun	NOC	Sport	Banned substance	Medals	Ref
Dinara Hallyýewa	Turkmenistan	Alysh	Meldonium	(Women's archetype style 65 kg) (Women'due south freestyle 65 kg)	[fourteen]
		Belt wrestling		(Women'south freestyle 65 kg) (Women'southward classic fashion 65 kg)
		Turkmen goresh		(Women's freestyle 63 kg)
Gülnar Haýytbaýewa	Turkmenistan	Alysh	Methylhexaneamine and 1,3-Dimethylbutylamine	(Women's freestyle 65 kg)	[xv]
		Belt wrestling		(Women's classic manner 65 kg) (Women's freestyle 65 kg)
		Turkmen goresh		(Women's freestyle 63 kg) (Women's archetype style 63 kg)
Nasiba Surkiýewa	Turkmenistan	Alysh	Methylhexaneamine and 1,3-Dimethylbutylamine	(Women'southward freestyle 75 kg)	[16]
		Chugalug wrestling		(Women'south freestyle 70 kg) (Women's archetype style 70 kg)
		Turkmen goresh		(Women'due south freestyle 70 kg) (Women'south classic style seventy kg)
Rejepaly Orazalyýew	Turkmenistan	Belt wrestling	Oxandrolone		[17]
		Turkmen goresh		(Men's freestyle +100 kg) (Men'due south classic fashion +100 kg)
Ahmed Mansoor Shebeeb	Bahrain	Ju-jitsu	Mesterolone	(Men'due south ne-waza 77 kg)	[18]
Muhammet Altybaýew	Turkmenistan	Kickboxing	Meldonium and Luteinizing hormone	(Men'south low kick 63.5 kg)	[nineteen]
Zhamalbek Asylbek Uulu	Kyrgyzstan	Sambo	Meldonium	(Men'due south sport 82 kg)	[twenty]
Murgapgeldi Atdaýew	Turkmenistan	Turkmen goresh	Methylhexaneamine and one,3-Dimethylbutylamine	(Men'southward classic fashion 90 kg)	[xvi]
Ahmed Salah	Iraq	Wrestling	Methasterone		[21]

Marketing, branding and design [edit]

"Wepaly" the Central Asian Shepherd Domestic dog, the official mascot of the games.

Brand look [edit]

Make wait and all design related works of the Games made by Belli Creative Studio^[22]

Keepsake [edit]

The emblem of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games is the prototype of Akhal-teke, the national equus caballus of Turkmenistan which is renowned for its speed, endurance and intelligence that represents Health. Surrounding the horse were the greenish Moon that represents Inspiration and the sunday, the symbol of the Olympic Council of Asia, which represents friendship.

Mascot [edit]

The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Mascot is a Central Asian Shepherd Domestic dog named Wepaly – meaning loyal friend in Turkmen. Locally known as Alabai, the Central Asian Shepherd Domestic dog is renowned every bit a mettlesome animate being in Turkmenistan for many centuries has helped Turkmen shepherds to safeguard flocks of cattle in heavy atmospheric condition in the sandy desert. Wepaly wears traditional ceremonial wearing apparel and a white telpek fur lid while waving the State Flag of Turkmenistan and the symbol of the Olympic Quango of Asia.^{[23] [24]} The mascot was unveiled 200 days before the games and was originally coloured green, just Turkmenistan'south president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow ordered a final minute makeover possibly due to poor public reception.^{[25] [26]}

Medals [edit]

The medals of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games were revealed on February sixteen, 2017 and were designed by Singaporean company Eng Leong Medallic Industries. The medals shaped like eight pointed Oguz Khan Stars, the national keepsake of the host nation and featured elements similar olive branches and the five traditional carpet motifs on its obverse and the games' emblem on its reverse. The olive branches symbolising peace, the country's neutrality condition and its commitment to peaceful development of international relations, while the 5 traditional carpeting motifs represent the provinces of the country and the traditionally warm Turkmen hospitality. A total of 2,000 medals were produced for the Games, weighing 721 kilograms all-together.^[27]

[edit]

Official Partners [28]	Turkmenistan Airlines,[29] Petronas, Dragon Oil, China National Petroleum Corporation,[30] Atos,[31] Hos Zaman,[32] Turkmentelecom
Official Supporters[33]	Coca-Cola, LG Electronics, MasterCard,[34] Hyundai Applied science & Construction,[35] Turkmen Ak Yol,[36] Turkmen Land Bank for Strange Economic Affairs, Deyhan Depository financial institution, Senagat Bank, Turkman Business Banking concern, The State Commercial Banking company of Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan Bank, HalkBank, Huawei,[37] Kamil Market place

See also [edit]

• 2017 Asian Wintertime Games

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36. ^ Ashgabat 2017 sign bargain with logistics company Turkmen Ak Yol
37. ^ Ashgabat 2017 announce Huawei as official supporter

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Ashgabat 2017 in OCA

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Asian_Indoor_and_Martial_Arts_Games

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