2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

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 also counted as the 5th Asian Indoor Games, was held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan in 2017.[2] It became the third city in the former Soviet countries to win the right of hosting an Olympic Council of Asia-sanctioned event, following Astana and Almaty in Kazakhstan, which jointly-hosted the 2011 Asian Winter Games. The host city was chosen in Kuwait on 19 December 2010.[3] On 6 July 2013 the flag of the Olympic Council of Asia was officially handed over to the mayor of the city of Ashgabat.[4]

2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
Host cityAshgabat, Turkmenistan
MottoHealth, Inspiration, Friendship (Turkmen: Sagdynlyk, Ruhubelentlik, Dostluk)
Nations participating63
Athletes participating4012
Events348 in 21 sports
Opening ceremonySeptember 17
Closing ceremonySeptember 27
Officially opened byGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow[1]
President of Turkmenistan
Torch lighterPygy Baýramdurdyyew
Main venueOlympic Stadium
WebsiteOfficial website

Development and preparation

Venues

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 Complex boasts of over 30 structures, which also includes 15 competition venues, an Athletes' Village and a Paralympic Rehabilitation Medical Center. The construction was launched by the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.[5] On November 5, 2010, the Turkmen President took part in the official stone laying ceremony for the Olympic Village. Investment in the first phase amounted to nearly $2 billion.[6] The second phase of construction cost $3 billion.[7][8][9] The total cost of the Olympic Village was $5 billion and the construction was carried by Turkish construction company Polimeks.

For the convenience of athletes and spectators, the Olympic village have 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 higher educational institutions are located right next to the Olympic village. The Turkmen State Institute of Economics and Management, Institute 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 brand new sports facilities, built for the Games, in the future.

Venue Sports Capacity
Olympic StadiumOpening and closing ceremonies45,000
Bowling CentreBowling500
Chess ArenaChess500
Billiard ArenaCue sports1,000
VelodromeCycling6,000
Taekwondo and Dancesport ArenaDancesport, Taekwondo1,000
Equestrian CentreEquestrian645
Ice PalaceFutsal10,300
Indoor Athletics ArenaIndoor athletics5,000
Tennis CentreIndoor tennis4,000
Muay and Ju-jitsu ArenaJu-jitsu, Muaythai861
Martial Arts ArenaKickboxing, Kurash, Sambo5,000
Aquatics CentreShort course swimming5,000
Weightlifting ArenaWeightlifting861
Main Indoor ArenaWrestling, Belt wrestling, Traditional wrestling15,000

Test events

The Senior Asian Weightlifting Championship, the WAKO Asian Kickboxing Championships, and the Central Asian Short Course Swimming Championships took place concurrently as part of the Inspiring Ashgabat Test Event Series.[10]

Weightlifting

The Senior Asian Weightlifting Championships competition began 23 April and ended on 29 April at the Weightlifting Arena. 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.[10]

Kickboxing

The Martial Arts Arena 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 10 for women which were featured in the Ring and 28 categories for men and 16 for women on the Tatami. The event saw up to 354 medals awarded.[10]

Short course swimming

In addition to these international competitions the Aquatics Federation of Turkmenistan have organised the first ever Central Asian Short Course Swimming Tournament which consisted of an invitational short course (25) competition in the new Indoor Aquatics Centre. Athletes from neighbouring countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran and Afghanistan will be competed across a number of individual and relay events on 26–27 April 2017.[10]

Events

Opening ceremony

Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony of the games took place on Sunday, 17 September 2017 at the newly built Olympic Stadium in Ashgabat. It was the third-largest Olympic-style ceremony ever held.[11]

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony of the games took place on 27 September at the Olympic Stadium. There were live performances from international singers such Russian Nyusha, Lebanese Elissa, English John Newman and many other local musical performers.[12]

Participating National Olympic Committees

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.[13][14] Oceania countries will be under full participation, so they will be eligible for medals.

The numbers in parenthesis represents the number of participants entered.

Participating National Olympic Committees
Olympic Council of Asia members
Oceania National Olympic Committees members

Sports

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

Calendar

In the following calendar for the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport were held, which numeric representing the number of finals that were contested on that day. On the left the calendar lists each sport with events held during the Games, and at the right how many gold medals were won in that sport. There is a key at the top of the calendar to aid the reader.

OCOpening ceremony Event competitions 1Event finals CCClosing ceremony
September 2017 16th
Sat
17th
Sun
18th
Mon
19th
Tue
20th
Wed
21st
Thu
22nd
Fri
23rd
Sat
24th
Sun
25th
Mon
26th
Tue
27th
Wed
Gold
medals
CeremoniesOCCC
 
3x3 basketball 2 2
Belt wrestling Alysh 12 12 24
Belt wrestling 14 14 28
Kazakh kuresi 3 3
Pahlavani wrestling 3 3
Bowling 1 1 1 1 2 6
Chess 2 4 4 10
Cue sports 1 1 3 1 2 2 3 13
Dancesport 6 5 11
Equestrian 2 1 3
Futsal 1 1 2
Indoor athletics 8 8 9 25
Ju-jitsu 10 7 8 25
Kickboxing 2 6 7 15
Kurash 3 6 6 15
Muaythai 14 14
Sambo 9 7 7 23
Short course swimming 8 7 8 7 30
Taekwondo 3 4 4 3 4 18
Tennis 1 3 1 5
Track cycling 1 1 1 3 3 9
Turkmen goresh 13 13 26
Weightlifting 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 16
Wrestling 6 8 8 22
Total gold medals2303436343639273440387348
September 2017 16th
Sat
17th
Sun
18th
Mon
19th
Tue
20th
Wed
21st
Thu
22nd
Fri
23rd
Sat
24th
Sun
25th
Mon
26th
Tue
27th
Wed
Gold
medals
Esports 2 2 4

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Turkmenistan)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Turkmenistan (TKM)*806785232
2 China (CHN)42322397
3 Iran (IRI)362359118
4 Kazakhstan (KAZ)28284096
5 Uzbekistan (UZB)243374131
6 Thailand (THA)21202970
7 South Korea (KOR)15111541
8 Vietnam (VIE)1381940
9 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)12203769
10 Hong Kong (HKG)10111435
11 India (IND)9121940
12 Chinese Taipei (TPE)971228
13 Mongolia (MGL)5101530
14 United Arab Emirates (UAE)54817
15 Qatar (QAT)44311
16 Iraq (IRQ)43613
17 Tajikistan (TJK)3143451
18 Saudi Arabia (KSA)35210
19 Philippines (PHI)2141430
20 Japan (JPN)251017
21 Indonesia (INA)241420
22 Pakistan (PAK)231621
23 Bahrain (BRN)2013
24 Jordan (JOR)121417
25 Sri Lanka (SRI)1214
26 Afghanistan (AFG)111012
27 Fiji (FIJ)1102
28 Syria (SYR)1056
29 Malaysia (MAS)0101
 Marshall Islands (MHL)0101
31 Lebanon (LBN)0044
32 Australia (AUS)0022
33 Independent Olympic Athletes (IOA)0011
 Macau (MAC)0011
 Samoa (SAM)0011
 Singapore (SGP)0011
Totals (36 nations)3383465891273

Doping

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

Name NOC Sport Banned substance Medals Ref
Dinara Hallyýewa  Turkmenistan Alysh Meldonium (Women's classic style 65 kg)
(Women's freestyle 65 kg)
[15]
Belt wrestling (Women's freestyle 65 kg)
(Women's classic style 65 kg)
Turkmen goresh (Women's freestyle 63 kg)
Gülnar Haýytbaýewa  Turkmenistan Alysh Methylhexaneamine and 1,3-Dimethylbutylamine (Women's freestyle 65 kg) [16]
Belt wrestling (Women's classic style 65 kg)
(Women's freestyle 65 kg)
Turkmen goresh (Women's freestyle 63 kg)
(Women's classic style 63 kg)
Rejepaly Orazalyýew  Turkmenistan Belt wrestling Oxandrolone [17]
Turkmen goresh (Men's freestyle +100 kg)
(Men's classic style +100 kg)
Muhammet Altybaýew  Turkmenistan Kickboxing Meldonium and Luteinizing hormone (Men's low kick 63.5 kg) [18]
Zhamalbek Asylbek Uulu  Kyrgyzstan Sambo Meldonium (Men's sport 82 kg) [19]
Ahmed Salah  Iraq Wrestling Methasterone [20]

Marketing, branding and design

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

Brand look

Brand look and all design related works of the Games made by Belli Creative Studio[21]

Emblem

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

Mascot

The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Mascot is a Central Asian Shepherd Dog named Wepaly – meaning loyal friend in Turkmen. Locally known as Alabai, the Central Asian Shepherd Dog is renowned as a courageous animal in Turkmenistan for many centuries has helped Turkmen shepherds to safeguard flocks of cattle in heavy conditions in the sandy desert. Wepaly wears traditional ceremonial dress and a white telpek fur hat while waving the State Flag of Turkmenistan and the symbol of the Olympic Council of Asia.[22][23] The mascot was unveiled 200 days before the games and was originally coloured green, but Turkmenistan's president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow ordered a last minute makeover possibly due to poor public reception.[24][25]

Medals

The medals of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games were revealed on February 16, 2017 and were designed by Singaporean company Eng Leong Medallic Industries. The medals shaped like eight pointed Oguz Khan Stars, the national emblem of the host nation and featured elements like 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 status and its commitment to peaceful development of international relations, while the five traditional carpet 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.[26]

Sponsors

Official Partners [27] Turkmenistan Airlines,[28] Petronas, Dragon Oil, China National Petroleum Corporation,[29] Atos,[30] Hos Zaman,[31] Turkmentelecom
Official Supporters[32] Coca-Cola, LG Electronics, MasterCard,[33] Hyundai Engineering & Construction,[34] Turkmen Ak Yol,[35] Turkmen State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs, Deyhan Bank, Senagat Bank, Turkman Business Bank, The State Commercial Bank of Turkmenistan, Turkmenistan Bank, HalkBank, Huawei,[36] Kamil Market

See also

References

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  29. Ashgabat 2017 strike deal with China National Petroleum Corporation
  30. Ashgabat 2017 announce deal with Atos
  31. Egg and poultry business latest Ashgabat 2017 sponsor
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  33. Ashgabat 2017 agree sponsorship deal with Mastercard
  34. Hyundai Engineering named official supporter of Ashgabat 2017
  35. Ashgabat 2017 sign deal with logistics company Turkmen Ak Yol
  36. Ashgabat 2017 announce Huawei as official supporter
Preceded by
Incheon
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
Ashgabat

II Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (2017)
Succeeded by
Bangkok and Chonburi
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