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The Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (abbreviated as AIMAG) is a pancontinental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. It is organised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and consists of Indoor and martial arts events with TV broadcasting potential, some of which were not contested at the Asian Games and Asian Winter Games Programs and are not Olympic sports.

The event is a merger of two formerly separate OCA-sanctioned events – Asian Indoor Games (abbreviated as AIG) and Asian Martial Arts Games (abbreviated as AMAG), first held in Bangkok, Thailand in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Both events merged to form the present-day event in 2013, with the subsequent editions inheriting the edition numeral of the former. These Games are described as the second largest Asian multi-sport event after the Asian Games.

In its history, five nations have hosted the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games and sixty-three nations from Asia and Oceania and two teams have participated in the event. The last Games were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 17–27 September 2017, while the next edition are scheduled to be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia sometime in 2025.

History

The Asian Indoor Games consisted of indoor sports with TV broadcasting potential, several 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. 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". In response, the OCA said that the 2009 Asian Indoor Games would be the last edition of the games. The Asian Indoor Games and the 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.

Participating nations

All 45 countries whose National Olympic Committees are recognized by the Olympic Council of Asia and 18 countries whose National Olympic Committees are recognized by the Oceania National Olympic Committees.

Asia

•  Afghanistan
•  Bahrain
•  Bangladesh
•  Bhutan
•  Brunei
•  Cambodia
•  China
•  Hong Kong
•  India
•  Indonesia
•  Iran
•  Iraq
•  Japan
•  Jordan
•  Kazakhstan
•  North Korea
•  South Korea
•  Kuwait
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  Laos
•  Lebanon
•  Macau
•  Malaysia
•  Maldives
•  Mongolia
•  Myanmar
•  Nepal
•  Oman
•  Pakistan
•  Palestine
•  Philippines
•  Qatar
•  Saudi Arabia
•  Singapore
•  Sri Lanka
•  Syria
•  Chinese Taipei
•  Tajikistan
•  Thailand
•  East Timor
•  Turkmenistan
•  United Arab Emirates
•  Uzbekistan
•  Vietnam
•  Yemen

Oceania

•  American Samoa
•  Australia
•  Cook Islands
•  Fiji
•  Tahiti
•  Guam
•  Kiribati
•  Federated States of Micronesia
•  Marshall Islands
•  Nauru
•  New Caledonia
•  Palau
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Samoa
•  Solomon Islands
•  Tonga
•  Tuvalu
•  Vanuatu

Others

•  Independent Olympic Athletes
•  Refugee Team

List of Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

Edition	Year	Host City	Host Nation	Opened by	Start Date	End Date	Nations	Competitors	Sports	Events	Top Placed Team	Ref.
Asian Indoor Games
I	2005	Bangkok	Thailand	Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn	12 November	19 November	45	2,343	9	120	China (CHN)
II	2007	Macau	Macau	Chief Executive Edmund Ho	26 October	3 November	44	2,476	17	171	China (CHN)
III	2009	Hanoi	Vietnam	President Nguyễn Minh Triết	30 October	8 November	43	2,396	15	242	China (CHN)
Asian Martial Arts Games
I	2009	Bangkok	Thailand	Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn	1 August	9 August	40	810	9	109	Thailand (THA)
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
IV	2013	Incheon	South Korea	Prime Minister Chung Hong-won	29 June	6 July	43	1,652	12	100	China (CHN)
V	2017	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow	17 September	27 September	63	4,012	21	341	Turkmenistan (TKM)
VI	2021	Bangkok–Chonburi	Thailand	Cancelled
VII	2025	Riyadh	Saudi Arabia		2026	2026

Sports

All-time medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	204	119	96	419
2	Thailand (THA)	108	106	145	359
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	103	92	110	305
4	Turkmenistan (TKM)	92	75	89	256
5	South Korea (KOR)	77	79	76	232
6	Vietnam (VIE)	72	62	86	220
7	Iran (IRI)	63	53	85	201
8	Hong Kong (HKG)	46	44	60	150
9	Uzbekistan (UZB)	44	60	110	214
10	India (IND)	34	40	85	159
11	Japan (JPN)	33	29	47	109
12	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	28	29	59	116
13	Indonesia (INA)	16	16	42	74
14	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	14	23	42	79
15	Qatar (QAT)	12	12	11	35
16	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	10	9	4	23
17	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	10	5	14	29
18	Philippines (PHI)	8	26	35	69
19	Macau (MAC)	8	14	16	38
20	Mongolia (MGL)	7	17	29	53
21	Iraq (IRQ)	7	11	22	40
22	Malaysia (MAS)	6	13	19	38
23	Jordan (JOR)	5	11	32	48
24	Pakistan (PAK)	5	7	21	33
25	Laos (LAO)	4	18	29	51
26	Tajikistan (TJK)	4	17	35	56
27	Singapore (SGP)	4	17	19	40
28	Bahrain (BRN)	4	4	5	13
29	Afghanistan (AFG)	3	5	23	31
30	Syria (SYR)	3	3	12	18
31	Independent Olympic Athletes (AOI)	2	4	5	11
32	Kuwait (KUW)	1	9	14	24
33	Sri Lanka (SRI)	1	5	5	11
34	Cambodia (CAM)	1	4	7	12
35	Lebanon (LBN)	1	1	11	13
36	Fiji (FIJ)	1	1	0	2
37	Myanmar (MYA)	0	3	4	7
38	Marshall Islands (MHL)	0	1	0	1
39	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
	Bangladesh (BAN)	0	0	2	2
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	2	2
42	Bhutan (BHU)	0	0	1	1
	Nepal (NEP)	0	0	1	1
	Oman (OMA)	0	0	1	1
	Palestine (PLE)	0	0	1	1
	Samoa (SAM)	0	0	1	1
Totals (46 entries)		1,041	1,044	1,515	3,600

See also

• Asian Games
• Asian Winter Games
• Asian Beach Games
• Asian Youth Games

References

1. "PR N°13 - Youth Olympic Games: It's Singapore… and it's FIBA 33!" (Press release). International Basketball Federation. 2008-02-21. Archived from the original on October 30, 2008. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
2. Olympic Council of Asia newsreleaseArchived.
3. "1st AIG Bangkok 2005". OCA. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
4. "2nd AIG Macau 2007". OCA. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2007.
5. "3rd AIG Hanoi 2009". OCA. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
6. "1st AMAG Bangkok 2009". OCA. Retrieved 1 August 2009.
7. "4th AIMAG Incheon 2013". OCA. Archived from the original on 8 December 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
8. "5th AIMAG Ashgabat 2017". OCA. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
9. "Political situation in Thailand forces another postponement for 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games". Inside the Games. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
10. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "40th GENERAL ASSEMBLY - UAE - 21st November 2021". YouTube.

External links

• Official website

• Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
• Asian international sports competitions
• Indoor sports competitions
• Martial arts competitions
• Multi-sport events in Asia
• Olympic Council of Asia