2009 Asian Indoor Games

III Asian Indoor Games
Host cityHanoi, Vietnam
Motto"For A Rising Asia"
(Vietnamese: Vì một châu Á phát triển)
Nations42
Athletes2,456
Events215 in 24 sports
Opening30 October
Closing8 November
Opened byNguyễn Minh Triết
President of Vietnam
Torch lighterBùi Thị Nhung
Main venueMỹ Đình National Stadium

The 2009 Asian Indoor Games (Vietnamese: Đại hội Thể thao Trong nhà châu Á 2009), officially the 3rd Asian Indoor Games (Vietnamese: Đại hội Thể thao Trong nhà châu Á lần thứ 3) and also known as Vietnam 2009, were a pancontinential indoor multi-sport event held in Vietnam from 30 October till 8 November 2009. This was the last edition of the event to be held under the "Asian Indoor Games" name before it was merged with another Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) event – Asian Martial Arts Games to form the larger Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.

Mascot

The mascot of the 2009 event is the Ho chicken (Gà Hồ), a rare and distinctly Vietnamese breed of chicken. In Vietnamese culture, the chicken (particularly the rooster) have the five qualities of a man of honour: literacy, martial arts, physical strength, humanity and loyalty. The symbolism in the context of the AIGs is that the rooster mascot rising to welcome the sun is linked to the readiness of the sports industry of Vietnam to host this major event.

Venues

Gà Hồ, the official mascot
Mascots in Hanoi

Participating nations

All of OCA members participated in the Games, excluding: Pakistan, Palestine, & Timor-Leste. In the brackets are the total numbers of the athletes.[1]

Non-competing nations

Only one country just sent officials.

Sports

The 2009 Asian Indoor Games did not feature indoor cycling, extreme sports and indoor hockey which were played in the previous games. All of the demonstration sports in the 2007 Asian Indoor Games namely, 3 on 3 basketball, kurash and kickboxing, were included in this year's Asian Indoor Games.

Demonstration sports

Calendar

OC Opening ceremony Event competitions 1 Event finals CC Closing ceremony
October / November 2009 28th
Wed
29th
Thu
30th
Fri
31st
Sat
1st
Sun
2nd
Mon
3rd
Tue
4th
Wed
5th
Thu
6th
Fri
7th
Sat
8th
Sun
Gold
medals
Ceremonies OC CC
 
3x3 basketball 1 1 2
Aerobic gymnastics 4 4
Bowling 1 1 1 1 2 6
Boxing 8 8
Board games Chess 1 2 1 4
Xiangqi 1 1 2
Cue sports 1 2 1 1 2 1 2 10
Dancesport 5 5 10
Dragon & lion dance 2 2 2 6
Esports 1 1 2 2 6
Finswimming 5 6 5 16
Futsal 1 1 2
Indoor archery 4 4 8
Indoor athletics 6 7 13 26
Indoor kabaddi 1 1
Kickboxing 8 8
Kurash 2 3 3 8
Muaythai 9 9
Pencak silat 3 12 15
Pétanque 2 2 4
Sepak takraw 2 2
Short course swimming 8 7 8 7 30
Shuttlecock 2 2 2 6
Vovinam 6 4 4 14
Wushu 6 2 8
Total gold medals 17 21 32 13 29 20 31 52 215
October / November 2009 28th
Wed
29th
Thu
30th
Fri
31st
Sat
1st
Sun
2nd
Mon
3rd
Tue
4th
Wed
5th
Thu
6th
Fri
7th
Sat
8th
Sun
Gold
medals
Ju-jitsu & belt wrestling Belt wrestling 8 6 14
Ju-jitsu 5 5 10

Medal table

Opening ceremony at My Dinh National Stadium

  *   Host nation (Vietnam)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 China (CHN)48251992
2 Vietnam (VIE)*42302294
3 Kazakhstan (KAZ)21162158
4 Thailand (THA)19173470
5 Iran (IRI)17151345
6 South Korea (KOR)16141646
7 India (IND)692540
8 Hong Kong (HKG)691732
9 Indonesia (INA)631423
10 Uzbekistan (UZB)591024
11 Japan (JPN)59923
12 Saudi Arabia (KSA)4329
13 Laos (LAO)381425
14 Chinese Taipei (TPE)351523
15 Malaysia (MAS)35816
16 United Arab Emirates (UAE)3036
17 Qatar (QAT)2338
18 Singapore (SIN)17311
19 Cambodia (CAM)14712
20 Philippines (PHI)14510
21 Jordan (JOR)1416
22 Bahrain (BRN)1315
23 Macau (MAC)1236
24 Mongolia (MGL)0257
25 Iraq (IRQ)0246
26 Afghanistan (AFG)0224
27 Brunei (BRU)0167
28 Kuwait (KUW)0145
29 Sri Lanka (SRI)0123
30 Syria (SYR)0112
31 Tajikistan (TJK)0101
32 Bangladesh (BAN)0011
 Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)0011
 Lebanon (LIB)0011
Totals (34 entries)215215292722

References

Preceded by Asian Indoor Games
Hanoi

III Asian Indoor Games (2009)
Succeeded by