Asian Games 2006

The 15th Asian Games took place from December 1st to 15th, 2006 in Doha . Doha was the first city in Arabia , and after Tehran in 1974 only the second in the Middle East to host the Asian Games. For the first time, over 10,500 athletes from 45 nations took part, and more than 1,350 medals were awarded in 39 sports.

Allocation of the games

There were four applicants to host the 2006 Asian Games: Doha ( Qatar ), Hong Kong ( China ), Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia ) and New Delhi ( India ). On November 12, 2000, the election took place in Busan , the host of the 2002 Asian Games . All 41 members of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) were entitled to vote . The election consisted of a maximum of three ballots (without a runoff). If there was no absolute majority for a candidate in a ballot, the last one was kicked out and the election was continued. In the first ballot, New Delhi only received two votes and was eliminated. In the second ballot there was an absolute majority for Doha with 22 votes, Kuala Lumpur received 13 and Hong Kong 6 votes.

Participating Nations

All 45 OCA members took part in the 2006 Asian Games. The largest delegation was South Korea with 656 athletes, closely followed by China with 647. The smallest team was that of Brunei with only seven participants.

States participating in the 2006 Asian Games

Afghanistan  Bahrain  Bangladesh  Bhutan  Brunei  People's Republic of China  Hong Kong  India  Indonesia  Iraq  Iran  Japan  Yemen  Jordan  Cambodia

Kazakhstan  Qatar  Kyrgyzstan  Kuwait  Laos  Lebanon  Macau  Malaysia  Maldives  Mongolia  Myanmar  Nepal  North Korea  Oman  East Timor

Pakistan  Philippines  Palestine  Saudi Arabia  Singapore  Sri Lanka  South Korea  Syria  Tajikistan  Chinese Taipei  Thailand  Turkmenistan  Uzbekistan  United Arab Emirates  Vietnam

sports

At the 2006 Asian Games, a total of 46 disciplines in 39 sports were played.

badminton baseball basketball billiards Bodybuilding Archery bowling Boxing fencing Soccer

Weightlifting golf Handball hockey Judo Kabaddi canoe karate athletics Cycling

horse riding Wrestling rowing rugby chess shoot swim sailing Sepak Takraw Softball

squash Taekwondo tennis Table tennis Triathlon do gymnastics volleyball Water polo Diving Wushu

Medal table

Fireworks during the opening ceremony

Entry of the athletes

China was by far the most successful nation with 165 gold medals and a total of 316 medals. The result of the last games in 2002 could be surpassed, but the own record of 183 gold medals at the Asian Games in 1990 could not be reached. The second best nation was South Korea, which won over 100 fewer gold medals. A total of 38 nations were able to win medals and thus perpetuate themselves in the medal table.

Item	country				total
1	People's Republic of China	165	88	63	316
2	South Korea	58	53	82	193
3	Japan	50	71	77	198
4th	Kazakhstan	23	19th	43	85
5	Thailand	13	15th	26th	54
6th	Iran	11	15th	22nd	48
7th	Uzbekistan	11	14th	14th	39
8th	India	10	18th	26th	54
9	Qatar	9	12	11	32
10	Chinese Taipei	9	10	27	46
Complete medal table

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