East Asian Games 2009

V. East Asian Games
host	Hong Kong
Participating Nations	9
Participating athletes	2377
sports	22nd
Disciplines	262
opening	December 5, 2009
Closing ceremony	December 13, 2009

The East Asian Games 2009 ( V. East Asian Games ) were played from December 5 to December 13, 2009 in Hong Kong . It was the fifth competitions of this kind and the largest to date in the history of the East Asian Games . The 90-minute opening ceremony saw a large firework display over Victoria Harbor . The politician Liu Yandong declared the nine-day games open. The budget was 240 million Hong Kong dollars .

The mascots of the games Dony and Ami in Victoria Park .

sports

Compared to the 2005 games, badminton , billiards , judo , cycling , 7-a-side rugby , squash , table tennis , volleyball and windsurfing were added, whereas dragon boating , gymnastics , karate and soft tennis were no longer part of the games.

The following were held:

• basketball
• Badminton ( details 2009 )
• billiards
• bowling
• Football ( details )
• Weightlifting
• hockey
• Judo
• athletics
• To go biking
• rowing
• 7-a-side rugby
• shoot
• squash
• Dance sport
• Taekwondo
• tennis
• Table tennis
• volleyball
• water sports
• Windsurfing
• Wushu

Medal table

As in all previous East Asian Games, China took first place in the medal table, followed by Japan and South Korea.

host

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	People's Republic of China	113	73	46	232
2	Japan	62	58	70	190
3	South Korea	39	45	59	143
4th	Hong Kong	26th	31	53	110
5	Chinese Taipei	8th	34	47	89
6th	Macau	8th	9	12	29
7th	North Korea	6th	8th	11	25th
8th	Mongolia	0	4th	16	20th
9	Guam	0	0	1	1
Total		262	262	315	839

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} This sport does not count as an Olympic sport .

Web links

Commons : East Asian Games 2009  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chinese Taipei Wins God Medal in Men's 400-Meter Relay . Kuomintang Official Website as of December 14, 2009.
2. ↑ East Asian Games . East Asia Institute at Ludwigshafen University , accessed on November 8, 2013.
3. ↑ 5th East Asian Games 2009 - Opening fireworks of the East Asian Games 2009 . FWK-ART , accessed November 8, 2013.
4. ↑ 2009 East Asian Games Opens in Hong Kong . on china.org from December 7, 2009.
5. ↑ Results ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the official website. Retrieved November 7, 2013 (Chinese).