Winter Asian Games

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The Winter Asian Games (English: Asian Winter Games ) are multinational competitions in different winter sports between participants from Asian countries based on the model of the Olympic Games . The Winter Asian Games are part of the Asian Games in addition to the summer, indoor and beach games .

The idea of ​​staging the Asian Winter Games came from the Japanese NOK in 1982, which was also allowed to stage the first two Winter Games in 1986 and 1990. The infrastructure of the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo was used .

List of games

year Host city Nations Athletes sports Disciplines
1986 Sapporo , JapanJapanJapan  07th 0430 07th 35
1990 Sapporo , JapanJapanJapan  10 0310 06th 33
1996 Harbin , People's Republic of ChinaChina People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  17th 0453 08th 43
1999 Gangwon-do , South KoreaKorea SouthSouth Korea  23 0798 07th 43
2003 Aomori Prefecture , JapanJapanJapan  29 0641 10 51
2007 Changchun , People's Republic of ChinaChina People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China  25th 0796 10 47
2011 Astana / Almaty , KazakhstanKazakhstanKazakhstan  26th 0843 11 69
2017 Sapporo / Obihiro , JapanJapanJapan  32 1101 11 64

sports

The following sports are or were played at the Winter Asian Games.

X = sport or discipline was played at the winter games of the specified year

(d) = demonstration sport

Sport or discipline 1986 1990 1996 1999 2003 2007 2011 2017
Bandy Bandy X
biathlon biathlon X X X X X X X X
Curling Curling X X X
ice Hockey ice Hockey X X X X X X X X
figure skating figure skating X X X X X X X
Speed ​​skating Speed ​​skating X X X X X X X X
Freestyle skiing Freestyle skiing X X X X X
Short track Short track X X X X X X X X
Alpine skiing Alpine skiing X X X X X X X X
Cross-country skiing Cross-country skiing X X X X X X X X
Ski orienteering Ski orienteering X
Ski jumping Ski jumping (d) X X X
Snowboard Snowboard X X X

Medal table

Status: 2017

rank country gold silver bronze total
01 JapanJapan Japan 138 144 115 397
02 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 094 085 105 284
03 KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 078 062 056 196
04th Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 074 083 092 249
05 Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea 001 004th 012 017th
06th UzbekistanUzbekistan Uzbekistan 001 002 004th 007th
07th LebanonLebanon Lebanon 001 001 000 002
08th IndonesiaIndonesia Indonesia 000 001 002 003
09 MongoliaMongolia Mongolia 000 001 006th 007th
10 KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan 000 000 001 001

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