Winter Asian Games
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 |
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1986 | Sapporo , Japan | 7th | 430 | 7th | 35 |
1990 | Sapporo , Japan | 10 | 310 | 6th | 33 |
1996 | Harbin , People's Republic of China | 17th | 453 | 8th | 43 |
1999 | Gangwon-do , South Korea | 23 | 798 | 7th | 43 |
2003 | Aomori Prefecture , Japan | 29 | 641 | 10 | 51 |
2007 | Changchun , People's Republic of China | 25th | 796 | 10 | 47 |
2011 | Astana / Almaty , Kazakhstan | 26th | 843 | 11 | 69 |
2017 | Sapporo / Obihiro , Japan | 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 |
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Bandy | X | |||||||
biathlon | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Curling | X | X | X | |||||
ice Hockey | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
figure skating | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | |
Speed skating | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Freestyle skiing | X | X | X | X | X | |||
Short track | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Alpine skiing | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Cross-country skiing | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X |
Ski orienteering | X | |||||||
Ski jumping | (d) | X | X | X | ||||
Snowboard | X | X | X |
Medal table
Status: 2017
rank | country | gold | silver | bronze | total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Japan | 138 | 144 | 115 | 397 |
2 | People's Republic of China | 94 | 85 | 105 | 284 |
3 | Kazakhstan | 78 | 62 | 56 | 196 |
4th | South Korea | 74 | 83 | 92 | 249 |
5 | North Korea | 1 | 4th | 12 | 17th |
6th | Uzbekistan | 1 | 2 | 4th | 7th |
7th | Lebanon | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
8th | Indonesia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
9 | Mongolia | 0 | 1 | 6th | 7th |
10 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |