Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
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The Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (abbreviated as AIMAG) is a pancontinental multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. It is organised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and consists of Indoor and martial arts events with TV broadcasting potential, some of which were not contested at the Asian Games and Asian Winter Games Programs and are not Olympic sports.
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (AIMAG) | |
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Games | |
Asian Indoor Games
Asian Martial Arts Games Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games |
Abbreviation | AIMAG |
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First event | 2005 Asian Indoor Games in Bangkok, Thailand |
Occur every | four years |
Last event | 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan |
The event is a merger of two formerly separate OCA-sanctioned events – Asian Indoor Games (abbreviated as AIG) and Asian Martial Arts Games (abbreviated as AMAG), first held in Bangkok, Thailand in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Both events merged to form the present-day event in 2013, with the subsequent editions inheriting the edition numeral of the former. These Games are described as the second largest Asian multi-sport event after the Asian Games.
In its history, five nations have hosted the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games and sixty-three nations from Asia and Oceania and two teams have participated in the event. The last Games were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 17–27 September 2017, while the next edition are scheduled to be held in Thailand between 24 February and 6 March 2024.