2003 ASEAN Para Games

2nd ASEAN Para Games
Host city Hanoi
Country Vietnam
Motto Peace, Love and Aspire
Nations participating 11
Athletes participating 700
Events 287
Sports 5
Opening ceremony 21 December 2003
Closing ceremony 27 December 2003
Officially opened by Pham Gia Khiem
Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam
Main venue Mỹ Đình National Stadium (opening)
Hanoi Sports Palace (closing)
Website 2003 ASEAN Para Games
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The 2003 ASEAN Para Games, officially known as the 2nd ASEAN Para Games, was a Southeast Asian disabled multi-sport event held eight days after the 2003 Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam from 21 to 27 December 2003. This was the first time Vietnam hosted the ASEAN Para Games and the first time Timor-Leste participated at the ASEAN Para Games.

Vietnam is the second country to host the ASEAN Para Games after Malaysia. Around 700 athletes from 11 participating nations participated at the games, which featured 287 events in 5 sports. The games was opened and closed by Pham Gia Khiem, the Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam at the My Dinh National Stadium and Hanoi Sports Palace respectively.

The final medal tally was led by Thailand, followed by host Vietnam and Malaysia. Several Asian, Games and National records were broken during the games. The games were generally a successful one held by Vietnam yet, which saw the rising standards of disabled sports competition amongst the Southeast Asian nations.

Organisation

Development and preparation

The 2nd ASEAN Para Games Organising Committee was formed to oversee the staging of the games.

Venues

The 2nd ASEAN Para Games had 2 venues for the games.

City Competition Venue Sports
HanoiNational Sports Complex
Mỹ Đình National Stadium Opening ceremony, Athletics, Badminton, Powerlifting, Swimming, Table tennis
Other
Hanoi Sports Palace Closing ceremony

Marketing

The Golden Goat, The official mascot of the games

The emblem of the 2nd ASEAN Para Games is a stylised image of a wheelchair athlete with two hands raised up upwards in the shape of a "V" which symbolises Vietnam and victory. At the top of the emblem, 11 small circles linked together around the image of "Khue Van Cac" (room for reciting poems). The linked small circles represents solidarity, cooperation, and friendship of disabled athletes among 11 countries in the Southeast Asian region, while the Khue Van Cac represents the host country Vietnam. The colours of the athlete and the Khue Van Cac are dark sea blue which represents unity while the colours of the 11 circles are vermilion which represents courage and passion.[1]

Mascot

The mascot of the 2003 ASEAN Para Games is the "The Golden Goat" which was designed by Nguyen The Nguyen. It was selected by the Organising Committee because the year 2003, year of which Vietnam hosting the second ASEAN Para Games is a goat year in most lunar calendars, especially in Vietnamese and Chinese calendar. The goat is widely described in many art and literary works of Vietnam as a very intimate, friendly and useful animal to the people in daily life. The Golden Goat symbolises happiness, victory and courage when facing challenges. The mascot's design of wearing the sports costume, holds its left hand on its waist, and raises the right hand upwards with two fingers stretching out in a "V" shape represents the strong belief in fair-play among athletes to reach the highest achievements at the games.[2]

The games

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held at the My Dinh National Stadium on 21 December 2005 at 19:00 (VST). The ceremony began with the parade of participating nations led by military band. Bạch Quang Thái, Mai Ngọc Trung and Lê Văn Lịch carried the torch into the stadium and passed it to Tran Nguyen Thai, Trinh Cong Luan and Pham Thi Thu Thanh and afterwards, Tran Nguyen Thai ignited the cauldron in the stadium. Vu Van Xoan take the athletes' oath whereas, Duong Duc Thuy take the judges' oath. The opening ceremony was divided into five chapters namely, Chapter 1: Genesis, Chapter 2: Challenges and Stormy, Chapter 3: The strength of the heart - Hello brother, Chapter 4: Our Aspirations and Chapter 5: In great joy.[3][4]

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony was held at the Hanoi Sports Palace on 28 December 2005 at 19:00 (VST). The ASEAN Para Games responsibilities was handed over to the Philippines, host of the 2005 ASEAN Para Games.[5][6]

Participating nations

Sports

5 Sports are introduced for the 2003 ASEAN Para Games with 4 of them are Paralympics events.

Medal table

A total of 760 medals comprising 287 gold medals, 245 silver medals and 228 bronze medals were awarded to athletes. The Host Vietnam's performance was their best ever yet in ASEAN Para Games History and were second only to Thailand as overall champion.[7]

Key

  *   Host nation (Vietnam)

2003 ASEAN Para Games medal table
 Rank  NPC Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Thailand (THA) 101 61 31 193
2  Vietnam (VIE)* 81 80 86 247
3  Malaysia (MAS) 54 40 46 140
4  Myanmar (MYA) 24 12 12 48
5  Indonesia (INA) 10 11 18 39
6  Singapore (SIN) 10 8 1 19
7  Brunei (BRU) 4 10 5 19
8  Philippines (PHI) 2 15 24 41
9  Cambodia (CAM) 1 5 3 9
10  Laos (LAO) 0 3 1 4
11  Timor-Leste (TLS) 0 0 1 1
Total (11 NPCs) 287 245 228 760

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Logo at the Official Website of the Games". 2003 ASEAN Para Games. 24 June 2004. Archived from the original on 24 June 2004. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Mascot at the Official Website of the Games". 2003 ASEAN Para Games. 6 September 2004. Archived from the original on 6 September 2004. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Second ASEAN Para Games kick off in Vietnam". Utusan Malaysia. 22 December 2003. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "Second ASEAN Para Games Opening Ceremony". Bao Binh Dinh. 22 December 2003. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "Thailand wins ASEAN Para Games, Vietnam celebrates successful event". Utusan Malaysia. 28 December 2003. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "Second ASEAN Para Games Closing Ceremony". Bao Binh Dinh. 28 December 2003. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
  7. ↑ "Official Website Of The Games". 2003 ASEAN Para Games. 2 February 2004. Archived from the original on 2 February 2004. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
Preceded by
2001
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia		 ASEAN Para Games Succeeded by
2005
Manila, Philippines
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