TheCentral Asian Games is an internationalmulti-sport event organised by theCentral Asian Olympic Committee and held every two years since1995 among athletes fromIran andCentral Asian countries and territories of theOlympic Council of Asia, especially formerly members of theUnion of Soviet Socialist Republics.

The Central Asian Games is one of five subregional Games of theOlympic Council of Asia. The others are theEast Asian Youth Games, theSouth Asian Games, theSoutheast Asian Games, and theWest Asian Games.^[1]

In April 1994, President of theInternational Olympic CommitteeJuan Antonio Samaranch visitedTashkent,Uzbekistan. During the meeting, President of UzbekistanIslam Karimov asked him about the possibility of hosting theOlympic Games in Tashkent, to which the IOC President replied that for this, at the request of theOlympic Charter, serious competitions, at least regional ones, should be held. After this, a meeting of the heads of the National Olympic Committees of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan was held in Tashkent, at which a decision was made to organize the Central Asian Games.

Despite the fact that the games should be held every two years, for various reasons they have been canceled more than once, and after 2005 have not actually been held. The Games where scheduled to be revived for 2021 after National Olympic Committee Chairs from the respective countries met in Kazakhstan in February 2020.^[2]

All seven nations whoseNational Olympic Committees are recognized by the Central Asian Olympic Committee and one nation whoseNational Olympic Committee is recognized by the East Asian Olympic Committee.

•  Chinese Taipei (Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee;TPE)¹

¹Participated only in 1999, as an invitee.^[3]

1995

1997

1999

2003

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Host cities of the Central Asian Games

Edition	Year	Host City	Host nation	Opened by	Start Date	End Date	Nations	Competitors	Sports	Events	Top Placed Team	Ref.
I	1995	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	PresidentIslam Karimov	1 September	8 September	5	—N/a	11	158	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	[4]
II	1997	Almaty	Kazakhstan	PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev	13 September	20 September	5	—N/a	12	173	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	[5]
III	1999	Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan	PresidentAskar Akayev	1 October	7 October	6	—N/a	10	163	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	[6]
–	2001	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan	Cancelled
IV	2003	Dushanbe	Tajikistan	PresidentEmomali Rahmon	14 October	20 October	5	—N/a	9	107	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	[7]
–	2005	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	Cancelled
V	2021	—N/a		Postponed due to theCOVID-19 pandemic

Thirteen sports were presented in Central Asian Games history.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	368	232	129	729
2	Uzbekistan (UZB)	153	192	158	503
3	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	58	122	198	378
4	Tajikistan (TJK)	20	28	50	98
5	Turkmenistan (TKM)	2	25	89	116
Totals (5 entries)		601	599	624	1,824

• Bell, Daniel (2003).Encyclopedia of International Games (Pg. 108). McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina.ISBN 0-7864-1026-4.

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