V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

Host city	Ashgabat,Turkmenistan
Motto	Health, Inspiration, Friendship (Turkmen:Sagdynlyk, Ruhubelentlik, Dostluk)
Nations	63
Athletes	4012
Events	348 in 21 sports
Opening	September 17
Closing	September 27
Opened by	Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow[1] President of Turkmenistan
Torch lighter	Pygy Baýramdurdyyew
Main venue	Olympic Stadium
Website	ashgabat2017.com
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The2017Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games (Turkmen:Ýapyk binalarda we söweş sungaty boýunça V Aziýa oýunlary/Япык биналарда ве сөвеш сунгаты боюнча V Азия оюнлары), which is also counted as the 5thAsian Indoor Games, was held inAshgabat,Turkmenistan in 2017.^[2] It became the third city in theformer Soviet countries to win the right of hosting anOlympic Council of Asia-sanctioned event, followingAstana andAlmaty inKazakhstan, which jointly-hosted the2011 Asian Winter Games. The host city was chosen in Kuwait on 19 December 2010.^[3] On 6 July 2013 the flag of the Olympic Council of Asia was officially handed over to the mayor of the city of Ashgabat.^[4]

The Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games were held at the Ashgabat Olympic Complex, which is a unique facility which has no parallel in theCentral Asian region. The Complex boasts of over 30 structures, which also includes 15 competition venues, an Athletes' Village and a Paralympic Rehabilitation Medical Center. The construction was launched by thePresident of TurkmenistanGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.^[5] On November 5, 2010, the Turkmen President took part in the official stone laying ceremony for the Olympic Village. Investment in the first phase amounted to nearly $2 billion.^[6] The second phase of construction cost $3 billion.^[7][8][9] The total cost of the Olympic Village was $5 billion and the construction was carried by Turkish construction companyPolimeks.

For the convenience of athletes and spectators, the Olympic village have all the necessary infrastructure including social, cultural and shopping centers, hotels, restaurants, cafes, shops, consumer services and car park. The campus are laid with new pedestrian crossings and a monorail.

Several national higher educational institutions are located right next to the Olympic village. The Turkmen State Institute of Economics and Management, the Institute of Culture, the State Border Service Academy of Turkmenistan, and the National Institute of Sports and Tourism all have their campuses nearby. These universities will use the brand-new sports facilities built for the Games in the future.

The Senior Asian Weightlifting Championship, the WAKO Asian Kickboxing Championships, and the Central Asian Short Course Swimming Championships took place concurrently as part of the Inspiring Ashgabat Test Event Series.^[10]

Weightlifting

The Senior Asian Weightlifting Championships competition began 23 April and ended on 29 April at the Weightlifting Arena. Athletes competed for 144 medals which were awarded for snatch, clean & jerk and total in each bodyweight category. Asia has a strong pedigree in weightlifting with 31 of the 45 medals at the Rio 2016 Olympics being awarded to Asian countries.^[10]

Kickboxing

The Martial Arts Arena hosted the Asian Kickboxing Championships between 26–30 April with athletes from up to 20 countries competing over the course of five days. The competition included 27 categories for men and 10 for women which were featured in the Ring and 28 categories for men and 16 for women on the Tatami. The event saw up to 354 medals awarded.^[10]

Short course swimming

In addition to these international competitions the Aquatics Federation of Turkmenistan have organised the first ever Central Asian Short Course Swimming Tournament which consisted of an invitational short course (25) competition in the new Indoor Aquatics Centre. Athletes from neighbouring countries Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Iran and Afghanistan will be competed across a number of individual and relay events on 26–27 April 2017.^[10]

The opening ceremony of the games took place on Sunday, 17 September 2017 at the newly builtOlympic Stadium inAshgabat.

The closing ceremony of the games took place on 27 September at theOlympic Stadium. There were live performances from international singers such RussianNyusha, LebaneseElissa, EnglishJohn Newman and many other local musical performers.^[11]

All 45 member countries of theOlympic Council of Asia were invited to compete at these Games. For the first time in the Asian Games are attended by 17Oceania National Olympic Committees.^[12][13] Oceania countries will be under full participation, so they will be eligible for medals.

A total of 21 sports are represented for the Indoor and Martial Arts Games: four Olympic sports (3-on-3 basketball, track cycling, weightlifting and olympic wrestling), seven Olympic sports held events only in non-Olympic formats (athletics, equestrian, football, swimming, taekwondo and tennis) and eleven non-Olympic disciplines and sports (bowling, chess, cue sports, dancesport, ju-jitsu, kickboxing, kurash, muaythai, sambo, belt wrestling and traditional wrestling)

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each sports discipline.

Demonstration sports

•  Esports(4) (details)

In the following calendar for the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport were held, which numeric representing the number of finals that were contested on that day. On the left the calendar lists each sport with events held during the Games, and at the right how many gold medals were won in that sport. There is a key at the top of the calendar to aid the reader.

September 2017		16th Sat	17th Sun	18th Mon	19th Tue	20th Wed	21st Thu	22nd Fri	23rd Sat	24th Sun	25th Mon	26th Tue	27th Wed	Gold medals
Ceremonies			OC										CC
3x3 basketball					●	●	●	●	●	2				2
Belt wrestling	Alysh							12	12					24
	Belt wrestling				14	14								28
	Kazakh kuresi						3							3
	Pahlavani wrestling						3							3
Bowling							1	1	1	1	●	●	2	6
Chess							●	●	●	2	●	4	4	10
Cue sports					●	1	1	3	1	2	2	3		13
Dancesport											6	5		11
Equestrian							2		1					3
Futsal		●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	1	1		2
Indoor athletics				8	8	9								25
Ju-jitsu		10		7	8									25
Kickboxing									●	2	6	7		15
Kurash						3	6	6						15
Muaythai			●	●	●	●	14							14
Sambo										9	7	7		23
Short course swimming								8	7	8	7			30
Taekwondo				3	4	4	3	4						18
Tennis			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	3	1	5
Track cycling				1	●	1	1	3	3					9
Turkmen goresh		13		13										26
Weightlifting				2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2			16
Wrestling										6	8	8		22
Total gold medals		23	0	34	36	34	36	39	27	34	40	38	7	348
September 2017		16th Sat	17th Sun	18th Mon	19th Tue	20th Wed	21st Thu	22nd Fri	23rd Sat	24th Sun	25th Mon	26th Tue	27th Wed	Gold medals
Esports											●	2	2	4

  *   Host nation (Turkmenistan)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Turkmenistan (TKM)*	74	67	85	226
2	China (CHN)	42	32	23	97
3	Iran (IRI)	36	23	59	118
4	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	28	28	40	96
5	Uzbekistan (UZB)	24	33	74	131
6	Thailand (THA)	21	20	29	70
7	South Korea (KOR)	15	11	15	41
8	Vietnam (VIE)	13	8	19	40
9	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	12	20	37	69
10	Hong Kong (HKG)	10	11	14	35
11	India (IND)	9	12	19	40
12	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	9	7	12	28
13	Mongolia (MGL)	5	10	15	30
14	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	5	4	8	17
15	Qatar (QAT)	4	4	3	11
16	Iraq (IRQ)	4	3	6	13
17	Tajikistan (TJK)	3	14	34	51
18	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	3	5	2	10
19	Philippines (PHI)	2	14	14	30
20	Japan (JPN)	2	5	10	17
21	Indonesia (INA)	2	4	14	20
22	Pakistan (PAK)	2	3	16	21
23	Bahrain (BRN)	2	0	0	2
24	Jordan (JOR)	1	2	14	17
25	Sri Lanka (SRI)	1	2	1	4
26	Afghanistan (AFG)	1	1	10	12
27	Fiji (FIJ)	1	1	0	2
28	Syria (SYR)	1	0	5	6
29	Malaysia (MAS)	0	1	0	1
	Marshall Islands (MHL)	0	1	0	1
31	Lebanon (LBN)	0	0	4	4
32	Australia (AUS)	0	0	2	2
33	Independent Olympic Athletes (IOA)	0	0	1	1
	Macau (MAC)	0	0	1	1
	Samoa (SAM)	0	0	1	1
	Singapore (SGP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (36 entries)		332	346	588	1,266

What follows is a list of all the athletes that have tested positive for a banned substance during the Games. Any medals listed were revoked.

Name	NOC	Sport	Banned substance	Medals	Ref
Dinara Hallyýewa	Turkmenistan	Alysh	Meldonium	(Women's classic style 65 kg) (Women's freestyle 65 kg)	[14]
		Belt wrestling		(Women's freestyle 65 kg) (Women's classic style 65 kg)
		Turkmen goresh		(Women's freestyle 63 kg)
Gülnar Haýytbaýewa	Turkmenistan	Alysh	Methylhexaneamine and1,3-Dimethylbutylamine	(Women's freestyle 65 kg)	[15]
		Belt wrestling		(Women's classic style 65 kg) (Women's freestyle 65 kg)
		Turkmen goresh		(Women's freestyle 63 kg) (Women's classic style 63 kg)
Nasiba Surkiýewa	Turkmenistan	Alysh	Methylhexaneamine and1,3-Dimethylbutylamine	(Women's freestyle 75 kg)	[16]
		Belt wrestling		(Women's freestyle 70 kg) (Women's classic style 70 kg)
		Turkmen goresh		(Women's freestyle 70 kg) (Women's classic style 70 kg)
Rejepaly Orazalyýew	Turkmenistan	Belt wrestling	Oxandrolone		[17]
		Turkmen goresh		(Men's freestyle +100 kg) (Men's classic style +100 kg)
Ahmed Mansoor Shebeeb	Bahrain	Ju-jitsu	Mesterolone	(Men's ne-waza 77 kg)	[18]
Muhammet Altybaýew	Turkmenistan	Kickboxing	Meldonium andLuteinizing hormone	(Men's low kick 63.5 kg)	[19]
Zhamalbek Asylbek Uulu	Kyrgyzstan	Sambo	Meldonium	(Men's sport 82 kg)	[20]
Murgapgeldi Atdaýew	Turkmenistan	Turkmen goresh	Methylhexaneamine and1,3-Dimethylbutylamine	(Men's classic style 90 kg)	[16]
Ahmed Salah	Iraq	Wrestling	Methasterone		[21]

Brand look and all design related works of the Games were made by Belli Creative Studio.^[22]

The emblem of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games is the image of Akhal-teke, the national horse of Turkmenistan which is renowned forits speed, endurance and intelligence that represents Health. Surrounding the horse were the green Moon that represents Inspiration and the sun, the symbol of the Olympic Council of Asia, which represents friendship.

The 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games Mascot is aCentral Asian Shepherd Dog named Wepaly – meaning loyal friend in Turkmen. Locally known as Alabai, the Central Asian Shepherd Dog is renowned as a courageous animal in Turkmenistan for many centuries has helped Turkmen shepherds to safeguard flocks of cattle in heavy conditions in the sandy desert. Wepaly wears traditional ceremonial dress and a whitetelpek fur hat while waving the State Flag of Turkmenistan and the symbol of theOlympic Council of Asia.^[23][24] The mascot was unveiled 200 days before the games and was originally coloured green, butTurkmenistan's presidentGurbanguly Berdimuhamedow ordered a last minute makeover possibly due to poor public reception.^[25][26]

The medals of the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games were revealed on February 16, 2017 and were designed by Singaporean companyEng Leong Medallic Industries. The medals shaped like eight pointed Oguz Khan Stars, the national emblem of the host nation and featured elements like olive branches and the five traditional carpet motifs on its obverse and the games' emblem on its reverse. The olive branches symbolising peace, the country's neutrality status and its commitment to peaceful development of international relations, while the five traditional carpet motifs represent the provinces of the country and the traditionally warm Turkmen hospitality. A total of 2,000 medals were produced for the Games, weighing 721 kilograms all-together.^[27]

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