ASEAN Para Games

ASEAN Para Games first Logo
First event	2001 ASEAN Para Games inKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Occur every	2 years
Next event	2027 ASEAN Para Games in Malaysia
Purpose	Multi sport event for disabled people of the nations on the Southeast Asian sub-continent
Headquarters	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
President	Osoth Bhavilai
Website	www.aseanparasportsfed.org

TheASEAN Para Games is a biennialmulti-sport event held after everySoutheast Asian Games involving disabled athletes from the current 11Southeast Asia countries. Participating athletes have a variety of disabilities ranging fromspastic,cerebral palsy,mobility disabilities,visual disabilities,amputated to intellectual disabilities. The ASEAN Para Games is under the regulation of the ASEAN Para Sports Federation (APSF) with supervision by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and theAsian Paralympic Committee and is traditionally hosted by the country where the Southeast Asian Games took place.

In May 2000, delegates from the countries in Southeast Asia attending theMalaysian Paralympiad in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia had a meeting and agreed to establish a disabled sport organisation. The ASEAN Para Games was conceptualised by Zainal Abu Zarin, the founding president of theMalaysian Paralympic Council.^[1][2][3] The proposed rationale was that a regional sports event will be held after the Southeast Asian Games and help^[4] promoting friendship and solidarity among persons with disabilities in the ASEAN region and rehabilitating and integrating persons with disability into mainstream society.^[5][6]

Ten countries,Brunei,Myanmar,Cambodia,Indonesia,Laos,Malaysia,Philippines,Singapore,Thailand andVietnam were the founding members. These countries agreed to hold the Games biennially on 28 April 2001 and ASEAN Para Sports Federation (APSF) was formed on 23 October 2001 with Pisal Wattanawongkiri, president of theParalympic Committee of Thailand who proposed the games' name, being elected as its first president.

The first ASEAN Para Games was held in Kuala Lumpur from 26 to 29 October 2001 comprising more than 700 athletes and officials from Brunei, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam participating in 2 sports.

At the2nd ASEAN Para Games inVietnam,East Timor was admitted into the federation as a provisional member.^[7]

The logo of the ASEAN Para Games depicts theASEAN logo positioned in the center with the symbol of the 1994–2004Paralympic logo on top and a victorylaurel surrounding the ASEAN logo. It is used on all ASEAN Para Games edition logos since2008. Previously, an unofficial symbol resembled the red colour version of theSoutheast Asian Games Federation logo depicting the 11 red rings forming a circle which was used on the logos of the2003 ASEAN Para Games and2005 ASEAN Para Games. Furthermore, the 1994–2004 Paralympic logo was used on the logo of the2001 ASEAN Para Games.^[8]

Nation	Code	National Paralympic Committee	Debuted
Brunei	BRU	Paralympic Council of Brunei Darussalam	2001
Cambodia	CAM	National Paralympic Committee of Cambodia	2001
Indonesia	INA	National Paralympic Committee of Indonesia	2001
Laos	LAO	Lao Paralympic Committee	2001
Malaysia	MAS	Paralympic Council of Malaysia	2001
Myanmar	MYA	Myanmar Paralympic Sports Federation	2001
Philippines	PHI	Paralympic Committee of the Philippines	2001
Singapore	SGP	Singapore National Paralympic Council	2001
Thailand	THA	Paralympic Committee of Thailand	2001
East Timor	TLS	National Paralympic Committee of Timor-Leste	2003
Vietnam	VIE	Vietnam Paralympic Association	2001

Seven participating countries have hosted the ASEAN Para Games.Malaysia has hosted three Para Games (2001,2009,2017), more than any nation. The 5th ASEAN Para Games in 2009 were to be hosted byLaos, but it begged off from hosting the games due to financial difficulty and inexperience in providing necessary support for athletes with disabilities; therefore, the games were brought back to Malaysia for the second time after eight years.

The 10th ASEAN Para Games scheduled to be hosted by the Philippines were canceled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic. The edition numeral still applied despite the cancellation.^[9]

The 11th ASEAN Para Games were originally scheduled to be hosted by Vietnam, but were cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic, unlike the2021 Southeast Asian Games, which were postponed to 2022. However,Indonesia would step up to host the Games, and they were held inSurakarta between 30 July to 6 August 2022.^[10]

Indonesia has hosted ASEAN Para Games twice (2011 and2022).Vietnam (2003),Philippines (2005),Thailand (2008),Myanmar (2014),Singapore (2015) andCambodia (2023) have hosted one Para Games.Brunei,East Timor andLaos have yet to host the ASEAN Para Games.

2001, 2009, 2017

2003

2005

2008, 2025

2023

2011, 2022

2014

2015

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Host cities of ASEAN Para Games

Edition	Year	Host country	Host city	Opened by[a]	Date	Sports	Events	Nations	Competitors	Top-ranked team
1	2001	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	KingMizan Zainal Abidin[b]	26–29 October	2	341	10	≈600	Malaysia (MAS)
2	2003	Vietnam	Hanoi	Prime MinisterPhạm Gia Khiêm[c]	21–27 December	5	287	111	≈800	Thailand (THA)
3	2005	Philippines	Manila	MayorLito Atienza[d]	14–20 December	10	394	11	≈1,000	Thailand (THA)
4	2008	Thailand	Nakhon Ratchasima	Prime MinisterSurayud Chulanont[e]	20–26 January	14	488	11	≈1,000	Thailand (THA)
5	2009	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur2	Prime MinisterAbdullah Ahmad Badawi[f]	15–19 August	11	409	10	≈1,000	Thailand (THA)
6	2011	Indonesia	Surakarta	Vice PresidentBoediono[g]	15–20 December	11	380	11	≈1,000	Thailand (THA)
7	2014	Myanmar	Naypyidaw	Vice PresidentSai Mauk Kham[h]	14–20 January	12	359	10	1,482	Indonesia (INA)
8	2015	Singapore		PresidentTony Tan	3–9 December	15	336	10	1,181	Thailand (THA)
9	2017	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Prime MinisterNajib Razak[i]	17–23 September	16	369	11	1,452	Indonesia (INA)
10	2020	Philippines	Various	Cancelled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic
11	2022	Indonesia	Surakarta3	Vice PresidentMa'ruf Amin[j]	30 July–6 August	14	455	11	1,248	Indonesia (INA)
12	2023	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Prime MinisterHun Sen[k]	3–9 June	14	439	11	1,453	Indonesia (INA)
13	2025	Thailand	Nakhon Ratchasima	PrinceChalermsuk Yugala[l]	20-26 January	19	536	10[m]	1,606	Thailand (THA)
14	2027	Malaysia		Future event
15	2029	Singapore		Future event
16	2031	Philippines		Future event

• ^1 East Timor was formally included in the Games, increasing its member countries to eleven.
• ^2 Originally planned to be held in Laos.
• ^3 Originally planned to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Nineteen different sports have been part of the ASEAN Para Games in one point or another. Sixteen of which comprised the schedule of the recent2017 ASEAN Para Games inKuala Lumpur. The games saw the return of sailing as a full medal sport once again after its debut at the2009 ASEAN Games inKuala Lumpur.

• Boccia, ten-pin bowling, sailing and wheelchair fencing were demonstrated at the2005 ASEAN Para Games.
• Esports were demonstrated at the2023 ASEAN Para Games.

The table below accounts for the total number of medals awarded to all participatingNational Paralympic Committees (NPCs) of ASEAN member countries as of the recent2025 ASEAN Para Games.

Rank	NPC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Thailand	1,445	1,085	873	3,403
2	Indonesia	996	853	648	2,497
3	Malaysia	805	701	608	2,114
4	Vietnam	672	640	646	1,958
5	Philippines	253	285	359	897
6	Myanmar	230	186	200	616
7	Singapore	143	125	132	400
8	Brunei	42	44	69	155
9	Cambodia	23	56	79	158
10	Timor-Leste	12	5	19	36
11	Laos	2	26	42	70
Totals (11 entries)		4,623	4,006	3,675	12,304

• ASEAN Para Games Website
• 8th ASEAN PARA GAMES 2015 Singapore
• 6th ASEAN PARA GAMES 2011 Solo - Jawa Tengah
• 5th Asean Para Games official launch
• SEAGames website
• 4th ASEAN ParaGames website
• ASEAN Para Sports Federation
• Malaysia started the ASEAN Para Games 16 years ago. But guess who won every single year? :(

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