Southeast Asian Games

biennial multi-sport consequence in Southeast Asia

The Southeast Asian Games, besides known as the SEA Games ( SEAG ), is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the rule of the Southeast asian Games Federation with supervision by the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) and the Olympic Council of Asia ( OCA ). The Southeast asian Games is one of the five subregional Games of the Olympic Council of Asia ( OCA ). The others are the Central Asian Games, the East Asian Youth Games, the South asian Games, and the West asian Games. [ 1 ]

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history [edit ]

The Southeast asian Games owes its origins to the South East Asian Peninsular Games or SEAP Games. On 22 May 1958, delegates from the countries in Southeast asian Peninsula attending the asian Games in Tokyo, Japan had a meet and agreed to establish a sports administration. The SEAP Games was conceptualized by Luang Sukhum Nayaoradit, then Vice-President of the Thailand Olympic Committee. The proposed rationale was that a regional sports event will help promote co-operation, agreement, and relations among countries in the Southeast asian region. six-spot countries, Burma ( now Myanmar ), Kampuchea ( now Cambodia ), Laos, Malaya ( now Malaysia ), Thailand and the Republic of Vietnam ( South Vietnam ) were the establish members. These countries agreed to hold the Games biennially in June 1959 and the SEAP Games Federation Committee was formed thereafter. [ 2 ] The foremost SEAP Games were held in Bangkok from 12–17 December 1959, with more than 527 athletes and officials from 6 countries ; Burma ( now Myanmar ), Laos, Malaya, Singapore, South Vietnam and Thailand participated in 12 sports. At the 8th SEAP Games in 1975, the SEAP Federation considered the inclusion body of Brunei, Indonesia, and the Philippines. These countries were formally admitted in 1977, the same year when SEAP Federation changed their name to the Southeast Asian Games Federation ( SEAGF ), and the games were known as the Southeast Asian Games. Despite its localization close to the Pacific archipelago than the asian continent and not being a extremity of ASEAN, East Timor was admitted at the 22nd Southeast asian Games in 2003 Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh City. The 2009 Southeast asian Games was the first time Laos has ever hosted a Southeast asian Games ( Laos had previously declined to host the 1965 Southeast asian Peninsular Games citing fiscal difficulties ). Running from 9–18 December, it has besides commemorated the 50 years of the Southeast asian Games, held in Vientiane, Laos .

logo [edit ]

The Southeast asian Games logo was introduced during the 1959 edition in Bangkok, depicting six rings that represent the six founding members and was used until the 1997 edition in Jakarta. The number of rings increased to 10 during the 1999 edition in Brunei to reflect the inclusion of Singapore which was admitted into the Southeast asian Games Federation in 1961 and Brunei, Indonesia, and the Philippines which joined the organization in 1977. The number of rings was again increased to 11 during the 2011 games in Indonesia to reflect the federation ‘s newest member, East Timor which was admitted in 2003 .

Participating NOCs [edit ]

NOC Names
Formal Names
Debuted
IOC code
Other codes used

Brunei
Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace
1977
BRU
BRN (ISO)

Cambodia
Kingdom of Cambodia
1961
CAM
KHM (1972–1976, ISO)

Indonesia
Republic of Indonesia
1977
INA
IHO (1952), IDN (FIFA, ISO)

Laos
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
1959
LAO
Malaysia
Federation of Malaysia
1959
MAS
MAL (1952 − 1988), MYS (ISO)

Myanmar
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
1959
MYA
BIR (1948 – 1988), MMR (ISO)

Philippines
Republic of the Philippines
1977
PHI
PHL (ISO)

Singapore
Republic of Singapore
1959
SGP
SIN (1959 – 2016)

Thailand
Kingdom of Thailand
1959
THA
Timor-Leste
Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
2003
TLS
IOA (2000)

Vietnam
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
1959
VIE
VET (1964), VNM (1968–1976, ISO)

Host nations and cities [edit ]

Since the Southeast asian Games began in 1959, it has been held in 15 cities across all Southeast asian countries except Cambodia and East Timor .

The 1963 Southeast asian Peninsular Games were canceled. As the delegate host, Cambodia was not able to host the event ascribable to instability in the nation, along with a disagreement with the International Amateur Athletic Federation. The 3rd SEAP Games then passed to Laos as hosts, but they begged off the 1965 event citing fiscal difficulties. [ 7 ]

Sports [edit ]

According to the SEAGF Charter and Rules, a horde nation must stage a minimum of 22 sports : the two compulsory sports from Category 1 ( athletics and aquatics ), in addition to a minimum of 14 sports from Category 2 ( Olympics and asian Games mandate sports ), and a maximum of 8 sports from Category 3 ( shaded grey in the table below ). Each sport shall not offer more than 5 % of the total decoration total, except for athletics, aquatics and shooting ( the shoot was elevated for this class in 2013 ). For each sport and consequence to be included, a minimal of four countries must participate in it. Sports competed in the Olympic Games and asian Games must be given priority. [ 2 ] [ 8 ]

all-time decoration table [edit ]

Corrected after balancing the data of the Olympic Council of Asia and other archived sites which had kept the former Southeast asian Games decoration tables. Some information from the aforementioned sites are missing, incorrect and or not updated. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ]
All-time Southeast Asian Games medal tableRankNOCGoldSilverBronzeTotal1 Thailand ( THA )18851930194357582 Indonesia ( INA )18241703178053073 Malaysia ( MAS )13031273168542614 Philippines ( PHI )10671193147737375 Singapore ( SGP )9471002136333126 Vietnam ( VIE )92896799128867 Myanmar ( MYA )

list of multiple Southeast asian Games medalists [edit ]

respective individuals have won multiple medals at the Games, including the preceding Southeast asian Peninsular Games. As of 2019, Singaporean swimmer Joscelin Yeo has won the most southeast asian Games medals with 55 ( 40 gold, 12 silver, 3 bronze ). She reached this milestone during the 2005 Games, overtaking the previous record of 39 gold medals set by another Singaporean swimmer Patricia Chan .

criticism [edit ]

The games are unique in that it has no official limits to the number of sports and events to be contested, and the stove can be decided by the organizing host pending blessing by the Southeast asian Games Federation. aside from mandatary sports, the host is free to drop or introduce other sports or events ( See Southeast asian Games sports ). [ 16 ] This leeway has resulted in hosts maximizing their decoration haul by dropping sports disadvantageous to themselves relative to their peers and the introduction of obscure sports, often at short notification, thus preventing most other nations from building credible opponents. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Examples of these include :