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2006 Asian Games
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15th edition of the Asian Games
Key facts
- Host city
- Doha, Qatar
- Motto
- The Games of Your Life
- Athletes
- 9,520
- Events
- 424 in 39 sports (46 disciplines)
- Opening
- December 1
- Closing
- December 15
- Opened by
- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani , Emir of Qatar
- Closed by
- Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah , President of the Olympic Council of Asia
- Athlete s oath
- Mubarak Eid Bilal
- Judge s oath
- Abd Allah Al-Bulooshi
- Torch lighter
- Mohammed bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
- Main venue
- Khalifa International Stadium
- Website
- doha-2006.com (archived)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- multi-sport event
- Country
- Qatar
- Location
- Doha
- Participant
- Dorjgotovyn Tserenkhand
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- point in time
- 2006-00-00
- home venue
- Khalifa International Stadium
- Commons category
- 2006 Asian Games
- officially opened by
- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
- torch lit by
- Prince Joaan bin Hamad of Qatar
- topic's main category
- Category:2006 Asian Games
- start time
- 2006-12-01
- end time
- 2006-12-15
- sports season of league or competition
- Asian Games
- edition number
- 15
- number of participants
- 8608
- date of official closure
- 2006-12-15
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Encyclopedic overview
The 2006 Asian Games (Arabic: دورة الألعاب الآسيوية 2006, romanized: Dawrat al-ʼAl‘ab al-Asīawīah 2006), officially known as the XV Asiad or 15th Asian Games (Arabic: دورة الألعاب الآسيوية الخامسة عشرة, and commonly known as Doha 2006 (Arabic: الدوحة 2006), were an Asian multi-sport event held in Doha, Qatar, from December 1 to 15, 2006, with 424 events in 39 sports featured in the games. Doha was the first city in its region and only the second in West Asia (following Tehran in 1974) to host the games. The city will host the games again in 2030.
It was the first time that all 45 member nations of the Olympic Council of Asia took part in this event. Also, Eurosport broadcast the event, marking the first time that the event was broadcast outside the continent. 21 competition venues were used for the Games including the newly constructed Aspire Indoor Sports Complex. The opening and closing ceremonies of the Games were held at Khalifa International Stadium. The trampoline discipline of gymnastics, as well as chess and triathlon made their debut at the Games.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “2006 Asian Games” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.