The 2010 South Asian Games, officially the XI South Asian Games, was a major

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event that took place from 29 January to 8 February 2010 in

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, Bangladesh. This was the third time that the Bangladeshi capital hosted the

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, thus becoming the first city to hold the games three times. Roughly 2000 athletes from eight countries competed at the games in 23 different sports. The sporting giant of the region, India continued its dominance in the game's medal tally with a staggering 175 medals including 90 gold medals. Pakistan narrowly beat the host country in gold medals count with 19, while the host Bangladesh captured 18 golds including the region's most popular and prestigious

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and

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titles. Bangladesh, however, earned second spot in total medal count beating out

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. Sri Lanka's Shehan Abeypitiya becomes the fastest man while Pakistan's Naseem Hamid was crowned the fastest woman of the region winning 100 meter sprint.

Organization

The 11th

were originally scheduled to take place in November 2009. However, the host country (Bangladesh) faced difficulties due to general elections. As a result, the South Asian Association Council (SAOC) held the 39th Executive Meeting and decided against hosting the Games in 2009, postponing the games to early 2010. The estimated budget of the 2010 Games was about BDT 160 million (US$2.3 million). The South Asian Games Organizing Committee (SAGOC) approved the formation of 20 sub-committees to look after the needs of each aspect of the Games, and also to ensure that work proceeded continuously. These sub-committees included the ceremonious committee, the co-ordination committee and the security committee.

Logo and mascot

The logo of the 11th SAF Games was Kutumb: a ''doel'', known in English as the Oriental magpie robin. It is the national bird of Bangladesh. The logo was designed by Bangladeshi artist Moniruzzaman. The mascot of the games also featured a magpie robin, which was holding the

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to begin the games.

Participating nations

A total of eight countries participated in the 2010 South Asian Games. * * * * * * * *

Sports

A total of 23 sports competitions were held at the 11th SAF Games. * Archery pictogram

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Badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...

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Boxing Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermined ...

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Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

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Squash () * Swimming pictogram

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Table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

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Taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...

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Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

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Wushu () For the first time,

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was included in the Games. Except India all participating nations sent under-21 teams for the cricket tournament. Despite early rumours that

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volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

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were to be excluded from the Games, of the four only rowing did not make the final list of sports.

Highlights

Following are the highlights of each of the sports: Archery – Men & Women India won all 4 gold medals in the men's and women's events. Host Bangladesh was a distant second with two silvers. Athletics (Track & Field) – Men & Women India and

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dominated the event with India taking 10 gold and 11 silver while Sri Lanka followed with 7 gold and 8 silver. Pakistan won 4 gold while

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

won a solitary gold. Badminton – Men & Women India won all 7 gold medals, dominating in both men's and women's events. Basketball – Men Afghanistan won the gold medal by beating India in the final while Bangladesh claimed the Bronze in the Men Basketball event. Boxing – Men India won 3 gold medal followed by host Bangladesh with 2 gold and a silver. Pakistan won 1 gold and 1 silver. Cricket – Men Under-21 Cricket T20 was introduced for the first time in the SA Games, with

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emerged victorious beating

in the closely contested final.

won the bronze by beating

Maldives Maldives (, ; dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖެ, translit=Dhivehi Raajje, ), officially the Republic of Maldives ( dv, ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޖުމްހޫރިއްޔާ, translit=Dhivehi Raajjeyge Jumhooriyyaa, label=none, ), is an archipelag ...

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, the other test playing nation of the region, did not participate in the event. Cycling – Men & Women India dominated with 3 gold and a silver while Sri Lanka won 1 gold and 1 silver. Football – Men & Women Host

reclaimed the regional supremacy by winning gold medal in the most one-sided final in the history of the game. They beat the surprise package

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in the final by 4–0. Bangladesh won each of their matches without conceding a single goal in their 5 matches including the final. Afghanistan, who rushed into the final for the first time in this regional showpiece, was unbeaten until the final registering wins against the likes of

and the defending champion

. Maldives won the bronze by beating India. In the women football, India won the gold medal beating Nepal in the final while Bangladesh claimed the bronze. Golf – Men Host Bangladesh made a clean sweep in both team and individual event. Team

won the gold beating India and Sri Lanka who won silver and bronze respectively. In the Individual event, Bangladesh bagged all the three medals. Handball – Men Pakistan won the Handball gold beating India in the final. Bangladesh won the bronze. Hockey – Men Pakistan beat their arch-rival India in the final through tie-breaker to win the gold medal in hockey. After the teams ended the regular and extra time with 1–1 draw, Pakistan comes superior through penalty strokes by 4–3. Bangladesh edged past

to win the bronze. Judo – Men & Women India won 5 gold and 1 silver while

won 3 gold and 3 silver in Judo. India won both the gold medals in women's category while the men's glory were shared equally between India and Pakistan each winning 3 gold each. Kabadi – Men & Women India maintained their supremacy in this regional sports by winning gold in both men and women event. Pakistan won the silver in men's category while Bangladesh bagged the silver in the women's Kabadi. Karate – Men & Women Bangladesh won 4 gold and 1 silver followed by Nepal with 3 gold and 2 silver. Afghanistan won two gold while

and Sri Lanka won 1 each. In men's event Nepal and Afghanistan won two gold each while Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have 1-a piece. In the women's event, host Bangladesh dominated with 3 gold while Pakistan and Nepal shared the remaining two. Shooting – Men & Women India dominated in both men's and women's event bagging 19 out of 22 gold medals along with 8 silver medals. Host Bangladesh won the remaining 3 gold medals with 6 silvers. Swimming – Men & Women India and Sri Lanka dominated the pool with

winning 11 out of 12 gold in men's event, while 5 out of 7 in women's event. They also won 5 silvers in the men's and 2 in the women's category. Sri Lanka won 3 gold and 6 silver. Squash – Men Pakistan maintained their supremacy in Squash winning both gold and silver in individual event and gold in the team event. India and Bangladesh won silver and bronze respectively in team event. Table Tennis – Men & Women India made a clean sweep by winning all the 7 gold medals in this sports. They also won 5 silver medals. Sri Lanka claimed silver in both men and women team event. Taekwondo – Men & Women

won 3 gold in men's event and 1 silver in women's while

won 1 gold and 1 silver each in men's and women's event. India won two gold in men's event, while Bangladesh won equal number of gold in women's event. Sri Lanka won 1 gold in women's event. Volleyball – Men

and

won the gold, silver and bronze respectively in Volleyball. Weightlifting – Men India won 3 gold and 1 silver followed by

, who won 2 gold and 3 silver.

won 2 gold and 2 silver while Bangladesh won 1 gold and 2 silver. Wrestling – Men India won 3 gold and a silver in Wrestling while Pakistan won 2 gold and a silver. Afghanistan won 1 gold and 2 silver. Wushu – Men & Women India won 4 gold and 3 silvers, followed by Nepal with 2 gold and 2 silver.

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won 2 gold each.

Medal tally

Incidents

Reduced marathon

Due to preparations for the closing ceremony at the National Stadium (which was the actual finishing point for

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) in a last moment decision, the finishing line was relocated to outside of the National Stadium. However, the distance was not properly re-calculated and, after a Nepali athlete completed the race with 12 minutes less than the world record, it was noticed that the course only measured 35 km; over 7 km less than the required distance. The results of competition were allowed to stand but the times were deemed ineligible for record purposes.

Lift accident

Six Nepali athletes were slightly injured when a hotel lift crashed just hours before the launching of the games.

Cycling incident

One of the host nation's cyclists, Fatema Chingby Marma, was disqualified as she was being pushed by an enthusiastic local motor cycle rider from behind during the cycling event at Khulna - Gopalganj.

References

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Organization

Logo and mascot

Participating nations

Sports

Highlights

Medal tally

Incidents

Reduced marathon

Lift accident

Cycling incident

Sponsors

References