The 2011 ASEAN Para Games, officially known as 6th ASEAN Para Games, was a Southeast Asian disabled multi-sport event held in

Surakarta Surakarta (Javanese script, Javanese: , Pegon script, Pegon: ), known colloquially as Solo (Javanese script, Javanese: ; ), is a major List of regencies and cities of Indonesia, city in Central Java, Indonesia. The city adjoins Karanganyar Reg ...

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three weeks after the

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from 15 to 20 December 2011. Around 870 athletes from 11 participating nations participated at the games which featured 380 events in 11 sports. This was the first time Indonesia hosted the

ASEAN Para Games The ASEAN Para Games is a biennial Paralympic sports, multi-sport event held after every Southeast Asian Games involving disabled athletes from the current 11 Southeast Asia countries. Participating athletes have a variety of disabilities rangi ...

. The games was opened by Vice President

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of Indonesia at the

Manahan Stadium Manahan Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. Manahan is the first stadium in Indonesia which hosts the biggest disabled sporting event in Southeast Asia, the 2011 ASEAN Para Games. The stadium was opened ...

. The final medal tally was led by Thailand, followed by host Indonesia and Malaysia. Several Games and National records were broken during the games. The games were deemed generally successful with the rising standard of disabled sports competition amongst the Southeast Asian nations.

Host city

The 6th ASEAN Para Games was hosted by

(Solo),

. Previously, Indonesia hosted the

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and

Palembang Palembang (, Palembang: ''Pelémbang'', Mandarin: 巨港 (Jùgǎng), Hokkien: 舊港 (Kū-káng), Jawi: ) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sumatra. The city proper covers on both banks of the Musi River in the ea ...

. But given the fact that both the Southeast Asian Games host did not provide disabled-friendly facilities, Surakarta was chosen as the host city of the games because it provides facilities friendly to disabled athletes.

Development and preparation

The Indonesian ASEAN Para Games Organising Committee (INASPOC) led by Prof. James Tangkudong under the aegis of the National Paralympic Committee of Indonesia was formed to oversee the staging of the event.

Venues

The 6th ASEAN Para Games had 11 venues for the games.

Athletes' Village

The games was used the Athletes' Village at Hajj Dormitory in Donohudan,

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, which was renovated to accommodate the needs of disabled athletes.

Public transport

Shuttle bus services were provided throughout the games and were used to ferry athletes and officials to and from the airport, games venues and games village.

Marketing

Logo

The logo of the 2011 ASEAN Para Games is a

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image which includes the ASEAN Para Sports Federation logo in within. The national symbol of Indonesia, the Garuda represents strength, its wings epitomise glory and splendor. The green strokes symbolise the islands, forests and mountainous terrain of the Indonesian archipelago, while the blue strokes represents the vast Nusantara ocean which unifies differences. Land and water or ''Tanah Air'' in

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means fatherland. Red strokes represent courage, zeal and burning passion to give the best for the country.

Mascot

The

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of the 2011 ASEAN Para Games are a pair of

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s named Modo and Modi, which were also the mascots used in the 2011 Southeast Asian Games. Komodo dragons are found in the

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and the adoption of Komodo dragons as the games' mascot was due to it being an animal endemic to Indonesia and to promote the Komodo National Park as a candidate for the

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online contest. Modo, the male Komodo dragon is dressed in a dark brown ''surjan comodo'', traditional clothing of Central Java, with dark brown pants and a batik ''

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'' headcloth, a typical Javanese male headcover, while the female dragon Modi wears a fashionable ''bun konde'' or wig headdress and dressed in batik kebaya. The word "Modo," is short for Komodo, while the mascot's name "Modo and Modi" is similar to the Indonesian word ''Muda-Mudi'' meaning "youth" which refers to the youths of Indonesia. The name of the mascot was chosen to represent hardworking, honest, fair, friendly and sportsmanship values of youths of Indonesia and to reflect the positive personality of Indonesians, harmony, co-operation and friendship among participating countries in the ASEAN Para Games.

The games

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony was held at the Manahan Stadium on 15 December 2011 at 19:00

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(

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, the Indonesian Vice-President officially opened the Games.

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony was held at the Manahan Stadium on 21 December 2011 at 19:00 Western Indonesia Time. The Games was officially closed by Agung Laksono, Coordinating Minister of People's Welfare of the Republic of Indonesia and the ASEAN Para Games responsibilities was officially handed over to Myanmar, host of the 2014 ASEAN Para Games.

Participating nations

* (24) * (18) * (235) * (7) * (122) * (36) * (46) * (32) * (205) * (24) * (121)

Sports

Indonesian Paralympic Organising Committee (INASPOC) President James Tangkudung confirmed a total of 11 sports for the games for the games.

Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, Windsurfing, windsurfer, or Kitesurfing, kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (Land sa ...

which debuted as a medal sport in the 2009 ASEAN Para Games, was not included by the organisers in this edition of the Games, despite the 2011 SEA Games included Sailing in its sport line-up. *

Archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a Bow and arrow, bow to shooting, shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting ...

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Goalball Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a visual impairment, vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball with bells embedded inside it into the opponents' goal. The ball is throw ...

Powerlifting Powerlifting is a competitive strength athletics, strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: Squat (exercise), squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athle ...

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

Table Tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

Bowling Bowling is a Throwing sports#Target sports, target sport and recreational activity in which a player rolls a bowling ball, ball toward Bowling pin, pins (in pin bowling) or another target (in target bowling). Most references to ''bowling'' are ...

Sitting volleyball Sitting volleyball is a form of volleyball for athletes with a disability organized by World ParaVolley. As opposed to standing volleyball, sitting volleyball players must sit on the floor to play. History Sitting volleyball was invented in t ...

Wheelchair tennis Wheelchair tennis is one of the forms of tennis Adaptive sport, adapted for wheelchair users. The size of the court, net height and rackets are the same, but there are two major differences from pedestrian tennis: athletes use specially designe ...

Medal table

A total of 1051 medals comprising 380 gold medals, 338 silver medals and 333 bronze medals were awarded to athletes. The host Indonesia's performance was its best ever yet in ASEAN Para Games History and was second behind Thailand as overall champion.

References

External links

2011 ASEAN Para Games official website

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